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The American Scholar – Spring 2025 Issue Preview

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THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (March 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Tiger, Tiger’ – Searching for the elusive big cat means learning to see the world anew…

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind By Elizabeth Kadetsky

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks By Jessie Wilde

American Carthage

Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present By Charles G. Salas

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Nature Magazine —– March 6, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Fungal Waves’ – How mycorrhizal fungi build supply-chain networks for underground nutrient exchange…

Lhasa′s rocks reveal an Australian birthplace

Granite from the chunk of Earth’s crust called the Lhasa terrane did not come from India, as had previously been thought, but from much further afield.

Our Galaxy’s central black hole puts on a fireworks show

The James Webb Space Telescope uncovered repeated flares from the supermassive object called Sagittarius A*.

Just a smidgen of yellow-fever vaccine is enough

The standard protective dose is almost 14,000 units, but even 500 units raises antibody levels sufficiently to do the job.

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ScientificAmerican Magazine – March 2025

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Scientific American Magazine (February 18, 2025):

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

The Beauty of ‘Slow Flowers’ versus the Pretty Poison of Plants Grown with Dangerous Chemicals

Where Are the Universe’s Missing Planets?

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Nature Magazine – February 13, 2025

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NATURE MAGAZINE (February 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Cosmic Catcher; – Deep sea telescope detects neutrino with highest energy ever recorded.

How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths

Process turns out eggs with delectable texture and high nutritional value.

How COVID vaccination keeps a ‘breakthrough’ infection in check

The vaccines’ effect on inflammation-promoting cells might help to explain why the jabs protect against severe disease.

Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women

A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.

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Nature Magazine — February 6, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (February 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Sight Unseen’ – Infrared capabilities of JWST reveal horde of previously undetectable asteroids…

Even at one month, a baby’s brain shows an aptitude for smell

Brain regions linked to the sense of smell in adults were activated in infants exposed to the odours of petrol, strawberry and more.

How a wobbly arrow can achieve superpropulsion

A flexible dart with a weighted tip can have 60% more kinetic energy than a rigid one, experiments show.

Who’s the new furry neighbour? It might be a wolverine

The large carnivores are spreading out of remote mountains and into areas settled by humans.

What lies beneath Europa’s icy surface? Perhaps a heart of metal

One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide information about that ocean.

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Science Magzine — January 31, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 30, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Living With Tigers’ – Restoring a top predator across India…

Laser-powered accelerators, compact and cheap, get real

Encouraging lab results bolster plans to harness a new kind of particle accelerator in x-ray sources

In India, a debate over the benefits of gas stoves

Surprise finding of few health payoffs complicates push to replace biomass fuel

Banished from CERN, Russian physicists regroup

Breakdown in collaboration leads many scientists to look to domestic projects—and to China

Global study shows species are losing diversity

Even in some common species, the genetic variation key to resilience is slipping away

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Science: Nature Magazine – January 29, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Deposit Accopunt’ – How brine evaporation left sodium salts on the asteroid Bennu…

Seaweed farms dish up climate benefits

First estimate of its type shows that cultivated seaweed beds can accumulate as much carbon as some natural ecosys

The surprising link between muscle and the reproductive system

Myostatin, which blocks muscle development, unexpectedly has an effect on ovulation in female mice.

Rubbish under the floorboards exposes secret snacking in colonial Australia

Seeds, fruit stones and other remnants hidden in a Sydney barracks in the nineteenth century show residents’ deviation from the standard diet.

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Science Magazine —- January 24, 2025 Preview

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Maniforld Males’ – Genetic orchestration of breeding morphs in ruffs…

Private fusion firms put bold claims to the test

Amid skepticism, companies bet that speed and innovation can realize fusion’s promise

The parting of water

Green hydrogen is key to decarbonizing the world. But the costly, finicky devices that make it need dramatic improvement

Misreported meals skew nutrition research data

Survey-based studies linking diet patterns to health may be fatally flawed, paper suggests

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Science: Nature Magazine —- January 23, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Net Gains’ – Small-scale fisheries make major contribution to sustainable food, nutrition and livelihoods…

Mines for a clean-energy metal have a surprise climate effect

Vegetation clearing to extract nickel, which is used in renewable technologies, leads to greater carbon emissions than realized.

Hidden tattoos on mummy skin emerge under a laser’s light

Blurry markings more than 1,000 years old become clear again thanks to scanning method.

Got flu? Promising drug shortens symptoms

Influenza viruses have not evolved resistance to suraxavir marboxil, which relieves cough, fever and other symptoms.

Voter turnout drives margins of victory ― if elections are fair

Model that predicts the spread of winning margins could be used to detect electoral interference.

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Scientific American Magazine – February 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Cellular Revolution’ – Long-overlooked molecular blobs are transforming our understanding of how life works….