A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations (www.wired.com)
Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called “sesquiterpenes.” Scientists are learning more—and it’s making climate models hazy....
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth (www.wired.com)
The OSIRIS-REx probe is carrying rock samples from the asteroid Bennu, millions of miles away. If it works, it will be only the third such retrieval in history.
A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis (www.wired.com)
Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.
The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires (www.wired.com)
TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe (www.wired.com)
Google Fixes Serious Security Flaws in Chrome and Android (www.wired.com)
Plus: Mozilla patches more than a dozen vulnerabilities in Firefox, and enterprise companies Ivanti, Cisco, and SAP roll out a slew of updates to get rid of some high-severity bugs.
Turtles Carry Signs of Humanity’s Nuclear History in Their Shells (www.wired.com)
Turtles’ shells contain a chemical record of the environment—including highly enriched uranium, an indicator of nuclear weapons development. What can we learn from these accidental archivists?
The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests (www.wired.com)
The Last Hour of Prigozhin’s Plane (www.wired.com)
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash.
India’s Sacred Groves Are Resurrecting a Vanishing Forest (www.wired.com)
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’ (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/795503...