Natural transformation is a widespread mechanism driving genetic exchanges in bacteria. It proceeds from the capture of extracellular DNA released ...

A new study looks at the factors that contribute to a country’s well-being, including our feline companions.

This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

What is confirmed, what is not, and who is spreading which claims about the reported plague death in Irkutsk, Russia.

New research finds that popular AI agents can alter or delete their own activity logs, making it much harder to figure out what happened when something goes wrong.

Vehicles will be prohibited from accessing almost a kilometre between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street from October 26

Anoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evoluti...

In mother-of-pearl suits, the Pearly Kings used to canvass East London for charity. The most famous one, George Major, died in August. A look back on this larger-than-life figure and the Pearly King tradition.

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead.  The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…