How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses. [...]

The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from

For AI systems to keep improving in knowledge work, they need either a reliable mechanism for autonomous self-improvement or human evaluators capable of catching errors and generating high-quality fee [...]

Scientists Are Starting to Unlock the Nanoscale Secrets of the Immune System

At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of the human immune system. [...]

Researchers try to cut the genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids

Using AI tools, the team reworked part of the ribosome to need one less amino acid. [...]

The Strait of Hormuz Has Been Closed for 100 Days. Why Aren’t Oil Prices Higher?

President Donald Trump says a secret mission moved 100 million barrels of oil through the blocked Strait of Hormuz. That number is impossible to verify. [...]

Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal

Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal. [...]

RFK Jr.’s New Podcast Is as Weird as You’d Expect

The first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda. [...]

Do Lightsaber Blades Have Mass?

On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years. [...]

Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms

Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill. [...]