Wired Magazine: Top Science Stories

Here are the top science, technology, medicine, environment, and space stories compiled by “Wired Magazine.”

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01.18.23 Your weekly roundup of the best stories on health care, the climate crisis, genetic engineering, robotics, space, and more. For all our science coverage, visit WIRED Science. The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground CLIMATE SOLUTIONS | 4-MINUTE READ  The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. By Matt Simon It’s Getting Too Hot to Make Snow MELTING POINT | 4-MINUTE READ  Some ski resorts rely on machines to keep powder on the slopes. But snow guns guzzle water, are energy-intensive, and need cool temperatures to operate. By Chris Baraniuk What You Need to Know About the Kraken Covid Variant COUGH | 4-MINUTE READ  XBB.1.5, aka the Kraken, is sweeping the Northeast US and dodging immunity. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to panic. By Amanda Hoover A Teenager Solved a Stubborn Prime Number ‘Look-Alike’ Riddle NUMBER THEORY | 7-MINUTE READ  In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers—strange entities that mimic the primes. By Jordana Cepelewicz This Seriously Hipster Bean Is Coffee’s Best Hope for Survival BEAN THERE | 5-MINUTE READ  Climate change is straining the world’s two favorite coffee species. Could a resilient 19th-century alternative solve the brew’s existential crisis? By Matt Reynolds

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