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Scientific American

‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts [223d]
Texas Floods Were a Known Risk, but Little Has Been Done for Protection [223d]
Japan’s New Undersea Earthquake Detection System Will Improve Tsunami Prediction [223d]
ChatGPT And Gemini AI Have Uniquely Different Writing Styles [223d]
Tracking Coral Reef Health with Bioacoustics [223d]

Quanta Magazine

Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies [223d]

New Scientist

Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations [223d]
Stunningly intimate octopus image wins aquatic photography prize [223d]
The unexpected benefits of wall squats and other isometric exercises [223d]
Will we ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks? [223d]
Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies [223d]
Is this the raciest conference invite ever? [223d]
Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic [223d]
The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it? [223d]
Slay the new slang: check out a guide to social media’s baffling lingo [223d]
Foundation's new season has dramatic potential – but sadly falls flat [223d]

ScienceDaily

Why monkeys—and humans—can’t look away from social conflict [223d]
This muscle supplement could rewire the brain—and now scientists can deliver it [223d]
Doctors say we’ve been misled about weight and health [223d]
Matching your workouts to your personality could make exercising more enjoyable and give you better results [223d]
The sleep-heart link doctors are urging women over 45 to know [223d]
Scientists just recreated a 1938 experiment that could rewrite fusion history [223d]
Astronomers Catch Planets in the Act of Being Born [223d]
Ice in a million-degree Fermi bubble reveals the Milky Way’s recent eruption [223d]
Hidden DNA-sized crystals in cosmic ice could rewrite water—and life itself [223d]

Phys

Agricultural liming in the US is a large CO₂ sink, say researchers [223d]
The psychological and neurological parallels between sports fandom and religious devotion [223d]
Rock art hints at the origins of Egyptian kings [223d]
Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought [223d]
Thirty years of research shows increased resistance in fungi [223d]
Was Caligula a madman? Maybe. But he also knew his medicine, scholars find [223d]
Orange is the new aphrodisiac—for guppies [223d]
How bacteria grow: Evolutionary differences point to new ways to combat infection [223d]
Finding primordial black holes using the Legacy Survey of Space and Time will be a statistical challenge [223d]
Merger and acquisition dealmakers can ride out the geo-political storm, study suggests [223d]

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