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View in browser  |  Your newsletter preferences 06.26.24 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. TÜBERMENSCH | 9-MINUTE READ  Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You're Eating Them Wrong By Matt Reynolds The humble potato is a miraculous vegetable, but Americans are eating less of them than ever before and have ditched fresh potatoes for frozen. Is it time to rebrand the spud? HISTORY OF TIME | 5-MINUTE READ  What Came Before the Big Bang? By Steve Nadis By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe's first moments. A-POO-LLO MISSION | 8-MINUTE READ  Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business By Becky Ferreira If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figure out the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions of extraterrestrial waste management. INFLATIONARY PRESSURE | 4-MINUTE READ  Everything's About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive Due to Climate Change By Nitish Pahwa Intensifying hurricanes, floods, and heat waves are wreaking havoc across the country—and on all of our bank accounts. OPEN RETURN | 2-MINUTE READ  Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA Investigates Its Faults By Eric Berger, Ars Technica The space agency has pushed back the spacecraft's return to an unspecified date in July, to give it more time to look into the problems that beset the vehicle on its journey into orbit. WEB OF LIES | 3-MINUTE READ  Recluse Spider Season Is a Myth By Andrés Cota Hiriart The venom of recluse spiders can be dangerous, but the idea of there being a "season" when these arachnids invade homes and bite is unhelpful and wrong. ADVERTISEMENT More from WIRED Science Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to Find Them A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists' work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes. Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a "nutritional value" to society—and that the public desperately deserve a better offering. Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant. My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now Meta's plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity. Trending on WIRED MACHINE LEARNING | 10-MINUTE READ Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine By Dhruv Mehrotra and Tim Marchman A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air. GET WIRED The future is happening fast. Stay ahead of it with WIRED.Get full tech coverage with a subscription to WIRED for just $30 $5. Plus free stickers! Subscribe Now. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for reading. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here. Plus, browse more newsletters from WIRED. You're receiving this email because you signed up for the Science newsletter from WIRED.   Manage your preferences  |   View our Privacy Policy  |  Unsubscribe   Have questions or comments? Send us a message. Need help? Contact us.   Copyright © Condé Nast 2024. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.