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Research Preview: Science Magazine – April 19, 2024

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Science Magazine – April 18, 2024: The new issue features ‘Designed To Bind’ – Deep learning for protein and ligand modeling…

Brightest gamma ray burst ever emerged from collapsing star

NASA’s JWST telescope traces burst to a supernova but finds a puzzling lack of heavy elements

Native lizards taught to avoid toxic toads by released toadlets

Exposing monitor lizards to thousands of young cane toads helped them survive once the adult toads invaded

Hiring ban disrupts research at Florida universities

Suit seeks to overturn state law targeting graduate and postdocs from China and other “countries of concern”

Giant planets ran amok soon after Solar System’s birth

Meteorites suggest tumult occurred around the time of the Moon’s formation

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 18, 2024

Volume 628 Issue 8008

Nature Magazine – April 17, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Large mammals benefitting from responsible logging through forest certification…

Sea spray carries huge amounts of ‘forever chemicals’ into the air

Long-lived compounds emitted by industry reach the oceans and are then ferried by bubbles into the atmosphere.

An exoplanet is wrapped in glory

Astronomers spot the first planet outside the Solar System to boast a phenomenon reminiscent of a rainbow.

How to supercharge cancer-fighting cells: give them stem-cell skills

The bioengineered immune players called CAR T cells last longer and work better if pumped up with a large dose of a protein that makes them resemble stem cells.

News: G7 Ministers Discuss Middle East Crisis & War In Ukraine, Georgia Politics

The Globalist (April 17, 2024): The foreign ministers of the G7 nations touch down in Capri to discuss the crisis in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Then: Georgia’s controversial bill on ‘foreign influence’ and a look at the debate around South Africa’s National Health Insurance. Plus: newspapers, television news, 100 days to go before the Olympic Games and we speak with luxury home-appliance manufacturer Gaggenau.

News: Middle East-Israel Tensions, Trump’s Criminal Trial Begins In New York

The Globalist (April 16, 2024): We discuss rising tensions in the Middle East amid fears of an Israeli military response to Iran’s weekend attacks.

We also have the latest on Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial, Croatia’s parliamentary elections and Monocle’s team in Milan checks in from the first day of the 62nd edition of Salone del Mobile. Plus: a special interview with the former Commanding General of US Army Europe, Ben Hodges, on the laws of engagement in Ukraine, Gaza and beyond.

News: Israel Weighs Iran Missile Strike Response, Thailand-Myanmar Unrest

The Globalist (April 15, 2024): The latest on the conflict in the Middle East following Iran’s reprisal attack on Israel. Then: after days of clashes, we discuss the unrest at the Thailand-Myanmar border.

Plus: the implications of Senegal’s new presidency for regional dynamics and fashion news.

Sunday Morning: Stories And News From London, Geneva And Marseille

Monocle on Sunday, April 14, 2024: Emma Nelson, Dimi Reider, Tessa Szyszkowitz and Kat Hanna on drone strikes on Israel by Iran overnight, as well as more of weekend’s biggest talking points.

We also speak to Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, in Geneva and we check-in with Monocle’s correspondent in Marseille, Mary Fitzgerald, for the latest headlines from the regions.

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – April 11, 2024

Volume 628 Issue 8007

Nature Magazine – April 11, 2024: The latest issue cover features the environmental challenges now facing insect populations, with climate change emerging as a key factor whose influence has potentially been underestimated

Green space near home has an antidepressant effect

People who had the most vegetation near their residences were the least likely to report depression and anxiety.

Advanced CRISPR system fixes a deadly mutation in cells

Applying a ‘base editor’ allows cells to crank out increased levels of a vital metabolic enzyme.

Baseball-sized hail in Spain began with a heatwave at sea

Climate change is partly to blame for a storm that pounded Girona province with record-breaking hailstones.

Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London

Monocle on Saturday Podcast (April 6, 2024): Terry Stiastny updates Georgina Godwin on the Wirecard fugitive case and discusses the honeytrap scandal that has rattled Westminster this week.

We examine the history of honeytrap scandals and look back at the lives of two extraordinary people: journalist Hella Pick and author Lynne Reid Banks. Plus: twins Dina and Rosabella Gregory take us through their new opera, ‘The Haberdasher Prince’, and Louise Doughty joins to talk about her guest edition of Writers Mosaic, ‘Blood and belonging: Traveller Writers’.

News: Early Election Calls In Israel, An Anti-Coup Drone Attack In Myanmar

The Globalist (April 5, 2024): Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival and member of the war cabinet, Benny Gantz, calls for early elections, Myanmar’s opposition carries out a drone attack on junta-controlled Naypyidaw, Moscow declares that Russia and Nato are now in “direct confrontation” and we celebrate the life and legacy of Gaetano Pesce.

Plus: Andrew Mueller takes a look at what we learned this week.

Research Preview: Science Magazine – April 5, 2024

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Science Magazine – April 4, 2024: The new issue features ‘Lucy At 50’ – Fifty years ago in Ethiopia, paleoanthropologists unearthed the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton known as “Lucy” and transformed our views of humanity’s origins.

LUCY’S WORLD

Was Lucy the mother of us all? Fifty years after her discovery, the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton has rivals

Intelligent textiles are looking bright

Flexible fiber electronics couple with the human body for wireless tactile sensing

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