Stories tagged "wired"

In the Cold War '60s, as the space race heated up, another race began: to the center of the earth. Well, perhaps the Soviets and Americans couldn't drill quite that deep, but they could try to get to the so-called Moho, more formally the Mohorovicic Di

Every time an Australian boards one of those big Qantas 747s they're doing enormous damage to the environment. Australia is not only an island, it's an island in the middle of nowhere. With such remoteness, are Aussie travel junkies destroying the earth?

Every so often, Mother Nature passes along a gentle reminder of her genius. To wit: of the 128 billion synapses used to connect the 16 million neurons of an average mouse brain, about 100 are needed to convey to the animal a sense of its own speed.

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Geeks really do make the best lovers, for reasons that have nothing to do with adolescent ostracism or puppy-like devotion.

Think this summer was overloaded with superhero movies? You ain't seen nothing yet. Thanks to advances in CGI and comic books' ready-for-the-big-screen stories, superhero stories are all the rage in Hollywood...

On Friday, Wired published an article titled - The Car of Tomorrow Has an Extension Cord – This discussion further demonstrates the continued divide between NASCAR and all automakers.

Batman is just a gadget geek at heart. A very, very wealthy gadget geek. But until recently, he's employed some tech that's, well, pretty unbelievable. Ice skates popping out of boots? Come on! Not so in The Dark Knight.

He hacked them? Of course he did, this dude's middle name is THOR. That's one bad motherfucker right there

The red planet was once awash in water, say scientists -- not boiling water, but benign seas that may have been suitable for life. There was apparently pervasive water present