Robbie Gonzalez
WIRED
Berkeley, CA, United States
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Remember The Dress? Here’s Why We All See Colors Differently
Watch neuroscientist David Eagleman explain how that internet-shattering visual illusion—and others like it—mess with our perception of color. → Read More
The Wagon Wheel Effect Shows the Limits of the Human Brain
This famous optical illusion, ubiquitous in car commercials and movies, helps neuroscientists study how the mind perceives the world. → Read More
How to Solve a Rubik's Cube in 5 Seconds—or Less
The world record for unscrambling a Rubik's cube keeps dropping, as fleet-fingered speedcubers hone their pattern recognition and \"lookahead\" skills. → Read More
The Best Speed Climbers Dash up Walls With a Time-Saving Move
Champion speed climbers chalk their hands, grab their holds, and do the Reza, a move that demands explosive power and tight coordination. → Read More
Free Throws Should Be Easy. Why Do Basketball Players Miss?
The mechanics of a perfect foul shot are known … but it takes a LOT of practice to get them right each and every time—even for two-time MVP Steve Nash. → Read More
One Woman Pushes Hula-Hooping to Its Absurd, Glittery Limits
How many hoops can a person hula? Marawa Ibrahim holds the record at 200—but when she's twirling a modest 100, her skill makes your head spin. → Read More
Strava's New Tool Builds Routes Based on Your Finger Swipes
Drag your finger on the in-app map, and the mobile Route Builder translates your scrawl into an ideal path. The beta version debuts soon for Strava Summit users. → Read More
We Need a Radical New Way to Understand Screen Use
To get to the bottom of how screens affect our mental health, we need to demand a lot more of the tech giants who possess our data. → Read More
Screens Might Be as Bad for Mental Health as
The science of how technology affects happiness needs a huge statistical upgrade. A new paper charts a path toward better research. → Read More
The Insane Numbers Behind Cycling's Most Masochistic Race
The hour is one of cycling's oldest and most prestigious records: How far can one person ride a bicycle in 60 minutes? → Read More
What Is the Dark Side of the Moon?
Yes, China recently landed there, but you're kind of asking the wrong question. → Read More
Finally, New Horizons' First Photos of Ultima Thule
On the first day of the year, NASA’s New Horizon Spacecraft captured an icy world 4 billion miles away. Here’s what the photos tell us about the fringes of our solar system. → Read More
How to Follow New Horizons' Historic Flyby of Ultima Thule
On New Year's Eve, NASA's probe will reach Ultima Thule, an icy body at the edge of our solar system. Here's its timeline. → Read More
NASA's New Horizons Probe Prepares To Make History—Again
The intrepid spacecraft has traveled 13 years and 4 billion miles to glimpse Ultima Thule, a cold, dark world at the fringes of our solar system. → Read More
50 Years Ago, Earthrise Gave Us the View of a Lifetime
Astronauts on NASA's Apollo 8 mission snapped the first photos of Earth from space, forever changing how we see our place in the universe. → Read More
We've Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let's Fix It
The narrative around tech addiction has been driven more by fear than facts. But that's finally starting to change. → Read More
The Science of Growing a Perfect Christmas Tree
Is your tree robust to cold? Do its needles cling to their branches? Christmas tree scientists ask these questions so we don't have to. → Read More
Apple’s Newest Watch Features Will Transform Heart Health
For better or worse. → Read More
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Just Arrived at Asteroid Bennu
The space rock could hold clues to the origins of our solar system, and maybe even life on Earth. → Read More
NASA's InSight Spacecraft Lands on Mars and Snaps a Photo
NASA's Mars lander, called InSight, landed on the red planet and sent its first image of the Mars surface. → Read More