WIREDGPS GPS III’s Long Journey Is Picking Up Speed WIRED - Sarah Scoles With the launch of a fifth new-generation satellite, the US finally has a constellation able to globally beam M-Code signals that are tough to spoof …
WIREDLithium The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower WIRED - Gregory Barber The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine might …
WIREDCoronavirus (COVID-19) The Delta Variant and Low Vaccine Rates Could Spell Trouble WIRED - Beth Mole, Ars Technica Vaccines are effective against the variant, but experts worry about states where fewer people are inoculated. By many metrics, the US is doing …
WIREDTechnology A Clever Robot Spies on Creatures in the Ocean's ‘Twilight Zone’ WIRED - Matt Simon Mesobot looks like a giant AirPods case, but it's in fact a sophisticated machine that tracks animals making the most epic migration on Earth. The …
WIREDCOVID-19 Vaccines The Challenge of Covid-19 Vaccines for the Immunosuppressed WIRED - Maryn McKenna Recent studies find transplant patients and immune-suppressed people who get the shot don’t make many antibodies. But that research is just beginning. …
WIREDUniverse NASA Might Put a Huge Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon WIRED - Chris Wright Observing the secrets of the universe’s “Dark Ages” will require capturing ultra-long radio wavelengths—and we can’t do that on Earth. The universe is …
WIREDHealth What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There? WIRED - Neil Singh Remote technology could save lives by monitoring health from home or outside the hospital. It could also push patients and health care providers …
WIREDMicronesia How Humans Think When They Think As Part of a Group WIRED - Annie Murphy Paul The fancy word for it is "entitativity," and it’s produced when people act and feel together in close proximity. We need it more, but we’re getting …
WIREDRobotics How Do You Make a Robot Walk on Mars? It's a Steep Challenge WIRED - Matt Simon Meet SpaceBok, a little four-legged machine that's taking the first steps toward walking on the Red Planet's brutal terrain. From the Sojourner rover, …
WIREDQubits What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain? WIRED - Scott Aaronson Before we can even begin to talk about these computers' potential applications, we need to understand the fundamental physics behind them. Quantum …
WIREDCattle When the Bison Come Back, Will the Ecosystem Follow? WIRED - Louise Johns An effort to bring wild buffalo to the Great Plains aims to restore one of the world’s most endangered landscapes and increase climate …
