Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.”

Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work.

And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it.

While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot.

Before reentering our atmosphere, the telescopes onboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have been restarted to take their last observations.

Cofertility manages the costs of egg freezing and storage, in exchange for half the batch. One young client became suspicious of the arrangement—and started to investigate.

Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions.

Dark energy might be getting weaker. Scientists are wondering if interactions with dark matter in a “dark dimension” may be responsible.

The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects.

The science curriculum the industry is offering to schools casts plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.

The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control.

Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies—the only problem is a lack of evidence.

The research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better.

The mission to Phobos, Japan’s first Mars probe launch in 28 years, may reveal new information about our closest planetary neighbor.

The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild.

With the risk of infection rising, parents and their children are trying to navigate how safe it is to be out in public as school starts back up.

The discovery adds to the planet’s history of strange atmospheric phenomena that scientists don’t fully understand.

Gene-edited pig kidneys could offer a lifeline to patients stuck waiting for a human donor.

An underground detector recorded a strange interaction pointing to a particle with some properties that signify dark matter. The detection is small but promising.