The Benefits of Ozempic Are Multiplying
There’s mounting evidence that GLP-1 drugs have health benefits beyond diabetes and weight loss, for conditions ranging from addiction to Parkinson’s—and scientists are evolving theories of why.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-benefits-of-ozempic-are-multiplying/
The Benefits of Ozempic Are Multiplying
There’s mounting evidence that GLP-1 drugs have health benefits beyond diabetes and weight loss, for conditions ranging from addiction to Parkinson’s—and scientists are evolving theories of why.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-benefits-of-ozempic-are-multiplying/
She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax
Sabotage. Property destruction. For Léna Lazare and her cohort, radicalized by years of inaction on the environmental crisis, these aren’t dirty words. They’re acts of joy.
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-activism-radical-new-face-lena-lazare/
Public Health Experts Want the Olympics to Drop Its Oldest Sponsor
Scientists, activists, and ordinary petitioners want the Olympics to break with Coca-Cola, comparing it to the tobacco companies that long sponsored the Games. They aren’t holding their breath.
https://www.wired.com/story/public-health-experts-want-the-olympics-to-drop-its-oldest-sponsor/
Mountain Bikers Are Rewilding Land by Paying the Government to Do It
A new nature-restoration project in Wales is being funded by an unusual source: thrill-seeking downhill lovers.
https://www.wired.com/story/bike-park-wales-rewilding-private-sector-finance/
Jane Goodall Thinks It’s Not Too Late to Save the World
The world, the famed primatologist says, isn’t what it used to be—but there’s still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-czechia-jane-goodall-q-and-a-conservation/
‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis.
https://www.wired.com/story/sensational-proof-delivers-new-insights-into-prime-numbers/
See the Perseids and Southern Delta Aquariids in a Stunning Double Meteor Shower
Across the Northern Hemisphere, August will see beautiful displays of meteors. Here's everything you need to know to enjoy them.
NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home
Eight weeks after the Starliner spacecraft launched, NASA is still looking for possible answers to its technical issues—including the possibility of SpaceX lending a hand.
https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-boeing-starliner-return-home-spacex/
How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health
Smoke from fires is linked to thousands of premature deaths every year, and is a growing health threat as widespread blazes becomes more common.
The Fight to Save Florida’s Oranges
Once the leading producer of the citrus fruit in the US, Florida is being ground down by hurricanes, diseases, and drought—but its orange growers aren’t giving up yet.
No, the Seine Cleanup Wasn’t a Failure
The goal of the Seine-cleansing project is to produce swimmable conditions for the people of Paris for years to come—the Olympics was just a milestone in getting there.
https://www.wired.com/story/no-the-seine-cleanup-wasnt-a-failure/
No, The Seine Cleanup Wasn't a Failure
The goal of the Seine-cleansing project is to produce swimmable conditions for the people of Paris for years to come—the Olympics was just a milestone in getting there.
https://www.wired.com/story/no-the-seine-cleanup-wasnt-a-failure/
Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump
The New Zealander came up with a better way to jump, using a front flip in midair. But the sport’s stodgy authorities shut him down before the 1975 Games.
https://www.wired.com/story/physics-of-the-banned-front-flip-long-jump/
The Shameful Controversy Over Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif
https://media.wired.com/photos/66abb2ba454b1f30cd819777/master/pass/1234310260
Imane Khelif has always defined herself as a woman, and has every right to compete.
https://www.wired.com/story/imane-khelif-olympic-boxer-controversy/
The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony
Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They’re how we can break society’s absurd addiction to single-use plastics.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-cure-for-disposable-plastic-crap-is-here-and-its-loony/
The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike
Calculating angular velocity and the moment of inertia isn’t quite as hard as competing in the 2024 summer Olympics gymnastics tournament—but it’s pretty darn tough.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-incredible-physics-of-simone-biles-yurchenko-double-pike/
The Purple Track at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Has a Secret Ingredient
Recycled shells of mollusks native to the Mediterranean Sea were used to manufacture the synthetic floor of the athletics track, as part of the Games’ commitment to sustainability.
https://www.wired.com/story/paris-summer-olympics-2024-purple-track-athletics-mondo/
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?
https://www.wired.com/story/new-gods-weather-rain-cloud-seeding-emirates/
The Bird Flu Threat Keeps Growing
Human cases keep ticking up, are very likely to be underreported, and offer the virus the opportunity to learn how to spread from person to person.
https://www.wired.com/story/bird-flu-human-transmission-colorado-farms-poultry-usa/