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SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Color of Prey’ – Selection for warning coloration and camouflage.

Buried salt is abetting Arctic thaw

Ancient layers of saline permafrost are melting below zero, deepening lakes and weakening coasts

Gardening strategies of termite farmers

Termites use microbe-infused soil to protect a fungal symbiont

Understanding avian influenza mortality

Three theories could explain why the North American H5N1 epidemic has not been more deadly

An inheritance of long life

Parental lysosomes modify epigenetic signaling to influence offspring life span

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Voyage to Nowhere’

How a Billionaire’s Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart

An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

When the Rain Pours, the Mountains Move

As warming temperatures bring more extreme rain to the mountains, debris flows are on the rise

New Fossils Could Help Solve Long-standing Mystery of Bird Migration

Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 11, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Bringing In Light’ – A Swirling supercomplex captures ocean light for photosynthesis.

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe

Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

New picture of Mars’s interior emerges from lander data

Studies identify a solid inner core and buried remnants of giant impacts

Did Great Britain’s economy shrug off the end of Roman rule?

Pollutants in sediment core suggest mining and smelting did not tail off

Strongest black hole collision yet resonates with Einstein

“Overtone” in gravitational waves from black hole merger matches predictions of general relativity

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 4, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Rules of Thumb’ – The importance of a hand that holds in the evolution of rodents.

Was a blob of dark matter spotted in the Milky Way?

If confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Galaxy’s hidden architecture

Carcinogenic metal detected in air after LA fires

The unusually tiny particles of hexavalent chromium could pose a health hazard despite low levels, researchers say

India tests new tools to predict local monsoon floods

“Hyperlocal” forecasts help Mumbai prepare for dangerous downpours

Can the global drone revolution make agriculture more sustainable?

Rapid growth in drone use is upending expectations but also inducing trade-offs

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 28, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Return of The Herd’ – Ecosystem effects of migrating bison.

Bison move through Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley at sunrise. Their movements and grazing accelerate the nitrogen cycle, increasing the annual nutrition that plants provide to herbivores. After decades of recovery, bison now add heterogeneity that sustains soil nutrient storage and plant productivity while allowing plant communities to become more diverse, highlighting the importance of restoring native grazers in large numbers and with freedom to move. See page 904.

New clues found about the assembly of life’s first proteins

Lab study shows how RNA could have helped amino acids join up—without preexisting protein machinery

Europe’s biggest quake may foretell Atlantic ‘ring of fire’

Earth’s mantle is peeling from the crust in the eastern Atlantic, a possible sign of the ocean’s eventual closure

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End of Food Allergies?’ – Life-changing therapies for peanut reactions are already here.

How Your Brain’s Nightly Cleanse Keeps It Healthy

Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep—and it could help ward off dementia BY Lydia Denworth

Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?

Maryn McKenna

What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind

Charles C. Mann

How Scientists Finally Learned That Nerves Regrow

Diana Kwon

Plastics Started as a Sustainability Solution. What Went Wrong?

Jen Schwartz

The Universe Is Static. No, Expanding! Wait, Slowing? Oh, Accelerating

Richard Panek

How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body

Philip Ball

NATURE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 14, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

Volume 644 Issue 8076

NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Troubled Waters’ – Iceberg formation sparks wave-driven melting at glacier fronts.

Globally recognized island is losing its trademark glaciers

Ice coverage is shrinking on Heard Island — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a haven of biodiversity.

Tiny motor uses heat to perform molecular magic

A nanoscopic machine transforms a molecular chain into interlocking loops.

How animal paw pads got their toughness

In creatures that walk on land, a protein called Slurp1 protects skin cells from stress.

Mystery of billions of sea-star deaths solved at last

Experiments identify a bacterium as the cause of sea-star wasting disease, which has devastated populations along the western coast of North America.

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – AUGUST 8, 2025 PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Evoloving Immunity’…

The multifunctional immune system

Thank ketchup, and interbreeding, for your French fries

Hybridization 9 million years ago gave potatoes the genetic knack to develop tubers, a new study finds

Study reveals industrial-scale publishing fraud

Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

AI-generated text surges in research papers

One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI-written sentences

NATURE MAGAZINE – JULY 24, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW

Volume 643 Issue 8073

NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Microbes Mapped’ – Spread of human pathogens across Eurasia plotted from ancient DNA.

Asia’s haze affects ice and weather on the Frozen Continent

Pollution emitted by fossil-fuel usage in Asia influences sea-ice coverage in Antarctica.

The mysterious missing ingredient in the highest-energy cosmic rays

Data from a South Pole observatory show that the fraction of protons in ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays is lower than expected.

How the world’s biggest bats got their enormous wingspans

Genetic analysis helps to reveal why flying foxes can measure almost 2 metres from wingtip to wingtip.

How sugar overload in early life affects the brain later

A study in mice finds that a high-sucrose diet during youth has long-term implications for learning and brain connectivity.

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 27, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Sky Surveyor’ – The Rubin Observatory watches a fast-changing cosmos..

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe

Microbe with tiny genome may evolve into a virus

With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses

Congress shows signs of resisting proposed science cuts

Lawmakers reject some cuts, question others

Radio bursts reveal universe’s ‘missing matter’

Mystery signals used to locate gases in the spaces between galaxies