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A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrected inside mice

These chimeric mice are made up of some cells with a rat chromosome University of Yamanashi The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences could be about to get leapfrogged. It might be possible to resurrect mammoth chromosomes in living cells after scientists…

Police can’t find shoplifter who fled in self-driving Waymo

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Scientists discover why ozempic may not work for some people

More than one-quarter of people with Type 2 diabetes now use GLP-1 receptor agonists, a class of medications that includes Ozempic. But new research from Stanford Medicine and international collaborators suggests these widely prescribed drugs may be less effective for…

EA’s Star Wars Zero Company Drops August 27

Its new gameplay trailer gives us a glimpse of Anakin Skywalker. EA The developers behind Star Wars Zero Company has revealed the official gameplay trailer for the title at Summer Game Fest 2026. They have also revealed that the…

More than a decade later, the team behind N++ is back with a multiplayer sequel

Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N. At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns…

Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus

After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the board after Microsoft bought his company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016. Hoffman was on Microsoft’s board when it invested…

Best Running Shoes, Tested and Reviewed (2026): Saucony, Adidas, Hoka

Honorable Mentions Photograph: G Stockstudio/Getty Images As we said, WIRED runners pound hundreds of miles every year. Here are a few of the other shoes we’ve tested that you might want to consider if the above do not work for…

Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use, say researchers

ChatGPT now processes around 2.5 billion queries every day Alina Vytiuk / Alamy Stock Photo UN researchers are urging people to be less polite to artificial intelligences after a report found that cutting words from prompts could reduce ChatGPT’s energy…

Weber’s summer sale drops gas grills, pellet smokers, flat tops, and more to their lowest prices of the season

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AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine passes first human trial

A new type of universal coronavirus vaccine has passed its first human clinical trial, marking an important step toward broader protection against future virus outbreaks. Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and the university spinout company DIOSynVax (DVX)…