#wired.com. × #Jan.31.2025 × RFK Jr.’s Organic Crusade Has Sparked a Weird Political Realignment. Eating organic is normally associated with tote-wielding liberals, but RFK Jr. is shifting the politics of food in unusual ways.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.31.2025 × RFK Jr.’s Senate Testimony Is Haunted by His Track Record. During his confirmation hearings this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would promote vaccines as HHS secretary, despite a long history of promoting anti-vax positions.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.30.2025 × Washington, DC Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far. Air traffic controllers asked Flight 5342 to switch runways when coming in to land. Black box recordings from the jet and the military helicopter it collided with will help reveal if this contributed t
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#wired.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA. Bringing forward the return of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would leave just a single astronaut operating the US portion of the International Space Station.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.29.2025 × Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety. A White House memo ordered a halt to federal assistance and a review to align spending with Donald Trump’s priorities. Many legal experts say the order is unconstitutional.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.26.2025 × Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life. Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.25.2025 × George R.R. Martin Coauthored a Scientific Paper. OK, cool, now finish The Winds of Winter.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.25.2025 × The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues. The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with computer scientists to create tools that can find answers.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.24.2025 × 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know. Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, Einstein!
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#wired.com. × #Jan.24.2025 × Science Has Spun Spidey's Web-Slinging Into Reality. When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for inspiration on what to do next.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.22.2025 × The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One. H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country’s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn’t yet recommended.
#Health #Science × #Tech × #USA #avian influenza #North America
#wired.com. × #Jan.22.2025 × This Company Wants to Build a Space Station That Has Artificial Gravity. Founded by crypto guru Jed McCaleb, Vast Space will run two missions to the International Space Station, and aims to launch its first space station, Haven-1, by the end of 2025.
#Science × #Tech × #USA #North America
#wired.com. × #Jan.21.2025 × Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis. The new president’s orders will take the US out of the Paris Agreement, encourage the extraction and use of fossil fuels, and undo Biden-era policies.
#Politics #Science × #Tech × #Weather #France #USA #Europe #North America
#wired.com. × #Jan.21.2025 × How Invasive Plants Are Fueling California’s Wildfire Crisis. Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the state’s fire dynamics.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.19.2025 × Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers. To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.18.2025 × Influencers Are Hawking Wellness Products in Response to the LA Fires. Essential oils, detox regimens, parasite cleanses, and raw milk have entered the disaster economy.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.17.2025 × Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?. The profit margin on crypto mining is all about the physics of computers and energy conversion.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.17.2025 × The Real Cognitive Neuroscience Behind ‘Severance’. The “severance procedure” isn't real—but some of the ideas in ‘Severance’ aren’t as out-there as you may think.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.17.2025 × See 6 Planets Align on January 21. Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that the next won’t happen until 2040.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.16.2025 × An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60. What may be the first commercially available book saved in DNA is the latest example of how consumers might use molecular data storage.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.16.2025 × Check Out These Extraordinary New Images of Mercury. New photos of Mercury taken during the joint European and Japanese BepiColombo mission reveal fascinating details of the small rocky planet.
#Science × #Tech × #Japan #Europe #Asia
#wired.com. × #Jan.16.2025 × Why It’s So Confusing to Determine Air Quality in Los Angeles Right Now. Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.14.2025 × Imagining a Future Where Chicagoans Get Around in Free Driverless Cars. In Nnedi Okorafor’s new book, "Death of the Author," a young author experiences the exhilaration, and panic, of living in the world she’d previously only dreamed of.
#Science × #Tech × #USA #North America #Americas
#wired.com. × #Jan.13.2025 × Mapping Elon Musk’s Global Empire. From tunnels to Tesla factories to SpaceX launch facilities, there’s barely a place on Earth that doesn’t feel the gravitational pull of humanity’s wealthiest reply guy.
#Aviation #Science × #Tech × #cls__sex_gdb_Male #SpaceX #USA #Elon Musk #North America
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