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Scientific American

NASA Postpones Spacewalk Just Hours Before Astronauts Were to Exit ISS [11d]
OpenAI Would Like You to Share Your Health Data with Its ChatGPT [11d]
Schmidt Sciences Announces Plan for Lazuli, a Private Space Telescope [11d]
Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought [11d]
The Race to Find Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA Just Took a Major Twist [11d]
RFK, Jr., Upsets Food Pyramid, Urging Americans to Eat More Meat [11d]
Fossil Discovery of New Human Ancestor May Connect Us to Neandertals and Denisovans [11d]
Antarctica Doomsday Glacier Rattled by Hundreds of Iceberg Earthquakes [11d]
Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil. Why Does It Have So Much? [11d]

Quanta Magazine

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality [11d]

New Scientist

Weight regain seems to occur within 2 years of stopping obesity drugs [11d]
Hunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 years ago in Africa [11d]
Making autism into a partisan issue can only be harmful [11d]
Why my 2026 fitness resolution is all about getting mobile [11d]
The science-fiction films to look forward to in 2026 [11d]
I'm calling it – 2026 is going to be the year of the galaxy [11d]
These images explore a 'utopic' village built for teaching maths [11d]
Why connecting with nature shouldn't mean disconnecting from science [11d]
The best new science-fiction shows of 2026 [11d]
Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestors of modern humans [11d]
Super-low-density worlds reveal how common planetary systems form [11d]
How rethinking your relationship with time could give you more of it [11d]

ScienceDaily

Something was pumping enormous energy into a young galaxy cluster [11d]
A new study casts doubt on life beneath Europa’s ice [11d]
Less than a trillionth of a second: Ultrafast UV light could transform communications and imaging [11d]
Physicists built a perfect conductor from ultracold atoms [11d]
These mesmerizing patterns are secretly solving hard problems [11d]
What looked like a planet was actually a massive space collision [11d]

Phys

Bio-inspired nanochannels provide experimental evidence for uncovering brain memory mechanisms [11d]
Expert warns venture capital's push for 'hypergrowth' puts tenants at risk [11d]
Global terrestrial biodiversity hotspots are in 'land use debt,' study finds [11d]
Why does mint make water taste so cold? A scientist explains [11d]
Combining ecological restoration with climate-resilient agriculture to tackle desertification [11d]
As Australia bakes through an extreme heat wave, even insects aren't immune to its impact [11d]
UK consumers may be ready to swap salmon for sprats and sardines [11d]
Zombie fungi and 'bloodstained' orchids: Top plant and fungal species named new to science in 2025 [11d]
Dogs' dinners can have greater climate impact than those of their owners [11d]
Families reveal harsh reality of prison visits [11d]
Solar physicists discover long-hidden source of gamma rays unleashed by flares [11d]
THz spectroscopy system bypasses long-standing tradeoff between spectral and spatial resolution [11d]
Warming winters and storm-driven dispersal facilitate northward mangrove expansion along the US Atlantic coast [11d]
The mechanical ratchet: A new mechanism of cell division [11d]
Plasma rings around M dwarf stars offer new clues to planetary habitability [11d]
New tool narrows the search for ideal metal organic frameworks [11d]
AI tool can take a cattle's temperature with only a photo [11d]
Optics research uses dim light to produce bright LEDs [11d]
Engineers create water-saving sand layer to improve plant resilience during drought [11d]
Snow's compressibility acts as avalanche crumple zone [11d]
Overlooked molecule points to new treatments for drug-resistant fungal infections [11d]
Creating psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocks [11d]
Synchronizing ultrashort X-ray pulses for attosecond precision [11d]
Chasing ghost plumes: How underwater drones captured the secret 48-hour countdown to algal blooms [11d]
Pocketbook realities reshape Americans' commitment to democratic ideals [11d]
Forests under climate stress: Why trees are growing less despite an early start [11d]
Swinging abyss: Oxygen isotope analysis shows less dynamic Antarctic ice sheet in Oligocene period [11d]
Unearthing experimental materials data buried in scientific papers using LLMs [11d]
AI boosts bird sound identification accuracy [11d]
Image: Lightning from above [11d]
Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life [11d]
Vera C. Rubin Observatory spots record-breaking asteroid in pre-survey observations [11d]
Flexible material mimics octopus skin with nanoscale color and texture transformations [11d]
Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice sheets [11d]
North Pacific winter storm tracks shifting poleward much faster than predicted [11d]
Ribosomal engineering creates 'super-probiotic' bacteria with enhanced immune activation [11d]
How rice viruses manipulate plant defenses to protect insect vectors [11d]
Urban atmosphere acts as primary reservoir of microplastics, researchers find [11d]
Earth's early sponges were soft: Scientists close fossil record gap [11d]
Understanding the role of linear ubiquitination in T-tubule biogenesis [11d]
60,000-year-old traces of world's oldest arrow poison reveal early advanced hunting techniques [11d]
A Namib desert beetle runs to stay cool: How scientists solved the puzzle of this unique and speedy species [11d]
Snowflake-like emergence phenomenon discovered in metal nanocrystals [11d]
New evidence for a particle system that 'remembers' its previous quantum states [11d]
Making the invisible visible: Space particles become observable through handheld invention [11d]
Simulation model provides accurate assessment of urban spread, residual risks of chemical warfare agents [11d]
Think society is in decline? Research gives us some reasons to be cheerful [11d]
What I've learned from studying the wild pigeon [11d]
Sulfolobus islandicus: Expanding the genetic toolkit for drug delivery and biotechnology applications [11d]
A case of mistaken identity: Mammoth fossils from Alaska turn out to belong to two ancient whales [11d]
Sahel farmers do better when they combine innovations rather than using them one by one [11d]
Measures of academic value overlook African scholars who make a local impact: Study [11d]
Marine geoscientists link warming with ancient ocean 'salty blob' [11d]
How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife [11d]
Risks young chimps take as they swing through the trees underscore role of protective parenting in humans [11d]
Researchers develop electricity-free chlorine production from brines [11d]

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