#wired.com. × #Mar.04.2026 Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers. The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.28.2026 NASA Is Making Big Changes to Speed Up the Artemis Program. America’s journey back to the moon has run into a few missteps. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is banking on a new approach.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.26.2026 Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die. For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.23.2026 The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year. Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.23.2026 NASA Delays Launch of Artemis II Lunar Mission Once Again. A failure in the helium flow of the SLS rocket has prompted NASA to delay the Artemis II moon mission. Rather than March 6, the launch is now targeted for April.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.20.2026 Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists. House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.13.2026 Record Low Snow in the West Will Mean Less Water, More Fire, and Political Chaos. Snowpack levels across a wide swath of western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.12.2026 The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning. As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.10.2026 The Physics Behind the Quadruple Axel, the Most Difficult Jump in Figure Skating. Are you speechless watching US figure skater Ilia Malinin on the ice? Science explains how it’s possible the Quad God can do more than four full rotations in the air.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.10.2026 RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees. The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.04.2026 Mistral's New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money. “Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup's vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies.
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#wired.com. × #Feb.02.2026 HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants. Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”
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#wired.com. × #Jan.29.2026 Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom. Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.28.2026 A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk. Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging sign for a species whose population is estimated to be below 400.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.22.2026 The US Is In For Another Bad Year of Measles Cases. A growing measles outbreak in South Carolina has infected more than 600 people since October, with hundreds more being potentially exposed.
#Health #Science × #Tech #USA #North America × #measles
#wired.com. × #Jan.21.2026 What We Know About the Winter Storm About to Hit the US—and What We Don’t. A huge portion of the United States is going to be hit with snow or freezing rain this weekend. Exactly where, what, and how much remains uncertain.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.21.2026 The AI Boom Will Increase US Carbon Emissions—but It Doesn’t Have To. A new analysis finds that data centers’ energy demands will drastically increase power plant emissions over the next decade. Renewables, though, could cut them while helping keep prices from rising.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.15.2026 OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.13.2026 Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing. If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
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#wired.com. × #Jan.09.2026 Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo. Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain.
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#wired.com. × #Nov.19.2025 NASA Finally Weighs In on the Origin of 3I/ATLAS. After weeks of silence, NASA has officially dismissed speculation that 3I/ATLAS has anything to do with aliens.
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#wired.com. × #Nov.19.2025 Vaping Is ‘Everywhere’ in Schools—Sparking a Bathroom Surveillance Boom. Schools in the US are installing vape-detection tech in bathrooms to thwart student nicotine and cannabis use. A new investigation reveals the impact of using spying to solve a problem.
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#wired.com. × #Nov.14.2025 The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived. A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
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#wired.com. × #Nov.10.2025 If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go. A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
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