Science
WIRED
THE FIGHT OF HER LIFE
Surrogate pregnancy is all the rage in Silicon Valley and beyond. What happens when it goes horribly wrong?
10+ min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
SPACE EMPEROR
ELON MUSK CONTROLS THOUSANDS OF INTERNET SATELLITES AND MORE THAN HALF THE WORLD'S ROCKET LAUNCHES. CAN ANYONE STOP HIM?
10+ min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
THE IMPROBABLE
Tech billionaire Mike Lynch made probability his life's work, until his wildly unlikely death at sea. Now, many of his friends and associates-and survivors of the disaster-are speaking about what happened for the first time.
10+ min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
OUT WITH THE OLD
Introducing WIRED's 2025 Political Power Users-the 22 very online creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era.
10+ min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
POLITICS GETS WIRED
IT'S BEEN ONE year since Donald Trump took back the White House.
2 min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
FAHRENHEIT 5G
INSIDE THE MIND OF THE MOST PROLIFIC VIOLENCE OF OUR ERA. ANTI-TECHNOLOGY ARSONIST IN AMERICAAND THE CONSPIRACY-DRIVEN POLITICAL
10+ min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
KAT'S OUT OF THE BAG
At 26 years old, Kat Abughazaleh thinks she's uniquely qualified for Congress. But running for office is a different sort of influencing.
10+ min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
MOV'D BY THE SPIRIT
Whether your chip runs an old computer game or a new DeepSeek model, it'll reward you for speaking its native tongue: assembly.
5 min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
SKELETON CREW
Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and left to the mercy of the elements until all that's left of them are bones.
3 min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
QUEEN OF CHIPS
Lisa Su has built AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages on, she's at the center of it all.
8 min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
GEAR FOR GOOD
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5 min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
I THOUGHT I KNEW SILICON VALLEY I WAS WRONG
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
10+ min |
November - December 2025
WIRED
Bloodlines
MASTER THE ART OF CLONING. LOCK DOWN COPIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST HORSES. THEN DOMINATE THE SPORT OF KINGS. THAT WAS THE PLAN. BUT SOME TECHNOLOGIES ARE JUST A BREEDING GROUND FOR BETRAYAL.
10+ 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
WELLNESS GONE WILD
LEAF SWALLOWING, ICEBERG EXFOLIATION, AND OTHER TECHNIQUES FROM EARTH'S ORIGINAL TREND-SPREADING INFLUENCERS.
4 min |
September - October 2025
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
OPERATION INFLUENCE
A HEAD-TO-TOE MARKETING GAME WHERE EVERYONE-YES, EVERYONE!-IS THE DOCTOR.
4 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
THE ENSHITTIFICATION OF AMERICAN POWER
First Google and Facebook, then the whole world.
6 min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
The Chemical Cassandra
IN THE PRESENCE OF CERTAIN SCENTS AND CHEMICALS, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SUFFER INEXPLICABLE, OFTEN DEBILITATING REACTIONS. MY MOTHER IS ONE. ANOTHER IS THE CONDITION'S LEADING SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY.
10+ min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
HOW TRUMP CRUSHED CANCER RESEARCH
WHEN DONALD TRUMP movedback into the White House, the United States was years into its Cancer Moonshot, a multibillion-dollar Democratic effort to halve cancer deaths by 2047. There was a kind of stalemate: New cases of the disease were emerging about as often as before; deaths were ticking steadily lower; the US Food and Drug Administration was approving new treatments, if not quite as quickly as anyone wanted. But the taps of federal funding were open as never before, from the Department of Defense to the Environmental Protection Agency to the largest funder of cancer research in the world, the National Institutes of Health.
2 min |
September - October 2025
WIRED
The Olympics on Steroids
AT FIRST IT WAS DISMISSED AS A CRAZY JOKE. MAKING THE ENHANCED GAMES A REALITY NEEDED A PETER THIEL POSSE, A COUPLE OF RETIRED SWIMMERS, SOME MAGA MONEY, AND A WHOLE LOT OF DRUGS.
10+ 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
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 GOD OF DMT
With just a sprinkle of the drug, anything can happen: trips to other dimensions, sex with aliens, communion with your creator. Akasha Song made it by the kilo in secret labs, sold it for millions on the dark web, and—for a while—lived a literal dream.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
HOW TO WIN FOLLOWERS AND SCAMFLUENCE PEOPLE
When West Africa's notorious Yahoo Boys need to freshen up their repertoire of online scams, there's one man they turn to.
4 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONVICTED
From Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud-ridden crypto empire to Elizabeth Holmes' sham biotech company to deepfakers on the internet bilking grandmas of their retirement savings, white-collar crime seems to touch every last corner of tech.
4 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
THE PRETENDERS
Remote colleague? Keeps the camera off in meetings? Might be a North Korean operative who sneaked in to your company with a stolen identity and a heavy dose of ChatGPT.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
TRIVIAL PURSUITS
Esoteric programming languages are fun! Until they're derivative nonsense and kill the joke.
5 min |