A Toxic Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Arctic

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 04.05.23 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.   A Toxic Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Arctic CLIMATE CHANGE | 4-MINUTE READ  Thousands of contaminated sites are sitting on permafrost that'll soon thaw, a looming disaster that could spread beyond the region. By Matt Simon   A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa PUBLIC HEALTH | 6-MINUTE READ  The World Health Organization is gearing up to test vaccines against the Marburg virus—but the world is still not prepared to contain new viral outbreaks. By Syriacus Buguzi   Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes SPACE ODDITY | 7-MINUTE READ  In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But in higher dimensions, an infinite number of configurations are possible. By Steve Nadis   This Blood Test Targets 50 Types of Cancer WIRED HEALTH | 1-MINUTE READ  Grail's Galleri aims to screen for many more types of tumor than was previously possible. Large-scale clinical trials are underway. By Will Bedingfield   Space Archeologists Are Charting Humanity's Furthest Frontier HIGH LIFE | 5-MINUTE READ  An innovative research project delivers new evidence about how people live on the International Space Station. By Ramin Skibba More from WIRED Science Lab-Grown Burgers Have a Secret Ingredient: Plants The 'Little Bang' Helping Physicists Study the Infant Universe Washington, DC's Cherry Blooms Draw Crowds—and Climate Questions In the War on Bacteria, It's Time to Call in the Phages Palantir's Plan to Decipher the Mysteries of Long Covid Trending on WIRED WE ❤️ HARDWARE | 17-MINUTE READ The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing By Charles Platt Computers have been digital for half a century. Why would anyone want to resurrect the clunkers of yesteryear? 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.