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Scientific American

Is lettuce safe to eat yet? New data suggest cyclosporiasis cases are slowing [2d]
Why tornadoes touched down near New York City [2d]
Why this El Niño will be the largest in living memory [2d]
What you need to know about West Nile virus [2d]

Quanta Magazine

‘Huge Breakthrough’ in the Math of Imbalance [2d]

New Scientist

‘Off the charts’ El Niño is already the strongest since records began [2d]
Greenland meltwater is intensifying European heatwaves [2d]
Burns improve more rapidly after treatment with fish skin [2d]
Super El Niño could lead to mega CO2 emissions from Indonesian fires [2d]

ScienceDaily

Queen bees have a disturbing way to survive pesticides [1d]
Tooth count may predict survival after pancreatic cancer surgery [2d]
Archaeologists discover mysterious 400-year-old Indigenous pot in Florida [2d]
This gut microbe may help keep you strong as you age [2d]

Phys

Bipartisan majorities in US favor banning glyphosate [2d]
Soccer ticket crackdowns and price hikes are excluding traditional fans [2d]
Hydrogel platform uses vitamin B2 and blue light to simplify living tissue models [2d]
Climate change could triple the price of wheat [2d]
Your high school friends may shape whether you become an entrepreneur decades later [2d]
Complex odors prove easier to map than expected with machine learning [2d]
Laser-cut aluminum foil could replace costly terahertz polarizers [2d]
Scientists map hair follicle formation in spacetime, advancing understanding of how organs develop [2d]
Inside the race to prepare cities for extreme heat [2d]
Iron hydride enters an exotic state of matter under Earth's inner-core conditions [2d]
New Monte Carlo method accelerates simulations of densely entangled polymer melts [2d]
Realistic solid-state model brings fractons in quantum spin liquids closer to detection [2d]
New ROOT method charts a path to reversing biological changes once thought irreversible [2d]
Hidden chemical pathway could keep phosphorus from fueling lake algal blooms [2d]
Ocean plankton reveal sugar-for-nutrients partnership that sustains life in barren seas [2d]
UK forecasts 'biggest' El Nino will smash records, spark hottest year [2d]
First 15 days of egg development may determine survival for California's most endangered salmon [2d]
Autonomous ship operators' liability remains unclear during oil spills [2d]
Thunderquakes enable seismic imaging of Earth's shallow subsurface [2d]
Shipwrecks from WWI and WWII are polluting the North Sea [2d]
Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents [2d]
Company mergers can cut costs without cutting prices for consumers, study finds [2d]
Patience predicts longer education paths and faster earnings growth, real-money experiment finds [2d]
LHC collisions reveal oxygen and neon's shifting nuclear geometry [2d]
When 'but they're your family' isn't reason enough to stay [2d]
Twenty years and 7,500 fossils reveal what blurs Earth's marine fossil record [2d]
The framing of nature changes how kids respond to environmental education [2d]
Scientists uncover environmental cues behind black bear hibernation [2d]
Stellar eruptions in the laboratory: First experimental evidence for their suppression in strong magnetic fields [2d]
Young people who pass through youth justice die at six times the rate of their peers [2d]
Mapping Indonesian seagrass quality to target blue carbon conservation [2d]
Stellar spin may explain why repeated black hole flares grow dimmer [2d]

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