Statgeist: Charting the Wired World

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why that matters—even for those who don’t frequent the poker table.

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED.

A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code for “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.

An observatory detected the first radio signal from the interstellar object 3I/Atlas. Here’s what it means.

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Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health Organization—all related to a variety of common diseases globally.

A Turning Point USA official inaccurately claimed a high school's math department wore Halloween costumes that mocked Charlie Kirk. Those teachers are now facing a flood of online attacks and death threats.

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

“We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message,” one employee tells WIRED.