How Does A Virus Spread In Cities? It's A Problem Of Scale
Population density didn't make COVID-19 worse in New York City. If you want to know what went wrong, you have to think a lot smaller.
Population density didn't make COVID-19 worse in New York City. If you want to know what went wrong, you have to think a lot smaller.
Fed up with the rising cost and declining quality of Apple laptops, I migrated to Microsoft. It has been both a total joy and a complete pain in the neck.
The Secret Service has warned that scammers have already bilked state governments for millions of dollars.
Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen in.
Health experts say we need up to 200,000 more people to track down the infected and anyone who crossed their path. I took the training to learn how it works.
In 2017, Marcus Hutchins discovered and triggered the kill switch that stopped the WannaCry ransomware attack in its tracks. A few months later, the FBI arrested him in the Las Vegas airport. The story — from WIRED's excellent cybersecurity writer Andy Greenberg — just gets crazier from there.
The idea of beaming solar energy to Earth with radio waves is decades old. But this weekend, the technology gets its first test in orbit.
People really do circle past the same tree over and over again — it doesn't just happen in movies.
The very first vaccine candidate entered human trials—and Neal Browning's arm — on March 16. Behind the scenes at Moderna and the beginning of an unprecedented global sprint.
Researchers have discovered that the ocean is burping tiny plastic particles, which then blow onto land — and potentially into your lungs.
An immunization shot is still in development, but debate over who gets priority has already begun.
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device and it affects any PC manufactured before 2019.
Multiple structures now keep the river from roaring into the Atchafalaya — but they may be inadequate against climate change.
Harold White left NASA in December to join a new nonprofit focused on building the technologies to bring humans to the outer solar system and beyond.
The days blend together, the months lurch ahead, and we have no idea what time it is. The virus has created its own clock.
There's more than a century of research linking clogged blood vessels to infectious diseases.
Meeting via conference call for the first time ever this week, the Supreme Court considers a case about our phones.
The wagon — and the wagon wheel — could not have been put together in stages. Either it works, or it doesn't. And it enabled humans to spread rapidly into huge parts of the world.
In all ways, Jon Townsend lives an old-fashioned life. Except, maybe, when he uploads portions of it to his endearing — and instructive — YouTube channel.