Slideshow: Of Pawns, Knights, Bits, Bytes

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood.

An observatory detected the first radio signal from the interstellar object 3I/Atlas. Here’s what it means.

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

Which film camera should you get? Which films are the best? We demystify the world of analog photography to help you get started.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why that matters—even for those who don’t frequent the poker table.

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

This $400 set comes with minifigures of the complete Next Gen crew, including Picard, Riker, and Wesley Crusher’s portable tractor beam.

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code for “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number theory to explain quantum fractals.