#wired.com. × #Feb.27.2025 × The US May Start Vaccinating Chickens Against Bird Flu. With egg prices soaring, the US is considering vaccinating laying chickens, which have been hit particularly hard by the avian influenza outbreak.
#Health #Science × #Tech #influenza #USA #avian influenza #North America
#wired.com. × #Feb.27.2025 × USAID Was Promised Emergency Waivers for Ebola and AIDS. They’re Not Working. Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for childr
#Health #Science × #Tech #cls__sex_gdb_Male #Elon Musk #Ebola hemorrhagic fever
#wired.com. × #Feb.27.2025 × DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica. Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.
#Science × #Tech #China #Russia #USA #Europe #Asia #North America #Antarctica
#wired.com. × #Feb.25.2025 × 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.
#Health #Science × #Tech #North America #Costa Rica
#wired.com. × #Feb.24.2025 × 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.
#Business #Health #Science × #Tech #cls__sex_gdb_Male #USA #Elon Musk #North America
#wired.com. × #Feb.24.2025 × Nearly 100 Measles Cases Have Been Reported in Texas. Over the past month, the virus has spread in areas with low vaccination rates, and most of those affected are minors.
#Health #Science × #Tech #USA #North America #measles
#wired.com. × #Feb.23.2025 × The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus. In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.21.2025 × The Ozempic Shortage Is Over. The semaglutide shortage has officially ended in the US—which means the GLP-1 drug industry is about to undergo massive changes.
#Health #Science × #Tech #USA #North America
#wired.com. × #Feb.21.2025 × Did a Rock Hit Your Windshield, or Did Your Windshield Hit a Rock?. Either way, it sucks. But at least there’s some fun physics to ponder while you’re sitting in the repair shop.
#Automotive #Science × #Tech
#wired.com. × #Feb.21.2025 × The Lunar Economy Is Coming. The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon supply chain.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.20.2025 × USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers. The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.
#Science × #Tech #Weather #USA #North America #Americas
#wired.com. × #Feb.20.2025 × The Odds of a City-Killing Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Rising. The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start worrying?
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#wired.com. × #Feb.19.2025 × Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit. Biohacker Josie Zyner’s new company, Los Angeles Project, is creating a new generation of gene-edited pets.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.18.2025 × National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues. Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.17.2025 × A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here. A team at Oxford University succeeded in getting two quantum processors to connect to each other and work together with particle entanglement.
#Education #Science × #Tech
#wired.com. × #Feb.16.2025 × This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection. The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.13.2025 × This Is Where Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike. There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton nuclear weapon. Here are its possible impact points.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.12.2025 × How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out. Filters in water pitchers or under-sink systems capture dangerous chemicals, only for them to be returned to the environment. A researcher from North Carolina is pioneering a new system that could get
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#wired.com. × #Feb.12.2025 × Your Love Life on Ozempic. Beyond treating diabetes and helping people lose weight, GLP-1s may also improve libido. But the reasons are as complex as desire itself.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.11.2025 × It’s Spring on Mars—and That Means Violently Explosive Geysers and Avalanches. NASA’s Martian probes have captured photos of the Red Planet’s “extremely active” spring.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.10.2025 × NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’. In its notice outlining the large cut in university funding, the US National Institutes of Health seems to draw on a report from a conservative think tank that denounces the “political left.”
#Education #Health #Science × #Tech #USA #North America
#wired.com. × #Feb.08.2025 × How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World. Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to science to be recognized.
#Science × #Tech #Morocco #Africa
#wired.com. × #Feb.05.2025 × This Weird, Fleshy Novel Is Exactly What You Need Right Now. ‘Dengue Boy,’ a book about a humanoid mosquito taking his revenge in the dying years of planet Earth, is unsettling and essential.
#Health #Science × #Tech #dengue fever
#wired.com. × #Feb.03.2025 × These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea. In the face of seabeds becoming valuable real estate and corroding bombs polluting the oceans, teams are turning to technology to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem.
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