GPT 4.1, GPT 4.1 Mini, and GPT 4.1 Nano are all available now—and will help OpenAI compete with Google and Anthropic.https://www.wired.com/story/openai-announces-4-1-ai-model-coding/
These beard tools deliver an excellent trim for all types of facial hair.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-beard-trimmers/
Meet the Sakura, the best-selling electric car in Japan. It has driver assistance, auto-parking, fast charging, bi-directional power, and acres of charm. The killer stat: It only costs $17,000.https://www.wired.com/review/review-nissan-sakura-2025/
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.https://www.wired.com/story/terraform-mars-by-throwing-asteroids/
A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved.https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-happened-to-those-signalgate-messages/
Though the exact details of the situation have not been confirmed, community infighting seems to have spilled out in a breach of the notorious image board.https://www.wired.com/story/2025-4chan-hack-admin-leak/
The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescopehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/high-school-student-discovers-1-5-million-potential-new-astronomical-objects-by-developing-an-ai-algorithm-180986429/
Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodiahttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/super-sniffing-rat-sets-a-new-world-record-for-discovering-deadly-land-mines-and-hes-just-getting-started-180986432/
Created in the Grotesque style, the 16th-century images—revealed by renovations at a lodge in England—mimic historic textile designshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-fantastical-beasts-and-foliage-featured-in-these-rare-newly-discovered-tudor-wall-paintings-180986431/
Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over timehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tree-rings-bear-witness-to-illegal-gold-mining-operations-in-the-amazon-new-study-finds-180986390/
From river walks to local art and culture, these destinations deliver outdoor thrills and cultural surprises just off the C&O Canalhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/adventure-awaits-beyond-the-trail-at-these-four-co-canal-destinations-180986327/
Ornithologist Bruce Beehler tracks down what he calls the “Magnificent Seven,” a charismatic group of migratory birds, in his new bookhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/inside-the-epic-migrations-of-north-americas-most-fascinating-shorebirds-180986428/
Historical accounts of vast ocean waters glowing in the dark go back hundreds of years, and researchers are still trying to determine exactly what triggers the phenomenonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/glowing-milky-seas-have-baffled-sailors-for-centuries-new-research-brings-scientists-one-step-closer-to-solving-the-mystery-180986421/
To thank America for its support during the war, France sent a boxcar stuffed with gifts to each state. But in the late 1950s, New Jersey's disappeared without a tracehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-merci-train-given-to-new-jersey-after-world-war-ii-has-been-found-180986420/
The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large distanceshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/thousands-of-giant-tortoises-anchor-a-thriving-ecosystem-on-aldabra-a-remote-atoll-in-the-indian-ocean-180986362/
1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the land of sunshinehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-dreams-of-buried-pirate-treasure-enticed-americans-to-flock-to-florida-during-the-roaring-twenties-180986376/
The 30-day ceasefire brokered by the Trump administration was meant to lead to a wider cessation of hostilities. It did not.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/16/russia-ukraine-expiration-energy-ceasefire/
Two students in Vienna, Austria, created a program that talks in class and turns in artwork for assignments, to test the boundaries of artificial intelligence tools.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/16/ai-art-school-vienna/
Trump nominee Ed Martin’s 100-plus appearances on Russian state-directed media RT and Sputnik from 2016 to 2024 alarm some former national security officials.https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/16/ed-martin-rt-sputnik-usattorney/
The Italian prime minister’s visit to Washington is high-stakes, risking her political capital in Europe and at home on a meeting with possible negative outcomes.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/16/meloni-italy-eu-tariffs-trump/