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Scientific American

Study Suggests COVID Pandemic May Have Aged Everyone’s Brain [78d]
Two Vaquita Calves Offer Flicker of Hope for Most Endangered Porpoises on Earth [78d]
AI Decodes Visual Brain Activity—and Writes Captions for It [78d]
An Opera Explores the Story of Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA [78d]
Ancient Roman Roads Mapped in Detail from Great Britain to North Africa [78d]
Black Hole ‘Superflare’ Is the Strongest Ever Seen [78d]
Alarm Grows over Proposed Giant Mirrors in Orbit and Other Commercial Space Plans [78d]
Ozempic and Wegovy May Slow Alcohol Absorption and Intoxication [78d]

Quanta Magazine

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New Scientist

A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a completely unexpected way [78d]
Digital map lets you explore the Roman Empire's vast road network [78d]

ScienceDaily

Mini llama proteins show promise for Alzheimer’s treatment [78d]
Common acne drug may protect against schizophrenia [78d]

Phys

Agriculture in Brazil: How land-use choices affect biodiversity and the global climate [78d]
The secret life of baobabs: How bats and moths keep Africa's giant trees alive [78d]
What 50 years of buried data tell us about Canada's mining oversight [78d]
Researchers introduce a new tool for more accurate RNA modification detection from nanopore signals [78d]
Populist parties choose divisive issues on purpose, researchers say [78d]
ESA's HydroGNSS Scout satellites ready for launch [78d]
Plush neuron makes AI approachable, simplifies neural networks for middle schoolers [78d]
Student-built CubeSat to study solar wind and space weather from orbit [78d]
Woodpeckers grunt and brace their bodies like athletes to maximize drilling power [78d]
Revealing how cells adhere to the surface of plastic scaffolds [78d]
New retrieval method boosts accuracy of open-path infrared gas sensing [78d]
Bureaucracy in agriculture fails to take farmers' traditional knowledge and experience into account: Study [78d]
Functional restoration of the Atlantic Forest: Exploring its limits and proposing alternatives [78d]
Peering inside 3D chaotic microcavities with X-ray vision [78d]
Kinase atlas uncovers hidden layers of cell signaling regulation [78d]
Gyromorphs combine liquid and crystal traits to enhance light-based computers [78d]
Mapping a new frontier with AI-integrated geographic information systems [78d]
Experimental evolution uncovers how bacteria develop drug resistance [78d]
Textbook view of NMDA receptor calcium signals upended by new findings [78d]
Bees and fish exposed to crop chemicals show significant behavioral changes [78d]
Carob leaf and pomegranate peel extracts may help reduce incidence of 'soapy olive' disease [78d]
New deep learning model enhances roadside air pollutant forecasting accuracy [78d]
Three newly discovered toads give birth to live young [78d]
'Hidden' binding pocket in nuclear receptors offers alternative drug targets [78d]
Many factors influence the fate of pharmaceutical residues in the soil [78d]
Sounds modify visual perception: New links between hearing and vision in the rodent brain [78d]
Quantum nonlocality may be inherent in the very nature of identical particles [78d]
What really happened on Easter Island? Ancient sediments rewrite the 'ecocide' story [78d]
Arrival of boll weevils in U.S. South brought long-term benefits for Black sons born afterward [78d]
Quantum 'pinball' state of matter in electrons allows both conducting and insulating properties, physicists discover [78d]
West Coast mammal-eating killer whales are two distinct communities that rarely mix, finds study [78d]
Social identification with a team boosts fans' social well-being [78d]
Breakthrough could connect quantum computers at 200X the distance [78d]
Not-so-model behavior: Popular software tools may give faulty forecasts [78d]
Mathematicians model the menace of mosquitoes [78d]
Illegal shark fin trade persists despite protections [78d]
Asian summer monsoon's unusual role in 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave revealed [78d]
Space dust reveals Arctic ice conditions before satellite imaging [78d]
Physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene [78d]
The enzyme that doesn't act like one: NUDT5 controls DNA building block production through structure, not catalysis [78d]
In the US, Western rivers may be allies in the fight against climate change [78d]
Evolution and human height: Mathematician calculates physical limits to how tall we can grow [78d]
How quantum computers can aid the search for room-temperature superconductors [78d]
How the US cut climate-changing emissions while its economy more than doubled [78d]
A brief history of congressional oversight, from Revolutionary War financing to Pam Bondi [78d]
Why Bill Gates' climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists [78d]
Creating better tools to read our DNA's hidden instructions [78d]
Northern lights may be visible in parts of the US due to solar storms [78d]
Competing rivals can become powerful partners in global markets [78d]
Unraveling water's effect on chitin nanocrystals [78d]
Spain orders poultry indoors as bird flu spreads [78d]
Deer slow can down forest diversity—even in sunny forest gaps [78d]
World must face 'moral failure' of missing 1.5C: UN chief to COP30 [78d]
UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record [78d]
Arizona's Willcox basin is sinking fast due to groundwater extraction [78d]
Brewery waste can be repurposed to make nanoparticles that can fight bacteria [78d]
Cold case solved: Team confirms identity of medieval duke from Árpád and Rurik dynasties [78d]
Access to water has a long racial history in Durban: I followed the story in the city's archives [78d]
Climate change will bring a surge in High Arctic groundwater discharge that will result in contaminant spread [78d]
Older adults share more political misinformation. Here's why. [78d]
Motor protein 'hook' reveals how neurons deliver cargo with precision [78d]
Lessons from Ireland inform US debates on school choice [78d]
New polariton technology could advance thin infrared detectors in various industries [78d]
Compact laser system shows 80% efficiency for ultrashort light pulses is possible [78d]
Wildfire risk making timberland less valuable, long harvest rotations less feasible [78d]
Researchers unite to frame deportations as a national health crisis [78d]

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