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PLUS: Staying productive, recognizing bad science, and making history on Mars. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 07.22.20   THIS IS FINE How to Stay Productive When the World Is on Fire BY ALAN HENRY It feels impossible to get anything done right now. Here's how to keep your head above water—without falling into the busy trap.   IDEAS The Many Faces of Bad Science BY CHRISTIE ASCHWANDEN In his new book, psychologist Stuart Ritchie paints a portrait of the modern system of research, and all the ways it gets undermined.   SEEING RED China's First Mars Rover Launch Could Make History BY DANIEL OBERHAUS If the nation's mission is successful, it will become only the second country to ever deploy a rover on the surface of the Red Planet.   WORD SALAD Did a Person Write This Headline, or a Machine? BY TOM SIMONITE GPT-3, a new text-generating program from OpenAI, shows how far the field has come—and how far it has to go.   CORONAVIRUS Everything You Need to Know About the Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine BY MATT REYNOLDS, WIRED UK Early results from the UK team show that its approach is safe and provokes an immune response. But that doesn't mean it works.   HACKS Thieves Are Emptying ATMs Using a New Form of Jackpotting BY DAN GOODIN, ARS TECHNICA The new hardware-based attack, which has targeted machines across Europe, can yield a stream of cash for the attacker.   NOW YOU SEE IT How Quickly Can Atoms Slip, Ghostlike, Through Barriers? BY SOPHIA CHEN A new experiment on how rapidly atoms can tunnel through a barricade revives a physics debate about how time passes on the quantum scale.   SHOOTING STARS How to See Comet Neowise Before It's Gone BY DANIEL OBERHAUS The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on Thursday before it fades into black. Here's how you can catch a glimpse.   PRODUCT REVIEW Optoma's Newest Projector Brings the Movie Theater to You BY PARKER HALL The company's new UHD50X looks better than ever and even offers a 240-Hz refresh rate for PC gamers.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions