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SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 20, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features “Plants & Heat”…

Plants Facing the Heat

Can wild plant adaptations help crops tolerate heat?

Wild plant species harbor a vast but largely unknown diversity of temperature stress solutions

Plant microbiomes feel the heat

Rising temperatures change the structure and function of plant microbial communities

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘How will this end?‘….

Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

In a worse place if Donald Trump rushes in

To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more

European members need a hard date to boost their defence budgets

Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well

Even as interest costs mount, politicians promise hando

Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived

Efforts to deliver a baby boom either fail or cost a fortune

NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 19, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW

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NATURE MAGAZINE (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Food Forecast’ – How climate change and adaptation could affect global agriculture…

Minuscule worms form living towers to hunt for food

Scientists observe the nematode’s behaviour in the wild for the first time.

Hungry caterpillars can brew exotic molecules in their guts

Researchers fed moth larvae the chemical building blocks, and the insects’ enzymes did the rest.

A cancer-causing mutation meets its match

In mice, engineered immune cells shrink pancreatic and other tumours bearing a mutant version of the KRAS protein.

A long-predicted cosmic collision might not happen after all

The pull of a third galaxy could yank the Milky Way out of the path of Andromeda.

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 26, 2025 PREVIEW

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features Joan Didion on the couch; Ocean Vuong’s Failure; The Best-Paid Woman in NYC and Olga Turner Tokarczuk and the mycological turn….

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss


The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 per Cent 
by Conor Niland

The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey

The Roger Federer Effect: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives by Simon Cambers and Simon Graf

Searching for Novak: The Man behind the Enigma by Mark Hodgkinson

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 20, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 18, 2025): In this week’s TLS, Mary Beard and Margaret Drabble are not quite getting away from it all this summer. For our summer books selection, they have picked a brace of biographies of Labour prime ministers past and present. Along with Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent translation of the Odyssey, our Classics editor chooses Alan Johnson’s biography of Harold Wilson, her mother’s favourite politician. By Martin Ivens

Summer books 2025

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

Young and damned

Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 PREVIEW

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Witness’ – Elizabeth Bruenig’s “Witness,” on Sin and Redemption in America’s Death Chambers

Inside America’s Death Chambers

What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption by Elizabeth Bruenig

Inside the Exclusive, Obsessive, Surprisingly Litigious World of Luxury Fitness

How Tracy Anderson built an exercise empire by Xochitl Gonzalez

The Talented Mr. Vance

J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power. by George Packer

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – JULY/AUG 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Is Greenland Collapsing?’ – How the Northern Hemisphere’s largest ice sheet could disappear..

What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future

Jeffery DelViscio

Fun Ways to Ditch Fast Fashion for a Sustainable Wardrobe

Jessica Hullinger

How to Be a Smarter Fashion Consumer in a World of Overstated Sustainability

Laila Petrie, Jen Christiansen, Amanda Hobbs

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Yvette Cendes

What Most Men Don’t Know about the Risks of Testosterone Therapy

Stephanie Pappas

What If We Could Treat Psychopathy in Childhood?

Maia Szalavitz

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.

We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal

Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election

Misty Copeland Changed Ballet. Now She’s Ready to Move On.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens

Friends like these

The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov

Symmetry in motion

Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller

You’re the tops

What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark

Exploring the occult

A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 14, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘American disorder’

When a radical performance artist has command of an army

Donald Trump’s troop deployment in LA could yet backfire

The world must escape the manufacturing delusion

Governments’ obsession with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating

How to curb organised crime without shredding civil rights

Ecuador is a test case in the fight against global gangs