WIRED’s Big Interview series prides itself on being the place for engaging conversations with political leaders, creators, executives, and scientists moving the world forward. In 2024, we brought those talks to a stage in San Francisco for the…
For decades now, it’s been fairly well established that once you turn 40 you should start paying attention to your body. That’s when women are supposed to start getting mammograms and men are supposed to start paying a bit more attention to…
Emergency rooms across the U.S. have been seeing a strange and miserable trend: young people arriving doubled over in pain, screaming while they vomit for hours at a time. Known as “scromiting,” — a mashup of “screaming” and…
A single hornet sting can be powerful enough to kill a small mammal. But to pond frogs, the venomous insects appear to be more of a delicacy.
In results reported in Ecosphere, ecologists found that frogs actively attacked and swallowed live…
Our Greek salads may look a bit different next year as Greece faces a potential feta cheese shortage.
The shortage is due to an ongoing outbreak of goat and sheep pox that started in August of 2024. The virus, now spread to many parts of the…
While we as humans are now aware of microplastics and are actively trying to avoid them, crickets may choose to consume them as a tasty snack.
Microplastics can range in size from 5 millimeters (mm) wide to 1 micrometer, according to a new study…
The identity of Nanotyrannus has long hinged on one unresolved question: Was it its own small-bodied predator — or simply a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex that hadn’t finished growing?
Now, researchers say a tiny bone in the throat has delivered…
Before the Black Death claimed millions of lives across medieval Europe, its arrival on the continent may have been propelled by volcanic eruptions. These eruptions likely brought a string of unusually cold and wet summers, triggering widespread…
If you close one eye or put a finger to your ear, there’s an immediate sense of…
