A new study suggests that the impacts of the 2021 heat dome could have been much worse for British Columbians, despite its widespread devastation, when compared to a previously overlooked heat wave during World War II.

The universe’s dominance by ordinary matter is compelling evidence that matter and antimatter are not perfect reflections of each other. However, known differences do not explain the scale of this imbalance, leaving open the possibility that unknown physics is responsible. A new analysis of meson decays, conducted by the LHCb collaboration, has narrowed the scope of the search for such a scenario while paving the way for more precise measurements in the future.

When multinational companies decide where to build a factory, open a mine or establish a regional office, they have to consider whether the investment will still be profitable years into the future.

The limited-time offer applies to the latest phones from Google and Samsung, but you must be a new customer who signs up for 12 months of the unlimited plan.

This Congressional investigation into Nvidia’s China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.

Researchers at Cornell have developed a laser-cooling technique that could potentially remove a significant bottleneck in the development of larger, faster quantum computers.

As communities around the world shore up their infrastructure in anticipation of one of the most powerful El Niños on record in late 2026 and early 2027, they need to think about rising health risks, too—and include them in early weather warnings.

Nvidia employees and tech insiders never thought the chip king would lose his job. Despite his sudden resignation, many of them are still in denial.

I found discounts of up to half off some of the top WIRED-tested TVs.

Muse’s AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses — but it’s not free.

In a special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we break down Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia, what comes next for the company, and where the AI industry goes from here.

Can a bacterium’s DNA reveal whether it will make a plant sick? Bioinformatician Guillermo Guerrero Egido believes so. In his PhD research, he developed a computational method that not only identifies potential pathogens, but also the genes that may be responsible for their disease-causing abilities.

Scientists from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have directly observed liquid-like, glass-like and crystal-like phonon behaviors coexisting in a crystalline solid—the layered superionic conductor AgCrSe₂.

Wildfires bring to mind a blazing sea of flames. But what happens to the smoke? Anyone observing a wildfire from a safe distance notices mainly the enormous clouds that tower above the fire. These rise several kilometers and then embark on journeys that can extend across continents and oceans. Pollutants from wildfires in Canada can still be detected, for example, at the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps.

Accurate, up-to-date climate projections are essential for planning decisions that enhance the resilience of power grids, protect public health, maximize agricultural yields and more. Now, MIT researchers have developed a technique that streamlines the production of fast, trustworthy and adaptable artificial intelligence models for climate prediction.

Every workday is a negotiation between our bodies and our jobs. Sit too long, and our backs and necks protest; stand too long, and our feet might have something to say about it.

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Most people have never seen a San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia). Native only to California’s San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, the brilliantly colored reptile was one of the initial entries in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s first endangered species list in 1967. After nearly 60 more years of droughts, invasive species, disease, low genetic diversity, and poaching, researchers estimate only a few thousand San Francisco garter snakes still exist in the wild. However, conservationists recently scored a major win for the snakes. For the first time, 62 of young serpents born at the San Francisco Zoo were released at specific sites across San Mateo County earlier this fall. The successful rewilding of dozens of the endangered snakes marks a huge moment for population rehabilitation efforts, and hopefully clears the way for similar releases in the future. “Seeing these young snakes returning to the wild represents years of research, collaboration, habitat restoration and careful conservation work,” Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) biologist Karine Tokatlian said in a statement. “This first release is an important step toward building healthy, resilient populations that can sustain themselves over the long term.” Although slender, the brightly colored San Francisco…

The Utah Utes’ rivalry football game with BYU was a triumph for Utah, but it was also a UteQuake extravaganza. No new records were set, but Rice-Eccles Stadium experienced intense seismic shaking during Saturday’s game that resulted in a 28–20 victory for the still-undefeated Utah Utes.

On July 1, 2023, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Euclid space telescope into space. Its mission: to create the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever made.

Just days after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly admitted that he had cheated on his wife with a woman who the US government suspects of being a Chinese spy, the New York Times revealed that he had a second affair with Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare Kimberly Powell — which is strictly forbidden under Nvidia’s code of conduct. It didn’t take long for Nvidia to announce his resignation, parting ways earlier today with the executive who founded the company over 30 years ago. And as investors continued to debate what matters more — his freewheeling love life or the possibility of having given up corporate secrets to the United States’ biggest adversary — Reuters now reports that Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee. That means we now know Huang carried out at least three extramarital affairs, mounting even more scrutiny on the second most valuable company in the world, which is almost single handedly propping up the AI industry with its extremely-in-demand chips. Reuters refused to name the second employee and was unable to reach them for its reporting. Beyond the baffling extent of Huang’s extramarital affairs, the growing scandal could have significant implications on a geopolitical…

Though it may not always feel like it, we are a part of nature, and our health depends on the quality of our environmental surroundings. A new study published in Scientific Reports explores a surprising new connection between climate change, pollution and the negative health impacts marginalized communities disproportionately face.

The number of students in U.S. public schools has dropped dramatically in recent years, with enrollment falling by more than a million students nationwide since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That steep decline has intensified the financial strain on many districts, triggering often contentious public debates about school closures and staff layoffs.

A recent WIRED investigation explored the complicated definition of “power” for women in the industry. Jensen Huang’s answers now appear to show his blind spots.

California is teeming with thousands of insect species science has yet to name, and its wild places hold more distinct worlds of tiny creatures than researchers realized. California is home to an astonishing variety of insects, from the deserts of the Mojave to the forests of the Sierra Nevada. But scientists are discovering that the […]

Reuters is withholding the name of the new employee linked to Huang, but says she is an employee of Nvidia.

Virtual reality and augmented reality strongly rely on visual information; consequently, they are inaccessible to individuals with visual impairments. To create illusions of tactile feedback or force sensations without physical contact, previous studies have primarily relied on visual manipulations, such as altering the apparent position of objects, with less attention given to the potential of sound alone.

Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that the tracking requirements of his Chip Security Act meant to combat smuggling were technically possible, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while its industry group claimed they were “potentially infeasible.”  Representative Foster, a Democrat who serves on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, co-sponsored the Chip Security Act, which would introduce geotracking requirements to verify locations of advanced AI chips to prevent their smuggling to China, in 2025. It is one of three chip-security bills under consideration for inclusion in the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act, each drawing renewed attention after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation and reported affair with an alleged Chinese spy. When the Chip Security Act was introduced in May 2025, lawmakers said the technology to implement it exists, something Nvidia has not publicly confirmed. In March 2026, the Semiconductor Industry Association, of which Nvidia is a member, explicitly opposed the bill and wrote that its mandates for chip tracking were “new, untested, and potentially infeasible.”  But privately, representatives from Nvidia working with Foster on the technical possibility of such safeguards told the lawmaker that the company could implement them.  “They never…

Generative artificial intelligence is driving an unprecedented wave of scams, from vocal clone politician phone calls to uncomfortably realistic deepfake images. While most of these are designed and coordinated by groups of bad actors hoping to cast the widest net possible, some are the work of individuals simply attempting to pull one over on specific targets. Many AI con jobs are more convincing than others, but one pizzeria owner in Los Angeles almost immediately suspected a recent patron’s complaint once they saw the supposed “evidence.” After receiving their pizza from Masa of Echo Park via DoorDash, a customer named “Dana B” demanded a full refund for what they claimed was an inedible, burnt pie. Accompanying their grammatically questionable message was a picture of what appeared to be a charred Chicago-style pizza. “its burnt to heck. burnt. black. cant eat it. dont wanna eat cancer…,” they wrote in their complaint. However, Masa owner Rhonda Reynolds knew almost instantly that the allegation was categorically false. “It was impossible. It was absolutely impossible,” she told local news outlet KTLA 5. Reynolds uploaded the photo into an app called “Is This AI,” which offered a 96 percent certainty that the picture was faked. She…

Microsoft says its systems are experiencing “elevated loads” as the company races to end an outage impacting its business and enterprise customers.

The ocean covers around 70% of the Earth’s surface, but large parts of the seafloor remain largely unexplored.

Researchers from Northeastern University’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center (OGL) have taken the next step toward deciphering the life cycle and unusual reproductive strategies of a limestone-eating species of shipworm. The results could ultimately usher in new developments in lifesaving medicine.

The devastating incident on Wednesday has left at least 8 people dead and more than a dozen injured

A single word can overturn your understanding of a sentence, and your brain chemistry may shape how hard you work to make sense of it again. Even a single word can change the meaning of an entire sentence, forcing the brain to rethink what it just read. But how efficiently the brain handles these grammatical […]

Fluctuating resource supplies can help some highly invasive plants outcompete native species. But research on how nutrient fluctuations affect plant invasion has largely relied on greenhouse or simplified experiments, leaving it unclear whether the same mechanisms operate under natural conditions.

Oh, what a difference a penny can make in the likelihood that restaurant customers will order a small plate.

As any cat owner knows, their feline companion is the boss of the home, and their meows are one way to get attention. But are those noises actually an attempt to communicate with us, or simply an expression of how the cat feels?

Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google’s AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.

Scientists have discovered that immune cells in fat tissue behave differently in males and females, potentially helping explain sex-specific responses to obesity. A type of immune cell best known for its role in allergies and asthma may help explain why obesity affects males and females differently. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside found that […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s disastrous scandal and subsequent resignation have thrown the AI chipmaker’s fortunes into chaos. The company’s shares slid over five percent on Thursday after the company announced it cut ties with Huang following weeks of embarrassing revelations, including two extramarital affairs. Huang admitted to cheating on his wife on Sunday with a woman who’s suspected to be a spy for China. Then on Wednesday, the New York Times revealed that he had a second affair with Nvidia president of healthcare Kimberly Powell, amidst growing calls for his resignation. The news of his ouster sent shockwaves across Wall Street that capstone a grim year for the company. At the time of writing, Nvidia’s stock is down almost 30 percent in the last month alone and over 14 percent over the last 12 months, meaning that anybody, who bought shares in November 2025 would be out of a lot of money. “The most expensive shag in the history of humanity,” joked economics professor Justin Wolfers. It’s a significant development because the entire AI industry relies on powerful chips produced by Nvidia. And whether the company will be able to contain the fallout of its scandals-plagued CEO remains to be…

Nectar’s new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.

Microsoft hasn’t yet given a cause for the outage, which is affecting Outlook email users.

Nitrate, a chemical compound of oxygen and nitrogen often used in farm fertilizers, can rise to toxic levels in surrounding water under very dry conditions. This relationship has traditionally been attributed to agricultural runoff or human waste in the environment, but new research led by scientists at Penn State shows that a hot and dry climate elevates concentrations of nitrate in rivers and streams, even in areas without urban or agricultural development.

Kelp switch between sexual and asexual reproduction depending on whether there are potential mates nearby, according to a study by Daniel Liesner at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany, and colleagues, published Nov. 12 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.

A new study has found people living in Arabia 125,000 years ago used complex technologies, including composite hunting weapons, plant-fiber processing and possibly poison-assisted hunting, while making use of a freshwater lake rich in resources.

Humans and many other social animals thrive in well-established community networks. Asian elephants are one example of a species that flourishes in groups that work together to access food and care for their young, among other social bonds.

In materials science labs around the world, researchers regularly reproduce a peculiar experiment. Under a microscope, they use tiny robotic manipulators to lay two sheets of carbon, each a single atom thick, against one another. They then rotate the top sheet against the bottom. The two identical lattices of atoms, when twisted relative to one another, bloom into a complex moiré pattern, a shifting complex of honeycomb shapes that grow and shrink as the angle between the layers changes.

‘Tis the season for pumpkin: the “Superbowl of Pumpkin Weigh Offs,” pumpkin spice lattes, and prepping Thanksgiving feasts. One group of endangered tortoises are enjoying the season with a soup served inside a pumpkin bowl  The trio of critically endangered Asian giant tortoises (Manouria emys phayrei) at the Turtle Survival Center (TSC) in South Carolina recently feasted on this specially made soup with gusto.  View this post on Instagram “Pumpkin is a great seasonal addition for the turtles,” keeper Carly Sprott tells Popular Science. “It helps keep them hydrated, contains vitamins A and C, as well as fiber that aids in digestion. It is not something we would feed turtles as their entire meal very often, instead we offer balanced meals of fresh salads and various proteins depending on the species’ needs. They were absolutely thrilled when they received a taste of one of their favorite fall snacks!” In the wild, Asian giant tortoises are found in tropical and subtropical mountainous evergreen forests in parts of Bangladesh and Indonesia. These freshwater turtles are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, and their primary threats are habitat destruction, collection for local consumption, and collection for pet and food trades.…

Humanity has thrived thanks to a stable cryosphere, but burning fossil fuels has increased the risk of “accelerating and partly irreversible” harm to the planet’s cold places.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could operate for more than two decades while capturing images 30% sharper than originally expected. Improvements in fuel efficiency and optical performance could dramatically expand its scientific reach, potentially allowing astronomers to study the universe well into the 2040s. A Remarkable Fuel Surprise Could Keep Roman Operating Until 2048 Launched on August 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the $4 billion observatory is traveling toward the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, known as L2, approximately 1 million miles from Earth. This region provides a stable environment for studying distant galaxies, dark matter, and planets beyond our solar system. Yet the journey has already delivered an unexpected advantage. According to NASA, two exceptionally precise engine burns performed shortly after launch consumed substantially less fuel than mission planners anticipated. Each maneuver preserved enough propellant to support roughly four additional years of operations. Engineers had also discovered before launch that the spacecraft weighed less than originally budgeted, allowing its tanks to carry additional fuel without exceeding mass limitations. Together, these savings could provide approximately 12 extra years of fuel, raising the possibility of an operational lifetime extending well beyond the…