Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato.

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human body.

With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering.

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that?

As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations.

The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.

The disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in the country this year, with the virus continuing to spread rapidly.

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

Once dismissed as just snoring, sleep apnea is now emerging as an early warning sign for serious conditions like Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and depression.

Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome are six times more at risk for the sleeping disorder. Now scientists are studying them in hopes of finding remedies beyond the CPAP machine.

Stress, isolation, and uncertainty appear to have caused the brain to age quicker for those who lived through the crisis.

New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.

The space plane’s test flight will advance development of a new navigation technology based on electromagnetic wave interference.

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four other worlds in the temperate zone of an intriguing planetary system.

By extending the scope of a key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a unifying theory of mathematics.

Mounting evidence shows no US state is safe from the flooding that ravaged Texas’ Kerr Country.

On July 31, WIRED’s global editorial director discussed the world of wellness—and beyond—with WIRED reporters.

The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the heated race between two companies to build a commercial brain-computer interface.

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for harming the planet.

A Chinese man with no medical training is injecting cancer patients with a toxic bleach solution; a full course of treatment runs $20,000. He’s now working to bring the unproven treatment to the US.

In a measure that flouts the FDA, Florida says doctors can give unapproved stem-cell therapies for wound care, pain management, or orthopedic purposes.