The Last 96 Hours of the ‘Titan’ Tragedy

PLUS: It's Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food, and more.

View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter preferences 07.05.23 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.   The Last 96 Hours of the 'Titan' Tragedy SYSTEM FAILURE | 12-MINUTE READ  OceanGate's lost sub sparked a frantic rescue effort—and resurfaced safety questions that had been raised years earlier. By Alex Christian   It's Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food CARE, REIMAGINED | 2-MINUTE READ  Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight. By Chris van Tulleken   A Rare Domestic Resurgence of Malaria Is Circulating in the US PUBLIC HEALTH | 4-MINUTE READ  The mosquito-borne disease was eliminated here long ago. Now "revenge travel," global migration, poor public funding—and maybe climate change—could help it come back. By Maryn McKenna   One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost BIOTECH | 5-MINUTE READ  An early experiment in older rhesus macaques suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory. Could it one day help people? By Celia Ford and Emily Mullin   This Hurricane Season Depends on a Showdown in the Atlantic GATHERING STORM | 4-MINUTE READ  The Atlantic Ocean is extremely warm right now—fuel for gnarlier hurricanes. But will a burgeoning El Niño butt in and stop the storms before they start? By Matt Simon ADVERTISEMENT More from WIRED Science Here Comes Euclid, the Telescope That Will Search for Dark Energy Inside the First Youth-Led Climate Lawsuit to Go to Trial A Computer-Assisted Proof Solves the 'Packing Coloring' Problem How Bad Is the Smoke in the Midwest? Check Out This Map At Last, There's Evidence of Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves Trending on WIRED CRY ONCE | 25-MINUTE READ WIRED's Favorite 'Buy It for Life' Gear By Parker Hall and Gear Team From cast-iron pans to mechanical watches, we've rounded up products that are made to last decades. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. That includes subscriber-only content like Steven Levy's Plaintext column, plus free stickers! Subscribe now. ADVERTISEMENT 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.