2025-08-07

The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Over 2 Nights

Prepare to get away from city lights if you want to see the colorful sky show. [...]

2025-08-07

GPT-5 is here and it's free for everyone

A couple of days after announcing its first open-weight models in six years, OpenAI is releasing the long-awaited GPT-5. What's more, you can start using it today, even if you're a free user [...]

2025-08-07

Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results

In an 18-month clinical trial of the experimental GLP-1 pill orforglipron, about 60 percent of people lost at least 10 percent of their body weight. [...]

2025-08-07

Why the US Is Racing to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially achievable goal that could transform space exploration, experts tell WIRED. [...]

2025-08-06

Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet

A collection of new studies on gene activity show that AI tools aren't very good. [...]

2025-08-06

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and stigma have echoed down the generations. [...]

2025-08-06

Before the Next Planet Parade, Don't Miss This Week's Full Sturgeon Moon

The full moon shines bright in three days, just before the peak of the Perseid meteor shower and 11 days before the next planet spectacle. [...]

2025-08-06

Google Cloud’s data agents promise to end the 80% toil problem plaguing enterprise data teams

New AI agents handle pipeline creation, data science workflows and analytics queries autonomously, potentially reshaping how enterprise data professionals spend their time. [...]

2025-08-06

The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. [...]