SPoW Gallery 8-31-2018

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.

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

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.

Is PlayStation about to make the same mistake Microsoft made with Xbox One?

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

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

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

Trump has remade the nation’s capitol in his own image. Ahead of the Fourth of July, WIRED guides you through the dizzying effects of DC’s makeover.

“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.

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

The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European Southern Observatory said.