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Scientific American

Climate Change Could Stump AI Weather Prediction [768d]
Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own [768d]
Who Was Alessandra Giliani, 14th Century Teen Anatomist? [768d]
AI Is an Existential Threat--Just Not the Way You Think [768d]
How My Mother's Dementia Showed Me Another Side of Neurodiversity [768d]
How the Brain Creates Your Physical Sense of Self [768d]
Could New Weight-Loss Drugs like Ozempic Treat Addiction? [768d]
Could New Weight-Loss Drugs like Ozempic Treat Addiction? [768d]

Quanta Magazine

In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land [768d]
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart? [768d]

New Scientist

Bone disease in sabre-toothed tigers may be a sign of inbreeding [768d]
'Superbubbles' of gas around quasars may form thanks to powerful winds [768d]
Malaria vaccine shows promise against relapsing form of the disease [768d]
People think drugs like Wegovy are a quick fix. So what if they are? [768d]
The Bathysphere Book review: Amazing story of the first deep-sea dives [768d]
Social media brings benefits as well as risks to young people [768d]
The stunningly simple rule that will always get you out of a maze [768d]
Does oil-rich Saudi Arabia really want to mend its ways and go green? [768d]
Dark Matter review: The amazing story of the microbial world inside us [768d]
See the garden blooming in a 'super sewer' deep below London [768d]
Cerebrum review: An enigmatic slice of sci-fi horror [768d]
Record-breaking number of qubits entangled in a quantum computer [768d]
Coral reefs are contaminated with plastic from fishing [768d]
The oceans are getting greener because of climate change [768d]
Quantum twist on common computer algorithm promises useful speed boost [768d]
Life’s hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work [768d]
Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops [768d]
JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image [768d]
Birds from two different species raise chicks together in one nest [768d]
Do psychedelics treat chronic pain or is it the placebo effect? [768d]
Discovery of wrinkle-causing molecules could lead to new cosmetics [768d]
The 8 most dazzling images from JWST’s first year of science [768d]
Some sea snakes have re-evolved the ability to see more colours [768d]
Early humans made jewellery from giant sloth bones [768d]

ScienceDaily

New talking therapy for depression could be more effective and cheaper than CBT [768d]
Butterfly species' big brains adapted giving them a survival edge, study finds [768d]
Fungi blaze a trail to fireproof cladding [768d]
Artificially grown 'mini-brains' without animal components bring opportunities for neuroscience [768d]
Social isolation linked to lower brain volume [768d]
Could drops replace eye injections for retina disease? [768d]
Marine fossils unearth story about Panama's deep past [768d]
Juggling multiple young children hinders vigorous physical activity for parents [768d]
Oral medication is the leading choice for multiple sclerosis treatment [768d]
Hidden details of Egyptian paintings revealed by chemical imaging [768d]
Study quantifies long term trends in childlessness and infertility treatment [768d]
Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves suffered from diseased joints [768d]
Neutering practices for owned UK cats significantly influence feral, stray populations [768d]
Surgical and engineering innovations enable unprecedented control over every finger of a bionic hand [768d]
Robot team on lunar exploration tour [768d]
How larger body sizes helped the colonizers of New Zealand [768d]
Could AI-powered robot 'companions' combat human loneliness? [768d]
Salinity changes threatening marine ecosystems [768d]
Bacterium associated with disease found in NC chiggers [768d]
Generative AI 'fools' scientists with artificial data, bringing automated data analysis closer [768d]
Eliminating public health scourge can also benefit agriculture [768d]
Researchers uncover signal needed for blood-brain barrier [768d]
Researchers pinpoint protein tied to drug resistance in patients with lung cancer [768d]
Webb celebrates first year of science with close-up on birth of sun-like stars [768d]
Air pollution particles may be cause of dramatic drop in global insect numbers [768d]
Sex lives of orchids reads like science fiction [768d]
Why people who have Down's Syndrome age prematurely [768d]
Researchers visualize activity of CRISPR genetic scissors [768d]
Gut bacteria linked to fatty deposits in heart arteries [768d]
New mechanism for rapid evolution of multi-drug resistant infections in patients [768d]
Gulf War illness caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, not inflammation [768d]
Chemists develop reaction cascade to produce fluorinated molecules [768d]
Historical medicine suggests a new way to use modern treatments [768d]
One third of normal-weight individuals are obese, according to study based on body fat percentage [768d]
People generalize expectations of pain to conceptually related tasks [768d]
A step toward treating chemotherapy-resistant prostate cancer [768d]
A new tactic to take on leprosy [768d]
Ohio train derailment, clean-up resulted in high levels of some gases, study shows [768d]
The good advice that could lift people out of poverty [768d]
Belief in animals' capacity for emotion linked to better health and welfare [768d]
Towards crack-resistant nanoparticle-based latex films [768d]
Alarmingly high PFAS levels in the populations of Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark and the UK [768d]
Physicists work to prevent information loss in quantum computing [768d]
Key improvements to Parkinson's disease cell therapies [768d]
DNA element with a murky past is borrowing cell's repair machinery [768d]
Plastic pollution on coral reefs increases with depth and mostly comes from fishing activities [768d]
Mast cells as a sensor: Enigmatic immune cells help us avoid harmful allergens [768d]
Detailed map of the heart provides new insights into cardiac health and disease [768d]
Global study details microplastics contamination in lakes and reservoirs [768d]
A foundation that fits just right gives superconducting nickelates a boost [768d]
New study reveals evidence of diverse organic material on Mars [768d]
New radar technique lets scientists probe invisible ice sheet region on Earth and icy worlds [768d]
How the immune system can alter our behavior [768d]
Warmer ocean temperatures increase risk of salmon bycatch in Pacific hake fishery [768d]
The ocean's color is changing as a consequence of climate change [768d]
Tiny fish surprise scientists in 'volunteer's dilemma' [768d]
Bound states in the continuum is possible in the acoustoelastic coupling [768d]
Supercomputer used to simulate winds that cause clear air turbulence [768d]
Pre-operative exercise substantially helps with recovery [768d]

Phys

Researchers invent trap for capturing and comparing individual bacterial cells [767d]

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