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Scientific American

Brain Structure That Filters Consciousness Identified [309d]
Whooping Cough Killed Two Children. Here’s How to Protect Kids [309d]
Utah’s Decision to Ban Fluoride Is a Bad Move for Kids [309d]
Google DeepMind Taught Itself to Play Minecraft [309d]
Tornado Damage Surveys Are a Crucial Tool for Understanding These Dangerous Storms [309d]
FEMA to Halt Billions in Grants for Disaster Protection, Internal Memo Says [309d]
Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies [309d]
The Kakeya Conjecture, a Decades-Old Math Problem, Is Solved in Three Dimensions [310d]

Quanta Magazine

How a Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory [309d]

New Scientist

AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia [309d]
Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their siblings eating them [309d]
Largest ever US honeybee die-off has destroyed 1.6 million colonies [309d]
Wind farm developers are worried about neighbours stealing their wind [309d]
Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the US's public health [309d]

ScienceDaily

Mechanistic understanding could enable better fast-charging batteries [309d]
No bones about it: New details about skeletal cell aging revealed [309d]
New research boosts future whooping cough vaccines [309d]
An antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission [309d]
Researchers reveal why young plants may be more vulnerable to disease [309d]
Best methods for growing Atlantic sea scallops [309d]
Researchers improve chemical reaction that underpins products from foods to fuels [309d]
Oxygen is running low in inland waters, and humans are to blame [309d]
Planetary health diet and Mediterranean diet associated with similar survival and sustainability benefits [309d]
Hot Schrödinger cat states created [309d]
How cells repair their power plants [309d]
Novel genomic screening tool enables precision reverse-engineering of genetic programming in cells [310d]
Signs identified that precede sudden arrhythmic death syndrome in young people [310d]
Century-old clues reveal hidden threat to Australian songbird [310d]
A Leap in viral research: More sensitive viral RNA detection [310d]
Molecular stool test could improve detection of tuberculosis in adults with HIV [310d]
Suspected fibrocartilaginous embolus in Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) [310d]
Astronomers discover doomed pair of spiralling stars on our cosmic doorstep [310d]
Soil conditions significantly increase rainfall in world's megastorm hotspots [310d]
NK cells complexed with bispecific antibody yield high response rates in patients with lymphoma [310d]
Exception to laws of thermodynamics [310d]
Discovery of bacteria's defense against viruses becomes a piece of the puzzle against resistance [310d]
How can science benefit from AI? Risks? [310d]
Fear of rejection influences how children conform to peers [310d]
Polymers with flawed fillers boost heat transfer in plastics [310d]
Outdoor time and multisport activities develop children's motor competence [310d]
Artificial intelligence has potential to aid physician decisions during virtual urgent care [310d]
How a small number of mutations can fuel outbreaks of western equine encephalitis virus [310d]
Exposure to wildfire smoke linked with worsening mental health conditions [310d]
Research uncovers hidden spread of one of the most common hospital-associated infections [310d]
Pancreatic cells 'remember' epigenetic precancerous marks without genetic sequence mutations [310d]

Phys

Research shows Democrats trust doctors more than Republicans post-pandemic [309d]
Hot Schrödinger cat states created [309d]
Oxygen is running low in inland waters—and human activities are to blame [309d]
Battle of the sex chromosomes: How competition affects X vs. Y sperm fitness [310d]
Drone and camera combo offers affordable drought-tolerance selection for corn [310d]
Air pollution and extreme heat increase mortality in India [310d]
The world's most powerful ocean current could slow by 2050 [310d]
Planarian worms can regenerate into a more youthful version of themselves [310d]
Mathematicians uncover the hidden patterns behind a $3.5 billion cryptocurrency collapse [310d]
Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles [310d]
Image: A chance alignment in Lupus [310d]
Research suggests attacks on higher ed part of a 'political playbook' since the Civil Rights Movement [310d]
Hubble spots star cluster NGC 346 [310d]
Expert warns of misinterpretations in AI-generated research hypotheses [310d]
Beyond photorespiration: A systematic approach to unlocking enhanced plant productivity [310d]
Label-free fluorosensor detects enteroviral RNA with high selectivity and sensitivity [310d]
Ancient lakes and rivers unearthed in Arabia's vast desert [310d]
Iron nitride's magnetoelastic properties show potential for flexible spintronics [310d]
How do diverse plants get sick in the wild? Researchers head outdoors to answer a blue-sky question [310d]
Bacteria's viral defense mechanism linked to antibiotic resistance [310d]

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