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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 03.29.23 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.   Your Speech May Reveal Early Signs of Alzheimer's WIRED HEALTH | 1-MINUTE READ  Startup Accexible says the way you talk can indicate preclinical Alzheimer's or other underlying health conditions. By Amit Katwala   Can You Really Pump Water Without Any Electricity? DOT PHYSICS | 7-MINUTE READ  To see if those videos of people conjuring liquid without any external power actually hold water, you'll need physics—and a straw. By Rhett Allain   A Nonprofit Wants Your DNA Data to Solve Crimes FAMILY TIES | 6-MINUTE READ  Privately run genealogy databases have become a crucial tool for police investigators. Now a nonprofit is collecting data to help crack more cold cases. By Emily Mullin   Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle HARD FORK | 8-MINUTE READ  The neocortex is the seat of human intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells only after their evolutionary split from reptiles. By Allison Whitten   What Time Is It on the Moon? WATCH THIS SPACE | 6-MINUTE READ  Lunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast. By Ramin Skibba More from WIRED Science The Chemical Menace Inside Glaciers and Icebergs California's Atmospheric Rivers Are Getting Worse Plastics Are Devastating the Guts of Seabirds How to End Bias and Taboos in Women's Health Care Climate Freeloaders Are Destroying the Planet Trending on WIRED HELLO WORLD | 5-MINUTE READ 11 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level By David Nield Sure, anyone can use OpenAI's chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results. 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 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.