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Stem cell scientists are modern day witches. The post Scientists Brew Up the Creepiest Batches of Brain Balls Yet appeared first on WIRED .

Ancient tools scattered around a mastodon suggest that the earliest humans showed up in North American more than 100,000 years earlier than we thought. The post A 130,000-Year-Old Mastodon Threatens to Upend Human History appeared first on WIRED .

A new high-resolution sequence of the barley genome could pave the way for better malt. The post You Want Better Beer? Good. Here's a Better Barley Genome appeared first on WIRED .

After two decades of discoveries, Cassini is out of fuel and ready to retire. The post Cassini Is Ready to Sacrifice Itself for the Good of the Solar System appeared first on WIRED .

Opinion: Amid scandal, Uber is getting something right: diversity. The post You'll Never Guess Who Does Diversity Right: Uber appeared first on WIRED .

Gavin Heffernan and Harun Mehmedinovic set out to document the last dark skies around North America. The post Breathtaking Photos of a World Without Light Pollution appeared first on WIRED .

All that packing and cracking comes up lacking once you apply a little efficiency gapping. The post Gerrymandering Has a Solution After All. It's Called Math appeared first on WIRED .

A new map charts Northeast Syrtis---a promising potential landing site for NASA's next Mars rover---in unprecedented detail. The post The Best Map Yet of What Could Be NASA's Next Mars Landing Site appeared first on WIRED .

Search result snippets have made Google an arbiter of facts. Now it wants to outsource the job. The post Google Wants You to Help Fix the Fake-Fact Problem It Created appeared first on WIRED .

Tech is a huge growth industry, but it comes at a price. The solution will have to come from people working to move beyond winner-take-all urbanism. The post Tech Made Cities Too Expensive. Here’s How to Fix It appeared first on WIRED .

If the president wants results as much as a big, beautiful wall, he'll need to shore up the tech behind border security. The post Trump’s Wall Is Worthless if He Doesn’t Back It Up With Tech appeared first on WIRED .

Trint is the first product to offer the automated transcription of audio featuring two or more speakers in natural conversation. The post Transcribing Audio Sucks—So Make the Machines Do It appeared first on WIRED .

The Aspiration Impact Measurement rates companies based on how they treat people, and the planet. The post This App Guilts You Into Not Buying From Crummy Companies appeared first on WIRED .

Knowing which streets support cycling is a big step towards making safer spaces for those on two wheels. The post Handy 'Stress Map' Helps Cyclists Avoid the Scariest of Streets appeared first on WIRED .

With threatened cuts to foreign aid, technology could help homegrown health care workers cover at least some of the gap. The post TED Day Two: $1 Million for Tech to Spread Health Care Everywhere appeared first on WIRED .

And starts a new chapter of its autonomous saga. The post Google's Finally Offering Rides in Its Self-Driving Minivans appeared first on WIRED .

If humans are at all going to get along with robots, we need to figure out how we're going to interact with them, and in turn they'll need to adapt to us. The post 4 Things Robots Need to Learn Before Working With Humans appeared first on WIRED .

This year, TED can't keep the outside world out. The post TED Day One: Elite Idealists Push Back Against Politics appeared first on WIRED .

And it's not that crazy a plan. The post Uber Really Seriously Promises Flying Cars by 2020 appeared first on WIRED .