Technology
COP29 Agreement Says Someone Should Pay to Help Developing...
Rich countries have agreed to pay developing nations $300 billion a year to help them with their climate actions—but the agreement...
Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control...
Elon Musk’s brain implant company is launching a new study to test whether its wireless device can control a robotic arm.
Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
This famous probability theory was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong.
How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All
The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together...
How Trump Could Actually Increase Fossil Fuel Production
Donald Trump will have key levers he can use, but he faces limitations too.
Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in...
In a nutshell, you can get the distances or the sizes right, but not both. Space is hard!
Why Is There So Much Off-Brand Oral Ozempic for Sale Online?
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are injectable medications—but a strange new market has emerged selling oral “compounded” versions online,...
You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
A lab-grown alternative to fattened duck liver offers a controversial future for the cultivated meat industry: as a luxury product...
Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing...
Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proven that...
These Rats Learned to Drive—and They Love It
Driving represented an interesting way for neuroscientists to study how rodents acquire new skills, and unexpectedly, rats had an...

