Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
In the first procedure of its kind, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump.
https://www.wired.com/story/combined-heart-pump-pig-kidney-transplant-surgery/
Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust
Sales of vegan meat are trending downwards in the US, with companies scrambling to win back customers.
Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better
Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building’s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of tomorrow.
https://www.wired.com/story/blue-green-roofs-amsterdam-resilio-climate-adaptation-sponge-cities/
Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places poorly served by polling stations.
Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places poorly served by polling stations.
How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America’s Drought
In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town—and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has “opened Pandora’s box.”
https://www.wired.com/story/drought-colorado-river-arizona-water/
Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse
An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run riot, this can kick the immune system into overdrive.
Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years
The world is already committed to warming that will undercut the global economy by 20 percent between now and 2050. That’s six times the price of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
https://www.wired.com/story/environmental-damage-cost-global-incomes/
NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From
Space law just got a little more complicated.
https://www.wired.com/story/space-junk-international-space-station-florida-house-confirmred/
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for its brain implant study is the Barrow Neurological Institute.
https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-brain-implant-study-site/
The Rise of the Carbon Farmer
Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil.
https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-farming-regenerative-agriculture/
The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot
Before the dear old model could even power down, Boston Dynamics unleashed a stronger new Atlas robot that can move in ways us puny humans never can.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-atlas-robot-is-dead-long-live-the-atlas-robot/
No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused By Cloud Seeding
Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those pointing the finger at cloud seeding are misguided.
https://www.wired.com/story/dubai-flooding-uae-cloud-seeding-climate-change/
US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an $830 Million Plan to Fix It
WIRED spoke with US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg about recent grants to fix ancient roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure before it’s too late.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-infrastructure-investment-pete-buttigieg-interview/
They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
The untold, top-secret story of the British researchers who found the key to keeping humans alive underwater—and helped make D-Day a success.
The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change
Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-paradox-thats-supercharging-climate-change/
The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change
Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-paradox-thats-supercharging-climate-change/
It Takes Guts to Fix Wind Turbines for a Living
Want one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US? Get used to being high.
https://www.wired.com/story/it-takes-guts-to-fix-wind-turbines-for-a-living/
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.
The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-map-the-inside-of-the-proton/