Category: Technology

“President Trump made a fantastic choice in selecting Dr. Beck, who has never been a lobbyist in her life, by…

At the WIRED Health summit in Boston on September 9, we hosted some of the leading experts in Crispr, whole-genome…

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu said that later this year his…

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are…

But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new way to explore this question through…

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and H&M are currently investing in durable CDR. A spokesperson for H&M described the fast-fashion company’s purchase of…

At the WIRED Health summit on Tuesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the recent changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy made…

Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time, the entire brain activity of…

Crispr gene-editing technology has demonstrated its revolutionary potential in recent years: It has been used to treat rare diseases, to…

“The metal tiles … didn’t work so well,” he said. “They oxidized extremely nice in the high oxygen environment. So,…

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive burns are usually…

“It’s no secret that Trump and the Republicans are on the side of the fossil fuel industry and very much…

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference,…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers…

“Hi there Gina, hope you’re having a great day,” said another exactly two weeks later. “My name is Christine, I…

Aspirin is one of the most widely taken medicines in the world, having been recommended for decades as a way…

“In the old days, it was more like a luxury project,” says Deo de Klerk, team lead for heating and…

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis, citing…

A new study finds that technologies installed to remove forever chemicals from drinking water are also doing double-duty by removing…

Plastics that support modern life are inexpensive, strong, and versatile, but are difficult to dispose of and have a serious…

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses…

As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit…

The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on.…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so…

It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging? A recent study concluded…

A Flowerlike satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna reflector ever put into orbit.…

On the evening of September 7, the second (and final) total lunar eclipse of the year will take place—serving up…

Per Shiffman and Wester, an “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that Bluesky has a “vibrant and healthy online science community,”…

Given these and other recent milestones, Peng says it’s realistic to think that at least one BCI system could gain…

Susan Monarez is no longer the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a post…

Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days of postponements, Starship was finally…

Esteban Amaro, director of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, agrees that fuel is the best product to focus on.…

The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM and NASA announced…

This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the third. How…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead,…

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime…

These sellers do brisk business online. On mainstream platforms like Ebay, they often upcharge novice antkeepers, the same trafficker tells…

A team of astronomers has found what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon orbiting Uranus. If confirmed, this finding…

The simulation made it possible to appreciate how a human embryo does not merely adhere to the uterine lining, but…

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named…

The diamonds formed under extreme pressure and heat deep in the Earth’s mantle. If you find one, it will most…

The changes to survivor signup have been made inside the program that the agency uses to manage disaster aid applications…

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a…

In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the arrival of a neutrino with…

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by…

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for…

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg,…

It’s fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical…

Despite Friday’s outcome, the plastics treaty does not yet appear to be dead. Virtually all countries expressed an interest in…

Instead of going to the pharmacy to get the annual flu vaccine, many people in the US will now be…

One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was slated to end October 30.…

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that…

An image from the study illustrating how plastic bottles reach Latin American Pacific coasts. Illustration: Garcés-Ordóñez et al. (2025) (CC…

The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used…

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning…

In 2023, Domokos—along with his graduate students Gergő Almádi and Krisztina Regős, and Robert Dawson of Saint Mary’s University in…

WindBorne’s balloons, in contrast, can collect and distribute data from remote regions. That makes them more adaptive, and especially useful…

In 1938, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who had fled to New York to escape fascism, discovered a material in which…

Phil McAlister, who directed NASA’s Commercial Space Division from 2005 to 2024, which included this commercial space station program, said…

“There’s now policy certainty that we didn’t have before,” she adds. “Last but not least, the private sector is not…

An experimental pill made by Eli Lilly led to average weight loss of more than 12 percent of body weight…

The mushroom cloud was visible from the hills of neighboring prefectures. Those who were beyond the immediate blast radius may…

On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an arc in the night sky.…

The report says that data from acoustic sensors and strain gauges on board indicated that the hull had suffered a…

Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is we have a long way…

There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot…

But the search for such a pill—or indeed any treatment as effective as CPAP—has proved challenging. Dozens of drugs have…

The moment Merry Fitzpatrick realized that Gaza’s malnutrition crisis had progressed to a newer and deadlier phase was when surgeons…

Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program,…

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ quarterly survey of over 130 oil and gas producers based in Texas, Louisiana, and…

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light…

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could…

Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that?

With US Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. already shaking up federal vaccine policy, some states are…

The spread of measles is showing no signs of slowing down in Mexico. Between July 21 and 25, the country’s…

“The Climate Working Group and the Energy Department look forward to engaging with substantive comments following the conclusion of the…

Notably, the research showed that apnea can manifest differently in REM sleep: “A lot of the memory consolidation and emotional…

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects of not only…

In the early 2010s, researchers in Mexico City noticed that sparrows and finches at the national university were lacing their…

Mark Jackson is playing a computer game with his mind. As he reclines in bed, three blue circles appear on…

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf…

Liu has been making the solution in his rented apartment in Beijing by mixing citric acid with sodium chlorite, according…

“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana…

If a country fails to take decisive action to protect the planet from climate change, it could be breaking international…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The country watched in horror as…

What does it mean to be healthy in 2025? Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who’s well known for…

“When combined with other Pacific pathways to Australia and New Zealand, nearly 4 percent of the population could migrate each…

Lauren Goode: Yeah, I think it’s going to be really good. Michael Calore: Yeah. Lauren Goode: And also that means…

Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration by allowing patients to access…

You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency…

China, India, and Japan are not the only countries on the Asian continent looking to establish themselves in the fledgling…

After my birth, my mother became allergic to the world. That’s the only way I knew how to put it.…

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each…

Several EPA scientists stressed to WIRED that ORD’s current structure, which allows research to happen independent of the policy-making that…

US health officials, from RFK Jr. on down, have made some wild claims. See if you can name the person…

The industry is finding a willing partner in the Trump administration. Since taking office, Trump has used AI as a…

The world of Bousso’s new theorem still departs from our universe in notable ways. For mathematical convenience, he assumed that…

The US is experiencing its worst year for measles in over three decades, with more than 1,300 cases in 40…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the record-breaking…

A new drug usually starts with a tragedy. Peter Ray knows that. Born in what is now Zimbabwe, the child…

Nope, NOT 20 m/s. To them the ball is moving at 30 m/s (i.e., 10 + 20). So much for…

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets, and in your…

On July 2, NASA revealed the existence of 3I/ATLAS, only the third ever interstellar object observed in the universe. These…

That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget into a new algorithm with…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The “one big beautiful bill” that…

To play polo at the highest level, you have to love horses or be filthy rich. Ideally both. A team…

“All of the mice we treated showed dramatic improvement in their motor skills. The results exceeded our expectations and suggest…

And even if it is right, an AI agent can’t complement the information it provides with the knowledge physicians gain…

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in…

Northrop Grumman launched two satellites in 2019 and 2020 that accomplished the first dockings in geosynchronous orbit. Northrop’s satellites, which…

Over 100 people have now been confirmed to have lost their lives in the flash flooding that hit homes and…

Adopted in 1958, the GRAS exemption was intended to cover the use of commonplace ingredients, explains Jensen Jose, regulatory counsel…

The fishermen of Puerto Morelos, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, risk their lives every time they head out to sea to…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old…

“The signal was out there that this is going to be a heavy, significant rainfall event,” says Vagasky. “But pinpointing…

But the ESA was only meant to safeguard against “reasonably foreseeable future threats,” Willms argues. Congress has the ability to…

Another NEW covid variant is currently rapidly gaining a foothold. Known officially as XFG—or informally as “Stratus”—it has been declared…

There are around 11,000 satellites orbiting Earth, and it is estimated that at least 50,000 more will be launched in…

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,”…

“We are committed to ongoing coverage of vaccines to ensure access and affordability for this respiratory virus season,” the statement…

A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the…

Commuting to Concordia research station in Antarctica takes days—it’s more remote than the International Space Station. Here’s how to get…

After more than a day of continuous debate, the US Senate passed its version of the budget megabill Tuesday afternoon—with…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most…

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen using the natural properties of…

Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What would happen? Well,…

A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week…

During visits in recent months, Emelie says her husband, who was detained at Stewart until he was deported last month,…

Anti-vaccine advocate and current Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media Wednesday to announce the names of…

“The more granular your data, the more targeted your response can be,” Krishna adds. Instead of generic advisories like “drink…

He’s also not the only researcher working to expose plants to higher radiation levels than previously studied. Porterfield, who is…

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates…

As ultra-long-haul routes take flight, plane-lighting hacks and meal planning could help passengers recover faster.

Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system…

Eli Lilly’s daily anti-obesity pill orforglipron appears to be as good at spurring weight loss and lowering blood sugar in…

And because methane is invisible and odorless, it can be difficult and expensive to monitor it and prevent it from…

Musk wrote that the nitrogen COPV appears to have failed below its proof pressure, within conditions that should not have…

The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved lenacapavir, an injectable form of HIV prevention that is almost 100…

The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday upheld the state of Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In…

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in…

Despite touting ambitious goals of making America healthier, the Trump administration on Monday revealed in court documents that it is…

In his current research, there are still gaps to be filled: how the CYP26B1 gradient is regulated, how retinoic acid…

While injected GLP-1 drugs are incredibly effective at spurring weight loss, they also come with some downsides. There can be…

Gill-Peterson’s work has illustrated for Branstetter the narrowing effect that identity-first politics can have at a time when “we need…

Crucially, unlike Io’s odd magnetic field, which seemed to indicate that it concealed an ocean’s worth of fluid, Europa’s own…

A new Covid variant is being kept under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO) as its emergence has led…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wood pellets, by design, are highly…

The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo‘oalewa,…

Touch both objects. They’re the same temperature, but the wood feels warmer, right? Why is that? It’s not about temperature…

US Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jan Schakowsky on Thursday sent letters to the two potential buyers of troubled genetic testing…

Unlike a linear taper, which involves reducing the dose of a medication by the same amount each time, a hyperbolic…

The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO2 emissions…

There may not yet be telescopes capable of unlocking all the secrets of supermassive black holes, but AI is now…

“I think it’s the right policy, for us to take a national standard,” they said. While the intent of the…

A 2014 study by the US military has also found that exposure to tear gas and pepper spray make people…

Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms but new possibilities for organisms,…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every few years, a Silicon Valley…

In your go bag, FEMA recommends packing three days’ worth of food and water, physical maps of local areas, a…

While the study was still in the recruitment phase, Nadolsky left the team. Entrenched Positions Klatt, of UC Berkeley, is…

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has broken the record for the oldest,…

Brain-computer-interface startup Paradromics today announced that surgeons successfully inserted the company’s brain implant into a patient and safely removed it…

What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net? It’s not a single neural network, but rather an…

Why is this conflict happening? The short version is that Trump and his advisers believe that tariffs will help the…

Since the change in kinetic energy is still zero, this means that the positive change in gravitational potential energy is…

Some species of hummingbird are adapting to urban life by undergoing evolutionary changes in their anatomy, influenced by the proliferation…

SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally overcoming technical problems that…

She imagines industrial activity in space, freeing up land on Earth. Hollywood directors shooting films in orbit. And botanists traveling…

From ancient remedies to your Amazon cart, mushroom supplements have traveled a circuitous road. They nourish the body, enhance the…

Over that period, the research team watched as the south polar region darkened going into winter and the north polar…

Statistically, men are more likely than women to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with about 18 million more men…

If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that close to the center of the…

When you swap two paraparticles, these hidden properties change in tandem. As an analogy, imagine that these properties are colors.…

This story originally appeared Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the last two decades, homeowners have…

It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles above our planet’s…

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the…

The remaining staff are in an “all hands on deck” situation with the rollout, says Brett Howe, the former geodetic…

The Enhanced Games—a kind of Olympics for athletes who are doping—today announced the date and venue for its first competition:…

The EPA on Wednesday said it would change a rule intended to protect Americans from forever chemicals in their drinking…

After telehealth startups recently lost the ability to sell exact copies of patented GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, some firms have begun…

Last August, KJ Muldoon was born with a potentially fatal genetic disorder. Just six months later, he received a Crispr…

SpaceX founder Elon Musk also wants Starship to fly to Mars, which will, likewise, require a mastery of in-space refueling.…

Futter’s provider, Henry Meds, no longer offers compounded tirzepatide injections, but allowed patients to place bulk orders before phasing it…

In early May, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would split up the agency’s main arm devoted to scientific…

“How we end up with similar circuitry was more flexible than I would have expected,” Zaremba said. “You can build…

Chikowore says there are many possible explanations for this, ranging from as yet undiscovered genetic variants to the physiological structure…

Even in the best of times, long-term observations can be very fragile. It is difficult to convince funding agencies to…

Means’ nomination was announced on Wednesday after Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a former Fox News contributor…

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the…

These decisions, together with concerns about future funding cuts, have led to an exodus of researchers from the United States,…

“Demonstrating the reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for MACH-TB,” said George Rumford, director of…

A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on a brackish beach in Oregon.…

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the…

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making significant changes to how it will respond to disasters on the ground this…

It has been two hours since the divers left the coast behind. As they reach their designated GPS points in…

I’m a huge fan of Star Wars. The first movie (no, not Episode 1) came out when I was young,…

By January 2020, Papadimitriou had been thinking about the pigeonhole principle for 30 years. So he was surprised when a…

Two years ago, astronomers believe they detected a star devouring one of its planets. Now, new observations of the aftermath…