NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 19, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW

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NATURE MAGAZINE (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Food Forecast’ – How climate change and adaptation could affect global agriculture…

Minuscule worms form living towers to hunt for food

Scientists observe the nematode’s behaviour in the wild for the first time.

Hungry caterpillars can brew exotic molecules in their guts

Researchers fed moth larvae the chemical building blocks, and the insects’ enzymes did the rest.

A cancer-causing mutation meets its match

In mice, engineered immune cells shrink pancreatic and other tumours bearing a mutant version of the KRAS protein.

A long-predicted cosmic collision might not happen after all

The pull of a third galaxy could yank the Milky Way out of the path of Andromeda.

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 26, 2025 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features Joan Didion on the couch; Ocean Vuong’s Failure; The Best-Paid Woman in NYC and Olga Turner Tokarczuk and the mycological turn….

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss


The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 per Cent 
by Conor Niland

The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey

The Roger Federer Effect: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives by Simon Cambers and Simon Graf

Searching for Novak: The Man behind the Enigma by Mark Hodgkinson

Harper’s Magazine ——- July 2025 Preview

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE (June 18, 2025): The July issue includes Andrew Kay’s report on how OCD came to haunt American life, Lewis Hyde’s essay on deep time and climate change, Pete McKenzie’s investigation into how a band of island nations in the South Pacific became Israel’s staunchest defenders, Alex Reisner’s annotation of the system prompt for Elon Musk’s AI Grok, Lydia Davis’s essay on the art of observation, Charlie Lee’s review of Harry Crews’s oeuvre, fiction from C. Mallon, and more.

Shadow of a Doubt

How OCD came to haunt American life by Andrew Kay

Lost Tribes of the South Pacific

How a band of island nations became Israel’s staunchest defenders by Pete McKenzie

The Geological Sublime

Butterflies, deep time, and climate change by Lewis Hyde

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 20, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 18, 2025): In this week’s TLS, Mary Beard and Margaret Drabble are not quite getting away from it all this summer. For our summer books selection, they have picked a brace of biographies of Labour prime ministers past and present. Along with Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent translation of the Odyssey, our Classics editor chooses Alan Johnson’s biography of Harold Wilson, her mother’s favourite politician. By Martin Ivens

Summer books 2025

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

Young and damned

Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching

THE NEW YORK TIMES – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2025

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Threatens ‘Irreparable Damage’ if U.S. Joins War

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected President Trump’s call for an “unconditional surrender” as signs grew that the U.S. was considering joining Israel’s bombardment of Iran.

War Reflects a Changed Middle East and a New Israeli Military Doctrine

For years, Israel contained its conflicts with Tehran, Hamas and Hezbollah. The broad assault on Iran highlights a shift in strategy.

Trump’s Conflicting Messages on Workplace Raids Leave Businesses Reeling

Administration officials insist that President Trump is committed to mass deportations, even as he has offered a reprieve to certain businesses.