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Research Preview: Science Magazine – July 12, 2024

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Science Magazine – July 11, 2024: The new issue features ‘Stealth Fungus’ – White-nosed pathogen evades bat skin defenses…

Can ‘cow flu’ be eliminated—or is it too late?

Feeble government response and lack of industry cooperation hamper U.S. control efforts

Accusations sting bee ‘odometer’ studies

Scientists allege irregularities in papers on how honey bees gauge distance

Ancient crystals show plate tectonics began early

Hardy zircons suggest subduction of ocean crust began 4 billion years ago

Stunning 3D chromosomes preserved in thawed mammoths

“New type of fossil” may boost efforts to bring beasts back

The Economist Magazine – July 13, 2024 Preview

How to raise the world’s IQ

The Economist Magazine (July 11, 2024): The latest issue features How to raise the world’s IQ

Labour’s first week

What does Labour’s win mean for British foreign policy?

Will Biden’s dam break?

Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside

Ungovernable France

France is desperately searching for a government

Inside AI’s black box

Researchers are figuring out how large language models work

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – July 11, 2024

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Nature Magazine – July 10, 2024: The latest issue features Frog Sauna – Sun-warmed refuge helps amphibians fight deadly fungal infection…

The surprising driver of Amazon deforestation

Demand from Brazil itself accounts for more than half of the demand for crops and livestock from the Amazon and the savannah that surrounds it.

Fake jewellery from the Stone Age looks like the real deal

‘Amber’ beads dating to the Neolithic period, lasting from the fifth to the third millennium BC, are actually mollusc shells coated with resin and natural pigments.

Killer immune cells pile on the pressure to slay their foes

Immune-system assassins called killer T cells compress target cells, forming a destructive crater.

Ants amputate their nest-mates’ legs to save lives

The location of an injury determines whether ants bite off or preserve a damaged limb.

Preview: The New Atlantis Magazine – Summer 2024

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The New Atlantis Magazine (July 10, 2024) : The latest issue features

Why We Need Amistics for AI

Tech ethics needs a breakthrough. The Amish have it.

Brian J. A. Boyd

The Refs Are Working Us

Fact-checking used to be how journalists policed themselves. Now it’s how they police everyone else.

M. Anthony Mills

Who Wants to Believe in UFOs?

Strange things in the skies of a clockwork universe

Clare Coffey

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – July 12, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (July 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Ven ice Preserved – La Serenissima down the centuries; Why revolutions fail; Eating ourselves to death and Ozempic nation…

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – July 8, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 6, 2024 ISSUE:

Silicon Valley’s Favorite Nonprofit Looks to Raise—and Donate—Billions

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has become a game-changing philanthropic organization, with donations from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings.

Ford Is Making a Comeback. It’s Time to Buy the Stock.

Ford Is Making a Comeback. It’s Time to Buy the Stock.

The U.S. auto maker is focused on returning capital to shareholders, which should boost performance in the months ahead.Long read

It’s Time to Lock In Yields Before Interest Rates Drop

It’s Time to Lock In Yields Before Interest Rates Drop

Cash will become less attractive when the Federal Reserve finally begins cutting rates.3 min read

Preview: Foreign Policy Magazine – Summer 2024

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Foreign Policy Magazine – July 1, 2024: The new issue features ‘Europe Alone’ – Ten thinkers on a future without America’s embrace….

Europe Alone

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Nine thinkers on the continent’s future without America’s embrace.

By Mark LeonardConstanze StelzenmüllerNathalie TocciCarl BildtRobin NiblettRadoslaw SikorskiGuntram WolffBilahari KausikanIvan Krastev, and Stefan Theil

No bloc of countries has, for the past 75 years, been as umbilically tied to the United States as Europe. First, its western half and, since the end of the Cold War, much of its eastern half have prospered under the world’s most extensive bonds in trade, finance, and investment. Europe could also depend on the U.S. military’s iron commitment—enshrined in the 75-year-old NATO alliance—to come to its defense. Together with a few other nations, the United States and Europe defined many of the institutions that comprise what we call the Western-led order. The U.S.-European alliance has arguably been the bedrock of the global system as we know it today.

Trump’s Return Would Transform Europe

Illustration of a torn map of Europe revealing Donald Trump

Without Washington’s embrace, the continent could revert to an anarchic and illiberal past. By HAL BRANDS

Which is the real Europe? The mostly peaceful, democratic, and united continent of the past few decades? Or the fragmented, volatile, and conflict-ridden Europe that existed for centuries before that? If Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election in November, we may soon find out.

Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – July 1, 2024

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Wall Street’s Hottest Lottery Ticket: Zero-Dated Options

Wall Street’s Hottest Lottery Ticket: Zero-Dated Options

Bets on market moves have taken off with these options. Stocks like Nvidia and Apple could be next.

Heart Just Skip a Beat? Your Watch Already Knows.

Heart Just Skip a Beat? Your Watch Already Knows.

Smart rings and smartwatches are providing consumers with reams of health information. Clinical device makers like DexCom needn’t worry.Long read

Things Are Looking Up for Income Investors. Here Are 11 Sectors to Consider.

Things Are Looking Up for Income Investors. Here Are 11 Sectors to Consider.

From Treasuries to REITs and MLPs, there are plenty of places to find generous dividends and yields.Long read

The Economist Magazine – June 29, 2024 Preview

France’s centre cannot hold

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France’s centre cannot hold

After the election, populists of the right and left could hobble a centrist president

What to expect from a second Biden term

He has a domestic agenda, but no easy way to bring it about

Can countries get rich from services?

American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines

Making heavy weather of hot weather

Deadly heat is increasingly the norm, not an exception to it

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Research Preview: Science Magazine – June 28, 2024

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Science Magazine – June 27, 2024: The new issue features ‘Trilobites in Detail’ – Fossils preserved in a pyroclastic flow illuminate previously unknown features…

The perfect pesticide? RNA kills crop-destroying beetles with unprecedented accuracy

New approach leaves other creatures unharmed. “You cannot get anything better than this”

Could super-Earths or mini-Neptunes host life among the stars?

As the hunt for habitable Earth-like planets stalls, astronomers are turning to bigger worlds

This biologist aims to solve the cell’s biggest mystery. Could it help cancer patients, too?

Four decades after his lab found odd, massive particles inside cells, Leonard Rome is still determined to figure out what “vaults” do