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Genetic Databases Are Too White. Here’s What It’ll Take to Fix It

Bias

Genetic Databases Are Too White. Here’s What It’ll Take to Fix It

Grace Browne

Cities Are Unlikely Yet Powerful Weapons to Fight Climate Change

Streetwise

Cities Are Unlikely Yet Powerful Weapons to Fight Climate Change

Matt Simon

Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories

Neuroscience

Neural Noise Shows the Uncertainty of Our Memories

Veronique Greenwood

In Alaska, Beavers Are Engineering a New Tundra

Bark vs. Bite

In Alaska, Beavers Are Engineering a New Tundra

Kylie Mohr

What Neurodivergence Teaches Us About How to Live

Wired Q&A

What Neurodivergence Teaches Us About How to Live

Simran Sethi

Risks to Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants Are Small—but Not Zero

Chain Reaction

Risks to Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants Are Small—but Not Zero

Ramin Skibba and Gregory Barber

What It Would Take to Bring the ISS Back to Earth in One Piece

Dot Physics

What It Would Take to Bring the ISS Back to Earth in One Piece

Rhett Allain

Air Pollution May Keep Insects From Stopping to Smell the Flowers

Sniff Test

Air Pollution May Keep Insects From Stopping to Smell the Flowers

Jennifer Clare Ball

Police Used a Rape Survivor's DNA to Link Her to Another Crime

Genetics

Police Used a Rape Survivor's DNA to Link Her to Another Crime

Emily Mullin

Sea Level Rise Will Be Catastrophic—and Unequal

Climate Change

Sea Level Rise Will Be Catastrophic—and Unequal

Matt Simon

Africa’s Oldest DNA Is Helping Address Science’s Racial Bias

Ancient DNA

Africa’s Oldest DNA Is Helping Address Science’s Racial Bias

Matt Reynolds

This Plastic Dot Sniffs Out Infections Doctors Can’t See

Under Wraps

This Plastic Dot Sniffs Out Infections Doctors Can’t See

Max G. Levy

The True Story of the Viral False Teeth That Fooled the World

Fake Chews

The True Story of the Viral False Teeth That Fooled the World

Matt Reynolds

A New Type of Aurora Found on Saturn Resolves a Planetary Mystery

The Light Stuff

A New Type of Aurora Found on Saturn Resolves a Planetary Mystery

Robin Andrews

Scientists Map the Dark Matter Web Surrounding the Milky Way

You Are Here

Scientists Map the Dark Matter Web Surrounding the Milky Way

Ramin Skibba

Gene-Edited Brain Organoids Are Unlocking the Secrets of Autism

Neuroscience

Gene-Edited Brain Organoids Are Unlocking the Secrets of Autism

Amit Katwala

Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe

Macrocosm

Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe

Charlie Wood

How Preserving Agave Could Help Save an Endangered Bat

Sweet Deal

How Preserving Agave Could Help Save an Endangered Bat

Janet Marinelli

Researchers Want to Create 'Universal Donor' Lungs

Public Health

Researchers Want to Create 'Universal Donor' Lungs

Sara Harrison

The End Game of China’s Zero-Covid Policy Nightmare

No Tolerance

The End Game of China’s Zero-Covid Policy Nightmare

Jessie Lau