MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the First Time

PLUS: A Crucial Group of Covid Drugs Has Stopped Working, and more.

View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 02.08.23 Your weekly roundup of the best stories on health care, the climate crisis, genetic engineering, robotics, space, and more. For all our science coverage, visit WIRED Science.   MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the First Time TRIP DOWN UNDER | 3-MINUTE READ  Many are celebrating Australia's decision to pave the way for these psychedelic therapies, but questions around accessibility remain. By Grace Browne   A Crucial Group of Covid Drugs Has Stopped Working PUBLIC HEALTH | 6-MINUTE READ  A key tool in the early pandemic response, monoclonal antibodies are now ineffective against new variants. Immunocompromised patients are especially at risk. By Emily Mullin   The Secret to Making Concrete That Lasts 1,000 Years HARD STUFF | 5-MINUTE READ  Scientists have uncovered the Roman recipe for self-repairing cement—which could massively reduce the carbon footprint of the material today. By Jim Morrison   The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis Has a Troubling Twist PUBLIC HEALTH | 4-MINUTE READ  A major new UN report says we've ignored the role of environmental degradation in fueling the superbugs that kill 1.27 million people each year. By Maryn McKenna   What Would Earth's Temperature Be Like Without an Atmosphere? DOT PHYSICS | 8-MINUTE READ  If you want to know what the cloud of gas that surrounds the planet is really doing for us, you have to see what the world would be like without it. By Rhett Allain More from WIRED Science A Looming El Niño Could Dry the Amazon Aftershocks May Rock Turkey and Syria for Months, Even Years At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up A Bold Plan to Beam Solar Energy Down From Space Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice Trending on WIRED IDEAS | 5-MINUTE READ A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What's Left? By Paul Ford Mounjaro did what decades of struggle with managing weight couldn't. Welcome to the post-hunger age. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes unlimited access to wired.com plus free stickers! Subscribe now. Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This email was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our email address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.