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Beyond Meat Says Being Attacked Has Just Made It Stronger
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The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language
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How to Manage Food Anxiety Over the Holidays
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This Tropical Virus Is Spreading Out of the Amazon to the US and Europe
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How a Rigid-Flex Printed Circuit Board Is Used in Medical Devices
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Factors That Affect the Shelf Life of PCB Fabrication Assembly
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Generative AI and Climate Change Are on a Collision Course
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CDC Confirms First US Case of Severe Bird Flu
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The Study That Called Out Black Plastic Utensils Had a Major Math Error
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What are the payment terms for printed circuit boards manufacturers?
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A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
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How to Prepare for PCB Fabrication
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How Christmas Trees Could Become a Source of Low-Carbon Protein
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Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics
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The Simple Math Behind Public Key Cryptography
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Mega-Farms Are Driving the Threat of Bird Flu
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Good at Reading? Your Brain May Be Structured Differently
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Why Soccer Players Are Training in the Dark
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RFK Plans to Take on Big Pharma. It’s Easier Said Than Done
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Humans Will Continue to Live in an Age of Incredible Food Waste
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US Meat, Milk Prices Should Spike if Donald Trump Carries Out Mass Deportation Schemes
In recent earnings calls, shareholders in some publicly traded meat companies have asked whether the Trump administration’s deportation…
Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now—and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It
In these homes, a high value gets placed on achievement. I think the way these kids are created…
Climate Change Is Destroying Monarch Butterflies’ Winter Habitat
every year, at the beginning of November, one of the most impressive natural spectacles in the world takes…
An Augmented Reality Program Can Help Patients Overcome Parkinson’s Symptoms
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How to troubleshoot email delivery in a Gmail enterprise account?
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Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required
Alex Smith was 11 years old when he lost his right arm in 2003. A drunk driver operating…
Meet the Plant Hacker Creating Flowers Never Seen (or Smelled) Before
The money he earned doing that was enough to put Cocioba through the first couple of years of…
These 3 Things Are Standing in the Way of a Global Plastics Treaty
There is significant disagreement over whether to create a dedicated plastics fund, paid into by developed donor countries,…
Everyone Is Capable of Mathematical Thinking—Yes, Even You
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the…
Skip the Sea Kelp Supplements (2024)
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A Uranium-Mining Boom Is Sweeping Through Texas
Michaelsen thought he had won. But when the TCEQ commissioners took up the question several months later, again…
How do you ensure reliability in a printed circuit prototype?
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A Mysterious Respiratory Disease Has the Democratic Republic of the Congo on High Alert
Deaths in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from an as-yet unidentified disease are continuing…
Environmental Sensing Is Here, Tracking Everything from Forest Fires to Threatened Species
You are in a lush forest. Sunlight filters through the bright green canopy, casting dappled shadows on the…
The Mystery of How Supermassive Black Holes Merge
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Lasers Are Making It Easier to Find Buried Land Mines
scientists in the US have developed a technology that can detect land mines from far away and with…
A Parasite That Eats Cattle Alive Is Creeping North Toward the US
On November 22, the United States Department of Agriculture temporarily halted the import of cattle from Mexico after…
Mark Cuban’s War on Drug Prices: ‘How Much Fucking Money Do I Need?’
When Mark Cuban is feeling spicy, he’ll always let you know. The billionaire businessman, basketball owner, and Shark…
The End Is Near for NASA’s Voyager Probes
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These Stem Cell Treatments Are Worth Millions. Donors Get Paid $200
“If you are a student and you live on $700 as a monthly budget, $200 extra is nice,”…
Can Artificial Rain, Drones, or Satellites Clean Toxic Air?
Amid all of these concerns, the city has been turning to drones to monitor pollution hotspots, in addition…
An Uncertain Future Requires Uncertain Prediction Skills
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Chocolate Has a Sustainability Problem. Science Thinks It’s Found the Answer
Elsewhere, Mars is looking to get to the literal root of the problem by improving the resilience of…
Tune In to the Healing Powers of a Decent Playlist
Beliefs and practices about music’s ability to heal the mind, body, and spirit date back to the Upper…
The $60 Billion Potential Hiding in Your Discarded Gadgets
Recycling is important, yes. But it is also utterly insufficient to meet our needs. We tend to think…
The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes
More than 2 million years ago, a mutation reduced the power of the chewing muscles in human ancestors.…
Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers
In 2025, a small, indigenous nation that calls itself the “people of many colors” will go home for…
How the World Can Cope Better With Extreme Rainfall and Flooding
According to Bodoque, we need to improve flood-risk mapping too. There is a need to characterize vulnerability in…
Tryptophan Isn’t What Puts You Under on Thanksgiving. It’s the Carbs
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The Physics of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons
If you double the radius of a balloon, you increase the volume by a factor of eight (since…
Why an Offline Nuclear Reactor Led to Thousands of Hospital Appointments Being Canceled
“I remember in Geneva, two months ago, we said, ‘Pay attention, because on this specific week there is…
Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational
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3 Simple Rules to Beat the Downsides of Aging
We humans may be the only species that is aware of our mortality. We are obsessed with how…
Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm
Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its…
How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All
When asked why they chose Tado, he said that customers’ main reason was, “I want to save money.…
Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
Their result shows the importance of not taking anything for granted, said Noga Alon, a mathematician at Princeton.…
How Trump Could Actually Increase Fossil Fuel Production
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During his campaign, president-elect…
Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?
Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth…
Why Is There So Much Off-Brand Oral Ozempic for Sale Online?
Since they debuted, injectable GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have been in high demand. In addition to treating diabetes…
Are Rapid Radios Legal to Use Everywhere?
Rapid Radios Legal Rapid Radios use a roaming SIM card to communicate. When it expires they require a…
You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
At an upscale sushi bar in New York last week, a smattering of media and policy types chowed…
Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing a Map
“It’s a great algorithm,” said Erik Demaine, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s very…
The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients
Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize–winning technology Crispr is…
These Rats Learned to Drive—and They Love It
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What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA
Zeldin, a 44-year-old attorney and former Army lieutenant, does not have a background in environmental policy. He made…
Standing Desks Are Better for Your Health—but Still Not Enough
Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease…
How to Design a Real-Life Hot Wheels Loop
I get a minimum height of 2.5R. So if the loop is 4 meters high (with a radius…
Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers
“Today’s ecosystem is based around living volunteers,” Ossium’s CEO and cofounder, Kevin Caldwell, says. While the US organ…
Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First Time
Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more…
Scientists Have Pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to New Limits
In the world of quantum physics, another record appears to have just been broken. In a paper listed…
The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem
In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked a clone…
The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests
“There are lots of different tools that are available to law enforcement. Facial recognition is one of those…
COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large
And then, the main dilemma: Who has to take responsibility for what? The so-called global south is pressing…
The Incredible Power of Quantum Memory
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It’s not easy to study quantum systems—collections of…
Microplastics Could Be Making the Weather Worse
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible…
A Popular Decongestant Doesn’t Work. The FDA Is Finally Doing Something About It
In a long-sought move, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday formally began the process of abandoning…
Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of New York’s Tap Water
“You can see an ecosystem change overnight—specifically with hydrilla. You’ll see a normal pond, and then at the…
Starship’s Next Launch Could Be Just Two Weeks Away
Less than a month has passed since the historic fifth flight of SpaceX’s Starship, during which the company…
How does temperature affect PCB flex rigid?
temperature affect PCB flex rigid When it comes to PCB flex rigid, temperature plays a significant role in…
How do RF circuit boards support antenna matching?
RF circuit boards support antenna matching Antenna matching is a critical aspect of ensuring efficient wireless communication, as…
What is the role of laser drilling in HDI PCB?
What is the Role of Laser Drilling in HDI PCB? In the rapidly evolving world of electronics, HDI…
States’ Abortion Rights Wins May Be Short-Lived Under a Second Trump Term
When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, it ended the constitutional right to…
China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country’s first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade ago,…
How do you set up and bind a remote control FPV with your drone’s receiver?
set up and bind a remote control FPV with your drone’s receiver Setting up and binding a remote…
Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First
Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia and…
The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
“It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said…
How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away
A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered from…
How Researchers Are Using Geospatial Technology to Uncover Mexico’s Clandestine Graves
In 2014, after the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas in Mexico, Silván and other CentroGeo professionals joined the…
RFK Jr. Wants to Reshape US Health Policy. Good Luck With That
Kennedy’s past makes him an unlikely candidate for agriculture secretary, according to Daniel Glickman, who served in the…
A Lost Mayan City Has Been Found With Laser Mapping
A Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico has been revealed. The discovery occurred in…
The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects
This developing field, known as aerial electroreception, opens up a new dimension of the natural world. “I find…
OceanGate Faces Federal Investigation a Year After the Titan Submersible Implosion
The apparent success of the leaseback arrangement might explain how Rush was able to attract what was OceanGate’s…
A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People
One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in…
This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
“Growth, growth, fast growth,” Strey says of what investors were after. “You burn money to grow.” Before its…
The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug
Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies of…
Here’s What the Sustainable Cities of Tomorrow Could Look Like
Haut is a 21-story timber-hybrid high-rise completed in Amsterdam in 2022. It was designed by the British engineering…
How to Close the Gender Health Gap
If you’re a man, you are more likely to suffer a health condition that kills you. But if…
UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children
We know surprisingly little about the impact of smartphone bans in schools, says Sonia Livingstone, a professor at…
How Cells Resist the Pressure of the Deep Sea
To study the cell membranes of deep-sea animals, the biochemist Itay Budin (center) joined forces with marine biologists…
California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
Student nutrition directors like Primer say the foundation that allows schools to experiment with new recipes is California’s…
Dolphins Are Exhaling Microplastics | WIRED
In fact, bubble bursts caused by wave energy can release 100,000 metric tons of microplastics into the atmosphere…
Florida Hospitals and Nursing Homes Are Bracing for Hurricane Milton
Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the American Southeast, hospitals and health care providers in…
The Physics Trick That Makes These New Super Cars So Insanely Fast
With the extra downward force, the only way for the forces to add up to zero is if…
How a 12-Ounce Layer of Foam Changed the NFL
Late in his team’s game against the Green Bay Packers on September 15, Indianapolis Colts tight end Kylen…
A Major GLP-1 Drug Shortage Is Over. Some Patients Aren’t Celebrating
Others have already stopped sales, like Eden, which has created a special landing page declaring compounded tirzepatide to…
NASA Will Do Space in Style With the Prada Axiom Spacesuit
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. “We are witnessing the beginning…
After Hurricane Milton, Get Ready for Mold
After Milton made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in western Florida last week, some residents who evacuated…
How can you improve yield rates in flexible PCB fabrication?
improve yield rates in flexible PCB fabrication As mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players grew smaller and lighter…
Why Tampa Is So Vulnerable to Hurricane Milton
For more than a century, Tampa Bay has avoided Florida’s most destructive hurricanes. Now Hurricane Milton may end…
How does PCB rigid flex enable design for manufacturability?
PCB rigid flex enable design for manufacturability Technological advancement demands that electronic devices be slimmer and smarter, with…
The Doctor Behind the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life
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SpaceX’s Dramatic Rocket Catch Brings Interplanetary Travel One Step Closer
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. SpaceX has reached an important…
Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so Florida Deployed a Machine to Harvest It From Air
David Stuckenberg, cofounder and chief operations officer at Genesis Systems, explains that the WaterCube uses proprietary liquid and…
Why Hurricane Milton Turned the Sky Purple
Just before Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday, many people reported that…
Cells From Different Species Can Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For a molecule of RNA, the world is…
The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth
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TikTokkers Say Cinnamon Helps Burn Fat. Here’s What the Science Says
So overall, the weight loss we see from these high-quality studies is very small, and mostly with no…
The Hunt for Life on Europa Is About to Kick Up a Gear
If we’re going to find life on another world, Europa might just be our best bet. We think…
How does a circuit board connect to other components?
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Darpa Thinks Walls of Oysters Could Protect Shores Against Hurricanes
On October 10, 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base on the Gulf of Mexico—a pillar of American air superiority—found…
Hurricane Milton Shows How a Storm’s Category Doesn’t Tell the Full Story
“Pressure is easier to measure, easier to forecast, and matters more for damage, but NHC, through inertia, they’re…
Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Getting Much, Much Stronger
Earlier this year, Julian Mattucci, also known as “God Emperor Myco,” was creating new generations of spores from…
The Crackdown on Compounded GLP-1 Meds Has Begun
Eli Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to hundreds of compounding pharmacies, telehealth companies, and medical spas making and…
How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research
Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science,…
So You Can 3D Print a Steak Now—but Why on Earth Would You?
Most of us don’t know how our food is made. We don’t know much about what our burger…
Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails
The morning after Hurricane Helene pummeled the eastern seaboard of the US, Thomas Witherspoon inspected the damage to…
To Be a Good Pregnancy Surrogate, It Helps to Be a Dominatrix First
Hiring someone to carry your baby to term is a booming business. The market for surrogacy is expected…
This Man Found 1,650 Ways to Turn a Profit While Decarbonizing
Bertrand Piccard says sustainability doesn’t have to come at a cost—and that reframing attempts to hit net zero…
This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t
When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldn’t make it home that night, his partner wasn’t happy. It…
What You Need to Know Before You Freeze Your Eggs
“This is Marina. She leads a feminist organization.” This is how I am introduced at the entrance of…
‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math. Here’s How They Work
Figuring out what subgroups a group contains is one way to understand its structure. For example, the subgroups…
Alcohol Plays a Major Role in New Cancer Cases
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Taiwan Makes the Majority of the World’s Computer Chips. Now It’s Running Out of Electricity
It is not just a case of building more capacity. Taiwan’s energy dilemma is a combination of national…
The US Is Loading Up on Bird Flu Vaccine
Amid a US outbreak of avian influenza in poultry flocks and dairy cattle, the federal government on Friday…
The Secret Alchemy of Making Ice Cream
To make the perfect scoop of ice cream, you first need a dairy base—its natural proteins, fat, and…
Inside the Anti-Vax Facebook Group Pushing a Bogus Cure for Autism
Czelazewicz is just one of many affiliates who sell Pure Body Extra online, including Larry Cook, one of…
These New Biomaterials Can Help Decarbonize Fashion and Construction
The Exploring Jacket isn’t your regular anorak. Its color comes not from dyes, but from a pigment-producing bacteria…
Hurricane Helene Shows How Broken the US Insurance System Is
In comparison, North Carolina’s insurance market looks pretty good. No insurers have exited the state since 2008, while…
Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified
What sorts of offsets do you focus on? People have different opinions as to what is good enough,…
23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?
Kteily says by the time the company rolled out these services, it was too late. Customers had already…
Ukraine Is Decentralizing Energy Production to Protect Itself From Russia
What’s the difference when equipping a school with decentralized solar power compared to a hospital? The capacity that…
Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff Around
During the Age of Sail, ships circled the globe on voyages of discovery and trade. That era ended…
A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras
The flurry of private contracts became part of a “kleptocratic” regime, according to one 2017 report by the…
The Vagus Nerve’s Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense of Mind
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone…
These Record-Breaking New Solar Panels Produce 60 Percent More Electricity
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The sight of solar panels installed…
An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night
US space officials do not like to talk about the perils of flying astronauts on the aging International…
The Titan Submersible Hearings End With Few Solid Answers. Here’s What Comes Next
Another surprising omission was during Thursday’s testimony of Mark Negley, a Boeing engineer. Negley had carried out a…
Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle Plastic by Vaporizing It
Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in…
The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater
Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce in many countries, but not in Greenland. Its ice sheet contains around…
An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person
In 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester in England achieved a breakthrough when…
Titan Submersible Hearings Spotlight Multiple Issues With Its Carbon Fiber Hull
Wreckage of the Titan’s innovative carbon fiber hull was found separated into three distinct layers, US National Transportation…
Patients Are Turning to Vibrators to Relieve Their Migraines
My friend Jack suffers from the most terrible migraines. But he has an unusual solution. When his migraine…
I Tried These Brain-Tracking Headphones That Claim to Improve Focus
One afternoon I was using the device for a little over an hour when I heard a voice…
Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Signals a Broader Nuclear Comeback
For five years, reactor one at Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Pennsylvania has lain dormant. Now,…
In Praise of Climate Virtue Signaling
These changes are real, and very significant, so it’s no wonder that some of the MPs Westlake interviewed…
Why Women Get Migraines More Than Men
Migraine attacks are no ordinary headache. They can cause intense pain and sickness, lasting hours or even days,…
The Multiple Ways Climate Change Threatens to Make Migraines Worse
Migraines have long had an intimate relationship with the elements. Alongside stress and hormones, fluctuations in meteorological conditions…
New Evidence Shows Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement
But not all questions about quantum systems are easier to answer using quantum algorithms. Some are equally easy…
California Can Slake the Thirst of Its Farms by Storing Water Underground
For example, two winters’ worth of snow followed by intense heat created a flood risk in 2023. State…
America’s Dairy Farms Have Vanished
Does it become bottled milk? That’s Class 1 price. Yogurt? Class 2 price. Cheddar cheese? Class 3 price.…
The Titan Submersible Disaster Hearings Paint a Damning Picture
After they left, the Titan was rebuilt with a new hull that was never tested to industry norms…
Unlock the Secret of a Gravity-Defying Parkour Stunt—With Physics!
We can break that diagonal motion down into horizontal and vertical portions; for now let’s just focus on…
Everything You Need to Know About the WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit 2024
Returning for its second edition this October in Berlin, the WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit is bringing…
Strange Visual Auras Could Hold the Key to Better Migraine Treatments
Exactly why CSD starts, nobody knows. Similarly, plenty of mysteries remain about what activates the pain of migraines.…
RSV Can Be a Killer. New Tools Are Identifying the Most At-Risk Kids
After 25 years as a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, Asunción Mejías is too familiar with the deadly unpredictability…
Project 2025 Would Drastically Cut Support for Carbon Removal
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This Brain Implant Lets People Control Amazon Alexa With Their Minds
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Scientists Crack a 50-Year Mystery to Discover a New Set of Blood Groups
There were many challenges in the process of confirming the role of the MAL gene, including a study…
‘I Told Him I’m Not Getting in It’: Former Titan Submersible Engineer Testifies
The US Coast Guard’s Titan submersible hearing kicked off with a startling revelation. “I told him I’m not…
The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride
A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night…
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Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible
Now two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent…
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South Sudan May See the First Permanent Mass Displacement Due to Climate Change
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AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter
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The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn
This year in the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine…
Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up
“Amazon prides itself on being an ambitious and innovative company, but it’s making quite a problem for itself…
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The Cost of Lightning | WIRED
It was the terrible prospect of lightning one day striking the historic windmill that troubled Andrew Farrell. A…
Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk Mission
One of the most ambitious space tourism missions in history has launched, with the all-commercial crew set to…
Crispr-Enhanced Viruses Are Being Deployed Against UTIs
Locus’s therapy is actually a cocktail of six phages. The company used artificial intelligence to predict a combination…
What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. The wide mowed lawns…
The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger
A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists…
Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves
You could say that this is exactly what Isaac Newton’s picture of gravity does—giving a relation between an…
The Mosquito-Borne Disease ‘Triple E’ Is Spreading in the US as Temperatures Rise
The disease is spread by two types of mosquito. The first is a species called Culiseta melanura, or…
Why Polio Has Reemerged in Gaza
Why are most cases of polio vaccine-derived variants? Most cases of paralytic polio are now vaccine-derived due to…