Your Espresso Machine Doesn’t Have to Be Fancy to Make Good Coffee

Today, reviewer Peter Cottell expounds on why espresso machines don't have to be any fancier than a Casabrews 5700. Look out for other Java.Base stories about other WIRED writers’ favorite brewing ...

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

AI is getting scary good at finding hidden software bugs - even in decades-old code

Researchers have found that LLM-driven bug finding is not a drop-in replacement for mature static analysis pipelines. Studies comparing AI coding agents to human developers show that while AI can be ...

Binary star population of open cluster NGC 2158 explored with Hubble

Astronomers have analyzed the images collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to investigate a galactic open cluster ...