Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis—Until Now

PLUS: Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space, and more.

View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 05.10.23 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.   Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis—Until Now SISOMSO | 5-MINUTE READ  A new paper showing how water actually travels through a plastic membrane could make desalination more efficient. That's good news for a thirsty world. By Max G. Levy   Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space WATTS UP | 4-MINUTE READ  The NASA team hopes the iconic spacecraft and its twin can continue taking data beyond the solar system past their 50th birthdays. By Ramin Skibba   The Physics of Mandalorian Jetpacks (Hint: They Aren't Jetpacks) DOT PHYSICS | 9-MINUTE READ  It's time to figure out how these iconic flying machines work, and if there's anything like them on Earth. By Rhett Allain   The Far North Is Burning—and Turning Up the Heat on the Planet WINTER ISN'T COMING | 3-MINUTE READ  Wildfires and human meddling are transforming the Arctic and its surroundings from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter, exacerbating the climate crisis. By Matt Simon   The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect PUBLIC HEALTH | 5-MINUTE READ  Immune cells called monocytes are triggered to help clear infection—but in some cases they never switch off, leaving patients breathless for months. By Maggie Chen More from WIRED Science The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean A New Cloned Horse Offers Hope for Endangered Species A 'Monumental' Math Proof Solves the Triple Bubble Problem At Last, 'Ugly' Sea Lampreys Are Getting Some Respect Yet Another Problem With Recycling: It Spews Microplastics Trending on WIRED IDEAS | 6-MINUTE READ Land Ownership Makes No Sense By Jehan Azad and Uri Bram The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. That includes subscriber-only content like Steven Levy's Plaintext column, plus free stickers! 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.