Voyager 1 and 2, Humanity’s Interstellar Envoys, Soldier On at 45
Today is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, one of humanity’s iconic twin emissaries to the cosmos. (Its sibling, Voyager 2, launched a couple…
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In Humanity’s Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream
The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now called Craiyon, houses an…
Humanity’s Biggest Problems Require a Whole New Media Mode
Our media systems are at their limits. From climate change to Covid, the most pressing phenomena of our times cannot be captured by the flat media paradigm…
Striking Graphs That Show Humanity’s Domination of the Earth
The numbers don’t lie: Humans are ruining this planet. Atmospheric carbon levels and ocean temperatures are going up. Arctic sea ice and biodiversity levels…
Scientists Push Back Humanity’s Age By 30,000 Years After New Research
The dawn of humanity is a subject that has long intrigued us. Scientists have been trying to ascertain the precise date of origin for a long time but with…
Kamikaze satellites and shuttles adrift: Why cyberattacks are a major threat to humanity’s…
As private companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic break new ground with fully crewed spaceflights, commercial space travel is beginning to feel less…
Join Us for RE:WIRED—Conversations About Humanity’s Biggest Bets
Everything, it seems, is on the line right now. Is mRNA technology on the verge of pulling us out of the pandemic, or will a wily, evolving virus bring us…
The Miami Building Collapse and Humanity’s Tragic Fight for the Future
In 2014, a team of behavioral scientists from Harvard and Yale tried to save the future—with a little game theory. Here’s the game part: The researchers…