How to DIY Your Own Hand Sanitizer

PLUS: The best stories from WIRED this week. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 07.30.20   KEEP IT CLEAN How to DIY Your Own Hand Sanitizer BY BOONE ASHWORTH No Purell? No problem! When disinfecting gel sells out everywhere, you can just make some yourself with stuff you (maybe) already have at home.   DIY How to Make a CDC-Approved Cloth Face Mask BY MEDEA GIORDANO AND JEFFREY VAN CAMP A fabric face covering helps prevent you from spreading Covid-19 when you leave the house. Here's how to make one.   PUBLIC HEALTH Anthony Fauci Explains Why the US Still Hasn't Beaten Covid BY STEVEN LEVY The director of NIAID talks about vaccines, school reopenings, hostility toward science, and the lessons we'll learn when (yes, when) we recover.   THEY LIVE Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes BY MATT SIMON Researchers collected sediment thousands of feet deep, filtered out bacteria, and revived the cells. But fear not—the destruction of humanity by ancient microbes is not nigh.   IDEAS The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever BY EDWARD SNOWDEN The power to end it is in your hands.   RACE TO IMMUNITY These 4 Covid-19 Vaccines Are Closest to Becoming Reality BY VICTORIA TURK, WIRED UK There are hundreds of trials currently in the works. Here's everything you need to know about the ones edging ahead in the global race.   DIGITAL CULTURE The Portland Protests Are a War Zone—but Only on the Internet BY EMMA GREY ELLIS What's happening in the streets isn't what you're seeing in the tweets.   RANSOMWARE A Cyberattack on Garmin Disrupted More Than Workouts BY LILY HAY NEWMAN A ransomware hit and subsequent outage caused problems in the company's aviation services, including flight planning and mapping.   ARE WE THERE YET? NASA Just Launched Its New Perseverance Rover to Mars BY DANIEL OBERHAUS The new rover is its biggest, most autonomous yet and may lead us to the first signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions