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01.18.23
Your weekly roundup of the best stories on health care, the climate crisis, genetic engineering, robotics, space, and more.
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The Key to California's Survival Is Hidden Underground
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS | 4-MINUTE READ
The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier.
By Matt Simon
It's Getting Too Hot to Make Snow
MELTING POINT | 4-MINUTE READ
Some ski resorts rely on machines to keep powder on the slopes. But snow guns guzzle water, are energy-intensive, and need cool temperatures to operate.
By Chris Baraniuk
What You Need to Know About the Kraken Covid Variant
COUGH | 4-MINUTE READ
XBB.1.5, aka the Kraken, is sweeping the Northeast US and dodging immunity. But that doesn't mean it's time to panic.
By Amanda Hoover
A Teenager Solved a Stubborn Prime Number 'Look-Alike' Riddle
NUMBER THEORY | 7-MINUTE READ
In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers—strange entities that mimic the primes.
By Jordana Cepelewicz
This Seriously Hipster Bean Is Coffee's Best Hope for Survival
BEAN THERE | 5-MINUTE READ
Climate change is straining the world's two favorite coffee species. Could a resilient 19th-century alternative solve the brew's existential crisis?
By Matt Reynolds
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