Wired Science News

A selection of general, astronomy and space science stories from Wired magazine.

Rainfall Buries a Mega-Airport in Mexico

29 Oct 2025 at 6:00am
New Mexico City International Airport was canceled when only half built, and has since been flooded and restored into wetlands. Read more...

Hurricane Melissa Has Meteorologists Terrified

28 Oct 2025 at 3:41pm
The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built. Read more...

Why Nicholas Thompson Made a Custom GPT to Run Faster

28 Oct 2025 at 10:30am
The Atlantic CEO’s new book, The Running Ground, examines his complicated relationship with the sport. On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, he talks about the ways tech is helping him become a better runner. Read more...

Man Has Pig Kidney Removed After Living With It for a Record 9 Months

27 Oct 2025 at 7:26pm
With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap. Read more...

Are Kids Still Looking for Careers in Tech?

27 Oct 2025 at 11:00am
AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they’re preparing for the future. Read more...

The Haunting Story of Two People—and Their Bots—on Therapy’s New Frontier

27 Oct 2025 at 10:00am
As millions confide in ChatGPT about their most intimate problems, these relationships are even stranger, more moving, and more insidious than we've imagined. Read more...

AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

27 Oct 2025 at 10:00am
Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they might be onto something. Read more...

Astronomers Have Discovered Earth’s Latest Quasi-Lunar Moon

24 Oct 2025 at 7:02pm
As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left. Read more...

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

24 Oct 2025 at 11:00am
Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation. Read more...

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold

24 Oct 2025 at 10:00am
Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. Read more...