2025-03-27

Look inside “The Hunger Games'” District 12 – now on the market for $1.95 million

It’s a good time to be a fan of “The Hunger Games” – Suzanne Collins just released a new installment in the beloved science fiction saga and now especially devoted readers have the opportunity [...]

2025-03-27

Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors

New approach to improving AI performance turns a silicon problem into a feature. [...]

2025-03-27

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go. [...]

2025-03-27

Partial Solar Eclipse: Where and when to see the sunrise event on March 29

On Saturday, March 29, a solar eclipse will darken the skies. Unlike the “Great American Eclipse” of 2024, though, this will not be a total eclipse; instead, a partial eclipse will be visible in t [...]

2025-03-27

Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella

The Japanese singer-songwriter’s new album goes deep on their “fascination with science.” WIRED Japan took Hikaru Utada to visit the Large Hadron Collider to learn more. [...]

2025-03-27

Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

Researchers ascribe it to "animus or prejudice against minority drivers." [...]

2025-03-26

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold on the market? [...]

2025-03-26

All by ourselves? The Great Filter and our attempts to find life.

The Universe should be full of alien civilizations. Why can’t we find any? [...]

2025-03-26

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s. [...]