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Do Scientists Make Good Presidents? Following Mexico’s election of a woman with a scientific pedigree, Nature reviewed the legacy of well-known politicians with backgrounds in science and engineering.

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Do Scientists Make Good Presidents?

Following Mexico’s election of a woman with a scientific pedigree, Nature reviewed the legacy of well-known politicians with backgrounds in scien...

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This Strange Fungal Condition Makes You Drunk without Drinking Greater awareness is needed around auto-brewery syndrome, which can cause dangerous accidents and trigger social ostracism if it is not correctly diagnosed

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This Strange Fungal Condition Makes You Drunk without Drinking

Greater awareness is needed around auto-brewery syndrome, which can cause dangerous accidents and trigger social ostracism if it is not correctly d...

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Elephants Call Their Relatives by Name across the Savanna Female elephants address one another with individualized rumbles

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Elephants Call Their Relatives By Name across the Savanna

Female elephants address one another with individualized rumbles

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Very Hungry—And Very Invasive—Caterpillars Are a Munching through U.S. Forests Drought is facilitating the devastating spread of spongy moth caterpillars across U.S. forests

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Millions of Very Hungry Caterpillars Are Munching Their Way through U.S. Forests

Drought is facilitating the devastating spread of spongy moth caterpillars across U.S. forests

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AI Identifies Antibiotic Candidates, and There’s a ‘Morning-After Pill’ for Sexually Transmitted Infections The Hubble Space Telescope’s woes, moon rocks and antibiotic candidates discovered with AI are all in this week’s news roundup.

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First-Ever Rocks from Far Side of Moon and a ‘Morning-After Pill’ for STIs

The Hubble Space Telescope’s woes, moon rocks and antibiotic candidates discovered with AI are all in this week’s news roundup.

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How to Improve Prospective Memory, the Ability to Remember to Remember Prospective memory is a skill that can be practiced, making it more likely that someone can remember an appointment or meet a deadline

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How to Improve Prospective Memory, the Ability to Remember to Remember

Prospective memory is a skill that can be practiced, making it more likely that someone can remember an appointment or meet a deadline

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AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’ Fields Medalist Terence Tao explains how proof checkers and AI programs are dramatically changing mathematics

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AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’

Fields Medalist Terence Tao explains how proof checkers and AI programs are dramatically changing mathematics

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Banning Fossil Fuel Ads Would Be Legally Difficult in the U.S. This week U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for bans on fossil fuel ads, but legal challenges would make nationwide restrictions difficult to implement in the U.S.

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Could the U.S. Ban Fossil Fuel Ads?

This week U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for bans on fossil fuel ads, but legal challenges would make nationwide restrictions diff...

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Why More Space Launches Could Be a Good Thing for the Climate A space technology company CEO explains how growing competition in the commercial space industry may help boost climate science

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Why More Space Launches Could Be a Good Thing for the Climate

A space technology company CEO explains how growing competition in the commercial space industry may help boost climate science

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Neuralink’s First User Describes Life with Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Thirty-year-old Noland Arbaugh says the Neuralink chip has let him “reconnect with the world”

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What It’s like to Live with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

Thirty-year-old Noland Arbaugh says the Neuralink chip has let him “reconnect with the world”

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We’re Approaching 1.5 Degrees C of Global Warming, but There’s Still Time to Prevent Disaster Scientists say it’s likely that at least one of the next five years will exceed an average increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures

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We’re Approaching 1.5 Degrees C of Warming, but There’s Still Time to Prevent Disaster

Scientists say it’s likely that at least one of the next five years will exceed an average increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial te...

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Should Blood Pressure Guidelines Be Different for Women and Men? Blood pressure guidelines are the same for men and women despite important sex differences in hypertension risk

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Women May Have Heart Risks at Lower Blood Pressures Than Men

Blood pressure guidelines are the same for men and women despite important sex differences in hypertension risk

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How Baby Orangutans Become Master Treehouse Architects Most orangutans take seven years to learn to make their own beds

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How Baby Orangutans Become Master Treehouse Architects

Most orangutans take seven years to learn to make their own beds

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Boeing’s Starliner Launches Astronauts for First Time in Historic Liftoff After multiple delays, the first crewed launch of Starliner marks a milestone for U.S. human spaceflight

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Boeing’s Starliner Launches Astronauts for First Time in Historic Liftoff

After multiple delays, the first crewed launch of Starliner marks a milestone for U.S. human spaceflight

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Why Autistic People Seek AI Companionship AI apps can help autistic people practice social skills. But algorithms are no substitute for human relationships, experts say

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For Autistic People, AI Companions Offer Promise and Risks

AI apps can help autistic people practice social skills. But algorithms are no substitute for human relationships, experts say

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H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet Americans don’t like being told what to do, and many don’t trust government. These stubborn attitudes might turn H5N1 bird flu into a pandemic

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H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet

Americans don’t like being told what to do, and many don’t trust government. These stubborn attitudes might turn H5N1 bird flu into a pandemic

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Exotic Quantum ‘Bose-Einstein Condensate’ State Finally Achieved with Molecules Molecular Bose-Einstein condensates could help to provide the answers to fundamental questions or form the basis of new quantum computers

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Exotic Quantum State Achieved after Decades-Long Quest

Molecular Bose-Einstein condensates could help to provide the answers to fundamental questions or form the basis of new quantum computers

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's Attacks of Fauci Over COVID’s Six-Foot Rule Not Based in Science Attacks on Anthony Fauci over guidance on masking and social distancing ignore the science on viral spread

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Attacks on Fauci Over Social Distancing and Masking Ignore the Science of Viral Spread

Attacks on Anthony Fauci over guidance on masking and social distancing issued during the COVID pandemic ignore the science on viral spread

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Trump’s Personality Cult Plays a Part in His Political Appeal Personality measures suggest Donald Trump exerts a cult of personality over his followers, people who are psychologically susceptible to his appeal. This could help explain how he has succeeded in U.S. politics while other populists have not

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Trump’s Personality Cult Plays a Part in His Political Appeal

Personality measures suggest Donald Trump exerts a cult of personality over his followers, people who are psychologically susceptible to his appeal...

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Ancient Snake and Centipede Carvings in South America Are among World’s Largest Rock Engravings Enormous engraved rock art of anacondas, rodents and other animals along the Orinoco River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been used to mark territory 2,000 years ago

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Ancient Snake and Centipede Carvings Are among World’s Largest Rock Engravings

Enormous engraved rock art of anacondas, rodents and other animals along the Orinoco River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been used to mark ter...