WIRED
A.I. LOVE YOU
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE DEEPLY, SERIOUSLY IN LOVE WITH A CHATBOT? TO FIND OUT, I ORGANIZED A WEEKEND GETAWAY FOR THREE HAPPY COUPLES. WE BARELY SURVIVED.
10+ min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
PERLS OF WISDOM
Programmers aren't so humble anymore. Maybe that's because they stopped coding in Perl.
3 min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
The Dose in the Machine
IS A NEW GENERATION OF AI-DESIGNED DRUGS ABOUT TO ARRIVE?
10+ min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
OPERATION INFLUENCE
A HEAD-TO-TOE MARKETING GAME WHERE EVERYONE-YES, EVERYONE!-IS THE DOCTOR.
4 min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
WET HOT ANALOG SUMMER
Summer. For teens not at work, it’s hot, it’s boring, and it’s an ideal time to close the door and spend about every waking moment watching, playing, texting, streaming— anything but talking—on the phone. With almost half of teenagers in the US saying they’re online almost constantly, the adults in their lives are growing more desperate to drag them off. Families are establishing screen-free zones in their homes, states are banning phones in schools, and a new kind of summer camp has emerged: digital detox camps, which can cost around $2,000 a week, and promise to wean attendees off screens by going cold turkey for the summer. WIRED spoke to the founder and director of one such organization. Taking a cue from your average summer camp, the program forces kids to swap their phones and gaming systems for some good old-fashioned social interaction. But in other ways, it’s anything but traditional: It’s staffed with onsite therapists equipped to handle screen addiction, the kids take financial literacy courses, and nearly all campers are completely miserable when they arrive.
3 min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
The Immortal Dreams of Bryan Johnson
IF ALL GOES TO PLAN, JOHNSON WILL STILL BE TALKING ABOUT HIS YOUTHFUL ERECTIONS WELL INTO THE 25TH CENTURY-BY WHICH POINT WE'LL ALL BE DEVOTEES OF HIS AI-INFUSED QUEST FOR ETERNAL LIFE.
10+ min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
PERFECT HEALTH
THIS SELECT GEAR WILL KEEP YOU FIT, RESTED AND BALANCED IN BODY AND MIND.
6 min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
WELLNESS GONE WILD
LEAF SWALLOWING, ICEBERG EXFOLIATION, AND OTHER TECHNIQUES FROM EARTH'S ORIGINAL TREND-SPREADING INFLUENCERS.
4 min |
September - October 2025
Popular Mechanics US
A Fossil Rewriting Dinosaur History
A DNA STRAND LIKE ME IS A BLUEPRINT for building a living thing,\" says the anthropomorphic double-helix Mr. DNA at the start of 1993's Jurassic Park.
1 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
THE SCAM THAT DUPED POKÉMON'S MOST OBSESSIVE CARD COLLECTORS AND THE AMATEUR SLEUTH WHO EXPOSED THE TRUTH
THE FIRST TIME Jason held a set of Pokémon cards was in 1999, when he was 9 years old and he received a pack as a birthday gift.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Underground Incan Tunnels
THE INCAN TEMPLE OF THE SUN IN Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Accessing 37 Dimensions
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS don’t really get along, as the science of the subatomic can get...well...weird.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
AMERICA'S DEADLIEST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER WAS ERASED FROM HISTORY
THE MEN CAME TO WEST VIRGINIA WANTING NOTHING MORE THAN HONEST WORK. INSTEAD, THEY FACED A SILENT KILLER-AND A MASSIVE COVER-UP.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Cryopreservation
PUTTING HUMANS INTO A STATE OF suspended animation has been a sci-fi aspiration for decades.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
SPINLAUNCH
LAUNCHING ROCKETS IS SERIOUS business. It takes a ton of fuel, a ton of manpower, a ton of resources, and if it goes bad, it can go really, really bad. It's also one of the least sustainable parts of an already unsustainable industry.
1 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
BUILD THIS DIY RUSTIC BENCH
DO YOU HAVE a “no shoes inside” rule at home?
5 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
The Origin of Life
SCIENTISTS ARE MAKING A CASE FOR adjusting our understanding of how exactly genes first emerged.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Chips Designed by A.I.
OUR WORLD RUNS ON COMPUTER CHIPS.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Seismic Ghost Stories
ЈUST ABOUT EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA has its local legends-the scary stories told at sleepovers or around campfires that someone's friend or cousin always swears they totally saw for real one time.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
INSIDE THE RACE TO DESTROY THE WORLD'S FIRST BALLISTIC MISSILE
ON THE DAMP and dreary evening of September 8, 1944, Sapper Bernard Browning hurried through western London toward the Chiswick train station.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Scientific American
FASHION FORWARD
A rising swell of sustainable apparel practices makes getting dressed fun again
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
GREENLAND'S FROZEN SECRET
The collapse of the world's second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
THE TRUTH ABOUT TESTOSTERONE
Men are spending a lot of money on hormone supplements to boost manliness, muscles and mood. But many are not aware of some serious risks
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Animal Landscapers
How creatures alter geology
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Gorilla Gourmets
A mysterious gorilla foraging behavior explained
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Impossible Teal
Only five people have seen the color \"olo\"
4 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Tentacle Talk
Discolike dance moves may be cuttlefish communications
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Mic Drop
To win trust and admiration, fix your microphone
3 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Strange Circles in the Sky
Odd radio circles are one of the weirdest recent space discoveries
5 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
In the Heat of the Night
Hot nights lead to lots of hospitalizations. There are ways to keep your cool
4 min |