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Scientific American

The Cognitive Neuroscientist Who Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Language [717d]
Babies Smell Sweet, but Teenagers Stink. Is Evolution the Explanation? [717d]
NASA Slashes Budget for Chandra, Its Greatest X-ray Observatory [718d]
Mathematician Who Tamed Randomness Wins Abel Prize [718d]
A Completely New Approach to Crops Could Boost Nutrition across Africa [718d]

Quanta Magazine

How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute [718d]

New Scientist

Why giving AI a robot body could make its ‘brain’ more human-like [717d]
SpaceX’s Starship created a volcano-like explosion in first launch [717d]
Organic farms seem to trigger more pesticide use on conventional farms [717d]
Pig kidney transplanted into living human for the first time [717d]
Sulphur dioxide from Iceland volcano eruption has reached the UK [717d]
Teen sweat has distinct chemical make-up with notes of musk and urine [718d]
Food costs more because of climate change - and it will get worse [718d]
Why 2024 Abel prize winner Michel Talagrand became a mathematician [718d]
Has Neuralink made a breakthrough in brain implant technology? [718d]
Fluffy beetle discovered in Australia may be the world's hairiest [718d]
How to take a stunning photograph of April’s total eclipse [718d]
Ozempic and Wegovy linked to a lower risk of cannabis use disorder [718d]

ScienceDaily

Two of the Milky Way's earliest building blocks identified [718d]
Two keys needed to crack three locks for better engineered blood vessels [718d]
Product that kills agricultural pests also deadly to native Pacific Northwest snail [718d]
Novel genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease [718d]
An immunotherapy to overcome resistant leukemia [718d]
Evolutionary history of the formation of forceps and maternal care in earwigs [718d]
High-resolution brain created with 3D printer [718d]
Say hello to biodegradable microplastics [718d]
Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought [718d]
Rose essential oil: A safe pesticide for organic agriculture [718d]
The power of neighbors: Neighboring synapses shape learning and memory [718d]
Secrets of the Van Allen belt revealed in new study [718d]
New geological study: Scandinavia was born in Greenland [718d]
Immune cells identified as key players in brain health [718d]
As we age, our cells are less likely to express longer genes [718d]
Researchers name prehistoric amphibian ancestor discovered in Smithsonian collection after Kermit the Frog [718d]
Entanglements of humpback whales in fish farms rare -- and naivety could be to blame [718d]
Alaska Native tribes take lead on shellfish toxin testing where state falls short [718d]
N-channel diamond field-effect transistor [718d]
Species diversity promotes ecosystem stability [718d]
Research finds a direct communication path between the lungs and the brain [718d]
Natural molecule found in coffee and human body increases NAD+ levels, improves muscle function during aging [718d]
Heat to blame for space pebble demise [718d]
Decoding the plant world's complex biochemical communication networks [718d]
A new way to quantify climate change impacts: 'Outdoor days' [718d]
How butterflies choose mates: Gene controls preferences [718d]
Satellite data assimilation improves forecasts of severe weather [718d]
Forest, stream habitats keep energy exchanges in balance, global team finds [718d]
Research offers hope for preventing post-COVID 'brain fog' by targeting brain's blood vessels [718d]

Phys

Reviving England's polluted rivers through incentivizing farmers and comprehensive monitoring [717d]
Q&A: Clarifying the megathrust earthquake mechanism [717d]
How comparison options affect stock buys [717d]
Estimating coastal water depth from space via satellite-derived bathymetry [717d]
Team reports on the occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes in the western Qinghai Lake basin [717d]
Scientists develop catalyst designed to make ammonia production more sustainable [717d]
A dynamically stable self-healable wire based on mechanical–electrical coupling [717d]
Impacts of major volcanic eruptions over the past two millennia on both global and Chinese climates [717d]
Improving root senescence recognition with a new semantic segmentation model [717d]
Improving plant health diagnostics: The dawn of microfluidic devices for rapid miRNA detection [717d]
Interior green wall plants treated with antigibberellin plant growth regulators show controlled stem growth [717d]
Heat to blame for space pebble demise [718d]
Alaska Native tribes take lead on shellfish toxin testing where state falls short [718d]
New cost-effective method can detect low concentrations of pharmaceutical waste and contaminants in water [718d]
New student advisor is an AI bot that designs academic plans, suggests books [718d]
The more, the better? Why market share often has little impact on profits [718d]
New analysis sees spike in 2023 global sea level due to El Niño [718d]
The next antioxidant superfood? Canadian sea buckthorn berries offer diabetes and obesity potential [718d]
Batter up (or not): Pro baseball players with longer contracts don't always work as hard [718d]
White men who experience workplace harassment become allies of diversity efforts [718d]
Q&A: Research reveals tips for making positive first impressions on co-workers, customers and clients [718d]
Team proposes using AI to reconstruct particle paths leading to new physics [718d]
Recreating development in a petri dish to understand how plants live [718d]
Seven billion newly hatched chicks are killed every year—but a ban is not the solution, says study [718d]
A new way to quantify climate change impacts: 'Outdoor days' [718d]
Elucidating urban 'ecosystems' and creating regional diversity [718d]
Higher temperatures mean higher food and other prices. A new study links climate shocks to inflation [718d]
Satellite data assimilation improves forecasts of severe weather [718d]
Scientists create novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes [718d]
Shakespeare's sister: Digital archives reveal hidden insights into world-famous playwright's unknown sibling [718d]
Why are Americans fighting over no-fault divorce? Maybe they can't agree what marriage is for [718d]
Q&A: What happened underground during the Noto Peninsula earthquake? [718d]
Research reveals new starting points for the rapid and targeted development of future drugs [718d]
It's time to study lunar lava tubes. Here's a mission that could help [718d]
Research challenges 'universal mechanism' concept, aiming to understand specific protein interactions [718d]
The Mars science helicopter could be an airborne geologist on Mars [718d]
Harnessing computational intelligence for 3D modeling of maize canopies [718d]
High speed protein movies to aid drug design [718d]
In a first, team identifies mysterious exporter for brassinosteroid plant hormone [718d]
Advertising drives online gambling among young Australians [718d]
Rose essential oil: A safe pesticide for organic agriculture [718d]
Two keys needed to crack three locks for better engineered blood vessels [718d]
A product that kills agricultural pests is also deadly to native Pacific Northwest snail [718d]
Decoding the plant world's complex biochemical communication networks [718d]
The US may catch a spring break on weather. Forecasters see minimal flooding and drought for spring [718d]
'How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?': Research reveals what Australian kids want to know [718d]
New research shows unintended harms of organic farming [718d]
Japan's space agency says it hopes to forge a profitable launch business with its new H3 rocket [718d]
Russia's space agency aborts launch of 3 astronauts to the International Space Station; all are safe [718d]
New rice variety adapted to suit conditions in Madagascar—improved phosphorus absorption and increased zinc content [718d]
In a first, evolutionary biologists have identified a gene that influences visual preferences in tropical butterflies [718d]
Parrots love playing tablet games, and it's helping researchers understand them [718d]
Secrets of the Van Allen belt revealed in new study [718d]
Mumpreneurs: A growing entrepreneurial force in Chinese society [718d]
How do halibut migrate? Clues are in their ear bones [718d]
Salt marshes put to the test in wave flume [718d]
Study suggests millions are at risk using high arsenic water for cooking [718d]
Young African students in Australia call out racial stereotypes [718d]
Uncovering the ripple effects of the climate crisis [718d]
Female legislators at forefront of shaping gun legislation in the US [718d]
Astronomers confirm a new 'Trojan' asteroid that shares an orbit with Mars [718d]
Hubble finds that aging brown dwarfs grow lonely [718d]
'Courtship' gene shows different effects in two fruit fly species [718d]
Scientists investigate how cerium is produced in the universe [718d]
NASA's Chandra identifies an underachieving black hole [718d]
Examining the evolutionary history of the formation of forceps and maternal care in earwigs [718d]
High-efficiency hollow-core optical fiber cable for medical procedures [718d]
Scientists collaborate to study the cause and development of liver abscesses in cattle [718d]
Bridging the lexical divide: Unified approach to combat plant invasions in Australia [718d]
Method to detect dark matter could lead to a better understanding of galaxy evolution [718d]
Chance sighting reveals new species of fluffy beetle [718d]
New islands won't help those made homeless by sea-level rise [718d]
Coalescence-fragmentation cycles based on human conflict [718d]
England's rural housing crisis could be solved by fixing land prices and bringing land into public ownership [718d]
10 million animals die on our roads each year—here's what works (and what doesn't) to cut the toll [718d]
DNA attached to nanoparticles found to contribute to lupus symptoms [718d]
Conspiracy theorists seem to favor an intuitive thinking style—here's why that's important [718d]
The outpouring of grief in New York over Flaco the owl's death [718d]
How a balloon-borne experiment can do the job of the Hubble space telescope [718d]

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