2025-02-25

Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them

Monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their health—allowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies. [...]

2025-02-25

Brewing tea removes lead from water

High surface area of the tea leaves means they can adsorb toxic metals released by the boiling water. [...]

2025-02-25

Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud—something that has never been detected in a smaller galaxy. [...]

2025-02-25

It's the Best Week to See All Seven Planets in a Spectacular Planet Parade

Once March begins, Mercury, Saturn and Neptune will have drifted too close to the sun to be readily visible. [...]

2025-02-25

Asteroid's Chance of Smacking Earth Drops Dramatically. Here's What to Know

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032. [...]

2025-02-24

DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System

At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED. [...]

2025-02-24

Nearly 100 Measles Cases Have Been Reported in Texas

The virus has spread in areas with low vaccination rates, and most of those affected are minors. [...]

2025-02-24

A Jumping Lunar Robot Is About to Explore a Pitch-Black Moon Crater for the First Time

Packed with instruments and rovers, the soon-to-launch IM-2 mission will explore the lunar south pole and attempt something never done before—to enter a shadowed moon crater to look for ice. [...]

2025-02-24

Anthropic’s new Claude model can think both fast and slow

Another week, and there's another new AI model ready for public use. This time, it's Anthropic with the introduction of Claude 3.7 Sonnet. The company describes its latest release as the mar [...]