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The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick The Yahoo Boys, journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.

It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.

Plus: Instructure’s Canvas ransomware debacle comes to a close, an alleged dark net market kingpin gets arrested, OpenAI workers fall victim to a supply chain attack, and more.

Find out whether a single Wi-Fi router or a mesh system makes the most sense for your home network.

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.

You don’t need to buy a smart grill to make perfect meat. You can buy a dumb grill and send it to school with smart upgrades.

The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.