Lauren Goode: Sam said that? Zoë Schiffer: To his employees. Lauren Goode: Interesting. Michael Calore: He also came out on X and said something about, “I wish he would compete.” Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yeah. He was like, “I wish he would compete in the marketplace, not in the courtroom.” Lauren Goode: Yeah. Sam said in…
Katie Drummond: Fascinating. Well, we’re going to take a short break. When we come back, we’re going to pick up where we left off and talk about how concerned Americans actually should be about their privacy and about DOGE accessing their data. Welcome back to Uncanny Valley, I’m WIRED’s global editorial director, Katie Drummond. I’m…
Satellite view of Mount Fentale in Ethiopia Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025 A volcano in Ethiopia is spewing unusually large volumes of methane from its crater, according to satellite measurements of the potent greenhouse gas. This comes after hundreds of earthquakes have shaken the region over the past few months, prompting tens of thousands…
Brahim Rayintakath In the coming decades, we might figure out how to make an entirely new kind of life: a mirror cell, in which every molecule is the mirror image of those found in normal cells. Such reversed cells have probably never existed on our planet in its 4.5-billion-year history. Yet we could one day…
Books can document the cultural biases of the era when they were published Ann Taylor/Alamy Artificial intelligences picking up sexist and racist biases is a well-known and persistent problem, but researchers are now turning this to their advantage to analyse social attitudes through history. Training AI models on novels from a certain decade can instil…
Cuttlefish have a variety of camouflage techniques University of Bristol Cuttlefish use dazzling camouflage to disguise themselves while stalking their prey. New video footage reveals even more about their dramatic mimicry techniques, including how they transform to look like a non-threatening object such as a leaf or coral. “These are masters, the hypnotists of the…
An artist’s impression of the star WOH G64 ESO/L. Calçada One of the largest stars in the known universe is undergoing a strangely rapid transformation and may soon explode as a supernova. First catalogued in 1981, WOH G64 sits some 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of…
Josie Ford Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Solved! Or not Feedback is as fond of true crime as the next morbidly curious ghoul, so we have occasionally dipped our toes into the…
Fly Agaric Marshmallow Laser Feast Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom complexity of connections, a multitude of symbiotic partnerships between plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.…
What marks out individuals from each other? Is it possible to change personality overnight? Neil Massey/Millennium Images, UK Our Brains, Our SelvesMasud Husain (Canongate Books) What makes us who we are? Most of us ask this question at least once in our lifetimes. Personally, I wonder about it all the time. As an extrovert, much of my…