01.06.23

Welcome to the WIRED Science newsletter, your roundup of the best stories on health care, the climate crisis, genetic engineering, robotics, space, and more. Every Wednesday we’ll send you the week’s most important dispatches from our science desk, plus a bonus story that readers love from elsewhere on WIRED.com. For now, check out some of our recent science coverage below.

The Secrets of Covid ‘Brain Fog’ Are Starting to Lift

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the neurology behind the memory problems and cognitive fuzziness that an infection can trigger.

Electric Vehicles Could Rescue the US Power Grid

By 2035, the batteries in California’s zero-emission cars could power every home in the state for three days.

A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture

Jared Duker Lichtman proved a long-standing conjecture relating prime numbers to a broad class of “primitive” sets. To his adviser, it was a “complete shock.”

These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good

White spruce trees are expanding into the Arctic tundra with stunning speed, with potentially serious consequences both for the region and the world.

Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups

The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses.

Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets

Observations of faraway worlds have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of our solar system.

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