Atmospheric scientist Laura Revell, with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, presented research showing that rocket exhaust in the atmosphere can erase some of the hard-won gains in mitigating...
NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
The helium system on the SLS upper stage—officially known as the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS)—performed well during both of the Artemis II countdown rehearsals. “Last evening, the team was...
Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils
When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary...
Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?
A new book argues that tests might reshape human diversity even if they don’t work. Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer,...
Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
One of the US government’s top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could cost the country valuable...
After fueling test, optimism grows for March launch of Artemis II to the Moon
A second fueling test on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket ended Thursday night, giving senior managers enough confidence to move forward with plans to launch four astronauts around the Moon...
Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company
Microsoft Executive Vice President for Gaming Phil Spencer announced he will retire after 38 years at Microsoft and 12 years leading the company’s video game efforts. Asha Sharma, an executive...
MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide
“We must safeguard America’s national security first, because all of our priorities depend on it. When hostile actors control critical inputs, they weaken our security. By expanding domestic production, we...
Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal
Last night, Tesla made some hefty cuts to Cybertruck pricing in an effort to stimulate some sales. The bombastic tri-motor “Cyberbeast” is $15,000 cheaper at $99,990, albeit by dropping some...
An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
“In both instances, this was user error, not AI error,” Amazon said, adding that it had not seen evidence that mistakes were more common with AI tools. The company said...
Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books
Wizarding world of AI slop The now-deleted Harry Potter dataset was “mistakenly” marked public domain. Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said...
Rocket Report: Chinese launch firm raises big money; Falcon 9 back to the Bahamas
The company that attempted China’s first orbital-class rocket landing says it will soon try again. A Falcon 9 booster on its drone ship after landing in Bahamian territorial waters last...
Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK
Persona confirmed all age-check data from Discord’s UK test was deleted. Shortly after Discord announced that all users will soon be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified,...
FCC asks stations for “pro-America” programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today urged broadcasters to join a “Pledge America Campaign” that Carr established to support President Trump’s “Salute to America 250” project. Carr said in...
Meta’s flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind
Some of the changes—like the removal of individual worlds from the VR store—are presented by the company as efforts to make the store a better discovery platform for third-party developers....
Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up
Insiders report that, as NIH director, Bhattacharya delegates most of his responsibilities for running the $47 billion agency to two top officials. Instead of a hands-on leader, Bhattacharya has become...
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course...
Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its “lead platform”
For a long time now, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform as somewhat secondary to the game’s core console versions. There are some...
“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
careful with that, it’s an antique The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China. Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of...
It’s outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser
With HBO’s critically acclaimed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gearing up for its season finale on Sunday, it’s time to check in on that other Game of Thrones spinoff: the...
