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Wired: Med-Tech
To your future health.
Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science
Wired speaks to author Simon Singh, who has become a hero to those challenging the pseudoscience surrounding everything from global warming to evolution.
Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High
Teens are getting high on special MP3s, and the authorities are taking a hard look at the so-called "digital drugs," fearing they will lead to harder stuff.
Genetic Secrets of Living to 100
A massive genetic study of people who lived for more than 100 years has found dozens of new clues to the biology of aging.
Storyboard Podcast: Sergey Brin's Search for Parkinson's Cure
The billionaire Google exec wants to speed up scientific research into the neurodegenerative disease — for very personal reasons. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at "Sergey's Search," Wired's July cover story.
Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don't Know How It Works
Despite all that contemporary medicine knows about psychology, neurology and human behavior, it has yet to devise anything that works better than Alcoholics Anonymous to help drunks stay sober.
Sergey Brin's Search for a Parkinson's Cure
Google's cofounder has a 50 percent chance of developing Parkinson's. It's coded in his DNA. So he's pushing for a new kind of science to find a cure before the disease finds him.
EPA Reverses Controversial 'Human Guinea Pig' Rule
Reversing a 2006 decision, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will no longer accept toxicity studies that use human subjects to test the effects of pesticides and other toxic chemicals.
U.S. Leading Charge on Synthetic Biology Funding
Synthetic biology receives about $430 million in U.S. government funding over a five-year period, far outpacing European governments. Euro funding for synthetic biologists is $160 million over the same period from 2005 through 2010.
New Flu Vaccines Could Protect Against All Strains
A new vaccine, successfully tested on mice, may be able to provide some protection against all strains of influenza.
Congress Opens Investigation Into Genetic Testing Companies
A Congressional committee is starting what could be a wide-ranging investigation into companies like 23andme that do genetic testing.
Wired: Autopia
Explore the world of Cars 2.0, alternative fuels and the future of transportation.
Behind the Scenes at IndyCar
Electric Airplane Flies Over Paris
The newest electric aircraft to take flight is a tiny airplane from a big airplane company. The Cri-Cri, developed by Airbus’ parent company, EADS, made its first flight Thursday at Le Bourget airport near Paris.
The Cri-Cri is based on an existing design that uses two small gasoline engines. EADS swapped the gasoline engines with four [...]
Video: Monster Truck Makes Monster Crash
Joe Sylvester wants to set the record for longest jump made by a monster truck. Doing so will require beating the 202-foot jump Dan Runte made at the wheel of Bigfoot in 1999.
Clearly he has more work to do, as a practice attempt on Tuesday in his truck Bad Habit did not go well. Sylvester [...]
Feds Push ?Active Transportation? for Healthy Communities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on a mission to help create a transportation system that makes us fitter, not fatter.
The agency, which promotes and protects public health and safety, is pushing active transportation systems in a big way, and it’s fitting in light of the undeniable fact that the United States is [...]
From Washington to Mexico on 12.4 Gallons Of Diesel
Craig Henderson drove 1,478 miles from from Blaine, Washington, to Mexico without stopping to refuel, burning just 12.4 gallons of diesel for a stunning 119.1 mpg.
And he did it in a car he originally designed in 1984.
Henderson rolled into Chula Vista, California, at the wheel of the Avion four days after he left home. The [...]
New Circuit Unveiled for U.S. Grand Prix
The organizers of the United States Grand Prix have unveiled the design of the all-new track in Austin, Texas. The Formula 1 circuit will host the USGP beginning in 2012 and is scheduled to continue until 2021.
The new purpose-built race course is 3.4 miles long with more than 20 turns winding through a 900-acre site [...]
Ford Focus EV Will Use Liquid-Cooled Battery
Small but interesting nugget of news out of Ford, which says it will use a liquid-cooled and heated battery in the Ford Focus Electric we’ll see late next year.
Ford is still developing the car, but the prototype we drove had a 23 kilowatt-hour lithium ion pack, which makes it about the size of the air-cooled [...]
Two-Wheeled Zerotracer EV Is a Wild Ride
We’re jealous of the folks who get to drive the Zerotracer. It’s a sporty, two-seat, enclosed motorcycle that weighs less than 1,400 pounds, can do zero to 100 km/hr (62 mph) in less than 4.5 seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph.
The Oerlikon Solar Zerotracer is among the cool zero-emission vehicles competing in [...]
Firearms, Boots and Dirty Cars as Canvases
Editor?s note: Jeremy Hart, an occasional contributor to Wired.com, is driving around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. He?s filing occasional reports from the road.
The Wild West is still wild.
As we pull into Scottsdale, Arizona, during Ford Fiesta World Tour 2010, we get word there?s automatic gunfire coming into [...]
Electric Motorcycle Entrepreneur Killed In Crash
Matt Dieckmann believed the future is electric, and he died hoping to prove it.
Dieckmann, the 29-year-old founder of Electric Race Bikes, was killed Monday following a collision with a car in his hometown of Santa Rosa, California. He reportedly was testing a new electric motorcycle at the time.
We met Dieckmann, pictured above on the left, [...]
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