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NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 19, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW

Volume 642 Issue 8068

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.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – JULY/AUG 2025

Contributors to Scientific American's July/August 2025 Issue | Scientific  American

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Is Greenland Collapsing?’ – How the Northern Hemisphere’s largest ice sheet could disappear..

What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future

Jeffery DelViscio

Fun Ways to Ditch Fast Fashion for a Sustainable Wardrobe

Jessica Hullinger

How to Be a Smarter Fashion Consumer in a World of Overstated Sustainability

Laila Petrie, Jen Christiansen, Amanda Hobbs

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Yvette Cendes

What Most Men Don’t Know about the Risks of Testosterone Therapy

Stephanie Pappas

What If We Could Treat Psychopathy in Childhood?

Maia Szalavitz

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 13, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features the last male northern white rhino socializes with a southern white rhino. Since his death in 2018, the northern subspecies is functionally extinct after decades of illegal killing for their horns. A study from the Greater Kruger region of South Africa offers some hope for remaining rhino species, proving that dehorning operations can achieve poaching reductions under certain circumstances and in conjunction with other interventions.

How migrating marine megafauna tracks with conservation

Area-based conservation is not sufficient to protect the ocean’s most highly mobile species

Keeping in contact with lithium

Sodium in the lithium anode promotes fast discharge in a solid-state battery

Nanowires replace lost retinal cells

Tellurium nanowire networks could open up new avenues for artificial vision

NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 12, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

Volume 642 Issue 8067

NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Picture Perfect’ – Oil painting restored using computer generated mask…

Solved: the mystery of the evaporating planet

An intimate look at a puffy exoplanet and its nearest star has revealed its tragic destiny.

Clever cockatoos learn an easy way to quench their thirst

Some birds master the fine art of manoeuvring beak, feet and body weight to turn on a tap.

CRISPR helps to show why a boy felt no pain

Mutation in an enzyme leads to resistance to chronic and acute pain, according to research in mice.

‘Missing’ air pollution is tracked to its ephemeral source

Discrepancy between models and measurements is resolved by peering into plumes emitted from power plants and other industrial facilities.

NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 5, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW

Volume 642 Issue 8066

NATURE MAGAZINE (June 4, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Carbon Flow’ – Radioactive archive reveals rivers release ancient carbon into the atmosphere…

How a freezing pond could kick-start life’s self-replication

Freeze–thaw cycles in an icy pond could let an enzyme copy RNA double helices indefinitely — suggesting one way in which evolution could have begun.

The perfect storm for dust storms, thanks to global warming

Climate change is lengthening the gap between snowmelt and vegetation growth.

Forehead ‘e-tattoo’ tracks how hard you’re thinking

Temporary device records eye movement and brain activity to monitor mental strain.

Bed bugs boomed as the world’s first cities did

Genomic evidence suggests that the bloodsuckers might have been among the first urban insect pests.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (June 3, 2025): The special edition issue features ‘Into The Quantum Realm’….

The Secret to the Strongest Force in the Universe

New discoveries demystify the bizarre force that binds atomic nuclei together

Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers Threaten Today’s Secrets. Here’s How to Protect Them

Researchers are racing to create codes so complex that even quantum computers can’t break them

Quantum Weirdness in New Materials Bends the Rules of Physics

Electrons swarm in a soup of quantum entanglement in a new class of materials called strange metals

Nature Magazine – May 29, 2025 – Research Preview

Volume 641 Issue 8065

NATURE MAGAZINE (May 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Flight Path’ – Well preserved Archaeopteryx fossil reveals details birds evolution…

Telescope team reads the fine print — from more than a kilometre away

A pair of telescopes picking up reflected light achieve a performance 14 times better than a single telescope can manage alone.

Explosive volcanoes can bury carbon —a climate boon

Ash spread by violent eruptions in South American sequester carbon in the soil.

What big eyes this whale has — but not the better to see you with

The humpback whale has the whale equivalent of nearsightedness, which puts it at risk of being snarled in fishing gear.

NATURE MAGAZINE – MAY 8, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

Volume 641 Issue 8062

NATURE MAGAZINE (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Relative Gains’ – Complete genome sequences for six ape species offer insights into human evolution…

Storm of seizures in a baby’s brain calms after trial therapy

The treatment, which aimed to block production of a mutant protein, reduced the frequency of infant’s seizures, but did not improve neurological impairments.

Tattoo-making tools used by ancient Maya revealed

The stone fragments had been discovered inside ‘Handprint Cave’ in Belize alongside other artefacts suggestive of ritual use.

One of the world’s richest lithium deposits began inside a mega-volcano

Lithium that pooled in a volcanic caldera in the western United States had no way out, thanks to a lack of rivers.

For these bats, eavesdropping is a valuable learnt skill

Over time, young fringe-lipped bats learn how to distinguish the calls of palatable frogs from those of toxic ones.

Nature Magazine – May 1, 2025 Research Preview

Volume 641 Issue 8061

NATURE MAGAZINE (April 30, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trait Expectations’ – Predicting the functional diversity of tropical forest canopies.

Why US police shootings are so deadly ― and why some police forces do better

Two studies show the extent of gunshot wounds inflicted by police and link certain police-department policies with a lower death toll.

A front-line antiviral drug disappoints against worrisome monkeypox strain

Tecovirimat, which has been approved to treat mpox, was no better than a placebo in a large trial.

Martian rock hints at ancient dense atmosphere

Carbonate mineral is long-sought evidence of conditions that supported liquid water.

‘Tatooine’-like planet orbits two stars ― but at a weird angle

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown dwarfs.

Nature Magazine – April 24, 2025 Research Preview

Volume 640 Issue 8060

NATURE MAGAZINE (April 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Spatial Awareness’ – AI-powered profiling of immune-cell distribution reveals risk of liver cancer recurring…

Mystery of medieval manuscripts revealed by ancient DNA

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

Print, melt, repeat: 3D-printing formula yields sturdy objects time after time

Complex shapes made of a specially formulated resin are easily recycled into other, equally durable objects.

Roses are red — but their ancestors were yellow

A genomic analysis of 84 species in the genus Rosa traces the evolutionary history of the beloved flower.

Liquids in a glass recover a graceful shape even after being shaken

Oil and water contained in a cylinder with magnetic nickel particles form the shape of a Grecian urn.