Amit Katwala    Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those who blame cloud seeding are misguided.

Matt Simon    WIRED spoke with US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg about recent grants to fix ancient roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure before it’s too late.

Rachel Lance    The untold, top secret story of the British researchers who found the key to keeping humans alive underwater and helped make D Day a success.

Matt Simon    Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet and a potential acceleration of global warming.

Caitlin Kelly    Want one of the fastest growing jobs in the US Get used to being high.

Emily Mullin    Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.

Charlie Wood    Long anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica    Two satellites will engage in a realistic threat response scenario when Victus Haze gets underway.

Rhett Allain    Outcry reached such a crescendo last week that the city canceled public hearings on the tax, which is intended to help offset the hundreds of millions spent managing stormwater and basement flooding.

David Cox    To pull off this classic Hollywood stunt, you gotta know your physics

Jason Kehe    H N has infected cattle across the US and jumped from a mammal to a human for the first time. Experts fear it may someday evolve to spread among humans.

Matt Simon    Noor Siddiqui founded Orchid so people could have healthy babies. Now she’s using the company’s gene technology on herself and talking about it for the first time.

Frankie Adkins    Subsidence is causing parts of Mexico City to sink, and it’s happening at an uneven rate. That’s bad news for its sprawling public transportation system.

Eric Berger, Ars Technica    Under threat from murder hornets, climate change, and habitat loss, UK honeybees are getting help from AI enabled apiculturists tracking everything from foraging patterns to foreign invaders.

Chris Baraniuk    SpaceX has made significant progress toward what once seemed an unattainable goal.

Karen Williams, Brian Barrett    In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights found that Switzerland had not done enough to protect its citizens from climate change blowing open the door for further cases against governments.

Reece Rogers    Whether you’re in the path of the totality or keeping track from afar, these are the best total solar eclipse photos we’ve found.

Elise Cutts    Here’s how to view the total solar eclipse on April as the moon casts a slender shadow across Mexico, the United States, and eastern Canada.

Lee Hedgepeth    Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

   Alabama residents are considering blood or urine tests to see if forever chemicals have resulted from a nearby landfill fire that has burned since .