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By switching genes on and off, cigarettes have a long-lasting effect on immunity, and appear to shape your immune system just as much as aging.

Farmers and scientists are getting better at growing more crops on less land, but they’re not focusing on plants that people eat.

Healthy ecosystems in developing countries sequester carbon, regulate the weather, and help plants grow thousands of miles away. Wealthier countries benefit from these services—and so should pay for them to be maintained.

Roughly half of the world’s emissions currently can’t be reduced, yet green investment continues to avoid the sectors that need the most help—manufacturing, agriculture, and the built environment.

Researchers are finding better ways to extract drinking water, compost, and even energy from wastewater. It’s not gross. It’s science.

These mannequins undergo daily torture at the hands of textile scientists, but their suffering means we humans can have future-proofed clothing capable of handling our warming world.

23andMe’s CEO Anne Wojcicki has saved the genetics company from the brink of failure before. She sat down with WIRED to talk about where it goes from here.

Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.

A slalom skier just achieved a remarkable result in the Alpine Ski World Cup—coming from last place to win. As mountains get warmer and conditions less predictable, expect more freak occurrences like this.

They may be tiny, but phytoplankton and aerosols power pivotal Earth systems. Scientists are about to learn a whole lot more about them at a critical time.

People with Parkinson’s have fewer tremors when they receive rhythmic physical stimulation—so a UK startup has created a coin-sized vibrating device to help patients move more easily.

You need a heat pump, ASAP. Now nine states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of this climate superhero.

A scientific publisher found serious flaws in a paper that links the medication mifepristone to more emergency room visits.

As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know.

The Biden administration aims to deploy offshore wind turbines capable of generating 30 gigawatts of power by 2030. With less than a decade to go, the country remains woefully behind target.

The only two restaurants in the US to sell cultivated meat have paused sales for now, leaving the industry in a strange limbo.

It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Our resident physicist tells the true story using fake forces.

Houston-based rBIO has invented a new process to churn out insulin at higher yields using custom-made bacteria.

Big Beef is wooing science teachers with webinars and lesson plans in an attempt to change students’ perceptions of the industry.

“Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects. Can it also improve rail safety?

In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.