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WIRED HEALTH | 8-MINUTE READ |
Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the science and charlatans of life-extension. |
TICK TICK BOOM | 3-MINUTE READ |
Your pets can already eat a chewable tablet for tick prevention. Now, a pill that paralyzes and kills ticks has shown positive results in a small human trial. |
STEAK OUT | 5-MINUTE READ |
Around 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the latest escalation in a surprising culture war. |
COMPUTER SCIENCE | 7-MINUTE READ |
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction. |
MAKING IT RAIN | 4-MINUTE READ |
Kongjian Yu pioneered China's "sponge city" concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead of fighting it. Metropolises all over the world are following suit. |
JUNK PLANET | 4-MINUTE READ |
A new UN report finds that humanity is generating 137 billion pounds of TVs, smartphones, and other e-waste a year—and recycling less than a quarter of it. |
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Unloved buildings turn to ruin, leading to a deluge of construction waste worldwide. Designer Thomas Heatherwick tells WIRED why cities need to prioritize human health and joy in architecture. |
| Research shows the soaring costs hint at widespread, unpriced risk as the global climate warms, with states like California, Florida and Louisiana hit hardest. |
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Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are residents so resistant? |
| TacticAI, a soccer AI model created by Google DeepMind, makes predictions about where corners will go, and suggests tweaks to make goals more—or less—likely. |
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They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the "Transformers" paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history. |
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