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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]
‘Earth-like’ exoplanets may exist—but we don’t know of any yet [2d]
The national debt is $40 trillion. What does that mean mathematically? [2d]
What happened when people with anorexia tried magic mushrooms [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]
How long could we possibly live? A new estimate is mind-boggling [2d]

ScienceDaily

Queen bees have a disturbing way to survive pesticides [1d]
Tooth count may predict survival after pancreatic cancer surgery [1d]
Archaeologists discover mysterious 400-year-old Indigenous pot in Florida [1d]
This gut microbe may help keep you strong as you age [2d]
3 minutes of sprinting does something 90 minutes of exercise does not [2d]
Scientists catch a hidden electronic state forming in just 30 femtoseconds [2d]
This weight-loss hormone may protect the liver even without weight loss [2d]
AI may know how you’ll respond to a vaccine before you get it [2d]
2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals ancient waterproofing secrets [2d]
A simple at-home test could cut colorectal cancer death risk by 43% [2d]
A strange new quantum droplet can hold itself together [2d]
Hidden magnetism inside atoms may explain mysterious gamma rays [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]
Shark DNA could hold answers to how we age [2d]
More than half of adults in US say they lack basic statistical understanding [2d]
Study finds women build strong workplace friendships than men [2d]
Lab-grown brain models gain a sense of place [2d]
After a wildfire, Britain's moors and heaths can be green again within weeks—but the real recovery takes much longer [2d]
We're building a New York‑sized city every month. That's worrying for our climate [2d]
Breaking up of swan families in winter disrupts spring migration [2d]
Antarctic krill fishing is now concentrated in the exact pattern conservation rules were designed to prevent [2d]
Quantum dots keep their glow under heat after dual modification [2d]
'Rainbow-on-a-chip' could help unlock 6G networks and precision timing for quantum technologies [2d]
Women in politics face more personal, sexualized attacks than men, a recent analysis shows [2d]
New solar system models show Earth is no fluke [2d]
Blood-camouflaged nanoparticles defeat drug-resistant breast tumors in mouse model [2d]
Q&A: How Brown University is navigating the rise of generative AI use in the classroom [2d]
What dandelions and bees can teach us about our responsibilities to the natural world [2d]
Interplanetary spacecraft capture a coronal mass ejection component hidden from Earth [2d]
Forest service detects emerald ash borer in 5 additional counties [2d]
Leaving abusive relationships can be harder for migrant women. Here's what they need to feel safe [2d]
China is launching a moon mission to find water ice [2d]
Ph.D. student's forensic review highlights need for standardized bloodstain pattern classification [2d]
Archaeologists uncover 11 rare marked arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik whose purpose remains a mystery [2d]
What comes after fire? What forests need to survive in a warming world [2d]
Spinach peptide discovery leads to citrus greening treatment [2d]
What a record-breaking El Niño could mean for the world [2d]
Seeing the unseen: A new tool visualizes hidden structures in complex biological data [2d]
Pioneering cancer treatment saves python named Jodie Foster: UK zoo [2d]
Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots' flaws [2d]
Panama Canal to reduce shipping over El Niño-fueled drought [2d]

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