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DeepMind Is Helping Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner

A soccer AI model created by Google DeepMind makes predictions about where corners will go, and suggests tweaks to make goals more...

The Keys to a Long Life Are Sleep and a Better Diet—and...

Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.

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Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum...

Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum...

The Global Danger of Boring Buildings

Unloved buildings turn to ruin, leading to a deluge of construction waste worldwide. Designer Thomas Heatherwick tells WIRED why cities...

Insurance Rates Are Soaring for US Homeowners in Climate...

Research shows the soaring costs hint at widespread, unpriced risk as the global climate warms, with states like California, Florida...

A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon

The Earth is in short supply of helium-3. The lunar surface may hold the answer.

A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against...

Your pets can already eat a chewable tablet for tick prevention. Now, a pill that paralyzes and kills ticks has shown positive results...

The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a...

Kongjian Yu pioneered China’s “sponge city” concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead of fighting...

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

Around 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the latest escalation in a surprising...

You Can Count on Pi

On Pi Day we answer the burning question: Is there any world in which pi does not go on forever?