Новости за 21.12.2015

Smoky brisket, straight from Harvard Yard.

The post How 16 Harvard Students Built the Ultimate BBQ Bot appeared first on WIRED.

In videogames, death is rarely fatal. That’s what makes the twist behind the upcoming PC game Upsilon Circuit so scary.

Meet Matt Malone, professional dumpster diver.

The post The Pro Dumpster Diver Who’s Making Thousands Off America’s Biggest Retailers appeared first on WIRED.

Physicists have high hopes for the LHC's second run.

The post The Large Hadron Collider Gets An Upgrade appeared first on WIRED.

It wasn't just big accelerators that made the news in 2015. Small is beautiful too.

This summer Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner announced he’ll fund the most extensive sweep yet for radio signals from alien civilizations.

An experiment based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, has tested one theory of how the "hologram universe" might work.

In 2015, physics is standing on a bridge between the old world and the new.

Physicists working with the world's most powerful particle accelerator presented the first results from the LHC's souped-up, more powerful second run.

Something is awry in the cosmos. Most of the universe seems to be … essentially, missing.

A newly-improved Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory began generating data this year, after a $200 million upgrade.

Sure, the LHC is impressive. But even bigger machines are in the works.

Iranian science may be one of the winners in this summer’s deal brokered between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers

Just because there's an Empire doesn't mean there's no funk.

The post The 9 Best Songs Ever Played in a Star Wars Movie appeared first on WIRED.

Need to kill some time this holiday season? Good. We've got a lot of TV for you to stream.

Rockwell created paintings that defined a generation, but the photographs that helped make them are just as fascinating.

As gifting targets, nerds are tough. But we've got you covered.

The post Perfect Gifts for the Science Nerd in Your Life appeared first on WIRED.

That whole thing about how you're not supposed to give a knife as a gift? That's a myth. Knives make great gifts—especially these 12 selections.

Drones have become the hot consumer item, and they've quickly become easier to pilot with smarter on-board systems and better software in the pilot's hands.

In 2015, all of that subsidized contract nonsense has gone away. We don’t buy phones like we used to anymore. Now we buy them like cars.

A good sensor is important, but other smartphone components may play a bigger role in the rise of mobile imaging.

The Force will be with us. Always.

The post Star Wars and the Quest for the Forever Franchise appeared first on WIRED.

Watch the livestream of the emergency spacewalk.

The post Astronauts Need to Fix the ISS Before Its Cargo Ship Docks appeared first on WIRED.