Amit Katwala
About Amit Katwala
Amit Katwala is an editor and writer at WIRED, based in London. He works across the UK print magazine and on features, science, and culture. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in experimental psychology. His latest book is Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector.
The new gods of weather can make rain on demand—or so they want you to believe
In a gold-trimmed command center on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, scientists are seeking to wring moisture from desert skies. But will all their extravagant cloud-seeding tech—planes that sprinkle nanomaterials, lasers that scramble the atmosphere—really work at scale?