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Iceland is stunningly beautiful from any angle, but especially when seen from above. The varied texture, rich colors and otherworldly terrain borders on abstract—something Daniel Beltrá uses to great effect in his gorgeous aerial landscapes. His images show ethereal rivers unraveling like ribbons toward the Atlantic. Snow blows across a barren landscape. Beltrá hopes people appreciate his photos as art, but also wants his work to spur a broader discussion about the environment. ➡️ Visit the link in our bio to see more of Beltrá's stunning aerial shots. 📸: Daniel Beltrá @danielbeltraphoto Courtesy of @edelmangallery

You've never seen a thunderstorm like this before. For the past decade, photographer Mitch Dobrowner has spent a few weeks every summer following extreme weather across the midwestern United States with veteran storm chaser Roger Hill. But Dobrowner isn't a thrill-junkie. He wants to capture the majesty, not the danger, of extreme weather like this storm in Guymon, Oklahoma. ➡️Click the link in our bio to see more of Dobrowner's striking work. 📸: Mitch Dobrowner

Some 7.2 million people live within the 426 square miles of Hong Kong. Cramming that many people into so small an area requires building up. And up. And up. Peter Stewart's series Stacked provides a dizzying view of just some of the 1,5000 high-rises that make up Hong Kong's skyline. Visit the link in our bio for a new perspective on the expansive structures that Hong Kong has become known for. 📸: Peter Stewart @petestew

Sure, single sign-on options offer a lot of convenience. But are they safe? Short answer, probably not. It creates a single point of failure if something goes wrong. That means if your password gets stolen from one of these accounts, all the other sites you used it for could be exposed. Instead, opt for a password manager to keep your accounts locked down. Click the link in our bio to learn more. 🎨 Elena Lacey/ @elaceycreative

Before it crashed onto Saturn, Cassini captured images of the most photogenic planet in our Solar System. This intrepid explorer spent the better part of 13 years orbiting Saturn and studying it and the planet’s many moons. As time passed, the team realized the spacecraft was running low on fuel and decided its last year in orbit around Saturn would be a doozy. They knew the craft would crash into the planet at the end anyway, so the team took risks, sending Cassini swooping through the rings of Saturn, flying out by the moons and speeding back in. The results were breathtaking. 🚀Visit the link in our bio to read more. 📸: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

A child and his mother are suing Nintendo for not doing enough to fix the issue of “Joy-Con drift” on its Switch controllers. Joy-Con drift makes in-game characters drift even when nobody is moving them. They're asking for ... over $5 million in damages. Do they have a shot of winning? Go to the link in our bio to find out. 📸: Christos Kipouros/Alamy

Around two dozen people who are close to the president or who attended events at or sponsored by the White House have tested positive for the Covid-19. In literal terms, we may never know if Trump himself spread the virus through the White House. But his policies and his actions certainly allowed the virus to go viral. His obstinate refusal to listen to experts on how viruses transmit from person to person and how pandemics ebb and flow made it possible for the virus to spread to so many people around him, and to spread around the country. - The White House, in particular, was primed for an outbreak. “It’s really tightly connected, nobody’s really wearing masks, lots of social connections. It was really a matter of when. When the virus shows up, it’s going to sweep through. You’re going to have superspreading. It’s just going to take a while,” says Sam Scarpino, a mathematical biologist at Northeastern University who studies Covid-19 transmission dynamics. “It was probably inevitable that somebody in the White House was going to get Covid. But it was not inevitable how many people were going to get it,” Scarpino says. - This, after all, is the same White House that derided wearing masks as a way to reduce the spread of virus from people without symptoms—both in the world generally and in the White House itself, as a matter of “personal choice,” even with multiple staffers ill. It’s the White House—the president—that told people not to let the virus “dominate” their lives, who went home from the hospital when he was still sick and almost certainly still infectious. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if Trump is superspreader. Either way, he is the chief executive of a superspreading presidency. Go to the link in the bio for our full story on how this administration hasn’t just made bursts of infections easier—it's made them inevitable. 📸: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Each month, we publish a six-word story—and it could be written by you. Submit your six evocative words in the comments below, and we’ll choose one to illustrate in the December issue. Disclaimer: All submissions become the property of WIRED. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned. Submissions and any other materials, including your name or social media handle, may be published, illustrated, edited, or otherwise used in any medium. Submissions must be original and not violate the rights of any other person or entity.

Stockholm’s metro—or tunnelbana as the Swedish call it—bills itself as “the world’s longest art exhibition,” and that’s no exaggeration. 😍 - Since construction began in 1950, some 250 artists have decorated 94 stations across 68 miles of track. (By contrast, the Louvre’s exhibits run 9 miles long.) Many of the stops look like caves a troll might inhabit, their blasted bedrock walls sprayed with a thin layer of concrete, then adorned with intricate murals, reliefs, and even LED sculptures - This is the Tekniska Högskolan station - it takes its name from the aboveground school, the Royal Institute of Technology. Artist Lennart Mörk paid it homage by decorating the walls with scientific imagery and themes, like Copernican heliocentrism and Newton’s third law of motion. ➡️Click the link in our bio to see more of Stockholm's beautiful metro stations. 📸: David Altrath @davidaltrath

It's not just you. Instead of optimizing work, technology has created a nonstop barrage of notifications and interactions. Six months into a pandemic, it's worse than ever. Go to the link in our bio to read about how we collectively got to this point. 🎨: Sam Whitney @samdotpdf

Introducing WIRED Games! Today we launched a new vertical to bring you investigations and behind-the-scenes looks at the gaming industry, as well as profiles of the artists, designers, streamers, and developers who bring your favorite worlds to life. We’ll also feature reviews and impressions of games we think you should play, gear that can improve your gaming experience, and tips and tools to not play harder, but play smarter and enjoy the time you spend gaming. Click the link in our bio to get started. 📽️: StoryTK @story__tk

Robots aren't just coming for our jobs, they're coming for our sports. A bot named Curly just mastered curling, and beat two Korean national teams. - Rather than simply paving the way to the All Robot Winter Olympics of 2026, Curly is a big achievement in machine intelligence, one that could have implications for robotics beyond the rink. Go to the link in our bio to read more. 📽️: Woh/Science Robot