Category: News/Events
First Vaccine Battlegrounds ‘Map’ on Social Media Show How Dire Things Have Become
War metaphors are a common cliché in medicine. But sometimes nothing else will do. A battle is looming, one with real lives at risk, and…
Your Cat Is a Killer And This Study Shows Why You Really Need to Keep It Inside
We know feral cats are an enormous problem for wildlife – across Australia, feral cats collectively kill more than three billion animals per year. Cats…
How Smart City Planning Could Slow Future Pandemics
The cities of the world are sick. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, people living in metropolitan areas have been among the worst hit, unable to…
How to Set Up Your Kid’s Virtual Work/Play Space
Sure, you’ve been stuck at home and are now feeling Zoom fatigue. Chances are your kid is too. That’s why it’s important for them to…
Today’s Cartoon: Netflix Finale
Monday, May 18, 2020. By Andrew Hamm, with cartooncollections.com. If you’ve finished Netflix, here are the films and TV series WIRED staffers come back to…
An At-Home Coronavirus Test Just Got Emergency FDA Approval. Here’s What We Know
A new at-home coronavirus test kit just got emergency approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. The sample collection kit, from home testing company…
How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—Easy
I met Cheng one morning in the mall’s central atrium, near an antique Chevrolet pickup truck that held hay and flowers. (“Chrysanthemums,” Cheng noted, approvingly.)…
Here’s What an Antitrust Case Against Google Might Look Like
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that federal and state officials are likely to file antitrust lawsuits against Google later this year, focusing…
Astronomers Have Traced Mysterious Neutrinos Back to Erupting Supermassive Black Holes
Neutrinos are mysterious and elusive particles. They have a tiny mass, no electric charge, and they interact with other matter only rarely. They are also…
NASA Just Released The Artemis Accords – Guidelines For Humans to Abide by in Space
Over the next few years, we’ll finally be heading back to the Moon. But with nearly 50 years in between our last Moon jaunt and…