The Northern Lights Could Be Visible Across the US Thanks to a Rare Solar Storm
admin Three rapid bursts of charged particles that erupted toward Earth from the sun’s burning-hot outer atmosphere on Wednesday…
Technology
Sell Lab-Grown Meat in Alabama and You Could Go to Jail
Alabama has become the second US state to ban the sale of cultivated meat. The bill, signed into…
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design
Rather than building a device from the ground up, Synchron and Paradromics have taken inspiration from previous medical…
City Trees Save Lives | WIRED
“We are able to quantify how outcomes would have been different in real events,” says de Guzman. “I…
7 Best Clitoral Suction Toys (2024): Suction Vibrators, Air Pulse Toys, and More
Designed to simulate the sucking or tapping sensation of oral sex, clitoral suction toys are a relatively recent…
How Micro Vias Affect the Reliability of Vias in Printed Circuit Boards
Micro Vias Affect the Reliability A micro via is a smaller version of a traditional through-hole (TH) or…
The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps
So the demand is there, as is growing support from the federal and state governments. What’s lagging is…
Boeing’s Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into Space
“It fits in with the general narrative of Boeing having lost its way,” says McDowell. Starliner, like Crew…
The US Is Cracking Down on Synthetic DNA
The White House has issued new rules aimed at companies that manufacture synthetic DNA after years of warnings…
An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity of Spacecraft Orbits
You can create a graph with the angle as the x-axis and the speed as the y-axis. But…
What Kind of Battery Would You Need to Power a Lightsaber?
Melting an ice cube takes 3.34 x 105 joules per kilogram. So a single ice cube with a…
A Company Is Building a Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian Outback
VanWalleghem said there is room to push costs down as the company gains experience from these first few…
No One Knows How Far Bird Flu Has Spread
In late March, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it had detected cases of bird flu in…
Get Ready for Monster Hurricanes This Summer
Three main factors converge to intensify hurricanes. The first is that as the world in general warms, so…
The Role of Bending Radius in Circuit Board Design
Bending Radius in Circuit Board Design A circuit board is a complex piece of electronic equipment that connects…
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed…
How to Test the Reliability of High Density Interconnect
Reliability of High Density Interconnect High density interconnect (HDI) technology has been a major enabler of advancement in…
The Uncomfortable Truth About the UK’s Climate Policies
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine feels like a really pivotal moment in this narrative. In the autumn of 2022,…
The Role of Quick Turn Printed Circuit Boards in Smart Grid Technology
Quick Turn Printed Circuit Boards in Smart Grid Technology Printed circuit boards are a crucial component in every…
The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding
Beyond DESI, a slew of new instruments are coming online in the coming years, including the 8.4-meter Vera…
1 in 3 Americans Live in Areas With Dangerous Air Pollution
For Gaddy, who is African American, the report’s findings confirm what she and her neighbors in Newark’s predominantly…
Can flex PCB fabrication support fine pitch components?
flex PCB fabrication support fine pitch components Compared to rigid PCBs, flex circuits can reduce the size and…
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney.…
Can flexible circuits withstand harsh environments?
flexible circuits withstand harsh environments A flex circuit is a printed circuit board (PCB) that can bend. They…
How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away
Throughout the five months of troubleshooting, Voyager’s ground team continued to receive signals indicating the spacecraft was still…
What Industries Commonly Utilize HDI PCB Technology?
HDI PCB Technology The development of HDI pcb technology is ongoing as manufacturers respond to increasing demand for…
Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better
Courtesy of De Dakdokters Below that stretches a filter layer, which keeps the soil from getting into the…
Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust
Over the past three years, the plant-based meat industry has experienced a major reversal in vibes. Sales boomed…
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink has chosen the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, as the initial study…
Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In Georgia’s 2020 gubernatorial election, some voters in…
NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From
NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last month was part of a…
How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America’s Drought
On its website, Greenstone describes itself as “a water company” and as “a developer and owner of reliable,…
Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years
Kotz, Levermann, and Wenz suggest that this is an indication of warming we’re already committed to, in part…
Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse
When the team infected mice with Candida albicans strains taken from the severely affected Covid patients, they discovered…
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part of…
The Rise of the Carbon Farmer
Patrick Holden strolls across the field, pausing from time to time to bend and point out a bumblebee,…
No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused by Cloud Seeding
Dubai is underwater. Heavy storms have caused flash flooding across the United Arab Emirates, leading to shocking scenes…
The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot
You don’t need to have been petrified by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Skynet-commissioned cyborg assassin in 1984’s The Terminator to…
They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat. It was clear now, they needed to…
US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an $830 Million Plan to Fix It
There’s one word that will get any American fuming, regardless of their political inclination: infrastructure. Pothole-pocked roads, creaky…
It Takes Guts to Fix Wind Turbines for a Living
Maybe you think they’re majestic. Maybe you think they’re an eyesore. No matter how you feel about wind…
The Paradox That’s Supercharging Climate Change
No good deed goes unpunished—and that includes trying to slow climate change. By cutting greenhouse gas emissions, humanity…
The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
“How are matter and energy distributed?” asked Peter Schweitzer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut. “We…
Toronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods—With a Rain Tax
This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A plan…
Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit
The Victus Haze mission is more complicated than Victus Nox, involving two prime contractors, two spacecraft, and two…
Europe Rules That Insufficient Climate Change Action Is a Human Rights Violation
Despite this, the positive ruling for the KlimaSeniorinnen is being touted as hugely significant by legal experts. In…
Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?
Just because you see something done in a movie, that doesn’t mean you should try it yourself. Take,…
Elon Musk’s Latest Mars Pitch Has Potential
Elon Musk has been talking publicly about his sweeping vision for Mars settlement for nearly eight years now,…
Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways
As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across…
Mexico City’s Metro System Is Sinking Fast. Yours Could Be Next
Solano‐Rojas and his colleagues found subsidence in the area of an overpass near the Olivos station, which collapsed…
This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born
Walk me through your own decision to do this—to use Orchid’s technology on yourself. I mean, I started…
The Honeybees Versus the Murder Hornets
Teams of volunteers now hunt Asian hornets landing on British soil, but detection is only the tip of…
The Best Total Solar Eclipse Photos (2024)
The arrival of the total solar eclipse in the US has brought with it an impressive array of…
Why the East Coast Earthquake Covered So Much Ground
Friday morning at around 10:30 local time, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake popped three miles below Whitehouse Station, New…
A Popular Alien-Hunting Technique Is Increasingly in Doubt
The third factor is the probability of a lifeless planet producing the observed signal—an equally serious challenge, researchers…
Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024: Watch Online, What Time, Path of Totality
It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar eclipse…
How Will the Solar Eclipse Affect Animals? NASA Needs Your Help to Find Out
In other anecdotes, onlookers have reported birds that stop singing, crickets that stopped chirping, or bees that return…
Searching for ‘Forever Chemicals’ From an Endless Landfill Fire
Testing done by ADEM, Butler said, also did not assess water samples taken from sites closest to the…
He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working
Other than rejection of the organ, one of the most common transplant complications is infection. Doctors have to…
Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?
If you live in the US and missed the last total solar eclipse in 2017, good news! You’re…
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
On April 12, 2019, Boston University finally fired David Marchant for sexually harassing Willenbring. (The university said it…
International Space Station Trash May Have Hit This Florida House
A few weeks ago, something from the heavens came crashing through the roof of Alejandro Otero’s home, and…
‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills’: American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions
Together with Floridians Protecting Freedom, Hochkammer and her team are calling for an amendment that would make it…
This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of People
In early experiments, Lagasse found that if he injected healthy liver cells into the lymph nodes of mice,…
Scientists Are Unlocking the Secrets of Your ‘Little Brain’
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning…
One Couple's Quest to Ditch Natural Gas
Two climate journalists decided to decarbonize their home. Here’s what happened.
The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows
“There’s a massive difference in the amount of heat that our system is putting out when a user…
Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?
The anti-smartphone movement is having a moment. On March 25, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning…
Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot
As a designer, what safety considerations did you have to think about with the Neuralink device? The primary…
The Earth Will Feast on Dead Cicadas
Much like an unexpected free dinner will distract you from the leftovers sitting in your fridge, this summer’s…
Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed So Quickly
Photographs of the aftermath show the bow of the ship pinned beneath fallen sections of the bridge. The…
The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space
During the course, King was part of a team tasked with identifying research that could be conducted in…
The Real Reason Some Abortion Pill Patients Go to the ER
Today the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a consequential case that threatens to…
Enjoy Your Favorite Wine Before Climate Change Destroys It
More subtly, heat influences volatile compounds that turn into gas—that’s the “nose” you get when tasting wine—which break…
How to View April’s Total Solar Eclipse, Online and In Person
It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar eclipse…
Are You Noise Sensitive? Here’s How to Tell
The sympathetic nervous system kicks in, boosting your heart rate, increasing your blood pressure, and triggering the body…
Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the…
Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface
On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s brain implant, a 29-year-old man who…
The US Is About to Drown in a Sea of Kittens
Scientists, conservationists, and cat advocates all agree that unchecked outdoor cat populations are a problem, but they remain…
The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots
“Just like we do research with corn, wheat, soybean, getting these plants to be more efficient in taking…
Why You Hear Voices in Your White Noise Machine
Every night, I—like millions of others—put on a noise machine to help me sleep. Mine offers several types…
Reliability of Flex Circuit PCBs
Flex Circuit PCBs Compared to rigid PCBs and wire harnesses, flex circuits are more reliable due to their…
A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time
Slayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor. The donor kidney initially functioned well,…
Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears
It was around 5 pm on March 15, and the light was fading fast, when Constantin and Tatiana…
There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association sent out separate but similar pleas…
The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop…
Illegal Trawlers Are No Match for Undersea Sculptures
As a carbon sink, seagrass has other advantages too. It’s unlikely to catch fire and release large quantities…
Google DeepMind’s New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
Working with player-tracking data from 7,176 corners taken in the Premier League during 2020 and 2021, the researchers…
The Keys to a Long Life Are Sleep and a Better Diet—and Money
And of course there are other priorities: infectious disease, pandemic control, global health, prevention of childhood diseases. If…
The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
Your city isn’t prepared for what’s coming. The classical method for dealing with stormwater is to get it…
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered…
The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
We need to make the exterior parts of buildings that people focus on more interesting, so that people…
Insurance Rates Are Soaring for US Homeowners in Climate Danger Zones
The First Street Foundation study points out that insurers could offer discounts to homeowners who take steps to…
A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon
Two of Blue Origin’s earliest employees, former president Rob Meyerson and chief architect Gary Lai, have started a…
A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
If you have a dog or cat, chances are you’ve given your pet a flavored chewable tablet for…
States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a…
You Can Count on Pi
For geeks, there are several great holidays on the calendar. There is of course Mole Day (10/23) to…
Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are
Extreme heat kills roughly half a million people worldwide each year, but at the current rate of global…
Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest
“Degradation means that you still have standing forest, but you are losing some of the structure, some of…
Get Ready to Eat Pond Plants
If you ever watch a duck float across a pond, gobbling up the vegetation coating the surface, that…
The 4 Big Questions the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Fails to Answer
But what, then, were those programs? Herein lies the most intriguing—and potentially ground-breaking—question that the Pentagon study leaves…
Your Next Job: Brain-Computer Interface Surgeon
There’s a lot to like about brain-computer interfaces, those sci-fi-sounding devices that jack into your skull and turn…
How Do Heat Pumps Work?
Now stretch it really hard and quickly hold it to your upper lip, which is sensitive to temperature.…
Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a…
Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap
Well, if weight here is being used as a proxy for sex or gender, a larger woman would…
Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World’s Groundwater Supply
That is certainly the case in Yemen, on the south flank of the Arabian Peninsula, where the desert…
A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound
The company’s study included 74 participants with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s who received either the Cognito stimulation or…
Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth. Well, not the woolly mammoth exactly, but…
Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea-Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking
Fighting off rising seas without reducing humanity’s carbon emissions is like trying to drain a bathtub without turning…
A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine
A 62-year-old man in Germany decided to get 217 Covid-19 vaccinations over the course of 29 months —for…
Less Sea Ice Means More Arctic Trees—Which Means Trouble
Like a nice wool blanket can help a human baby stay warm and healthy, so too does a…
This Is What Your Brain Does When You’re Not Doing Anything
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Whenever you’re actively performing a task—say, lifting weights…
The US Buried Nuclear Waste Abroad. Climate Change Could Unearth It
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ariana Tibon was in…
Spain’s Tragic Tower Block Fire Exposes the World’s Failing Fire Regulations
On February 22, a fire swept through a 14-story apartment block in the Campanar neighborhood of Valencia, Spain.…
Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That
To achieve real climate solutions, changing behavior and developing technology is not enough, says Michal Nachmany, founder and…
US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day
In this map, blue signifies higher amounts of annual stormwater runoff from urban areas, while red is lower.…
Emergency Planners Are Having a Moment
Also, in a disaster, there are no good decisions, there are only least-worse decisions. Every decision will come…
Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
Humanity’s superpower is sweating—but rising heat could be our kryptonite, and an average temperature rise of 2 degrees…
Alabama IVF Patients Are Running Out of Time
In October, Melissa began an in vitro fertilization cycle. A resident of Birmingham, Alabama, her fertility journey to…
A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life
A combination of AI, a wild 1970s plan to build underwater cities, and a designer creating furniture on…
A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber
What the body does need is fiber, a nutrient found in vegetables, whole grains, and legumes that helps…
There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding
But there may be opportunities to indirectly spot the signatures of those gravitons. One strategy Vafa and his…
Odysseus Marks the First US Moon Landing in More Than 50 Years
For the first time in more than half a century, a US-built spacecraft has made a soft landing…
Frequent Heavy Rain Has Made California a Mudslide Hotspot
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture the…
Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?
Wouldn’t it be cool if you never had to charge your cell phone? I’m sure that’s what a…
What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump
“The answer ended up being, yes, in all US states, on average heat pumps will reduce greenhouse gas…
The Transport Companies Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind
Cleaner, greener transport is on its way—from delivery to air travel—but government action on incentives and infrastructure is…
A Startup’s Mission to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth Is Being Made Into a Docuseries
The idea that humans caused this extinction, but human ingenuity can put things right again? Reed: That is…
Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t
Some Neuralink rivals, such as Precision Neuroscience, are developing implants that sit on top of the brain, or…
Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
We can reverse climate change if we redefine what carbon neutral looks like, said Gabrielle Walker, cofounder of…
Measles Strikes a Florida Elementary School With Over 100 Unvaccinated Kids
Florida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school…
Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft
Something had gone wrong with the giant radio tower. Will Payne, of Payne Media Group, got an alert…
Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known…
Tech Still Isn’t Doing Enough to Care for the Environment
We are in a climate crisis, and technology can be either a part of the problem or a…
Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
His group decided to find out. They built the new, diversified version of AlphaZero, which includes multiple AI…
Smoking Alters Your Immune System for Years After You Quit
To figure out why and how the effect lasts for years after someone smokes their last cigarette, Duffy’s…
All That Rain Is Driving Up Cases of a Deadly Fungal Disease in California
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last week, a long,…
A Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria
But Cole’s progress was short-lived. Her blood infection returned, and her doctors determined the phage-antibiotic combination was no…
Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War
But this is only half of the problem that needs solving. For those who do want to seek…
The Feds Just Bet Even Bigger on American-Made Heat Pumps
While everyone’s been focused on accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles to cut carbon emissions, a technological hero…
Fake Caviar Invented in the 1930s Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution
Imitation caviar invented in the 1930s could provide the solution to plastic pollution, claims Pierre Paslier, CEO of…
Ocean Temperatures Keep Shattering Records—and Stunning Scientists
So what’s going on here? For one, the oceans have been steadily warming over the decades, absorbing something…
Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion
It has been a rocky year for plans for large-scale cultivated-meat production. In May 2022, another Californian startup,…
Wild Animals Should Be Paid for the Benefits They Provide Humanity
We need to understand the value of nature if we want to protect it—and that should include paying…
Farming Prioritizes Cows and Cars—Not People
In late February, farmers from across the US will gather in Houston, Texas, to witness the crowning of…
Who Tests If Heat-Proof Clothing Actually Works? These Poor Sweating Mannequins
Meet ANDI, the world’s sweatiest mannequin. Although he might look like a shop-floor stalwart from a distance, a…
The City of Tomorrow Will Run on Your Toilet Water
Epic Cleantec’s soil amendment Photograph: Matt Simon Researchers are experimenting with using the same technique for wastewater solids,…
A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade
This is a job for LLL: Give it (or its brethren) a basis of a multidimensional lattice, and…
Countries Are Building Giant ‘Sand Motors’ to Protect Their Coasts From Erosion
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When governments find themselves…
Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible?
After a big mistake on his first run, Daniel Yule assumed he was out of the men’s slalom…
This Small Wearable Device Reduces Parkinson’s Symptoms
In 2015, Lucy Yung was a young industrial designer working on assistive devices for stroke victims, people with…
NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is still alive out there, barreling into the cosmos more than 15 billion miles away. However,…
NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future
Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things…
A Study at the Center of the Abortion Pill Battle Was Just Retracted
Scientific publisher Sage Journals has retracted three papers on abortion—including a controversial 2021 study on mifepristone, the medication…
These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump
Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already outselling…
How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Driverless cars and planes are no longer the…
A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap Insulin
Now some key patents have expired, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has paved the way…
The US Has Big Plans for Wind Energy—but an Obscure 1920s Law Is Getting in the Way
The reason for the Jones Act’s longevity, says Colin Grabow, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, a…
Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
But the solar system contains more than two masses. In fact, it started as a big cloud of…
You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
“The restaurant dinners we held at China Chilcano in Washington, DC, last summer went extremely well,” wrote Eat…
Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Kids
Science teachers in many states are currently updating their lessons to incorporate the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)—a…
Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains
Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether you…
Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink’s Brain Implant
Elon Musk said on the social media platform X on Monday that the first human patient has received…
Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism
“The very reason that we have magnetism in our everyday lives is because of the strength of electron…
Texas Is Already Running Out of Water
“However, if a system is permanently impaired it is also possible that recovery will not reach former levels,”…
Inside the DIY Movement to Fight Coastal Erosion
For as long as David Cottrell could remember, his hometown had been falling into the sea. In the…
How to Convince Your Flat-Earth Friends the Earth Is Round
Illustration: Rhett Allain You can see that we have a right triangle with the hypotenuse equal to the…
Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space
Representing Xenovia, the Leiden team took full responsibility for the explosion but said their client repossessed Candidia’s satellite…
The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is at Risk of Extinction
Ice climbers and ecosystems will be forced to adapt as winter patterns change—and Arnold believes the sport will…
6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
To get the new genetic material into cells, they engineered harmless viruses to carry it. Doctors carefully injected…
The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
The water that pours out of your tap, or that’s unnecessarily packaged in a single-use bottle, or that…
Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
To keep IL-12 inside tumors, scientists at Strand designed a set of instructions called a genetic circuit that…
The World’s First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now
Malaria expert Brian Greenwood had once resigned himself to the possibility that a successful vaccine for the disease…
Cryptographers Are Getting Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We all know to be careful about the…
Why the Polar Vortex Is Bad for Balloon Artists
It’s been crazy cold this week, even down where I live in Louisiana, thanks to an outbreak of…
The Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
With the Supreme Court green-lighting the MVP, it seems to Larkin and others that there’s only one thing…
The Murky Campaign to Discredit Lab-Grown Meat
Alamy said that the suggestion that ingesting immortalized cells could be linked to cancer in humans was “so…
A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person—and Worked for 3 Days
That has led researchers to genetically alter pigs in an attempt to make their organs a better match.…
Trawling Boats Are Hauling Up Ancient Carbon From the Ocean Depths
The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a…
Scabies Is Making a Comeback
The high number of cases in the UK also reflects the difficulty of eradicating an outbreak, says Jo…
This Ultrasound Bra Could Detect Cancer Sooner
In 2015, Canan Dağdeviren was working as a postdoc at MIT when she learned that her aunt, Fatma,…
My Parents’ Dementia Felt Like the End of Joy. Then Came the Robots
By then she was also dropping in at conferences with her parents, where she heard about real social…
A Scandal Is Tearing the World of Record-Breaking Dogs Apart
But when Kimball asked Guinness about re-verifying Spike, these vet estimates were no longer sufficient evidence. One way…
Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Decision Is a Warning
In a memo published in November 2023, Norwegian law firm Wilkborg Rein said that passing the bill with…
Unpicking the Mystery of the Body’s ‘Second Brain’
Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in…
These Mining Companies Are Ready to Raid the Seabed
But deep-sea mining is considered a risky business not just because of environmental concerns. Norway’s startups are betting…
A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames
As Bloomberg reported in May, New York, California, Sweden, and the Netherlands are developing legislation similar to Chile’s…
The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever
In this graph, the orange line shows the global sea surface temperature throughout 2023. The other squiggles are…
The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes
As terrible as that tradeoff is, it’s worth noting that the risk of death on a commercial airliner…
The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max
Spirit AeroSystems, the Wichita-based aerospace manufacturer that manufactured the door plug that blew out on the Alaska Airlines…
Air Pollution Is Ruining Your Skin
In June last year, a series of devastating wildfires tore through the Canadian province of Quebec, sending huge…
Why Humans Are Putting a Bunch of ‘Coal’ and ‘Oil’ Back in the Ground
In addition to burying solid carbon or sprinkling it on fields, researchers are also turning waste biomass into…
There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It
Since 2021, all dominant Covid variants have descended from Omicron. The 2023–2024 booster was tailored for the XBB.1.5…
During Pregnancy, the Placenta Hacks the Immune System to Protect the Fetus
“The cell is effectively dressing up as an infectious agent,” Kagan said. “The result is that it convinces…
California Is Solving Its Water Problems by Flooding Its Best Farmland
“I remember taking so many tours out there,” said Rentner, “and all the public funding agency partners would…
How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold
Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose…
Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast
Below is New York’s JFK Airport—notice the red hotspots of high subsidence against the teal of more mild…
They Had PTSD. A Psychedelic Called Ibogaine Helped Them Get Better
After multiple deployments with the US Army Special Forces, Joe Hudak returned home in 2011 changed by his…
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it…
Page not found | WIRED
Page not found | WIRED Page Not Found Whoops, that page is missing! If you clicked a link…