The Problem With Spinning Spacecraft

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 11.16.22 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.   The Problem With Spinning Spacecraft DOT PHYSICS | 9-MINUTE READ  To send astronauts on long-term space missions, it'll take rotating habitats to produce artificial gravity. But that's trickier than you might think. By Rhett Allain   A Lab-Grown Meat Startup Gets the FDA's Stamp of Approval MEAT THE FUTURE | 3-MINUTE READ  The US regulatory body has signed off on Upside Foods' cultivated meat—but the company is still figuring out how to make enough of it to sell. By Matt Reynolds   NASA's Huge SLS Rocket Finally Launches the Artemis 1 Moon Mission ANOTHER GIANT LEAP | 6-MINUTE READ  For the first time since the Apollo era, the agency is preparing for crewed visits to our lunar neighbor. Missions with astronauts are next. By Ramin Skibba   This Personalized Crispr Therapy Is Designed to Attack Tumors BIOTECH | 3-MINUTE READ  In a small study, researchers modified patients' immune cells to target their particular cancer—but it only worked for a third of volunteers. By Emily Mullin   New York Voted to Protect the Planet. California Did Not ELECTION 2022 | 4-MINUTE READ  Voters in two influential states came to opposite conclusions on climate-related ballot measures to fund environmental protections and electric vehicles. By Jackie Flynn Mogensen More from WIRED Science The $6 Billion Shot at Making New Antibiotics—Before the Old Ones Fail Three-Way Entanglement Results Hint at Better Quantum Codes Your Phone Can Determine If a Bridge Is Busted No, Qatar's World Cup Can't Be Classed as Carbon-Neutral Europe's Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That's a Good Thing Trending on WIRED LURKERS | 5-MINUTE READ 'Dark Ships' Emerge From the Shadows of the Nord Stream Mystery By Matt Burgess Satellite monitors discovered two vessels with their trackers turned off in the area of the pipeline prior to the suspected sabotage in September. 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.

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