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24 avril
18h00
How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away
Stephen Clark, Ars Technica
The far traveled space probe is once again transmitting usable data, after a glitch caused months of gibberish.
15h07
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
Emily Mullin
In the first procedure of its kind, a year old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump.
22 avril
17h06
Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust
Matt Reynolds
Sales of vegan meat are trending downward in the US, with companies scrambling to win back customers.
10h00
Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better
Matt Simon
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.
21 avril
10h00
Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts
Lyndie Chiou
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places poorly served by polling stations.
20 avril
10h00
How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America’s Drought
Maanvi Singh
In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town and sold its water rights to a suburb miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has opened Pandora’s box.
19 avril
11h00
Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse
Maggie Chen
An infection can upset your microbiome, and if certain gut fungi run riot, this can kick the immune system into overdrive.
09h00
Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years
John Timmer, Ars Technica
The world is already committed to warming that will undercut the global economy by percent between now and . That’s six times the price of limiting warming to degrees Celsius.
18 avril
22h58
NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From
Stephen Clark, Ars Technica
Space law just got a little more complicated.
21h33
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
Emily Mullin
After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for its brain implant study is the Barrow Neurological Institute.
10h00
The Rise of the Carbon Farmer
Jessica Rawnsley
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.
17 avril
18h56
The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot
Carlton Reid
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.
09h41
No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused by Cloud Seeding
Amit Katwala
Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those who blame cloud seeding are misguided.
16 avril
11h00
US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an 830 Million Plan to Fix It
Matt Simon
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.
10h00
They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War
Rachel Lance
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.
15 avril
11h00
The Paradox That’s Supercharging Climate Change
Matt Simon
Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet and a potential acceleration of global warming.
10h00
It Takes Guts to Fix Wind Turbines for a Living
Caitlin Kelly
Want one of the fastest growing jobs in the US Get used to being high.
09h00
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Emily Mullin
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.
14 avril
11h00
The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
Charlie Wood
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.
13 avril
11h30
Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit
Stephen Clark, Ars Technica
Two satellites will engage in a realistic threat response scenario when Victus Haze gets underway.