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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wordle hints today for #1,425: Clues and answer for Wednesday, May 14
Hey, there! We've reached the midway point of the week already. And wouldn't you know it, another game of Wordle is available! For those who'd like some help to extend their streak, here's our daily Wordle guide with some hints and the answer for Wednesday's puzzle (#1,425). It may be that you're a Wordle newcomer and you're not completely sure how to play the game. We're here to help with that too. Wordle is a deceptively simple daily word game that first emerged in 2021. The gist is that there is one five-letter word to deduce every day by process of elimination. The daily word is the same for everyone. Wordle blew up in popularity in late 2021 after creator Josh Wardle made it easy for players to share an emoji-based grid with their friends and followers that detailed how they fared each day. The game's success spurred dozens of clones across a swathe of categories and formats. The New York Times purchased Wordle in early 2022 for an undisclosed sum. The publication said that players collectively played Wordle 5.3 billion times in 2024. So, it's little surprise that Wordle is one of the best online games and puzzles you can play daily. To start playing Wordle, you simply need to enter one five-letter word. The game will tell you how close you are to that day's secret word by highlighting letters that are in the correct position in green. Letters that appear in the word but aren't in the right spot will be highlighted in yellow. If you guess any letters that are not in the secret word, the game will gray those out on the virtual keyboard. You'll only have six guesses to find each day's word, though you still can use grayed-out letters to help narrow things down. It's also worth remembering that letters can appear in the secret word more than once. Wordle is free to play on the NYT's website and apps, as well as on Meta Quest headsets. The game refreshes at midnight local time. If you log into a New York Times account, you can track your stats, including the all-important win streak. If you have a NYT subscription that includes full access to the publication's games, you don't have to stop after a single round of Wordle. You'll have access to an archive of more than 1,400 previous Wordle games. So if you're a relative newcomer, you'll be able to go back and catch up on previous editions. In addition, paid NYT Games members have access to a tool called the Wordle Bot. This can tell you how well you performed at each day's game. Before today's Wordle hints, here are the answers to recent puzzles that you may have missed: Yesterday's Wordle answer for Tuesday, May 13 — AWARE Monday, May 12 — BICEP Sunday, May 11 — DOWEL Saturday, May 10 — YEAST Friday, May 9 — TRIPE Every day, we'll try to make Wordle a little easier for you. First, we'll offer a hint that describes the meaning of the word or how it might be used in a phrase or sentence. We'll also tell you if there are any double (or even triple) letters in the word. In case you still haven't quite figured it out by that point, we'll then provide the first letter of the word. Those who are still stumped after that can continue on to find out the answer for today's Wordle. This should go without saying, but make sure to scroll slowly. Spoilers are ahead. Here is a hint for today's Wordle answer: A type of antelope or drum (the latter is usually part of a pair). There is a pair of repeated letters in today's Wordle answer. The first letter of today's Wordle answer is B. This is your final warning before we reveal today's Wordle answer. No take-backs. Don't blame us if you happen to scroll too far and accidentally spoil the game for yourself. What is today's Wordle? Today's Wordle answer is... BONGO Not to worry if you didn't figure out today's Wordle word. If you made it this far down the page, hopefully you at least kept your streak going. And, hey: there's always another game tomorrow.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wordle hints today for #1,424: Clues and answer for Tuesday, May 13
Hey, there! We hope your week is off to a great start. As ever, there's another game of Wordle to enjoy. For those who'd like a helping hand with it, here's our daily Wordle guide with some hints and the answer for Tuesday's puzzle (#1,424). It may be that you're a Wordle newcomer and you're not completely sure how to play the game. We're here to help with that too. Wordle is a deceptively simple daily word game that first emerged in 2021. The gist is that there is one five-letter word to deduce every day by process of elimination. The daily word is the same for everyone. Wordle blew up in popularity in late 2021 after creator Josh Wardle made it easy for players to share an emoji-based grid with their friends and followers that detailed how they fared each day. The game's success spurred dozens of clones across a swathe of categories and formats. The New York Times purchased Wordle in early 2022 for an undisclosed sum. The publication said that players collectively played Wordle 5.3 billion times in 2024. So, it's little surprise that Wordle is one of the best online games and puzzles you can play daily. To start playing Wordle, you simply need to enter one five-letter word. The game will tell you how close you are to that day's secret word by highlighting letters that are in the correct position in green. Letters that appear in the word but aren't in the right spot will be highlighted in yellow. If you guess any letters that are not in the secret word, the game will gray those out on the virtual keyboard. You'll only have six guesses to find each day's word, though you still can use grayed-out letters to help narrow things down. It's also worth remembering that letters can appear in the secret word more than once. Wordle is free to play on the NYT's website and apps, as well as on Meta Quest headsets. The game refreshes at midnight local time. If you log into a New York Times account, you can track your stats, including the all-important win streak. If you have a NYT subscription that includes full access to the publication's games, you don't have to stop after a single round of Wordle. You'll have access to an archive of more than 1,400 previous Wordle games. So if you're a relative newcomer, you'll be able to go back and catch up on previous editions. In addition, paid NYT Games members have access to a tool called the Wordle Bot. This can tell you how well you performed at each day's game. Before today's Wordle hints, here are the answers to recent puzzles that you may have missed: Yesterday's Wordle answer for Monday, May 12 — BICEP Sunday, May 11 — DOWEL Saturday, May 10 — YEAST Friday, May 9 — TRIPE Thursday, May 8 — BALMY Every day, we'll try to make Wordle a little easier for you. First, we'll offer a hint that describes the meaning of the word or how it might be used in a phrase or sentence. We'll also tell you if there are any double (or even triple) letters in the word. In case you still haven't quite figured it out by that point, we'll then provide the first letter of the word. Those who are still stumped after that can continue on to find out the answer for today's Wordle. This should go without saying, but make sure to scroll slowly. Spoilers are ahead. Here is a hint for today's Wordle answer: Knowing what's happening in a certain subject at a given time e.g. socially or politically _____. There is a pair of repeated letters in today's Wordle answer. The first letter of today's Wordle answer is A. This is your final warning before we reveal today's Wordle answer. No take-backs. Don't blame us if you happen to scroll too far and accidentally spoil the game for yourself. What is today's Wordle? Today's Wordle answer is... AWARE Not to worry if you didn't figure out today's Wordle word. If you made it this far down the page, hopefully you at least kept your streak going. And, hey: there's always another game tomorrow.
WIRED
27-02-2025
- Science
- WIRED
DOGE's Chaos Reaches Antarctica
Feb 27, 2025 7:00 AM Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent's delicate geopolitics. Photograph:Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and workers are feeling the impacts—and are terrified for what's to come. The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) operates three permanent stations in Antarctica. These remote stations are difficult to get to and difficult to maintain; scattered across the continent, they are built on volcanic hills, polar plateaus, and icy peninsulas. But to the US, the science has been worth it. At these stations, over a thousand people each year come to the continent to live and work. Scientists operate a number of major research projects, studying everything from climate change and rising sea levels to the cosmological makeup and origins of the universe itself. With funding cuts and layoffs looming, Antarctic scientists and experts don't know if their research will be able to continue, how US stations will be sustained, or what all this might mean for the continent's delicate geopolitics. 'Even brief interruptions will result in people walking away and not coming back,' says Nathan Whitehorn, an associate professor and Antarctic scientist at Michigan State University. 'It could easily take decades to rebuild.' The USAP is managed by the National Science Foundation. Last week, a number of NSF program managers staffed on Antarctic projects were fired as part of a wider purge at the agency. The program managers are critical for maintaining communication with the infrastructure and logistics arm of the NSF, and the contractors for the USAP, as well as planning deployment for scientists to the continent, keeping track of the budgets, and funding the maintenance and operations work. 'I have no idea what we do without them,' says another Antarctic scientist who has spent time on the continent, who along with several others WIRED granted anonymity due to fears of retaliation. 'Without them, everything stops,' says a scientist whose NSF project manager was fired last week. 'I have no idea who I am supposed to report to now or what happens to submitted proposals.' Scientific research happens at all of the stations. At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists work on the South Pole Telescope and BICEP telescope, both of which study the cosmic background radiation and the evolution of the universe; IceCube, a cubic-kilometer detector designed to study neutrino physics and high energy emission from astrophysical sources; and the Atmospheric Research Observatory that studies climate science and is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Mass firings are also expected at the NOAA.) 'The climate science [at the South Pole Station] is super unique,' an Antarctic scientist says. 'The site has so little pollution that we call it 'the cleanest air on Earth,' and they have been monitoring the ozone layer and CO 2 content in the atmosphere for many decades.' Other directives from the Donald Trump administration have directly affected daily life on those stations. 'Gender-inclusive terms on housing documents' have been removed from Antarctic staffer forms, a source familiar with the situation at McMurdo Station tells WIRED. 'It asked if you had a preference with which gender you housed with,' the source says. 'That's all been removed.' Staffers have already pushed back. 'People have been painting waste bins saying 'Antarctica is for ALL' in rainbow, people's email signatures [have] pride additions, [others] keep adding preferred pronouns to emails,' the source says. 'There's a sense of unease on the station like people have never felt before,' they add. 'The job still has to get done, even though people feel like the next shoe can drop at any moment.' That unease extends to their own job security. 'There are some people currently at the South Pole that are worried about losing their jobs any day now,' a source with familiarity of the situation tells WIRED. Workers present at the station aren't able to physically leave until October, and a midseason firing, or loss of funding, would present a unique set of challenges. Sources are also bracing for at least a 50 percent reduction in the NSF's budget due to DOGE cuts. These cuts are sending Antarctic scientists with assistants and graduate students scrambling. 'We didn't know if we could pay graduate students,' says one scientist. While research is conducted on the continent, scientists bring their findings back to the US to process and analyze. A lot of the funding also operates the science itself: For one project that requires electricity to run detectors, the scientist 'was paranoid we would not be able to literally pay bills for an experiment starved for data.' That hasn't come to fruition yet, but as funding cycles restart in the coming weeks and months, scientists are on tenterhooks. Sources tell WIRED that Germany, Canada, Spain, and China have already started taking advantage of that uncertainty by recruiting US scientists focused on Antarctica. 'Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left,' says one Antarctic scientist. 'My students are looking at jobs overseas now … people have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.' 'Now is a great time to see if anyone wants to jump ship,' another Antarctic scientist says. 'I do worry about a brain drain of tenured academics, or students who are shunted out.' 'The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations,' says another. Throughout DOGE's cuts to the federal government, representatives have said that if something needs to be brought back, it could be. In some cases, reversals have already happened: The US Department of Agriculture said it accidentally fired staffers working on preventing the spread of bird flu and is trying to rehire them. But in Antarctica, a reversal won't necessarily work. 'One of the really scary things about this is that if the Antarctic program budget is cut, then they'll very quickly get to the point where they can't even keep the station open, much less science projects going,' an Antarctic scientist tells WIRED. 'If the South Pole [station] is shut down, it's basically nearly impossible to bring it back up. Everything will freeze and get buried in snow. And some other country will likely immediately take over. Others share this fear of a station takeover. 'Even if science funding is cut back, there is an urgent need for the US to invest in icebreakers and polar airlift capability otherwise at some point the US-managed South Pole station might not be serviceable,' says Klaus Dodds, an Antarctic expert and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London. Experts are concerned that countries like Russia and China—who have already been eagle-eyed on continental influence—will quickly jostle to fill the power vacuum. 'Presumably it would be humiliating for anyone who wishes to promote 'America First' to witness China offer to take over the occupation and management of the base at the heart of Antarctica. China is a very determined polar power,' says Dodds. The political outcome of the US pulling back from its Antarctic research and presence could be dire, sources tell WIRED. Antarctica isn't owned by any one country. Instead it's governed by the Antarctic Treaty System, which protects Antarctica and the scientific research taking place on the continent, and forbids mining and nuclear activity. Some countries, including China and Russia, have indicated that they would be interested in rule changes to the Treaty system, particularly around resource extraction and fishing restrictions. The US, traditionally, has played a key role in championing the treaty: 'Many of the leading polar scientists and social scientists are either US citizens and/or have been enriched by contact with US-led programs,' says Dodds. That leadership role could change quickly. The US also participates in a number of international collaborations involving major Antarctic scientific projects. A US pullback, Whitehorn says, 'makes it very hard to regard the US as a reliable partner, so I think there will be a lot less interest in accepting US leadership in such things … The uncertainty will drive people away and sacrifice the leadership the US already has.' 'If the NSF can't function, or we don't fund it, projects with long lead times can just die,' another scientist says. 'I'm sure international partners would be happy to partner elsewhere. This is what it means to lose US competitiveness.'
