541 articles on Science

  • Climate Studies Show: Somali Pirates Take Summer Vacations, Too
    It's the first full week of summer, which most of us are probably thinking about how to get away to escape the heat, relax, and maybe hit a wave or two. Well, it turns out that Somali pirates take a summer break, too ¿ but for different reasons.
    06.25.12
  • Science: It's a Girl Thing Where Models and Science Don't Meet
    I think it is incredibly important to encourage girls to get involved with science, engineering, math and technology (STEM). Looking just at the screen snap above, I would have laughed it off as a poor attempt at trying to appeal to girls. Then I sat and watched the full ad released by the European Commission as part of campaign to attract girls to STEM careers. Go ahead and watch it... I'll wait.
    06.25.12
  • Bold Pitches for Government Sci-Fi
    What if other government agencies followed NASA's contrail and hired sci-fi scribes to scope out the future? Wired asks some of the world's greatest speculative fiction novelists to pitch a book to the bureaucracy of their choice.
    06.22.12
  • 2nd Annual First Lego League Global Innovation Award Turns Ideas Into Reality
    Last Fall, First Lego League teams of kids ages 9-16 were challenged to research the problem of food contamination and develop solutions that would make food safer. Teams from over 60 countries then submitted their ideas which received nearly a million votes that narrowed it down to just four finalists.
    06.21.12
  • Tour the Tomb of NASA's First and Last Nuclear Reactor
    A gallery of images showing NASA's first and only nuclear reactor, which was built in the 1960s to research nuclear-powered airplanes, then eventually nuclear-powered space rockets. After being decommissioned in 1973, the site was demolished this year.
    06.21.12
  • The Rich Legacy of Alan Turing
    Alan Turing achieved more in the space of a few decades than anyone could hope to achieve in a lifetime. Here, Wired breaks down some of the most significant contributions Turing made to modern science.
    06.18.12
  • Mercury Space Observatory (1964)
    Piloted spacecraft differ from most other types of space vehicles in that they need to return precious cargo to Earth's surface. Beyond Apollo blogger David S. F. Portree describes how, a year after the last manned Mercury mission, a NASA engineer proposed that Mercury capsules be re-purposed to return a new precious cargo: photographic film containing high-resolution images of comets, stars, and galaxies.
    06.16.12
  • NASA's NEEMO: Bringing Space to the Deep
    The name Nemo automatically brings to mind visions of the deep for many people. From the infamous anti-hero captain in Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to the lovable lost clown fish in Pixar's Finding Nemo, the name has become linked to life in the ocean. For a dedicated team from a number of backgrounds, interests, and organizations, the name is linked to both the ocean and space exploration.
    06.15.12
  • Revenge of the Vampires: Bat Kills Backfiring
    Most cases of rabies in Latin America are caused by vampire bats, which bite victims at night and feed on their blood. In addition to infecting humans, the bats also do more than $30 million worth of damage to livestock each year. Governments have typically responded by culling bat colonies, but new research suggests that this approach doesn¿t work and might be backfiring.
    06.14.12
  • Celebrate Robotics at Touch Tomorrow Festival
    Live in, or even near, Massachusetts? Then I've got weekend plans for you! The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) landed the prestigious role of being the first university to host a NASA Centennial Challenge and they decided to celebrate with a family-friendly festival of robotics, Touch Tomorrow, on Saturday June 16th.
    06.14.12
  • Pentagon's Prosthetic Plan: Tap Spinal Fluid to Fuel Fake Limbs
    A military-funded group of MIT researchers have already designed the brain-implant portion of a neurally mediated prosthetic limb. Now they've come up with the fuel cells that'll power the system ... by squeezing energy out of the patient's own spinal fluid.
    06.13.12
  • With NASA on Amazon, Will OpenStack Get Liftoff?
    First NASA said it was grounding its work on OpenStack, the open source cloud rival to Amazon it co-founded. And now it seems the space agency is all-in on Amazon, with NASA's CIO recently touting (and Amazon echoing) that using Amazon Web Services could save the agency $1 million a year. And if breakups were not ...
    06.13.12
  • Natural Experiments Show Media's Effects on Families
    I interviewed UCSD economist Gordon Dahl about one of his natural experiments ¿ the data-driven observation that an unexpected home-team football loss leads to a spike in domestic violence in the team's home city ¿ for my book, Brain Trust. A recent review by Dahl in the journal Family Relations uses the natural experiments to discover how media affects families.
    06.13.12
  • NASA Embraces Amazon Cloud, Leaves OpenStack Behind
    NASA was one of the primary driving forces behind OpenStack, an effort to provide an open source alternative to Amazon's popular cloud services. But as OpenStack takes off in other places, the space agency is turning away from the open source platform -- and into the arms of Amazon.
    06.12.12
  • More Big Wildfires May Be Future Norm for US
    An international team of scientists discovered that climate change will disrupt fire patterns across over 80 percent of the globe by the end of the century, possibly making massive wild fires like the one this month in Colorado more frequent in North America.
    06.12.12
  • How Aging Is Recorded in Our Genes
    A comparison of newborn baby DNA with that of a centenarian shows that the scope of aging's toll on genes can be dramatic. Such changes may help explain why our risk of cancer and other diseases increases as we get older.
    06.12.12


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