Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 12.28.22 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.   Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw LIGHTS OFF | 4-MINUTE READ  Europe's energy crisis is forcing companies to switch strategies or close down. The industry's future hangs in the balance. By Matt Reynolds   Dear Electric Vehicle Owners: You Don't Need That Giant Battery YEAR IN REVIEW | 5-MINUTE READ  EV batteries take up lots of space and resources. But most drivers won't actually use all that power. By Gregory Barber   A New Computer Proof 'Blows Up' Centuries-Old Fluid Equations AGAINST THE FLOW | 9-MINUTE READ  For more than 250 years, mathematicians have wondered if the Euler equations might sometimes fail to describe a fluid's flow. Now there's a breakthrough. By Jordana Cepelewicz   A More Elegant Form of Gene Editing Progresses to Human Testing SPELL CHECK | 5-MINUTE READ  Instead of cutting out chunks of the genome to disable malfunctioning genes, base editing makes a smaller, more precise swap. By Emily Mullin   You Don't Need to Fear a World of 8 Billion Humans YEAR IN REVIEW | 4-MINUTE READ  Some environmentalists argue we should prioritize a world with fewer humans, but maybe we need to rethink our approach to rising populations. By Matt Reynolds More from WIRED Science Wine Is Getting Pricier Thanks to a Logistical Nightmare Let's Go to Mars. Let's Not Live There How to Use Physics to Tell If That Steph Curry Video Is Real The Bittersweet Defeat of Mpox Here's What's Next for Pig Organ Transplants Trending on WIRED STORM CLOUD | 4-MINUTE READ Everyone Is Using Google Photos Wrong By Matt Burgess It's time to start ruthlessly deleting your pics. ESSENTIAL HOLIDAY READING Get The Rise and Fall of AlphaBay 6-part newsletter   Follow the untold story of the biggest dark web market takedown of all time with exclusive commentary from senior writer Andy Greenberg.  SIGN ME UP GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes the print edition plus editor in chief Gideon Lichfield's column, System Update. Subscribe now. Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This email was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our email address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.