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Check Out Highlights From WIRED’s 2025 Big Interview Event

WIRED’s Big Interview series prides itself on being the place for engaging conversations with political leaders, creators,...

Can AI Look at Your Retina and Diagnose Alzheimer’s? Eric Topol Hopes So

For decades now, it’s been fairly well established that once you turn 40 you should start paying...

How a bacterial toxin linked to colon cancer messes with DNA

The microbial toxin colibactin has just the right shape to snuggle up to DNA — but its...

Nanotyrannus is still not a teenage T. rex

Let the record show: In 2025, one of paleontology’s oldest debates was settled. A second study in...

Chatbots spewing facts, and falsehoods, can sway voters

Laundry-listing facts rarely changes hearts and minds – unless a bot is doing the persuading. Briefly chatting...

A volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black Plague to Europe

An erupting volcano may have kicked off a chain of events that led to the swift dance...

A Startup Says It Has Found a Hidden Source of Geothermal Energy

A geothermal startup said Thursday that it has hit gold in Nevada—metaphorically speaking. Zanskar, which uses AI...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE

The Louisiana Department Of Wildlife And Fisheries (LDWF), typically responsible in part for overseeing wildlife reserves and...

Ancient DNA reveals China’s first ‘pet’ cat wasn’t the house cat

The house cat (Felis catus) slunk into China in the eighth century. But long before that, the...

Thursday’s Cold Moon Is the Last Supermoon of the Year. Here’s How and When to View It

A cold supermoon is on its way. On December 4, Earth's satellite will delight us with one...

Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a new direction

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more...

Human-caused earthquakes are real. Here’s why even stable regions can snap

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably...
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