Category: 7. SciTech

At a wildlife park in Germany, a young ring-tailed lemur did something bold: It launched itself at an adult ruffed lemur and…

You almost certainly know them: Someone who had to retire from soccer because of a hip problem. A grandmother who can’t lift her arm to comb her hair because of shoulder pain. A coworker who had a knee replacement. So often, the cause is osteoarthritis, a wear and tear of the joints that affects…

It’s clear that artificial intelligence is changing everything, from the way we learn to the way we work. What’s far less clear is how AI’s insinuation into everyday life is changing the way we relate to each other in the non-digital world.

During a talk this week at the Barker Center,…

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a “critical threshold” and will soon break apart, forming a new ocean.

That said, ‘soon’ is a relative term – it’ll still take a few million years more, but that’s a…

The immune system operates at a scale scientists are only just beginning to be able to see. That new view could change how diseases like cancer are tackled.

Speaking at WIRED Health on April 16, Daniel Davis, an immunologist at Imperial College London, detailed how researchers are using advanced…

Armed with stingers and pincers, scorpions sport some of the most formidable weapons in the animal kingdom – weapons which, it turns out, are reinforced with heavy metals.

Now, scientists have found that different species incorporate those metals into their exoskeletons in different ways,…

Two high-profile water crises, juiced up by climate change and industrial overuse, are building in the US. From a city in Texas staring down a drought emergency to a decades-long political crisis coming to a head for the states that rely on the Colorado River, water issues in the West will take…

Following a three-decade career at the helm of some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies—cofounding LinkedIn and sitting on the boards of PayPal and OpenAI—Reid Hoffman recently turned his attention to health care.

Hoffman’s startup, Manas AI, is building an AI engine that aims to…