A new era of work travel is taking entrepreneurs and creatives to Nigeria, Brazil, and beyond.https://www.wired.com/story/business-travel-flight-map/
From skydiving trips in Dubai to Michelin-starred meals in Paris, some companies are rewarding top performers with once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences.https://www.wired.com/story/extravagant-rise-of-the-corporate-incentive-trip/
People who constantly hit the road for work share what they wish they’d known from the jump.https://www.wired.com/story/golden-rules-of-business-travel/
Recent developments and an escalating trade war have made travel to cities like Beijing challenging but by no means impossible.https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-travel-to-china/
Wide wingspans, more powerful engines, and high-efficiency materials are making super long flights more possible than ever.https://www.wired.com/story/tech-necessary-for-long-haul-flghts/
Gary Leff has been writing his blog on business travel for 23 years. WIRED asked him to share his most time-tested business travel tips.https://www.wired.com/story/pointers-on-travel-points-view-from-the-wing/
When US president Donald Trump announced sweeping tariff hikes in April, he set in motion a seven-day rush to bring goods into the country. Bitcoin miners elbowed their way to the front of the queue.https://www.wired.com/story/charter-planes-and-bidding-wars-how-bitcoin-miners-raced-to-beat-trumps-tariffs/
With threats of tariffs up to 50 percent, President Trump seems to be scrapping America’s plan to turn India into a counterweight to China, declaring instead that it is a “dead economy.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/india-china-trump-tariffs.html
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html
When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/arts/triceratops-dinosaur-paleontologist-barry-james.html
Health care. Food. Outdoor recreation. Wildfire protection. The arts. President Trump’s new domestic policy law will have wide-ranging effects in New Mexico, which depends heavily on federal funding.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/new-mexico-federal-budget-cuts.html
Summertime fire activity is creeping into spring, and the balmier climate is a major driver, scientists said.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/climate/california-earlier-fire-season.html
“It feels like I’m at a bougie store, but I’m not paying bougie prices,” one shopper said of the discount grocer, which is set to open hundreds of stores as consumers look to save and buy organic.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/aldi-grocery-expansion.html
Stu Sternberg used quantitative wizardry to turn the Tampa Bay Rays into a perennial contender. But the fans were the one equation he could never solve.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/magazine/tampa-rays-stu-sternberg-baseball.html
The gunman, identified by a military official as a sergeant in the soldiers’ unit, was quickly apprehended.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/us/fort-stewart-airfield-active-shooter.html
The helicopter had taken off from Accra, the capital, en route to a mining conference when it went “off the radar,” the armed forces said.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/world/africa/ghana-helicopter-crash-defense-officials.html
About 190 people have been rescued so far, officials said, but they warned that the death toll could rise.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/world/asia/india-floods-disaster-recovery-complications.html
The renowned composer has scored many of the most famous films of our time. But until this summer, he had never attempted a concerto for pianohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/john-williams-the-famous-composer-known-for-jaws-and-star-wars-debuts-first-piano-concerto-at-age-93-180987104/
The museum, which features work from African and African American artists, will debut a new look in its expanded spacehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/studio-museum-in-harlem-closed-for-renovations-since-2018-sets-november-reopening-180987116/
A 2,100-participant clinical trial found that structured and self-guided lifestyle changes can improve cognitive capabilities in older, at-risk adultshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cognitive-decline-can-be-slowed-down-with-lifestyle-changes-from-diet-to-exercise-and-social-time-new-study-suggests-180987077/