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Science Magazine —- January 24, 2025 Preview

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Maniforld Males’ – Genetic orchestration of breeding morphs in ruffs…

Private fusion firms put bold claims to the test

Amid skepticism, companies bet that speed and innovation can realize fusion’s promise

The parting of water

Green hydrogen is key to decarbonizing the world. But the costly, finicky devices that make it need dramatic improvement

Misreported meals skew nutrition research data

Survey-based studies linking diet patterns to health may be fatally flawed, paper suggests

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Science: Nature Magazine —- January 23, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (January 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Net Gains’ – Small-scale fisheries make major contribution to sustainable food, nutrition and livelihoods…

Mines for a clean-energy metal have a surprise climate effect

Vegetation clearing to extract nickel, which is used in renewable technologies, leads to greater carbon emissions than realized.

Hidden tattoos on mummy skin emerge under a laser’s light

Blurry markings more than 1,000 years old become clear again thanks to scanning method.

Got flu? Promising drug shortens symptoms

Influenza viruses have not evolved resistance to suraxavir marboxil, which relieves cough, fever and other symptoms.

Voter turnout drives margins of victory ― if elections are fair

Model that predicts the spread of winning margins could be used to detect electoral interference.

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Scientific American Magazine – February 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Cellular Revolution’ – Long-overlooked molecular blobs are transforming our understanding of how life works….

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works

Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell

Why We Need to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in Space

Crushed Rocks Could Be the Next Climate Solution

How Neandertal DNA May Affect the Way We Think

Transcendent Thinking May Boost Teen Brains

Controversial New Guidelines Would Diagnose Alzheimer’s before Symptoms Appear

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Science: Nature Magazine – January 9, 2025 Preview

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NATURE MAGAZINE (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Skin Deep’ – How the crocodile’s head got its scales…

This digital-memory device keeps its cool even at 600 °C

A battery-like technology uses a metal called tantalum to create an equivalent of digital 0s and 1s.

Fancy birds decorate nests with a natural pattern: snakeskin

The use of shed skins might help to ward off predators, experiments suggest.

A blood test detects aged cells

Proteins could serve as biomarkers for senescent cells, which have stopped dividing but have not yet died.

That Christmas jumper is a marvel of complicated physics

Models and experiments demonstrate what happens when a knitted fabric is deformed.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 12, 2024

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Nature Magazine – December 11, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Digestive Tracks’ – Fossilized vomit and poo reveal how dinosaurs came to dominate ancient ecosystems…

Do you drink coffee? Ask your gut

Largest study of links between consumption of the beverage and gut diversity finds coffee-loving bacteria.

Has Venus ever had an ocean? Its volcanoes hint at an answer

Chemistry of the planet’s atmosphere suggests that its interior has never held water.

Ancient stacks of dishes tell tale of society’s dissolution

Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form of the organized state.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 5, 2024

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Nature Magazine – December 3, 2024: The latest issue features ‘In The Clouds’ – Isoprene drives formation of new particles in the upper troposphere…

Humble scientists earn more trust

Study participants rated fictional scientists who admitted their own knowledge gaps as more credible.

The cells that help the immune system fight lung cancer

Neighbouring cells bolster the immune cells’ tumour-fighting abilities.

Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished rainforest

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.

This dwarf planet might have its very own ice volcano

Relatively warm regions of the object called Makemake could also be explained by a dusty planetary ring.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 28, 2024

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Nature Magazine – November 13, 2024: The latest issue features

How to create psychedelics’ benefits without the ‘trip’

Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects.

Farmers’ fires leave long-lasting smudge on African weather

A pall of smoke from burning cropland each year decreases rainfall in the annual monsoon.

How human brains got so big: our cells learned to handle the stress that comes with size

Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating neurological disorders.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 14, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – November 13, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Head Start’ – Well preserved fossil skull offers insight into archaic bird brains…

Don’t blame search engines for sending users to unreliable sites

Analysis of billions of pages of results from searches using the Bing algorithm suggests that reliable sites appear in search results 19 to 45 times more often than do sites with low-quality content.

China’s thriving forests are stockpiling vast amounts of carbon

Satellite observations validate national reports on forest coverage and carbon storage.

No hearing aids needed: bats’ ears stay keen well into old age

Elderly big brown bats showed little sign of age-related degradation in the inner ear.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov. 7, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – November 6, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Outside Influence’ – Exploring the contribution extrachromosomal DNA makes to cancer….

Naked mole rats vanquish genetic ghosts — and achieve long life

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

The midlife crisis is not universal

Study of thousands of people in rural communities shows that many do not experience a slump in well-being during their forties and fifties.

The seas are on the rise — and that surge is accelerating

Sea-surface data show that the average sea-level rise in 2023 was more than double that in 1993.

Hidden wonders: laser data reveal a dense network of ancient Maya settlements

Survey pinpoints pyramids, rural settlements and a large city in an unstudied stretch of Mexico.

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine-October 31, 2024

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‘Nature Magazine – October 30, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Spatial Awareness’ – Cancer cell atlases explore the landscape of tumour evolution…