The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic
At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu said…
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WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, Crispr Breakthroughs, and More
At the WIRED Health summit in Boston on September 9, we hosted some of the…
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Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy
The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that…
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The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new way…
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Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and H&M are currently investing in durable CDR. A spokesperson for H&M described…
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US Taxpayers Will Pay Billions in New Fossil Fuel Subsidies Thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill
“It’s no secret that Trump and the Republicans are on the side of the fossil…
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This Is the First Time Scientists Have Seen Decisionmaking in a Brain
Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time,…
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Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes
Crispr gene-editing technology has demonstrated its revolutionary potential in recent years: It has been used…
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SpaceX Targets an Orbital Starship Flight with a Next-Gen Vehicle in 2026
“The metal tiles ... didn’t work so well,” he said. “They oxidized extremely nice in…
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Researchers Create 3D-Printed Artificial Skin That Allows Blood Circulation
When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or…
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Moderna CEO Responds to RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against the Covid-19 Vaccine
At the WIRED Health summit on Tuesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the recent changes…
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Why Former NFL All-Pros Are Turning to Psychedelics
Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science,…
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The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Hard problems are usually not a…
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This Blood Thinner Is More Effective Than Aspirin at Preventing Heart Attacks
Aspirin is one of the most widely taken medicines in the world, having been recommended…
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Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes
“Hi there Gina, hope you’re having a great day,” said another exactly two weeks later.…
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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product…
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‘People Are So Proud of This’: How River and Lake Water Is Cooling Buildings
“In the old days, it was more like a luxury project,” says Deo de Klerk,…
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It’s Possible to Remove the Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water. Will It Happen?
A new study finds that technologies installed to remove forever chemicals from drinking water are…
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Hungry Worms Could Help Solve Plastic Pollution
Plastics that support modern life are inexpensive, strong, and versatile, but are difficult to dispose…
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NASA’s Largest Satellite Antenna Ever Has Just Unfurled in Space
A Flowerlike satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna…
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Falcon 9 Milestones Vindicate SpaceX’s ‘Dumb’ Approach to Reuse
As SpaceX's Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company's workhorse Falcon…
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These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the…
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Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat
It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But…
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Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Seen from…
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Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out
Susan Monarez is no longer the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and…
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How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on September 7
On the evening of September 7, the second (and final) total lunar eclipse of the…
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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
Per Shiffman and Wester, an “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that Bluesky has a “vibrant…
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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry
Given these and other recent milestones, Peng says it’s realistic to think that at least…
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SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight
Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days…
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What It’s Like to Work at a Body Farm
Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of…
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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for…
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Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer-Space Radio Wave
The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena.…
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IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms
The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August…
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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.We were once promised self-driving cars…
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What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?
This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you…
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Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Air conditioners…
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Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
These sellers do brisk business online. On mainstream platforms like Ebay, they often upcharge novice…
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FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
The changes to survivor signup have been made inside the program that the agency uses…
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Scientists Find a New Moon Orbiting Uranus
A team of astronomers has found what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon orbiting…
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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station
The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in…
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Scientists Just Caught Human Embryo Implantation on Camera
The simulation made it possible to appreciate how a human embryo does not merely adhere…
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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine
The diamonds formed under extreme pressure and heat deep in the Earth’s mantle. If you…
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The End of Handwriting | WIRED
People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a…
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A Super-Energetic Neutrino That Reached Earth in 2023 Has Been Confirmed to Be Real. But Where Did It Come From?
In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the…
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An Ancient Penis Worm With Rings of Sharp Teeth Has Been Discovered in the Grand Canyon
About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the…
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The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended
A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according…
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The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel
Esteban Amaro, director of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, agrees that fuel is the…
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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?
It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in…
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UN Plastics Treaty Talks Once Again End in Failure
Despite Friday’s outcome, the plastics treaty does not yet appear to be dead. Virtually all…
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Now You Can Get Your Flu Vaccine at Home
Instead of going to the pharmacy to get the annual flu vaccine, many people in…
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This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered
Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated…
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RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines
One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was…
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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic
An image from the study illustrating how plastic bottles reach Latin American Pacific coasts. Illustration:…
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The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns
A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the…
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An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU
The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI…
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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up
In 2023, Domokos—along with his graduate students Gergő Almádi and Krisztina Regős, and Robert Dawson…
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Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA
WindBorne’s balloons, in contrast, can collect and distribute data from remote regions. That makes them…
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The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
In 1938, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who had fled to New York to escape fascism,…
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NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations
Phil McAlister, who directed NASA’s Commercial Space Division from 2005 to 2024, which included this…
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Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results
An experimental pill made by Eli Lilly led to average weight loss of more than…
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Why the US Is Racing to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
“There’s now policy certainty that we didn’t have before,” she adds. “Last but not least,…
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Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors
The mushroom cloud was visible from the hills of neighboring prefectures. Those who were beyond…
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See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August
On August 10, six planets—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—will line up in an…
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US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
The report says that data from acoustic sensors and strain gauges on board indicated that…
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How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra
Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is…
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The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments
But the search for such a pill—or indeed any treatment as effective as CPAP—has proved…
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Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato
There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories…
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Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico
The spread of measles is showing no signs of slowing down in Mexico. Between July…
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Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a…
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Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ quarterly survey of over 130 oil and gas producers…
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Peacock Feathers Are Stunning. They Can Also Emit Laser Beams
Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they…
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AC or DC: Which Is Better?
Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current.…
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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt…
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States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines
With US Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. already shaking up federal…
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The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis
The moment Merry Fitzpatrick realized that Gaza’s malnutrition crisis had progressed to a newer and…
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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
“The Climate Working Group and the Energy Department look forward to engaging with substantive comments…
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What Your Nighttime Breathing Says About Your Health
Notably, the research showed that apnea can manifest differently in REM sleep: “A lot of…
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Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them
There are currently more than 50 issued nationwide 404 permits—some of which still require pre-construction…
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The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid
More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering…
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There’s Neuralink—and There’s the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It
Mark Jackson is playing a computer game with his mind. As he reclines in bed,…
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This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets
A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable…
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Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments
Florida is the latest state to sidestep the authority of the Food and Drug Administration…
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A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer
“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see…
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An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US
Liu has been making the solution in his rented apartment in Beijing by mixing citric…
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The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The country…
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Join Our Next Livestream: Inside Katie Drummond’s Viral Interview With Bryan Johnson
What does it mean to be healthy in 2025? Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur and venture…
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
“When combined with other Pacific pathways to Australia and New Zealand, nearly 4 percent of…
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The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants
Lauren Goode: Yeah, I think it's going to be really good.Michael Calore: Yeah.Lauren Goode: And…
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The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law
If a country fails to take decisive action to protect the planet from climate change,…
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Animals Are the Original Wellness Influencers
In the early 2010s, researchers in Mexico City noticed that sparrows and finches at the…
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South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon
China, India, and Japan are not the only countries on the Asian continent looking to…
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A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency
You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump…
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Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’ Could Prove How Ancient Supermassive Black Holes Formed
A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two…
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EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office
Several EPA scientists stressed to WIRED that ORD’s current structure, which allows research to happen…
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The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life
After my birth, my mother became allergic to the world. That’s the only way I…
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Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
The industry is finding a willing partner in the Trump administration. Since taking office, Trump…
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The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity
The world of Bousso’s new theorem still departs from our universe in notable ways. For…
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Can US Measles Outbreaks Be Stopped?
The US is experiencing its worst year for measles in over three decades, with more…
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Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In the…
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Where Are All the AI Drugs?
A new drug usually starts with a tragedy.Peter Ray knows that. Born in what is…
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Einstein Showed That Time Is Relative. But … Why Is It?
Nope, NOT 20 m/s. To them the ball is moving at 30 m/s (i.e., 10…
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The Structure of Ice in Space Is Neither Order nor Chaos—It’s Both
Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets,…
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Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
On July 2, NASA revealed the existence of 3I/ATLAS, only the third ever interstellar object…
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For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time
That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget…
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How to Use Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They Disappear
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The “one…
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Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized
To play polo at the highest level, you have to love horses or be filthy…
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Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice
“All of the mice we treated showed dramatic improvement in their motor skills. The results…
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Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now
And even if it is right, an AI agent can’t complement the information it provides…
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A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory
Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much…
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China Has Attempted What Might Be the First-Ever Orbital Refueling of a Satellite
Northrop Grumman launched two satellites in 2019 and 2020 that accomplished the first dockings in…
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Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats
Over 100 people have now been confirmed to have lost their lives in the flash…
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On Mexico’s Caribbean Coast, There’s Lobster for the Tourists and Microplastics for Everyone Else
The fishermen of Puerto Morelos, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, risk their lives every time they…
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Why Jolly Ranchers Are Banned in the UK but Not the US
Adopted in 1958, the GRAS exemption was intended to cover the use of commonplace ingredients,…
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How the Binding of Two Brain Molecules Creates Memories That Last a Lifetime
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.When Todd Sacktor was about to…
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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas
“The signal was out there that this is going to be a heavy, significant rainfall…
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Is It Time to Stop Protecting the Grizzly Bear?
But the ESA was only meant to safeguard against “reasonably foreseeable future threats,” Willms argues.…
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Feeling Hoarse? You Might Have the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant
Another NEW covid variant is currently rapidly gaining a foothold. Known officially as XFG—or informally…
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The EU Proposes New Rules to Govern the European Space Race
There are around 11,000 satellites orbiting Earth, and it is estimated that at least 50,000…
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How to Travel to the Most Remote Office on Earth
The plane is a Hercules C-130, super impressive. You arrive on this little bus, and…
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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance
Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package, known as…
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Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air…
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Insurers Aren’t Saying Whether They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids if Government Stops Recommending Them
“We are committed to ongoing coverage of vaccines to ensure access and affordability for this…
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The Senate Just Put Clean Energy for AI in the Crosshairs
After more than a day of continuous debate, the US Senate passed its version of…
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Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The simplest ideas in mathematics can…
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The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Globally, humanity…
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The Next Acetaminophen Tablet You Take Could Be Made From PET
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen…
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Space Elevators Could Totally Work—if Earth Days Were Much Shorter
Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as…
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A European Startup’s Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It’s Lost at Sea
A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took…
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‘They’re Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
During visits in recent months, Emelie says her husband, who was detained at Stewart until…
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RFK Jr.’s Appointees to CDC Vaccine Panel Are Not Good
Anti-vaccine advocate and current Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media Wednesday…
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India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level
“The more granular your data, the more targeted your response can be,” Krishna adds. Instead…
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Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space
He’s also not the only researcher working to expose plants to higher radiation levels than…
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The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert,…
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How to Beat Jet Lag
As ultra-long-haul routes take flight, plane-lighting hacks and meal planning could help passengers recover faster.
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How the Universe and Its Mirrored Version Are Different
Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the…
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Methane Pollution Has Cheap, Effective Solutions That Aren’t Being Used
And because methane is invisible and odorless, it can be difficult and expensive to monitor…
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Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Appears to Work as Well as Injected GLP-1s
Eli Lilly’s daily anti-obesity pill orforglipron appears to be as good at spurring weight loss…
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‘Major Anomaly’ Behind Latest SpaceX Starship Explosion
Musk wrote that the nitrogen COPV appears to have failed below its proof pressure, within…
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The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV
The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved lenacapavir, an injectable form of HIV…
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US Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday upheld the state of Tennessee’s ban on…
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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the…
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The EPA Plans to ‘Reconsider’ Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
Despite touting ambitious goals of making America healthier, the Trump administration on Monday revealed in…
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Scientists Discover the Key to Axolotls’ Ability to Regenerate Limbs
In his current research, there are still gaps to be filled: how the CYP26B1 gradient…
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A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite
While injected GLP-1 drugs are incredibly effective at spurring weight loss, they also come with…
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This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care
Gill-Peterson’s work has illustrated for Branstetter the narrowing effect that identity-first politics can have at…
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The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon
Crucially, unlike Io’s odd magnetic field, which seemed to indicate that it concealed an ocean’s…
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WHO Monitors New Covid Variant Spreading in America and Europe
A new Covid variant is being kept under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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Wood Pellet Mills Are Prone to Catching Fire. Why Build Them in California?
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Wood pellets,…
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This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons
The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which…
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Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?
Touch both objects. They’re the same temperature, but the wood feels warmer, right? Why is…
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Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale
US Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jan Schakowsky on Thursday sent letters to the two potential…
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‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US
Unlike a linear taper, which involves reducing the dose of a medication by the same…
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The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the…
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Astronomers Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Unlock the Secrets of Black Holes
There may not yet be telescopes capable of unlocking all the secrets of supermassive black…
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A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
“I think it’s the right policy, for us to take a national standard,” they said.While…
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What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body
A 2014 study by the US military has also found that exposure to tear gas…
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A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
Kauffman argues that biological evolution is thus constantly creating not just new types of organisms…
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Uber Just Reinvented the Bus … Again
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Every few…
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How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump’s America
In your go bag, FEMA recommends packing three days’ worth of food and water, physical…
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How One Keto Trial Set Off a New War in the Nutrition World
While the study was still in the recruitment phase, Nadolsky left the team.Entrenched PositionsKlatt, of…
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Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed
With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has broken…
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A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person
Brain-computer-interface startup Paradromics today announced that surgeons successfully inserted the company’s brain implant into a…
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How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help from Physics
What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net?It’s not a single neural…
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Analysts Say Trump Trade Wars Would Harm the Entire US Energy Sector, From Oil to Solar
Why is this conflict happening? The short version is that Trump and his advisers believe…
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Is Using a Stair Machine the Same as Climbing Stairs?
Since the change in kinetic energy is still zero, this means that the positive change…
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Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans
Some species of hummingbird are adapting to urban life by undergoing evolutionary changes in their…
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Starship’s Latest Test Reveals New Problems for SpaceX to Solve
SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket Tuesday,…
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The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit
She imagines industrial activity in space, freeing up land on Earth. Hollywood directors shooting films…
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Mushroom Supplements Are the Biohackers’ Latest Fix (2025)
From ancient remedies to your Amazon cart, mushroom supplements have traveled a circuitous road. They…
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A New Study Reveals the Makeup of Uranus’s Atmosphere
Over that period, the research team watched as the south polar region darkened going into…
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Why Women With Type 2 Diabetes Are Diagnosed Later Than Men
Statistically, men are more likely than women to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with…
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The Milky Way Has a Mysterious ‘Broken Bone’
If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that close…
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The Quest to Prove the Existence of a New Type of Quantum Particle
When you swap two paraparticles, these hidden properties change in tandem. As an analogy, imagine…
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Want to Claim the Solar Tax Credit? Get Installing Now
This story originally appeared Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.For the last…
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New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station
It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds…
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand,…
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Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
The remaining staff are in an “all hands on deck” situation with the rollout, says…
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The Enhanced Games Has A Date, A Host City and a Drug-Fuelled World Record
The Enhanced Games—a kind of Olympics for athletes who are doping—today announced the date and…
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The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass
The EPA on Wednesday said it would change a rule intended to protect Americans from…
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Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug
After telehealth startups recently lost the ability to sell exact copies of patented GLP-1 weight-loss…
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A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time
Last August, KJ Muldoon was born with a potentially fatal genetic disorder. Just six months…
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SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures
SpaceX founder Elon Musk also wants Starship to fly to Mars, which will, likewise, require…
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Patients Are Left With Few Options as GLP-1 Copycats Disappear
Futter’s provider, Henry Meds, no longer offers compounded tirzepatide injections, but allowed patients to place…
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The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals
In early May, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would split up the agency’s…
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Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice
“How we end up with similar circuitry was more flexible than I would have expected,”…
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Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?
Chikowore says there are many possible explanations for this, ranging from as yet undiscovered genetic…
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Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels
Even in the best of times, long-term observations can be very fragile. It is difficult…
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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart
Means’ nomination was announced on Wednesday after Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat,…
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US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed…
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As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It
These decisions, together with concerns about future funding cuts, have led to an exodus of…
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This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane
“Demonstrating the reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for MACH-TB,”…
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Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria
A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on…
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The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new…
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The Future of Manufacturing Might Be in Space
Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing…
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FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making significant changes to how it will respond to…
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How Mexico’s Fishing Refuges Are Fighting Back Against Poaching
It has been two hours since the divers left the coast behind. As they reach…
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The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast
I'm a huge fan of Star Wars. The first movie (no, not Episode 1) came…
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Why Pigeons at Rest Are at the Center of Complexity Theory
By January 2020, Papadimitriou had been thinking about the pigeonhole principle for 30 years. So…
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The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe’s Power Back On
“You should be anticipating every failure that can happen, and you should survive any one…
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Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US
Another issue in the US is the lack of a compatible safety device called a…
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