Science
- www.wired.com Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones
Creating a memory takes energy, and brains only have so much. A study using snails shows how they can be primed for future learning.
- www.nytimes.com Substance Abuse Is Climbing Among Seniors
Many aging baby boomers have long histories with drugs, cannabis and alcohol. “The field wasn’t ready for that,” said one expert.
- www.wired.com When the Woods Get Noisy, the Animals Get Nervous
A new study uses trail cameras and speakers to isolate how the sounds of hikers and bikers disturb forest creatures.
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Missing Wings on an ‘Alien’ Beetle Pose an Evolutionary Mystery
www.nytimes.com This ‘Alien’ Is Missing Something Found in Every Other Male BeetleHow the species ended up wingless is an evolutionary mystery.
- www.nytimes.com Drowning Is No. 1 Killer of Young Children. U.S. Efforts to Fix It Are Lagging.
Thirty years of progress in decreasing drowning deaths in the United States appears to have plateaued, and disparities in deaths among some racial groups have worsened.
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Transgender Care Bans Leave Families and Doctors Scrambling
www.nytimes.com Fight or Flight: Transgender Care Bans Leave Families and Doctors ScramblingLaws in 20 states have left the fate of clinics in doubt and families with transgender children searching for medical care across state lines.
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Antibiotic Shortage Could Fuel Rise in Syphilis Rates
www.nytimes.com Antibiotic Shortage Could Worsen Syphilis EpidemicThe primary drug used to treat the sexually transmitted infection could be scarce into next year, Pfizer warns.
- www.wired.com All the Ways to Slow a Car (Even Some Bad Ways)
Electric vehicles are increasingly popular, so it’s time to talk about regenerative braking—and all the other ways you can stop a vehicle.
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That’s No Coyote: A Hunter in New York State Killed a Wolf
www.nytimes.com How Mistaken Identity and One Bullet Revealed a Star Predator Far From HomeA hunter’s kill in upstate New York brought new hope, and trepidation, that wolves could slowly be making their way back to the Northeast.
- www.wired.com Why People Stop Using Drugs Like Ozempic
Drugs like semaglutide—better known as Ozempic or Wegovy—could be lifelong treatments for obesity, but what little data scientists have suggests that people don't stick with them for long.
- www.wired.com Trans People’s Mental Health Is Being Weaponized Against Them
A proposed "emergency rule" in Missouri directly attacked the medical autonomy of trans adults.
- www.wired.com Listen to These Photographs of Sparkling Galaxies
How do you make space images more accessible? Turn celestial data into sonic compositions that don’t have to be seen to be enjoyed.
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That’s No Coyote: A Hunter in New York State Killed a Wolf
www.nytimes.com How Mistaken Identity and One Bullet Revealed a Star Predator Far From HomeA hunter’s kill in upstate New York brought hew hope, and trepidation, that wolves could slowly be making their way back to the Northeast.
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David Sibley explains how drawing birds makes you a “thoughtful observer”
www.nytimes.com ‘Wherever I Am, I Am Always Birding’The field-guide illustrator David Sibley says that drawing birds over a lifetime has shaped his entire way of seeing.
- www.nytimes.com Abortion Drugs May Be Safe Even After the First Trimester, Study Suggests
Most women who took abortion medications were successful, often at later gestation periods. Many used only misoprostol, not the usual two-drug combination.
- www.nytimes.com John Kerry to Visit China to Restart Climate Negotiations
A yearlong freeze in climate talks appears to be ending as the United States and China, the world’s biggest polluters, resume discussions.
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What to Know About Leqembi, the Alzheimer’s Drug Approved by the FDA
www.nytimes.com What to Know if You’re Considering the Alzheimer’s Drug LeqembiMedicare will cover much of the cost for patients in the early stages of the disease, but Leqembi has safety risks and can only modestly slow cognitive decline.
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FDA Makes Alzheimer’s Drug Leqembi Widely Accessible
www.nytimes.com New Federal Decisions Make Alzheimer’s Drug Leqembi Widely AccessibleThe F.D.A. gave full approval to the drug, but added a black-box warning about safety risks. Medicare said it would cover most of the high cost.
- www.nytimes.com Nations Aim to Zero Out Shipping Emissions by Midcentury
Regulators reached a provisional deal on how quickly the transition to zero-emissions fuels should happen for cargo ships, which often burn particularly dirty oil.
- www.nytimes.com U.S. Is Destroying the Last of Its Once-Vast Chemical Weapons Arsenal
Decades behind its initial schedule, the dangerous job of eliminating the world’s only remaining declared stockpile of lethal chemical munitions will be completed as soon as Friday.
- www.nytimes.com Heat Records Fall Around the Globe as Earth Warms, Fast
From north to south, temperatures are surging as greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere and combine with effects from El Niño.
- www.nytimes.com U.S. Animal Industries Pose Disease Risks to People, Report Says
The nation uses an enormous number of animals for commercial purposes, and regulations do not adequately protect against outbreaks, experts concluded.
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People With Private Medicare Plans Can’t Find Psychiatrists, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com Medicare Advantage Plans Offer Few PsychiatristsA new study finds that people have a very difficult time finding doctors in their networks under the private-sector policies.
- www.nytimes.com Commercial-Scale Wind Farm Off New Jersey Coast Approved
The project in the waters southeast of Atlantic City marks the third major wind farm authorized by the Biden administration.
- www.nytimes.com Federal Officials Hatch a Three-Pronged Defense Against Another ‘Tripledemic’
This fall, Americans will be urged to get shots against the flu, Covid and, if they’re older, R.S.V.
- www.nytimes.com Three Vaccines for Fall: What You Need to Know
Here’s who should get the flu, Covid and R.S.V. vaccines, and when.
- www.wired.com Managing Type 1 Diabetes Is Tricky. Can AI Help?
In a simulation, AI aided virtual patients in meeting blood glucose targets. It could be a step toward trusting machine learning to help real people too.
- www.nytimes.com Lewis Branscomb, Champion of Science Across Fields, Dies at 96
He led scientific advances at I.B.M. and within the federal government during a career that spanned the space race and the dawn of the internet.
- www.nytimes.com Bison Return to Native American Lands, Revitalizing Sacred Rituals
More than a century after a mass bison slaughter, the animals are restoring Great Plains ecosystems and reinvigorating Indigenous customs like the sun dance.
- www.nytimes.com Edward Fredkin, Who Saw the Universe as One Big Computer, Dies at 88
An influential M.I.T. professor and an outside-the-box scientific theorist, he gained fame with unorthodox views as a pioneer in digital physics.
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See Photos of the July Supermoon
www.nytimes.com Missed Monday Night’s Supermoon? We’ve Got You Covered.The July supermoon, also called the buck moon, is the first of four supermoons expected this year.
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India’s Space Business Is Catching Up Fast
www.nytimes.com The Surprising Striver in the World’s Space BusinessWith at least 140 registered space-tech start-ups, India stands to transform the planet’s connection to the final frontier.
- www.nytimes.com Dr. Susan Love, Surgeon and Breast Health Advocate, Dies at 75
One of the world’s most visible public faces in the war on breast cancer, she helped reshape both the doctor’s role and the patient’s.
- www.wired.com One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost
An early experiment in older rhesus macaques suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory. Could it one day help people?
- www.wired.com A Rare Domestic Resurgence of Malaria Is Circulating in the US
The mosquito-borne disease was eliminated here long ago. Now “revenge travel,” global migration, poor public funding—and maybe climate change—could help it come back.
- www.nytimes.com A Blood Test Predicts Pre-eclampsia in Pregnant Women
The assessment is the first advance in diagnosing the deadly condition since it was discovered more than a century ago, experts said.
- www.nytimes.com A New Kind of Disaster Aid: Pay People Cash, Before Disaster Strikes
Experiments suggest that sums as low as $50 can help the world’s poorest protect themselves and their property in ways they couldn’t otherwise.
- www.nytimes.com Frank Field, Who Brought Expertise to TV Weathercasting, Dies at 100
The first meteorologist to forecast the weather on New York television, he later became known for, among other things, publicizing the Heimlich maneuver.
- www.wired.com A Computer-Assisted Proof Solves the ‘Packing Coloring’ Problem
There’s a surprisingly straightforward answer to how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that identical numbers never get too close together.
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The Titan Submersible Passengers’ Final Hours
www.nytimes.com A Rubik’s Cube, Thick Socks and Giddy Anticipation: The Last Hours of the TitanFive voyagers climbed into the Titan submersible in hopes of joining the select few who have seen the wreck of the Titanic up close. But within hours, their text messages stopped coming.