Beards aren’t for warmth or sun protection. Here’s what the evidence says men’s facial hair actually signals — and who it most likely evolved to impress.
Milo the whale shark has now been tracked across more than 34,000 miles, setting a record for the longest movement record ever documented for a shark. Retagged five times over nearly a decade, his travels reveal just how enormous and flexible a whale s…
Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it’s driving the data center buildout.
“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.”
Extreme geomagnetic storms could impact Earth twice as strongly as thought after researchers found a statistical bias may have hidden their true power.
President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging – perhaps futilely – the president to adopt a “Data Center Health Protection […]
Red hair comes from a pigment switch that doesn’t work, and the surprising part is that evolution may never have favored it at all. A biologist explains.
Psychologists say this one-minute daily habit predicts lasting happiness more reliably than almost any self-improvement routine — and most people skip it.
Those cute AI-generated social media caricatures come with a potential cost for you and our planet.
Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work.