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No human gets everything they want in life, as Ariel Levy discovered in the worst possible way.

Did you know the U.S. is actually almost half empty? 

A huge landslide and tsunami no one witnessed may foreshadow many more to come in the aftermath of climate change.

Is it conserved? Destroyed? Radiated away? 40+ years on, we still don’t have answers. This article was contributed by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity and […]

The internet went crazy Sunday night after Black In America: The New Promised Land- Silicon Valley. Twitter, the place on the internet where the wired segment of Afro America goes […]

So it might not be so good for ratings to be doing a series on a movie that tanked at the box office.  But here’s some more on NEVER LET […]

Have you ever poked around in the “People You May Know” box in Facebook? For the first few score people, it’s a pleasure. Click: A person I forgot I knew. […]

Denmark's 10 Jante Laws are grim, and yet they bring so much happiness. 

An independent researcher looks into why there's such strong opposition to her research.

By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.

Many have argued that morals are relative, but Russia's war crimes reveal the hollowness of that belief. Morality is universal and objective.

They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.

WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explains why progress often looks like dystopia to the untrained eye.

The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.

There's an extra source of massive "stuff" in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?

Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.

Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.

Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top. 

The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here's what the new LHC can do.

There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.

In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here's what we've learned.

Can stories help us become more creative?

The very concept of a "problem with no solution" goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.

Russia has long sought to erase the mere idea of Ukraine. But people like my grandmother, born in Druzhkivka, will not let Russia win.

Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.

Travel half the distance to your destination, and there's always another half to go. Despite Zeno's Paradox, you always arrive right on time.

Letting nature's expert engineers lead the way.

In terms of the planets we've discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?

The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core. It's unlike anything ever seen.

Just don't expect the apocalypse to look like it does in the movies.