Category: 7. SciTech

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,…

For decades now, it’s been fairly well established that once you turn 40 you should start paying attention to your body. That’s when women are supposed to start getting mammograms and men are supposed to start paying a bit more attention to their prostates. Over the next decade, you’ll…

If you close one eye or put a finger to your ear, there’s an immediate sense of loss. Two eyes help us see the world while two…

A geothermal startup said Thursday that it has hit gold in Nevada—metaphorically speaking. Zanskar, which uses AI to find hidden geothermal resources deep underground, says that it has identified a new commercially viable site for a potential power plant. The discovery, the company claims, is…