Science and reality
You know those fish that cling to sharks? It's all possible thanks to a suction cup they wear as a hat.
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If you want to help the struggling recycling industry, you should stop throwing away plastic bags.
The post Listen Up America: You Need to Learn How to Recycle. Again. appeared first on WIRED.
Since May, over 30 whales have washed ashore in the Gulf of Alaska
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Without rain, California's farmers have been forced to suck water from the ground. But they've pulled so much that parts of the state are sinking at incredible rates.
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Fans are a great way to cool you off on a hot day, but they don't cool everything off.
The post Why Fans Don’t Always Make Things Cooler appeared first on WIRED.
WIRED spoke to Steve Silberman about how the modern world came to recognize autistic people.
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A group at Ohio State University says they've made the most complete replica of a 5-week-old human brain from stem cells. You shouldn't know about it yet.
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Bad news: Norovirus probably spreads through aerosolized vomit.
The post A Vomiting Machine Shows How Viruses Spread in Puke appeared first on WIRED.
NASA's Science Visualization Studio used two modeling methods to show how oceanic garbage patches form.
The post This Video Shows How Garbage Patches Form in the Ocean appeared first on WIRED.
The United States' GMO rules never worked well, and new, precise gene-editing techniques are stretching them to the breaking point.
The post New Gene-Editing Techniques Mean a Lot of GMO Loopholes appeared first on WIRED.