How to View April’s Total Solar Eclipse, Online and In Person
Here’s some advice for safely experiencing the total solar eclipse on April 8 as the moon casts a slender shadow across Mexico, the United States, and eastern Canada.
https://www.wired.com/story/solar-eclipse-2024-how-to-watch/
The US Is About to Drown in a Sea of Kittens
Cats are most fertile during the summer months, but in recent years “kitten season” has been starting earlier and lasting longer. The trend is bad news for shelters and wildlife alike.
https://www.wired.com/story/kitten-season-global-warming-cat-breeding/
Why You Hear Voices in Your White Noise Machine
If you've ever heard music, voices, or other sounds while trying to sleep with a white noise machine running, you're not losing your mind. Here's what's going on.
https://www.wired.com/story/why-you-hear-voices-white-noise/
A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time
A 62-year-old Massachusetts man with failing kidneys is the first living patient to receive a genetically-altered kidney from a pig.
The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots
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Some species can absorb extreme amounts of nickel from soils. Such “phytomining” could help provide batteries essential for the renewable revolution.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-feds-are-trying-to-get-plants-to-mine-metal-through-their-roots/
Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears
A fatal bear attack in Slovakia reignited accusations that conservationists are protecting the animals at the expense of human safety. Experts argue it's a people problem, not a bear problem.
There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023
The CDC is begging Americans to get vaccinated against measles as cases continue to rise.
https://www.wired.com/story/measles-us-cases-vaccinations-2024/
Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrates His Brain-Computer Interface
In a livestream on X, the paralyzed 49-year-old man used his Neuralink brain implant to control a computer.
https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-implant-first-human-patient-demonstration/
The World's E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
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.
https://www.wired.com/story/e-waste-recycling-cant-keep-up-precious-metals/
Illegal Trawlers Are No Match for Undersea Sculptures
Trailing weighted nets across the seabed wrecks fish stocks and kills carbon-capturing seagrasses—but one fisherman’s sculpture project has turned the tide.
https://www.wired.com/story/underwater-sculptures-stopping-trawling/
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.
https://www.wired.com/story/never-repeating-patterns-of-tiles-can-safeguard-quantum-information/
Illegal Trawlers Are No Match for Undersea Sculptures
Trailing weighted nets across the seabed wrecks fish stocks and kills carbon-capturing seagrasses—but one fisherman’s sculpture project has turned the tide.
https://www.wired.com/story/underwater-sculptures-stopping-trawling/
The World Needs to Crack Battery Recycling, Fast
The shift to electric vehicles is exciting, but it will leave us with thousands of tonnes of spent batteries.
Google DeepMind's New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
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.
https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-is-helping-soccer-teams-take-the-perfect-corner/
The Keys to a Long Life Are Sleep and a Better Diet—and Money
Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
Google DeepMind's New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
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.
https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-is-helping-soccer-teams-take-the-perfect-corner/
The Keys to a Long Life Are Sleep and a Better Diet—and Money
Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
DeepMind Is Helping Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
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.
https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-is-helping-soccer-teams-take-the-perfect-corner/
How to Live Forever
A Nobel Prize–winning biologist explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.
https://www.wired.com/story/never-repeating-patterns-of-tiles-can-safeguard-quantum-information/