Mattha Busby    Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms leaving some unprepared psychonauts in distress.

Kate Knibbs    Now that the Mounjaro and Zepbound shortage is over, Eli Lilly is going after the cottage industry selling compounded versions of its meds.

Alec Luhn    Milton’s reclassification to a Category storm suggests it is weakening, but the scale accounts only for wind speed and not hurricane size, storm surge heights, or rainfall which are all catastrophically large.

Chris Stokel-Walker    It has been a billboard week for artificial intelligence research. But could big wins for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton change broader scientific incentives

Matt Reynolds    Tampa, Florida is the most vulnerable US city to hurricane damage. Delays to floodwater defenses and relentless development only made the situation worse.

Kate Knibbs    Mounjaro and Zepbound are now out of shortage. This should be good news but because so many patients are taking compounded versions of these GLP medications, it’s a complicated situation.

Emily Mullin    More than health care facilities in impacted areas are moving patients and residents in what the state’s chief of emergency medical oversight calls our largest evacuation ever.

Makena Kelly, Dell Cameron    While some residents in hurricane impacted areas can’t send texts or make calls, amateur radio enthusiasts are helping communicate requests for help and messages between loved ones.

Rob Reddick    Bertrand Piccard says sustainability doesn’t have to come at a cost and that reframing attempts to hit net zero as a way of generating profit could be key to hitting targets.

Emi Nietfeld    One woman spills the beans about giving birth to rich people’s children. They were offering Scrooge McDuck buckets of money.

Tristan Kennedy    British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes.

Leila Sloman    What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle In the th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question.

Justin Stebbing    A new report estimates that percent of all cancer cases are associated with factors we can change alcohol consumption being a prominent one.

Marina Gerner    Celebrities do it or wish they had , influencers won’t stop talking about it, and clinics will all but tell you to do it now. The devil, though, is in the details.

Isabel Hilton    Highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, soon to shutter its last nuclear plant, and slow to build out renewables, the world’s largest producer of advanced computer chips is heading toward an energy crunch.

Emily Mullin    As more farm workers get sick with avian influenza, the US federal government is putting million toward strengthening its vaccine stockpile.

Matt Reynolds    WIRED tried D printed steaks that you can’t buy anywhere yet. But reducing food to a technological problem leaves a bitter taste, and delivers all the joy of licking a catering catalog.

Chris Stokel-Walker    A surveillance system proven during Covid is now being used to track outbreaks of RSV.

Annika Hom    New vaccines could help stem the spread of respiratory syncytial virus, but there are already huge inequities in access and uptake.

Alex Christian    Ice cream is deceptively simple, but that sweet burst of flavor and soft melt on the tongue is a finicky, frozen science of water, fat, and air delicately held together.