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Nature Magazine – February 13, 2025
NATURE MAGAZINE (February 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Cosmic Catcher; – Deep sea telescope detects neutrino with highest energy ever recorded.
How to make the perfect egg: give it lukewarm baths
Process turns out eggs with delectable texture and high nutritional value.
How COVID vaccination keeps a ‘breakthrough’ infection in check
The vaccines’ effect on inflammation-promoting cells might help to explain why the jabs protect against severe disease.
Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women
A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.
Nature Magazine — February 6, 2025 Preview
NATURE MAGAZINE (February 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Sight Unseen’ – Infrared capabilities of JWST reveal horde of previously undetectable asteroids…
Even at one month, a baby’s brain shows an aptitude for smell
Brain regions linked to the sense of smell in adults were activated in infants exposed to the odours of petrol, strawberry and more.
How a wobbly arrow can achieve superpropulsion
A flexible dart with a weighted tip can have 60% more kinetic energy than a rigid one, experiments show.
Who’s the new furry neighbour? It might be a wolverine
The large carnivores are spreading out of remote mountains and into areas settled by humans.
What lies beneath Europa’s icy surface? Perhaps a heart of metal
One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide information about that ocean.
Science Magzine — January 31, 2025
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 30, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Living With Tigers’ – Restoring a top predator across India…
Laser-powered accelerators, compact and cheap, get real
Encouraging lab results bolster plans to harness a new kind of particle accelerator in x-ray sources
In India, a debate over the benefits of gas stoves
Surprise finding of few health payoffs complicates push to replace biomass fuel
Banished from CERN, Russian physicists regroup
Breakdown in collaboration leads many scientists to look to domestic projects—and to China
Global study shows species are losing diversity
Even in some common species, the genetic variation key to resilience is slipping away
Science: Nature Magazine – January 29, 2025 Preview
NATURE MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Deposit Accopunt’ – How brine evaporation left sodium salts on the asteroid Bennu…
Seaweed farms dish up climate benefits
First estimate of its type shows that cultivated seaweed beds can accumulate as much carbon as some natural ecosys
The surprising link between muscle and the reproductive system
Myostatin, which blocks muscle development, unexpectedly has an effect on ovulation in female mice.
Rubbish under the floorboards exposes secret snacking in colonial Australia
Seeds, fruit stones and other remnants hidden in a Sydney barracks in the nineteenth century show residents’ deviation from the standard diet.
Science Magazine —- January 24, 2025 Preview
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
Science: Nature Magazine —- January 23, 2025 Preview
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.
Awards: The Top Science + Literature Books Of 2025
NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION (January 22, 2025): The National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced selected titles for the fourth year of the Science + Literature program.
Ramona Ausubel, The Last Animal
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
“…follows two teenage sisters who join their mother—a paleontology graduate student—on scientific expeditions near and far. Ausubel’s novel captures the wonder of scientific discovery as Jane and her daughters navigate grief, sexism, and a journey to find a wooly mammoth and themselves.“
Claire Wahmanholm, Meltwater
Milkweed Editions
“…dissects the vulnerability of parenthood and our natural world, with embedded erasure poems of Lacy M. Johnson’s “How to Mourn a Glacier” throughout the collection. Meltwater simultaneously mourns the disastrous effects of the climate crisis while finding moments of joy in the everyday through the eyes of a new mother.“
Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Random House / Penguin Random House
“…invites readers into the remarkable sensory worlds of birds, bugs, crocodiles, dogs, and many other animals to show us how these creatures experience the world. Yong argues that all creatures, humans included, have their own unique way of perceiving their surroundings, making the case for why we must collectively protect our biologically diverse planet.”
Scientific American Magazine – February 2025
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
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JANUARY 17, 2025 ISSUE
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (January 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Shear Wonder’ – Chain-like materials manifest complex strain responses..
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