2025-09-15

MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA

The White House’s new Make America Healthy Again strategy makes some asks of the EPA—but critics say the agency is too industry-friendly to make a difference. [...]

2025-09-15

WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, CRISPR Breakthroughs, and More

This year’s WIRED Health summit in Boston featured Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, and a day’s worth of insights and provocative conversations. [...]

2025-09-14

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they're impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation [...]

2025-09-13

The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance”

Push to revive nuclear energy relies on deregulation; experts say strategy is misplaced. [...]

2025-09-13

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of reducing emissions. [...]

2025-09-13

"Aivilization" experiment lets over 22,000 AI agents model what future societies could become

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is running an experiment called Aivilization, where more than 22,000 AI agents simulate what a future society might look like.<br /> Th [...]

2025-09-12

Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report

Meanwhile, Congress is trying to keep serious scientists from weighing in. [...]

2025-09-12

The Morning After: HBO Max is going to get more expensive

As is often the case, the tech news tide is out after Apple’s iPhone 17 event. (Did we do a dedicated newsletter on all the announcements? Yes, yes we did.)<br /> Before the weekend, though, t [...]

2025-09-12

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways. [...]