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John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.John McFall’s sporting record alone...

2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from...

Here’s how an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip

Move over, Simone Biles. Nature’s gold medalist for backflips is a millimeter-tall arthropod that can barely straddle...

A fluffy, orange fungus could transform food waste into tasty dishes

Using microbes to transform foods through fermentation is the secret behind many of our favorite flavors, from cheeses...

In a first, these bats were found to have toes that glow

You’ve heard of jazz hands? Well, these bats have glow toes. When ultraviolet light shines onto the...

Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges...

A Look Inside the Airbus Factory Revolutionizing the World of Airplanes

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.This is the most important...

Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus Spreads

As mpox continues to spread in Central Africa, a promising antiviral drug to treat the infection has...

The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than Natural Gas

While solar power is growing at an extremely rapid clip, in absolute terms, the use of natural...

People with food and other allergies have a new way to treat severe reactions

Soon people will be able to subdue a severe allergic reaction with a nasal spray instead of...

The Webb telescope’s peek into a stellar nursery finds baby planets too

A distant stellar nursery holds a clutch of newborn Jupiter-sized worlds, the tiniest of which is...

Mantle waves buoy continents upward and bedeck them with diamonds

For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have...
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