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Scientific American

One Third of the Amazon Has Been Degraded by Human Activities [1210d]
The Right Words Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change [1210d]
How Plants' Plumbing Let Them Conquer the World [1210d]

Quanta Magazine

How Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t) [1210d]

New Scientist

US hospitals are facing critically low supplies of liquid ibuprofen [1210d]
Bears may self-medicate against ticks by rubbing against trees [1210d]
Two of the UK's water companies are still using dowsing to find leaks [1210d]
Solar panel cleaning robot can be dropped off and picked up by drone [1210d]
Multicellular life may have begun with brief alliances between cells [1210d]
US childhood obesity guidelines may rush the use of drugs or surgery [1210d]
‘Love hormone' may not be crucial for social bonding after all [1210d]
Taxing sugary drinks may not cut obesity as much as headlines claim [1210d]

ScienceDaily

Volcano-like rupture could have caused magnetar slowdown [1210d]
New hybrid catalyst could help decarbonization and make ethylene production more sustainable [1210d]
Milk's packaging influences its flavor [1210d]
UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production -- and many other countries probably do too [1210d]
Qubits on strong stimulants [1210d]
New test could detect Alzheimer's disease 3.5 years before clinical diagnosis [1210d]
Starry tail tells the tale of dwarf galaxy evolution [1210d]
New species of microalgae discovered [1210d]
New technology may help inform brain stimulation [1210d]
Looking back at the Tonga eruption [1210d]
Researchers map the effects of dietary nutrients on disease [1210d]
Stability of perovskite solar cells reaches next milestone [1210d]
Gum infection may be a risk factor for heart arrhythmia, researchers find [1210d]
Study shows FDA-approved TB regimen may not work against the deadliest form of TB due to multidrug-resistant strains [1210d]
Mercury helps to detail Earth's most massive extinction event [1210d]
Prairie voles without oxytocin receptors can bond with mates and young [1210d]
Meteorites reveal likely origin of Earth's volatile chemicals [1210d]
Ancestral variation guides future environmental adaptations [1210d]
Discovery advances biofuel crop that could curb dependence on fossil fuel [1210d]
Outlook for the blue economy [1210d]

Phys

A new way to identify stresses in complex fluids [1210d]
ChatGPT: Study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals—just as some ban it [1210d]
First observation of de Broglie-Mackinnon wave packets achieved by exploiting loophole in 1980s theorem [1210d]
European farms mix things up to guard against food-supply shocks [1210d]
Growing borrowing costs offset easing inflation, finds consumer survey [1210d]
UV lamps used for disinfection may impair indoor air quality [1210d]
Newly-named species of tree-dwelling snakes threatened by mining [1210d]
Instrument on JWST has gone offline [1210d]
Volcano-like rupture could have caused magnetar slowdown [1210d]
Environmentalists to file lawsuit over Illinois' Bell Bowl Prairie, home to the endangered rusty patched bumblebee [1210d]
An AI bot passed this Wharton professor's exam. Here's why he's not concerned [1210d]
Looking back at the Tonga eruption [1210d]
Movements in proteins reveal information about antibiotic resistance spreading [1210d]
Hubble views bright variable star V 372 Orionis and a smaller companion star [1210d]
Research reveals how redlining grades influenced later life expectancy [1210d]
Perseverance takes a selfie to show off some of its samples [1210d]
Four possible consequences of El Niño returning in 2023 [1210d]
It'll take 150 years to map Africa's biodiversity at the current rate, say researchers [1210d]
Large number of animal skulls found in Neanderthal cave [1210d]
Restoring land for livelihoods can have ecological benefits, study suggests [1210d]
Machine learning approach may aid water conservation push in the Colorado River basin [1210d]
New model effectively predicts consumers' retail shopping mobility during a pandemic [1210d]
Rosy finches are Colorado's high-alpine specialists, and researchers want to know why [1210d]
Development of machine vision system capable of locating king flowers on apple trees [1210d]

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