Even Trump Can’t Stop America’s Green Transition, Says Biden’s Top Climate Adviser
As he prepares to leave the White House, Ali Zaidi is sober about what’s coming—but says too much has already been built and invested for Donald Trump to undo it.
Beyond Meat Says Being Attacked Has Just Made It Stronger
The plant-based-meat company’s CEO, Ethan Brown, credits a series of attack ads with prompting a potentially sector-saving change of plan.
These Stem Cell Treatments Are Worth Millions. Donors Get Paid $200
A Swedish startup wants to democratize stem cell treatments, but the finances of the unproven therapies raise ethical questions.
You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
A lab-grown alternative to fattened duck liver offers a controversial future for the cultivated meat industry: as a luxury product for the few.
The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem
After a Montana man illegally cloned and bred an endangered giant sheep species, government agencies must now contend with the illicit offspring.
UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children
A proposed law would tighten up phone bans in schools and limit how tech companies use children’s data, but experts are unconvinced these measures would make kids safer or healthier.
Why Tampa Is So Vulnerable to Hurricane Milton
Tampa, Florida is the most vulnerable US city to hurricane damage. Delays to floodwater defenses and relentless development only made the situation worse.
So You Can 3D Print a Steak Now—but Why on Earth Would You?
WIRED tried 3D-printed steaks that you can’t buy anywhere yet. But reducing food to a technological problem leaves a bitter taste, and delivers all the joy of licking a catering catalog.
Eight Scientists, a Billion Dollars, and the Moonshot Agency Trying to Make Britain Great Again
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?
Microsoft’s Three Mile Island Deal Signals a Broader Nuclear Comeback
Microsoft’s deal to bring back a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor is just one part of Big Tech’s quid pro quo with nuclear power.