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Everything is expensive. Treat yourself to one of these WIRED-approved Prime Day picks under $50.

Emily Pearson was diagnosed with a rare condition that left her vulnerable to sun as a teenager. A new medication offers hope.

Shoppers and vendors in Aspen surprised by unusual customer as it stretched to sample stall offerings. Farmers' market shoppers might not usually pay much atte…

Hollywood exec Ari Emanuel says he treats his to-do list like a 'contract' with himself
Recreational jumpers used their training as paramedics to treat crash victims before ground crews arrivedA team of experienced skydivers recently dropped in to…

President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party's plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risks"We're going…

Under his "Donroe" doctrine, President Trump no longer treats Venezuela as sovereign. Canada fears the same treatment.
'Yeah, well, season's over now'

Trump's reported phone calls to the Fed chairman will complicate his efforts to prove he will act independently on inflation and interest rates.

The weather forecast for the second half of 2026 is giving the DoD something commanders rarely get before disruption arrives: months of notice.

Eli Lilly's acquisition of psychedelic drug maker AtaiBeckley extends Big Pharma's embrace of a stigmatized class of medications for treating mental health.

It's time to get to work

Iran is planning to treat all of Elon Musk's companies as military targets, according to Iranian state media, which alleged the billionaire's holdings were use…

Man in eastern China who stole 107 Bitcoin using a memorized seed phrase gets 10 years and nine months behind bars.

Walk down any pet store aisle and every single bag claims to be high-protein. Grain-free! Real meat! Premium quality! The labels are doing a lot of work, and m…

OpenAI researcher says early-career tech workers should treat jobs as test drives
DARPA envisions a future where "medicbots" link up to drag wounded personnel to safety, inject lifesaving drugs and form splits around broken limbs.

Sometimes it is more than merely an exogenous constraint
US Army soldiers are learning to treat the sky above as a source of danger and listen for the buzz of enemy drones

Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book How to Not Know, Simone Stolzoff explores whether treating that uncertainty with magic mus…

The executive order will open the door for more research into the psychedelic drug ibogaine, sources told CBS News earlier this week.

Ibogaine is used in Mexico and the Caribbean to treat depression, anxiety, addiction and brain trauma.

Restaurants added about 108,000 US jobs in 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Spotify's Smart Reorder treats your playlists like a DJ set

'kind of dumb'

Police are treating the death of a construction worker who fell through a skylight at a play centre as gross negligence manslaughter. David Linyard, 60, suffer…

With cocoa prices high, Hershey's has changed some of its candy recipes. The grandson of the man who invented of the original Peanut Butter Cup said he was "em…

The grandson of the man who invented Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is speaking out against The Hershey Company, accusing the multinational confectionery company o…

"Both of us were widowed. We are in our late 60s and retired."
The new cookie launch comes as Costco Wholesale recently unveiled a string of record-breaking sales during the holiday season.

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