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Scientific American

Ocean Acidification Threshold Pushes Earth Past Another Planetary Boundary [319d]
What is Knot Theory? Solve These Puzzles to Find Out [319d]
How Can Galaxies Recede from Us Faster Than the Speed of Light? [319d]
An Anechoic Chamber at Nokia Bell Labs Reveals the Hidden Sounds of Your Body [319d]

Quanta Magazine

How One AI Model Creates a Physical Intuition of Its Environment [319d]

New Scientist

Your happiness in life may not be U-shaped - here's how it could vary [319d]
There is an odd streak in the universe – and we still don’t know why [319d]
Exceptional star is the most pristine object known in the universe [319d]
20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call [319d]
Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms to solve problems [319d]
Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society science book prize [319d]
Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain [319d]
Our verdict on ‘The Dispossessed’: A tricky but rewarding novel [319d]

ScienceDaily

A tiny detector could unveil gravitational waves we’ve never seen before [318d]
Rogue planet spotted devouring 6 billion tons every second [318d]
Fat may secretly fuel Alzheimer’s, new research finds [319d]
The invisible chemical in the air that could be raising Parkinson’s risk [319d]
Scientists just cracked the mystery of why cancer immunotherapy fails [319d]
Scientists uncover a mysterious Jurassic lizard with snake-like jaws [319d]
A flu test you can chew [319d]
Japan’s hot springs hold clues to the origins of life on Earth [319d]
Millions could be living with hidden smell loss after COVID without knowing [319d]
The Moon’s far side is hiding a chilling secret [319d]

Phys

Molecular coating cleans up noisy quantum light [319d]
Computational tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis [319d]
First wolf-dog hybrid confirmed in Greece [319d]
Accelerated Gulf of Maine warming may pose a serious threat to American lobsters [319d]
Why some human GII.4 noroviruses are better than others at infecting cells [319d]
Energy harvesters surpass Carnot efficiency using non-thermal electron states [319d]
Novel method for controlling Faraday rotation in conductive polymers [319d]
Ultra-thin sodium films offer low-cost alternative to gold and silver in optical technologies [319d]
Neolithic Chinese culture artifacts show systematic human bone modification [319d]
New telescope cuts through space noise in hunt for distant Earth-like worlds [319d]

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