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Scientific American

The World's Oldest Moss Outlived the Dinosaurs, but It May Not Survive Climate Change [1014d]
Maui's Deadly Wildfires Are a Reminder of Growing Risks [1014d]
Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements [1014d]
The Gambling Strategy That's Guaranteed to Make Money and Why You Should Never Use It [1014d]
Most Americans Support NASA--But Don't Think It Should Prioritize Sending People To Space [1014d]

Quanta Magazine

Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture [1014d]
Two Students Unravel a Widely Believed Math Conjecture [1014d]

New Scientist

Hot ocean temperatures to fuel above-average Atlantic hurricane season [1014d]
The most distant individual star ever seen may actually be two stars [1014d]
Muons are still behaving oddly, which could break particle physics [1014d]
Cleaner shipping emissions may have warmed the planet – but only a bit [1014d]
Plants find it harder to absorb carbon dioxide amid global warming [1014d]
Plastic bags and bottles can be recycled into soap [1014d]
China’s video-game limits haven’t cut heavy gaming [1014d]
Authors fear they have little defence against AI impersonators [1014d]
Russia chases former Soviet glory with Luna 25 moon mission [1014d]
Wonky shapes can be made to roll along a specific path of your choice [1014d]

ScienceDaily

COVID-19 causes mitochondrial dysfunction in heart and other organs, researchers find [1014d]
After seventeen years, a spacecraft makes its first visit home [1014d]
Tool finds bias in state-of-the-art generative AI model [1014d]
Microplastics found embedded in tissues of whales and dolphins [1014d]
Chloride ions from seawater eyed as possible lithium replacement in batteries of the future [1014d]
Fat burning during exercise varies widely between individuals [1014d]
Mechanism underlying bacterial resistance to the antibiotic albicidin revealed [1014d]
Bioengineered tool unmasks cancer cells [1014d]
A climate-orchestrated early human love story [1014d]
How a massive North Atlantic cooling event disrupted early human occupation in Europe [1014d]
Global consortium creates large-scale, cross-species database and universal 'clock' to estimate age in all mammalian tissues [1014d]
The positional transmitter of statoliths unveiled: It keeps plants from getting lazy [1014d]
Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics [1014d]
Tattoo technique transfers gold nanopatterns onto live cells [1014d]
When regulatory T cells go bad [1014d]
Long COVID symptoms can emerge months after infection [1014d]
New gene editing tool helps zero in on small cancer-linked mutations [1014d]
Biologists find what colors a butterfly's world [1014d]
NIST demonstrates a new 'primary standard' for measuring ultralow pressures [1014d]
Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA [1014d]

Phys

At least 36 dead in Hawaii wildfires, tourists evacuated [1014d]
Virgin Galactic's first space tourists finally soar, an Olympian and a mother-daughter duo [1014d]
NOAA doubles the chances for a nasty Atlantic hurricane season due to hot ocean, tardy El Nino [1014d]
Russia is to launch its first mission to the moon in almost 50 years [1014d]
As water reuse expands, proponents battle the 'yuck' factor [1014d]
Spanish city shatters heat record [1014d]
Movie-inspired technology successfully collects hail data from eye of the storm [1014d]
Environmental human DNA offers new opportunities for public good [1014d]
Bigger and better quantum computers are possible with new ion trap dubbed the Enchilada [1014d]
Research team demonstrates a new 'primary standard' for measuring ultralow pressures [1014d]
Microplastics found embedded in tissues of whales and dolphins [1014d]
Bioengineered tool unmasks cancer cells [1014d]
Biologists find what colors a butterfly's world [1014d]
Study identifies characteristics specific to human brains [1014d]
Climate projections detail future risks for many people worldwide [1014d]
Watch NASA engineers put a Mars lander's legs to the test [1014d]
Researchers develop method for upcycling plastic waste into soap [1014d]
Mechanism underlying bacterial resistance to the antibiotic albicidin revealed [1014d]
How a massive North Atlantic cooling event disrupted early human occupation in Europe [1014d]
Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA [1014d]
The positional transmitter of statoliths unveiled: It keeps plants from getting lazy [1014d]
Researchers seek to determine climate drivers of early human interbreeding [1014d]
Novel socio-environmental vulnerability index pinpoints sustainability issues in Brazilian river basins [1014d]
Threatened gray-necked rockfowl's habitat even smaller than expected, study finds [1014d]
Stellar surf's up: Monster waves as tall as three suns are crashing upon a colossal star [1014d]
Simple ballpoint pen can write custom LEDs [1014d]
The role of bubble formation in sustainable hydrogen production [1014d]
Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics [1014d]
Pivotal discovery in sensor technology eliminates faulty electronic sensors when measuring toxins in water [1014d]
The fast, furious and brutally short life of an African male lion [1014d]

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