What if you need to mobilize first responders while keeping them socially distanced—and also potentially evacuate…
Author: Matt Simon
This Bizarre Insect Is Building Shelters Out of Microplastic
Caddis fly larvae typically construct protective cases out of sand grains and silk. Now they're also…
Pandemic Lessons From an 18th-Century Reenactor
In all ways, Jon Townsend lives an old-fashioned life. Except, maybe, when he uploads portions of…
This Pandemic Is Lonely. But Don’t Call Loneliness an ‘Epidemic’
Comparing isolation to infection disease isn't helpful, says historian Fay Bound Alberti. But Covid-19 lends a…
This Mental Health App Is Tailor-Made for Your Pandemic Woes
Covid Coach, from the National Center for PTSD, offers exercises and resources for dealing with uncertainty,…
‘Microplastic Hot Spots’ Are Tainting Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Scientists found 2 million microplastic particles in a square meter of sediment, as currents drag debris…
5 Big Mistakes We Can Make Fighting the Covid-19 Pandemic
Staying at home is a big sacrifice. But lifting shelter-in-place orders too soon is one of…
The Boston Dynamics Coronavirus Doctor Robot Dog Will See You Now
Spot, the famously deft robot, gets a job screening patients at a hospital. But there’s still…
This Hungry Little Beetle Could Help Ease Seasonal Allergies
Where the leaf beetle lives with the common ragweed, pollen counts crash 80 percent. Maybe the…
*Absurd Planet*: WIRED’s *Absurd Creatures* Evolves Into a New Netflix Series
What began as the Absurd Creature of the Week column, and became the *Absurd Creatures* web…