Technology
A Uranium-Mining Boom Is Sweeping Through Texas
State leaders want nuclear reactors to provide consistent, low-carbon power for AI, oil extraction, and more. But in South Texas,...
A Mysterious Respiratory Disease Has the Democratic Republic...
The WHO has sent epidemiologists to the country to uncover the cause of the illness, which has killed more than 70 people, half of...
Skip the Sea Kelp Supplements (2024)
Sea kelp, otherwise known as bladderwrack, has become a trendy superfood. But the modern hype doesn’t hold up.
Why Soccer Players Are Training in the Dark
Sports science company Okkulo has shown that its specially lit training environment can improve players’ visual-motor skills—and a...
Environmental Sensing Is Here, Tracking Everything from...
The internet of things turned every device in your house into a smart something. Now it’s coming for nature—to track forest fires...
We’ve Never Been Closer to Finding Life Outside Our Solar...
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere...
Lasers Are Making It Easier to Find Buried Land Mines
The technology searches for buried objects by sending vibrations into the ground and measuring what comes back.
A Parasite That Eats Cattle Alive Is Creeping North Toward...
For decades, the screwworm was eliminated in North America, but containment efforts in Panama have failed. Now cattle smugglers are...
Mark Cuban’s War on Drug Prices: ‘How Much Fucking Money...
“I’m not trying to land on Mars,” Cost Plus Drugs founder Mark Cuban joked at WIRED’s The Big Interview event.
These Stem Cell Treatments Are Worth Millions. Donors Get...
A Swedish startup wants to democratize stem cell treatments, but the finances of the unproven therapies raise ethical questions.
