Recent speculation over "alien megastructures" has reignited a heated debate over the best way of getting in touch with extraterrestrials.It may not be common knowledge on Earth, but the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is heating up—and so is the debate about how to do it.Read Full Story

A South American experiment seeks to find if potatoes could be grown on Mars as a food source for future astronauts. They also hope the data will help them better understand how this staple may be... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

To work within a world of human drivers, self-driving cars have to go just a bit native. The post The Case for Making Self-Driving Cars Think Like Humans appeared first on WIRED.

Reducing air pollution is a bigger incentive than lowering carbon emissions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

More than 900,000 Americans lose their doctors to suicide each year. But doctors are finally beginning to talk about it.It's no secret that doctors often work shifts of more than 24 hours without time to adequately rest or eat. It's no secret either that many practicing physicians and medical students are tasked with punishing workloads, and either blame themselves when something goes wrong or become frustrated at a work culture that is rapidly changing.Read Full Story

All it takes to fix a broken arm is a plate, 12 screws, and a printer. The post How a 3-D Printer May Have Changed the Outcome of Super Bowl 50 appeared first on WIRED.

The heavy metals could cause low sperm counts, infertile eggs and other health problems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Amazon's Echo smart speaker just got way more entertaining.Let's be honest: The Amazon Echo smart speaker is a little weird. Clever and well designed, yes. But there's something about shouting orders to a disembodied voice named Alexa that feels a little like a sci-fi movie that doesn't end well for us humans.Read Full Story

For Resonate, a festival about the culture of technology and art, two Pentagram designers created a geometric, mutable visual identity. The post Pentagram’s Punchy, Shapeshifting Typeface Takes Countless Forms appeared first on WIRED.

After Alaska’s 1964 earthquake stranded salt water stickleback fish in freshwater ponds, it took just 50 years for them to evolve into happy pond dwellers. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

These are the moments that change your life forever.Chef and television personality Amanda Freitag shares the story of the events that led to her career in the culinary arts. From an encouraging teacher to a meaningful film, Freitag relives the pivotal moments that set her down the path to "chef heaven."Read Full Story

The biggest idea in the world of IT is access to Google-like infrastructure for all. That's great news for everyone—well, almost everyone. The post IBM Is Finally Embracing the Cloud—It Has No Other Choice appeared first on WIRED.

Researchers are developing GM plants that can be used as pharmaceutical biofactories to produce inexpensive, ingestible medicines -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

New speaker support in the OS makes smartwatch video messaging apps like Glide far more compelling.Google is adding speaker support in a new update to its smartwatch OS, Android Wear, which will make Android watches act a lot more like the fabled "2-way Wrist Radio" worn by Dick Tracy.Read Full Story