Day: August 16, 2026

Andrew KayThe Big StoryJan 17, 2023 6:00 AMLife as a 21st-Century TruckerTechnology, corporate greed, and supply-chain chaos are transforming life behind the wheel of a big rig. I went on the road to find exactly how.Jay LeRette’s chapel, far right, parked permanently at the Petro Travel Center, a truck stop off I-39 in northern Illinois.Photograph:…

Justin PotGearAug 16, 2026 6:30 AMSomeone Finally Fixed Installing Apps on a MacThe installation utility EasyDMG makes it so you never drag and drop an icon again.Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty ImagesOne of the oddest things about macOS is the installation dance. Dealing with disk images, dragging and dropping—it’s the main way of installing software from…

Jorge GarayScienceAug 16, 2026 6:30 AMIt’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for the Next 2 Solar EclipsesIn 2027 and 2028, there will be two spectacular, long-duration solar eclipses. Here’s what you need to know about them.A composition of photos from the August 21 total solar eclipse in Spain.Photograph: Marcos del Mazo/Getty ImagesThe total solar…

Jorge GarayScienceAug 16, 2026 7:00 AMAstronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole StarAn object observed by the James Webb Space Telescope lends credence to a strange explanation for the mysterious red spots in the early universe.Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares/MITWhen Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something.In a new paper in…

Simon FrantzScienceAug 16, 2026 6:00 AMInside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly NeutrinosObservatories have been built in mines, deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, and elsewhere in an effort to detect the fleeting particles.Photograph: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, The University of TokyoSeventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton…