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John Kerry on How the Paris Climate Agreement Could Help Fight Terrorism

US Secretary of State John Kerry discusses the ways that recently signed UN climate agreement will spur innovations in renewable energy across the globe, including terror hotspots.




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Look, Ma! I'm Flying a Plane With Only My Thoughts

Without a pilot’s license, or frankly, any experience, WIRED's Jack Stewart flew a plane using just his thoughts. Thanks to new technology developed by Honeywell Aerospace, a King Air C90 can be controlled, in simple terms, by the human brain.




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These Self-Flying Helicopters Team Up to Fight Fires and Save Lives

Two Lockheed Martin helicopters, with help from a pair of drones, join forces to fight fires and save lives.




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Bumped Off Your Flight? Know Your Travel Rights

It's bound to happen to you— your flight is cancelled, delayed or the airline bumps you. That's why it's important to know your rights when your travel plans go astray.




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Whether It's Farmed or Wild, Here's How to Cook Your Salmon Right

If you overcooked your pan-seared salmon, you may be tempted to blame it on the type of salmon you bought, but none of that matters if you understand the chemistry of how this colorful fish cooks.




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Scientists Create a Light-Guided Robotic Stingray Using Rat Parts

A team of scientists at Harvard created an artificial stingray out of rat parts, which can be remote-controlled around a tank using light beams as part of the team's ongoing research on how to make artificial organs.




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How to Fight the Bad Logic of the Internet | Argument Clinic

There's a lot of bad logic out there. WIRED's Jason Tanz explains how to spot and fight the dumbest arguments online.




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So Cellphones Cause Cancer, Right? That Ain't What Science Says

Your grandparents might have warned you that cellphones cause brain cancer. Well, that's not at all what science says.




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The Satellite That Spies on America's Lightning

The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National Weather Service forecasters richer information about lightning that will help them alert the public to dangerous weather.




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Flight Lab - Suit Up and Fly High in NASA's Science Spy Plane

Suit up with a NASA high altitude ER-2 pilot as he prepares for a scientific research mission flying as high as 70,000 feet in the agency's modified U-2 spy plane.




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Flight Lab - Climb Aboard a Boeing 747 That NASA Turned Into the World's Biggest Flying Telescope

To get the best space observations possible, NASA scientists fly around the world in a highly modified 747 carrying a giant telescope.




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Flight Lab - Inside NASA's Prototype Lab Where Model Planes Take Flight

Walk into NASA Armstrong's Sub-scale Research Lab and see the future of flight in miniature. The lab's model airplanes are used to test cutting edge aeronautical ideas like crash-avoidance and more efficient rocket launches.




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Flight Lab - We Trained to Become a NASA Research Pilot and It Ain't Easy

It takes a lot of training to become an elite NASA research pilot. WIRED's Jack Stewart gets a crash course in flying and rolling F-18 jets for science, of course.




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Does Your Phone's Blue Light Dimmer Really Work? Let's Ask Science

Your phone might automatically dim its blue light at night. But does this really help you fall asleep?




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Flight Lab - This NASA Drone Flies Over Hurricanes For Better Weather Forecasts

NASA takes retired Global Hawk military drones and sets them up to fly dangerous missions monitoring some of the most extreme storms for better weather data.




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Flight Lab - Check Out the New Far-Out Fliers of NASA's Famed X-Plane Program

For seven decades experimental X-planes have been developed and flown in the Mojave desert. NASA is now building the future of flight like an all electric plane and a quieter supersonic jet.




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Watch the Little Robot That Taught the Big Robot Something New

Robots can learn to do tasks just fine. Getting different kinds of robots to share knowledge, though, is another challenge entirely.




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Watch the F-35 Fighter Jet Make Its First Public Flight

The F-35 is the most expensive weapons system, ever. After years of delays, the fighter jet just made its first public flight at the Paris Air Show.




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Techies Are Using Ketamine to Fight Their Depression

Sean Spencer is a pretty successful entrepreneur in LA's startup community but he also struggles with depression. He and many others use ketamine to help with their lows.




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How the Internet Tricks You Into Thinking You're Always Right

A guide to busting through confirmation bias, the cognitive fallacy that's destroying our discourse.




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Stunt Coordinator Breaks Down 'Atomic Blonde' Fight Scene

'Atomic Blonde' stunt coordinator and second unit director Sam Hargrave breaks down every stunt in the film's Berlin flat fight scene.




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Atomic Blonde Stairway Fight

An exclusive clip from Atomic Blonde.




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The First Supersonic Flight Is Still Astounding 70 Years Later

In the not so distant future we might all take supersonic flights from New York to Los Angeles. It all started seventy years ago high above the Mojave desert.




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Watch Neon Artist Shawna Peterson Make Bright, Buzzing Art

Inside Shawna Peterson's neon tube bending studio where puffs of air, charred wood and glass tubes meet to make brilliant signs and art.




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The iOS 11 Privacy and Security Settings You Should Set Up Right Now

Heads up, iPhone owners. iOS 11 comes with a batch of security features that merit your attention.




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The Farm of the Future Might Be Entirely Run by Robots

At Silicon Valley startup Iron Ox, the plan for agriculture, or at least leafy greens, is to automate the entire growing process indoors with robots and artificial intelligence.




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Meet the Crime-Fighting Robot That's Stirring Up Controversy

Five-foot-tall, 400-pound robots are on a mission to take a bite out of crime. The path there, though, is fraught with ethical pitfalls.




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Dot Physics: The Crazy Science of Drone Flight

Dot Physics' Rhett Allain explains the science behind how drones fly.




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Watch Airbus' Flying Car, Vahana, Make its First Flight

The personal air transport vehicle has achieved the milestone of "first flight", as the race to develop flying cars continues.




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Mark Zuckerberg Senate Testimony Highlights

Highlights from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing, “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data."




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Mark Zuckerberg House Testimony Highlights

Highlights from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.




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NASA's New Mars Lander Will Give Insight Into the Planet's Make-Up

The Insight Lander, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will probe deep beneath the surface of the Red Planet to measure temperatures and allow study of its seismic activity. Its name is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.




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Go Inside the Aerodrome, Where the Future of Flight Takes Shape

Welcome to the Aerodrome, where engineers are simulating wind conditions to teach drones to fly safely.




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See the Visual Effects That Brought Black Panther to Life

Daryl Sawchuk, Visual Effects Supervisor for Method Studios and Animation Supervisor for Black Panther, gives WIRED an exclusive look at breakdowns of the digital Black Panther and Kilmonger suits, and the final fight scene of Marvel's mega-blockbuster. Black Panther is available on Blu-Ray and DVD May 15, 2018.




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How One Artist Balances Form and Function with His Light Sculptures

Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for Perry Ellis. Jason Krugman is a light sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. His lighting designs often use their physical structure to conduct electricity to the light sources, which eliminates the need for insulated wiring and connectors allowing thousands of lights to sit softly amongst minimal wire forms. Currently, he works out of the New Lab space which is a community of entrepreneurs working in advanced technology.




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Jack Dorsey on Filter Bubbles, Twitter Fights and 12 Years of Tweeting | WIRED25

Twitter and Square Cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey spoke with WIRED’s Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson as part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.




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WIRED Autocomplete Interviews - Keira Knightley & Mackenzie Foy Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

"The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" stars Keira Knightley and Mackenzie Foy take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about themselves. Does Keira Knightley have a baby? Is Mackenzie Foy related to Claire Foy? Where did Keira Knightley grow up?




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The Limits of Human Endurance Might Be Our Guts

To find just how far the human body can be pushed researchers studied athletes who ran six marathons a week over months and compared their energy intake and expenditure data to those of other athletes, workers, and pregnant women. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez talks with study author Herman Pontzer of Duke University about the findings.




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See the Visual Effects That Brought Avengers: Endgame to Life

Jen Underdahl, Visual Effects Producer for Marvel Entertainment, provides WIRED with an in-depth look at the most impressive visual effects featured in Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War. Jen explains how they crafted "Smart Hulk," made Chris Evans look considerably older, and how they were able to digitally create the entirety of the Avengers' time suits. Avengers: Endgame is available on Digital and Blu-ray now




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The quantum world of ultra-cold atoms and light / Crispin Gardiner, University of Otago, New Zealand, Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Gardiner, C. W. (Crispin W.), 1942- author




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Light : a radiant history from creation to the quantum age / Bruce Watson

Watson, Bruce, 1953- author




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Light and vacuum : the wave-particle nature of the light and the quantum vacuum : electromagnetic theory and quantum electrodynamics beyond the standard model / Constantin Meis (Institute for Nuclear Science & Technology, France)

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Technology meets research : 60 years of CERN technology : selected highlights / editors, Christian Fabjan, Thomas Taylor, Daniel Treille and Horst Wenninger ; with members of the editorial group, Christoforo Benvenuti [and 6 others] ; and with important c




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College physics : a strategic approach / Randall D. Knight, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Brian Jones, Colorado State University, Stuart Field, Colorado State University

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Physics for scientists and engineers : a strategic approach with modern physics / Randall D. Knight (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Knight, Randall Dewey, author




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No-nonsense quantum mechanics : a student-friendly introduction / Jakob Schwichtenberg

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Latest News: Librarian Seeks Input on Register of Copyrights

The public will have the opportunity to provide input to the Library of Congress on expertise needed by the next Register of Copyrights, the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, announced today.

Click here for more information.




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Rediscovering collective bargaining [electronic resource] : Australia's Fair Work Act in international perspective / edited by Breen Creighton and Anthony Forsyth




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Talent-Gespräche [electronic resource] : Worum es geht, weshalb sie wichtig sind, wie sie richtig geführt werden / Roland Smith und Michael Campbell

Smith, Roland, 1951- author




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Rights, not interests [electronic resource] : resolving value clashes under the National Labor Relations Act / James A. Gross

Gross, James A., 1933- author