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The humble potato is a miraculous vegetable, but Americans are eating less of them than ever before and have ditched fresh potatoes for frozen. Is it time to rebrand the spud? |
By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe's first moments. |
If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figure out the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions of extraterrestrial waste management. |
Intensifying hurricanes, floods, and heat waves are wreaking havoc across the country—and on all of our bank accounts. |
The space agency has pushed back the spacecraft's return to an unspecified date in July, to give it more time to look into the problems that beset the vehicle on its journey into orbit. |
The venom of recluse spiders can be dangerous, but the idea of there being a "season" when these arachnids invade homes and bite is unhelpful and wrong. |
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| A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists' work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes. |
| Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a "nutritional value" to society—and that the public desperately deserve a better offering. |
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After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant. |
| Meta's plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity. |
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A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air. |
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