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Matt Simon

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Matt Simon was a senior staff writer covering biology, robotics, and the environment. He’s the author, most recently, of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.

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An ER Doctor Describes What It's Like to Treat Covid-19

Mar 27, 2020 8:24 PM

Distractions

The Heady, Intricate Beauty of Watching Whiskey Evaporate

Mar 26, 2020 10:00 AM

Engineering

The Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis That Robots Were Built For

Mar 25, 2020 2:00 PM

Economics

If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren't They Saving Us Now?

Mar 23, 2020 8:00 AM

WIRED Video

An Expert Answers the 50 Most Googled Coronavirus Questions

Mar 20, 2020 3:37 PM

Lockdown

Mass Panic Is Unlikely, Even During a Pandemic

Mar 18, 2020 8:00 AM

Public Health

Why the Coronavirus Hit Italy So Hard

Mar 17, 2020 7:00 AM

WIRED Video

What Is a Quarantine?

Mar 13, 2020 8:16 PM

Pandemics

Coronavirus Is Bringing Down Emissions, But Not for Long

Mar 12, 2020 9:00 AM

WIRED Video

What's a Pandemic? Your Coronavirus Questions, Answered

Mar 11, 2020 1:14 PM

So Smol

The Teeny-Tiny Flying Dino With a Mouth Full of Needle Teeth

Mar 11, 2020 12:00 PM

Chew on This

Hungry Animals Can Change How Severely a Landscape Burns

Mar 5, 2020 11:00 AM

Medicine

A Deft Robotic Hand That’d Make Luke Skywalker Proud

Mar 4, 2020 2:00 PM

Waterlessworld

Think Flash Floods Are Bad? Buckle Up for Flash Droughts

Mar 2, 2020 11:00 AM

light show

So, Amphibians Glow. Humans Just Couldn't See It—Until Now

Feb 27, 2020 11:00 AM

Can Touch This

This Clever Robotic Finger Feels With Light

Feb 26, 2020 7:00 AM

Climate Change

Models Couldn’t Predict Australia’s Bushfires. So What Now?

Feb 24, 2020 11:00 AM

The Eyes Have It

Want to Look Inside a Brain? With Transparent Organs, You Can

Feb 21, 2020 7:00 AM

Cold War

The Arctic Is Getting Greener. That's Bad News for All of Us

Feb 18, 2020 1:41 PM

WIRED Video

How Doctors on Earth Treated a Blood Clot on the ISS

Feb 13, 2020 4:43 PM