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Scientific American

Heat Waves May Be Slow, but They Are Just as Destructive as Faster Disasters [984d]
Trying to Train Your Brain Faster? Knowing This Might Help With That [984d]
How Hurricanes Jova and Lee Rapidly Exploded into Category 5 Storms [984d]
How Hurricanes Jova and Lee Rapidly Exploded into Category 5 Storms [984d]
'Weird' Dinosaur Prompts Rethink of Bird Evolution [985d]
What Does It 'Feel' Like to Be a Chatbot? [985d]

Quanta Magazine

The Biggest Smallest Triangle Just Got Smaller [985d]

New Scientist

Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold [984d]
Covid-19 linked to elevated risk of type 1 diabetes in young children [984d]
Why it's a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon [985d]
Mathematicians find 12,000 solutions for fiendish three-body problem [985d]

ScienceDaily

Study reveals human destruction of global floodplains [984d]
Table salt could be the secret ingredient for better chemical recycling [984d]
These worms have rhythm [985d]
'Brainless' robot can navigate complex obstacles [985d]
Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater [985d]
What do neurons, fireflies and dancing the Nutbush have in common? [985d]
Benchtop NMR spectroscopy can accurately analyse pyrolysis oils [985d]
Contours that kill: Geometry influences prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants [985d]
Study hints at the existence of the closest black holes to Earth in the Hyades star cluster [985d]
New study highlights feasibility and optimization of ammonia-based power generation for carbon neutrality [985d]
Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution [985d]
A guide to Big Team Science creates a blueprint for research collaboration on a large scale [985d]
Valleytronics: Innovative way to store and process information up to room temperature [985d]
Exercise-induced hormone irisin may reduce Alzheimer's disease plaque and tangle pathology in the brain [985d]

Phys

Almost 50 people missing after deadly Brazil cyclone [985d]
These worms have rhythm: New imaging technique to observe active gene expression in real time [985d]
Virgin Galactic notches fourth spaceflight in four months [985d]
How trees influence cloud formation [985d]
Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to impact Kansas City's air quality. What do monitors show? [985d]
Refining biome labeling for microbial community samples [985d]
Scientists study distributed satellite cluster laser networking algorithm with double-layer Markov DRL architecture [985d]
Why S-linked glycosylation cannot adequately mimic the role of natural O-glycosylation [985d]
COVID mutates rapidly in white-tailed deer, but here's why we don't need to worry—for now [985d]
World falling dangerously short of climate goals: UN [985d]
Why managers' attempts to empower their employees often fail—and even lead to unethical behavior [985d]
Delightfully strange: Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor [985d]
DART had a surprising impact on its target, according to recent observations [985d]
SpaceX can't launch its giant rocket again until fixes are made, FAA says [985d]
Investigating why crowdfunding does not work well for social impact initiatives [985d]
Experts explain how diamonds are grown in a lab [985d]
Satellite texts help when farm advisors unavailable [985d]
New behavioral system mapping shows key consumer behaviors needed to achieve a circular economy [985d]
How to make color-changing 'Transformers' with polymers [985d]
Researchers reveal the hidden world of Toronto's urban predators, and their prey [985d]
The secret life of brain worms [985d]
Wild boar in a Hungarian forest may be key to protecting Europe's pig herds [985d]
Australia's labor laws need updating now that remote work is here to stay, says professor [985d]
New research debunks the gender pay gap myth that 'women don't ask' [985d]
Aotearoa's kelp forests at risk, study shows [985d]
The first climate strikes had an influence on Swiss residents, study finds [985d]
Synthesis of nanoparticles by microorganisms: Exploring the green power of fungi [985d]
Chimpanzees are not pets, no matter what social media tells you [985d]
Death and mourning in Ghana: How gender shapes the rituals of the Akan people [985d]
Heat waves are hitting Antarctica too now [985d]
Determining the causes of the 1931 Yangtze River Deluge [985d]

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