The WELL State of the World 2019

This week in WIRED Book Club, we cover chapters 7-9 of The Yahoo Boys.

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches.

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán joined Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

This week in WIRED Book Club, we recap the final chapters of The Yahoo Boys.

Planning a Fourth of July getaway? Use less gas—and cut your emissions—by easing up on the pedal.

The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting samples to send back to Earth.

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology.

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.

See the documentary The Oldest Person in the World before it’s in theaters.

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

An error with the cloud computing giant’s billing operation caused some customers’ monthly bills to rise from a few cents to billions of dollars.

Never mind the “heat death of the universe.” Entropy is just a bridge between two levels of reality.