AI Is Helping Solve the Intricate Genetic Puzzle of Schizophrenia

Recent findings provide one of the most detailed pictures to date of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia, opening up new avenues for research into the disorder. [...]

Seedless Blackberries and Cherries That Grow on Bushes Vie to Be the Future of Food

Startups and Big Ag are using Crispr gene editing to create crops that taste better and grow on a hotter planet. But will they find a market? [...]

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. [...]

AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions

New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent—vastly outpacing the impact of data centers. [...]

Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn

Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at [...]

Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse

Hot hours of summer could triple in the coming decades. [...]

How and When to View the Perseid Meteor Shower (August 2026)

The Perseids will peak between August 12 and 13. Here’s what time—and where—you can get the best view, and why 2026 will be an exceptional year. [...]

Is It Safe to Eat Lettuce Yet?

“That product is off the market, so I think there’s absolutely lower risk for cyclospora in terms of eating lettuce,” one professor of food safety tells WIRED. [...]

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think. [...]