In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at a former Wall Street analyst’s $4 billion obesity drug company, Wegovy’s weight-loss pill, and more.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub’s corpse in Central Park in 2014 to “be fun.” Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up.
New research has given credence to a 5,000-year-old practice.
A newly described species of Tinamou bird may already be at risk of extinction.
You might see your career as separate from your internal world. Arthur Brook’s four path career model suggests, however, that it might just be the main determinant.
With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient biology still underpins human survival.

There’s never a shortage of exciting and innovative tech at CES. A superthin TV and tri-folding phone are cool and all, but sometimes the weirdest gadgets are the ones that make us go “huh.” Luckily, there was plenty of wacky stuff on the show floor this year, and we’ve rounded up some of the most […]
A growing number of Ugandans, Kenyans and Ethiopians are being trafficked into Southeast Asia to carry out cyberfraud.
When stripped of its myths, sensible love is not passionless, painless or passive. In fact, it is an emotionally intelligent kind of love.
A cryptic comment left on a TikTok video by a user named Tamara has sparked the first big meme of 2026, a blend of silliness and self-empowerment.