2025-08-05

How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

WIRED talked with one of the most influential voices in computer science about the potential for AI and quantum to supercharge supercomputers. [...]

2025-08-05

Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action

Official actions don't challenge science, while unofficial docs muddy the waters. [...]

2025-08-05

The Next Planet Parade Is Coming Soon: Here's How to See Six Planets Line Up

Mark your calendar -- you can catch Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in the sky at the same time. [...]

2025-08-05

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making Today One of the Shortest Days Ever

Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why. [...]

2025-08-05

The Morning After: Could the next PlayStation have triple the power of the PS5?

Five years since the launch of PlayStation 5 and, naturally, it’s time to ruminate on what’s next. In a YouTube video from Moore’s Law is Dead, the leaker shares what they believe is extensive i [...]

2025-08-04

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]

2025-08-04

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends in disappointment

The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey. NASA said today that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch se [...]

2025-08-04

Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato

Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato. [...]

2025-08-04

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever

Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why. [...]