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Research Preview: Science Magazine-Dec. 6, 2024

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Science Magazine – November 29, 2024: The new issue features ‘Programmed T Cells’ – Targeting the brain and other tissues to treat cancer and inflammation…

Programming tissue-sensing T cells that deliver therapies to the brain

‘Brutal’ math test raises the bar for AI

Model-stumping benchmark shows human experts remain on top—for now

Beneath Antarctica’s ice, a fiery future may await

Researchers probe volcanoes’ response to a changing world

War-torn Ukraine is breeding drug-resistant bacterial strains

Urgent action underway to bolster treatments and prevent dangerous microbes from spilling across borders

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov. 29, 2024

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Science Magazine – November 29, 2024: The new issue features ‘Eating The Earth’ – The vast, vulnerable global food trade…

Micrometer-sized robotic chameleons

A multifunctional metamaterial can change shape and steer light simultaneously

Contemporary hominin locomotor diversity

Footprints in Kenya show that hominin bipedalism had a complex evolutionary history

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov. 15, 2024

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Science Magazine – November 21, 2024: The new issue features ‘All Of It’ – Three-dimensional single cell imaging of the entire mouse brain…

Prospect of RFK Jr. at HHS alarms biomedical community

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to scrutinize proven vaccines and slash staff at research and regulatory agencies

China’s hunger for minerals spurs massive geology survey

$1 billion SinoProbe II will map the depths with drill rigs and instrument arrays

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov. 15, 2024

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Science Magazine – November 14, 2024: The new issue features ‘AI learns the language of life’…..

The counterattack

An immune cell treatment that fights cancer is now taking aim at autoimmune disease

How to build a human: Piecing together the body’s cellular puzzle

Piecing together the body’s cellular puzzle

An island in a sea of palms

Oil palm plantations, pictured here in Thailand, have displaced native rainforests across Southeast Asia.PHOTO: OLEH_SLOBODENIUK ISTOCK

Oil palm plantations replace diverse tropical forests with monocultures, but restoration can bring biodiversity and ecosystem services back to these highly modified landscapes. 

Research Preview: Science Magazine-Nov. 8, 2024

Science Magazine – November 7, 2024: The new issue features ‘Shake It Off’ – Light-touch mechanoreceptors mediate ‘wet dog shake’ behavior…

Bacteria divide to conquer antibiotics

High-level resistance to methicillin requires a distinct form of cell division

Research Preview: Science Magazine-October 18, 2024

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Science Magazine – October 17, 2024: The new issue features ‘The Stakes for Science’ – What the next president could mean for research…

Most meteorites traced to three space crackups

Young asteroid families seed more than 70% of extraterrestrial rocks found on the planet

Why does COVID-19 vaccine protection quickly wane?

New insights on cells behind long-lived antibody production could spur better vaccines

Are implantable, living pharmacies within reach?

Cell-based drug factories could produce therapies on demand inside patients

The “American Scientist” Magazine – November 2024

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American Scientist (, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Slime Mold Beauty’ – A single-celled organism takes on a dazzling variety of glittering, jewlike forms…

The Myxomycetes: Nature’s Quick-Change Artists

Slime molds thrive in a range of environments, displaying an unexpected beauty in a variety of forms and life cycle stages.

Gliflozins for Diabetes: From Bark to Bench to Bedside

Drugs targeting the kidneys for diabetes treatment stem from almost two centuries of research that began with an uprooted apple orchard.

Baby Talk

Infants are born with the ability to babble and cry in the accents of their mothers through a combination of neurological, physical, and environmental responses.

Ideas & Research: Harvard Magazine – November 2024

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HARVARD MAGAZINE (October 15, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Out of Reach’ – America’s housing affordability crisis…

Home Unaffordable Home

America’s housing problem—and what to do about it by Jonathan Shaw

When Technology and Society Clash

Latanya Sweeney confronts our all-consuming “technocracy.” by Lydialyle Gibson

The End of the Ivy League?

College sports are changing. Will Harvard athletics? by Max J. Krupnick

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct. 11, 2024

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Science Magazine – October 10, 2024: The new issue features ‘Graphene at 20’ – New forms, and a brighter future, for the storied material…

El Niño fingered as likely culprit in record 2023 temperatures

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Research suggests swings in Pacific Ocean can account for planet’s sudden and perplexing temperature jump

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Sept. 27, 2024

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Science Magazine – September 19, 2024: The new issue features ‘Worth The Effort’ – Removing derelict fishing gear reduces monk seal entanglement rates…

Doomsday delayed at vulnerable Antarctic glacier

Thwaites collaboration finds glacier has stabilized somewhat—in the short term

Rare photos reveal North Korea’s nuclear program

Nation appears to have upgraded its bombmaking capacity, experts say

When the Mediterranean dried to a salty crust, life was devastated

Tens of thousands of fossils detail the sea’s dramatic loss and eventual rebound