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

AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials

24 Apr 2026 at 5:17pm
Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.” Read more...

Designer Baby Companies Are in Turmoil

24 Apr 2026 at 5:04pm
Bootstrap Bio and Manhattan Genomics, which were pursuing human embryo editing to prevent serious disease, have shut down. Read more...

A Startup Says It Grew Human Sperm in a Lab—and Used It to Make Embryos

23 Apr 2026 at 9:30am
Paterna Biosciences says it has determined the set of instructions needed to turn sperm-making stem cells into "normal, mature" sperm. Read more...

Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happen...

22 Apr 2026 at 9:34pm
After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish. Read more...

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nat...

22 Apr 2026 at 10:30am
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. Read more...

How to Watch the 2026 Lyrids Meteor Shower at Its Peak

21 Apr 2026 at 9:00am
Between the night of April 21 and the early morning of April 22, those looking in the right place will see the sky light up with 15 to 20 meteors per hour. Read more...

There’s New Evidence for How Loneliness Affects Memory in Old Age

20 Apr 2026 at 9:00am
A longitudinal study found that loneliness is more closely linked to lapses in immediate and delayed recall than to the overall speed of cognitive decline. Read more...

The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple

18 Apr 2026 at 9:00am
Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades. Read more...

How Can Astronauts Tell How Fast They’re Going?

17 Apr 2026 at 11:00am
Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out. Read more...

6,000 Meters Under the Pacific, Japan Seeks Independence From China on Rare E...

17 Apr 2026 at 8:30am
Tokyo is succeeding where the rest of the world has failed, reducing its reliance on Beijing for crucial rare earth elements—thanks to an enormous underwater deposit discovered on a remote island. Read more...

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