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Research Preview: Science Magazine – July 26, 2024

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Science Magazine – July 18, 2024: The new issue features smoke from wildfires burning in Canada enveloped New York City, New York, in June of 2023, shown here in a photo of the Chrysler Building on 7 June.

U.S. back in the race to forge unknown elements

Atoms of element 116 show path to create element 120 and extend the periodic table

Fully built water-hunting Moon rover killed by NASA

VIPER cancellation shocks planetary scientists and puts commercial lunar delivery program on edge

Can scientists help corals by killing starfish?

Culling crown-of-thorns boosted coral cover on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Burned-up satellites are tainting the atmosphere

As private fleets grow, so do concerns about ozone-destroying effects of metal particles

Research: New Scientist Magazine – July 27, 2024

New Scientist Magazine (July 24, 2024): This issue features ‘The Smart Guide To Exercise’ – What is the quickest way to get fit?; How much exercise is too much?; What is lost and gained by working out online?; When is the best time to workout?….

What is the optimal amount of exercise and how much is too much?

If your gym instructor is an iPad, what is lost – and gained?

How to use psychology to hack your mind and fall in love with exercise

How fast do we get out of shape and is there a way to slow the loss?

How much exercise do children really need – and what type?

Watch bees defend their nest by slapping ants with their wings

Zombie galaxy came back to life after 20 million years

Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof

Shock discovery reveals deep sea nodules are a source of oxygen

Universe’s missing matter may be explained by galaxies leaking gas

Research Preview: Science Magazine – July 19, 2024

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Science Magazine – July 18, 2024: The new issue features ‘INSIDE OUT’ – Titanium dioxide dehydrogenates propane with help from buried nickel nanoparticles…

The benefits of GLP-1 drugs beyond obesity

Glucagon-like peptide–1–based medicines have weight loss–independent actions

A hard fruit to swallow

Foraging niches become more specialized toward bird range limits

Scientists at odds over wild plans to slow melting glaciers

Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists

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

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

Scientific American Magazine – July/Aug 2024

Scientific American Volume 331, Issue 1 | Scientific American

Scientific American (June 26, 2024)The July/August 2024 issue features The New Science of Health and Appetite – What humans really evolved to eat and how food affects our health today…

To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything

Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors did. But our ancestors didn’t actually eat that way

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Understanding Obesity

“Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may signal that some excess weight is just fine

Ozempic Quiets Food Noise in the Brain—But How?

Blockbuster weight-loss drugs are revealing how appetite, pleasure and addiction work in the brain

Research Preview: Science Magazine – June 21, 2024

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Science Magazine – June 20, 2024: The new issue features ‘Getting Closer’ – Environmental change increases the value of social tolerance…

Wild poliovirus makes comeback in Afghanistan and Pakistan

2024 target of ending all transmission will likely be missed

Ancient earthquake likely rerouted the Ganges

Discovery of new seismic concern stokes flooding fear for densely populated delta region

No place like home

The hunt for Earth-like planets has run into headwinds. Some astronomers are looking for signs of habitability on bigger worlds

Research Preview: Science Magazine – June 14, 2024

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Science Magazine – June 13, 2024: The new issue features ‘Follow The Leader’ – A surface layer ensures photoactive perovskite growth….

Hubble telescope down to last gyroscopes, limiting science

Despite failing hardware, NASA has no plans to pursue a servicing mission to the aging, iconic instrument

Astronauts face health risks—even on short trips in space

New studies include health data collected from space tourists on first privately funded orbital mission

Sacrificed Maya boys tied to myth of ‘Hero Twins’

Ancient DNA shows continuity between living and ancient Maya communities

Ideas & Research: Harvard Magazine July/Aug 2024

HARVARD MAGAZINE July/August 2024 :

Decoding the Deep

David Gruber on the North Shore of Massachusetts

Project CETI’s pioneering effort to unlock the language of sperm whales

by Jonathan Shaw

Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity

An illustration of generations of computers, from large machines to smartphones and the cloud

Reflections on six decades of relations with comptuers

by Harry R. Lewis

Research Preview: Science Magazine – June 7, 2024

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Science Magazine – June 6, 2024: The new issue features ‘Cellular Deformation’ – Rapidly stretching Protists snag a snack…

Little-known virus is on the rise in South America

Deforestation and climate change may be helping Oropouche virus spread far beyond the Amazon Basin

‘Google for DNA’ indexes 10% of world’s known sequence data

Achievement demonstrates feasibility of making all of life’s code easily searchable, researchers say

The evolution of thermogenesis in mammals

Comparative genomics elucidates the steps enabling heat production in fat tissue