Category: 7. SciTech

Have you ever seen a dog focused on nuzzling their expensive treat under a blanket, behind a couch cushion, or into a freshly dug hole in the backyard?

You might think they are behaving like a paranoid doomsday prepper, but dogs aren’t stockpiling their food due to anxiety about impending…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If the board keeps going past the glass, as if it weren’t there, are they surprised? Many…

Instead of stopping to smell the flowers, scientists suggest stopping to smell your farts.

While the thought may be enough to make your stomach…

This story originally appeared on Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

During the summer of 2025, Iran experienced an exceptional heat wave, with daytime temperatures across several regions, including Tehran, approaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees…

The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth’s history than we thought.

A new study tracing the earliest steps toward complex life suggests that this transformation from simpler ancestors began almost 3 billion…

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery.

Somehow, it managed to die with more than 800 tiny pebbles in its throat – a situation that researchers think almost certainly caused its demise. But why was…

Instead of stopping to smell the flowers, scientists suggest stopping to smell your farts.

While the thought may be enough to make your stomach…

WIRED’s Big Interview series prides itself on being the place for engaging conversations with political leaders, creators, executives, and scientists moving the world forward. In 2024, we brought those talks to a stage in San Francisco for the very first time. This year, we did it again,…