It’s 10PM. Do You Know Where Your AI Agents Are?

AI agents run amok. Hints at sparkling new physics. How Adobe is using vibe coding. Why you should feed a cold. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

The Next Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science

At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer’s researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment is headed next.

My $5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up
My $5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I take my beauty rest seriously. So seriously that, after months of testing, I bought my ludicrously expensive […]

Oura adds birth control support to its period tracker
Oura adds birth control support to its period tracker

Oura is launching a new reproductive health feature that takes hormonal contraception into consideration when tracking period cycles. The smart ring maker describes the Hormonal Birth Control update as a “first-of-its-kind experience” inside Oura’s existing Cycle Insights feature, allowing users to see how over 20 combinations of hormonal birth control methods – including pills, patches, […]

3 Reasons Smart People Struggle With Motivation, By A Psychologist

Ironically, smart people often struggle to start a basic tasks. As psychological research teaches us, intelligence and motivation don’t always travel together.

Why Do Humans Have Eyebrows? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, identity and social intent.

What Is A Rain Bomb?

Everything you need to know about rain bombs and how the terminology evolved from a more familiar weather description.

Why Great Whites Keep Returning To The Gulf Of Mexico

White sharks in the western North Atlantic are not just passing through the Gulf of Mexico. Satellite and acoustic tags reveal that sharks of all ages return there each winter, using specific hotspots like Pulley Ridge and the Straits of Florida.

This Treatment Could Reverse Osteoarthritis Joint Damage With a Single Injection

Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed new therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks.

Exactly When To See The ‘Flower Moon’ Rise Tonight

When is the full moon? May’s first full flower moon will rise on May 1, with a second on May 30.