The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card
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The Massive Machine at the Bottom of the Sea
AdultsEducationScience Off the coast of Sicily, there’s a massive underwater machine. It looks like a forest of floating spheres…
Egyptologist Fact Checks Egyptian History Slop
AdultsHistoryScience AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock as we fact check the internet, egyptology edition.
Give me 18 minutes and I will completely change how you cook.
AdultsFoodScience Ethan Chlebowski breaks down cooking by focusing on foundational principles rather than following specific recipes. Through a practical demonstration of a chicken and rice dish, these five scientific questions help home cooks develop the intuition needed to troubleshoot, balance flavors, manage heat, and refine textures in any meal.
Terraforming Mars is an Industrial Nightmare
AdultsScienceSpace Terraforming Mars into a second Earth has been a sci-fi dream for almost 100 years now.
The Weirdest New Battery is... Rust
AdultsScience A reliable grid powered by green energy is going to need batteries, too. Not just electric cars—think solar power on a cloudy day.
Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System
AdultsScienceSpace After exploring most of Earth, venturing into space and exploring other planets, stars and galaxies seemed like an exciting, and even obvious next step.
MinuteEarth Explains: Microbes
AdultsScience Find out the surprising ways microbes, fungi, plankton and other tiny organisms shape our planet and our lives in this collection of MinuteEarth videos.
The $1 Trillion Problem Diamonds Can Solve
AdultsEducationScience Most people think of diamonds as expensive jewelry, or maybe as super-hard drills. But everyone’s missing the coolest story here…
A neuroscientist’s guide to protecting your brain, in 58 minutes | Lisa Genova: Full Interview
AdultsHealthHumanScience A retired Japanese engineer once memorized pi to over 111,000 digits using nothing but storytelling and visualization.