Category: 7. SciTech

Holly is the Staff Writer for BBC Science Focus and looks after the popular Q&A section. She holds an MSc (distinction) in Geoscience (Space and Climate Physics) from UCL, and specialises in astronomy and earth sciences. Before joining Our Media, she worked as a geoenvironmental consultant and…

Every so often, the ocean’s abyss reveals to us a creature so haunting as to inspire nightmares.

And then, there’s the bumpy snailfish: an absolutely adorable, pink, knobbly critter shaped like an oversized tadpole, whose googly eyes and absent-minded smile surely merit a place in the next…

May I have your attention, please? I’ll try and be quick, as I probably only have about 47 seconds before your mind starts wandering. That, according to psychologist Dr Gloria Mark, from the University of California, Irvine, is now our average attention span, based on her latest study of…

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the WIRED Health summit last week. “There’s just a massive amount of risk that you can take off…

It’s 2pm, my eyelids are drooping and my thoughts are sluggish. I feel like I need to summon all my willpower to simply remain awake, let alone get my mind into gear for an afternoon’s work.

Part of me tempted to enjoy a little siesta, but how can I justify this time away from my desk?

I…

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu says later this year his lab plans to report on a single gene-editing strategy that could treat many unrelated diseases. He calls it disease-agnostic therapeutic gene editing.

“It sounds sort of crazy,…

At the WIRED Health summit in Boston on September 9, we hosted some of the leading experts in CRISPR, whole-genome sequencing, vaccines, and more for a series of eye-opening conversations and keynotes. If you weren’t able to join us in person, no worries; you can watch them all right here.

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“President Trump made a fantastic choice in selecting Dr. Beck, who has never been a lobbyist in her life, by the way—no lamestream media outlet has reported that correctly,” EPA press secretary Bridget Hirsch told WIRED in a statement. Beck and her colleagues, Hirsch said, “remain…

Anyone who’s not a morning person is reminded, frequently, that they’re not a morning person. For me, it’s being used as a barely sentient climbing frame when my children charge in at dawn. It’s the brain fog that takes a couple of hours to shake off at the start of each day. It’s the…

Missed a deadline at work? Planning a breakup? Rift with a friend? Experts may have now uncovered the best way for you to make amends.

A new…