New clues about dino friendships, why 7,000 steps—not 10,000—might be enough, how a moon crater helped test for alien life, and a crumpled piece of Bronze Age armor tells a warrior’s tale.

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• Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together | New Scientist
• Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to keep us healthy | New Scientist
• Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis | The Lancet
• Iconic 'Apollo Earthrise' crater just helped a spaceship get better at hunting aliens | Live Science
• 'Extremely rare' bronze armor found in Czech Republic dates to Trojan War era | Live Science

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A fossilized brain rewrites spider evolution, conspiracy theorists think their views are mainstream, a male birth control pill shows early promise, and cleaner air is triggering more heatwaves.

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• Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution | New Scientist
• Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain | Current Biology
• Conspiracy theorists don’t realize they’re on the fringe | Ars Technica
• Male birth control pill passes early safety test, with more trials underway | Live Science
• Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatwaves | New Scientist

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A study says your baby’s sex might not be a coin flip, ancient Mars may have had heavy rains, a shorter workweek boosts well-being, and gluten might not be to blame for your IBS.

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• Your chance of having a boy or girl may not be 50/50 | New Scientist
• Is sex at birth a biological coin toss? Insights from a longitudinal and GWAS analysis | Science Advances
• If aliens existed on Mars 3.7 billion years ago, they would have needed umbrellas | Live Science
• How Hard Did It Rain on Ancient Mars? | Sky & Telescope
• Work time reduction via a 4-day workweek finds improvements in workers’ well-being | Nature Human Behavior
• Gluten may not actually trigger many irritable bowel syndrome cases | New Scientist

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Babies born using DNA from three people, sloths settle a flatulence mystery, a simple device turns moon dust into water and fuel, and astronomers find ice cubes in a place they absolutely shouldn’t be.

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• Babies made using three people's DNA are free of hereditary disease | New Scientist
• 8 babies spared from potentially deadly inherited diseases through new 'mitochondrial donation' trial | Live Science
• Do sloths fart? Cute new video finally settles age old question | Live Science
• Simple device can produce water, oxygen and fuel from lunar soil | New Scientist
• 'Ice cube' clouds discovered at the galaxy's center shouldn't exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion | Live Science

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Congress fights to keep NASA fully fueled. Eating disorders show brain changes like OCD and autism. NASA's asteroid crash test sent boulders flying. And naps won’t actually wreck your kid’s bedtime sleep

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• Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts | Ars Technica
• Brain changes with eating disorders similar to those in OCD and autism | New Scientist
• Neuroimaging insights into brain mechanisms of early-onset restrictive eating disorders | Nature Mental Health
• Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids | Live Science
• NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space | Space.com
• Why you shouldn't worry a nap will stop your child sleeping at night | New Scientist
• The interplay between nap and nighttime sleep in preschool-aged children: an actigraphic study | Research Square (preprint)

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A record-breaking black hole merger, thirsty city trees drinking from leaky pipes, gene therapy restores hearing in kids born deaf, and farms that grow food and solar power at the same time.

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• Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books | Ars Technica
• Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes | New Scientist
• Gene therapy restores hearing in toddlers and teenagers born with congenital deafness – new research | The Conversation
• In the Sweltering Southwest, Planting Solar Panels in Farmland Can Help Both Photovoltaics and Crops | Inside Climate News

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A cancer-fighting side effect of exercise, a surgical robot that doesn't need a human, a miraculous treatment for a rare disease, and dams that are literally shifting the Earth’s poles.

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• Exercise helps fight cancer – and we may finally know why | New Scientist
• Exercise-induced microbiota metabolite enhances CD8 T cell antitumor immunity promoting immunotherapy efficacy | Cell
• Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations | New Scientist
• 8-year-old with rare, fatal disease shows dramatic improvement on experimental treatment | Live Science
• Dams around the world hold so much water they've shifted Earth's poles, new research shows | Live Science

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A modified herpes virus is fighting skin cancer, chimps launch a bizarre fashion trend, Texas floods reveal our new climate reality, and scientists debate geoengineering to stop climate collapse.

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• Herpes virus could soon be approved to treat severe skin cancer | New Scientist
• Cancer-fighting herpes virus shown to be an effective treatment for some advanced melanoma | AAAS
• Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears — and in their butts | Live Science
• Why were the Texas flash floods so catastrophic? | Live Science
• Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points, but not if we delay | New Scientist

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RFK Jr. suggests a bird flu plan that could backfire, Earth spins a little faster, robots get synthetic skin that feels pain, and melting glaciers may wake sleeping volcanoes.

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• RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn | Live Science
• Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months — so fast that several days are going to get shorter | Live Science
• Scientists burned, poked and sliced their way through new robotic skin that can 'feel everything' | Live Science
• Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe, study finds | Live Science

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DARPA pops popcorn with a power laser, Inca string codes reveal ancient climate records, cancer cells steal mitochondria to spread, and a new chip brings quantum computing closer to reality.

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• DARPA smashes wireless power record, beaming energy more than 5 miles away — and uses it to make popcorn | Live Science
• The Inca string code that reveals Peru’s climate history | The Conversation
• The Cloud in the Cord | Anthropology.net
• Cancer cells steal mitochondria from nerve cells to fuel their spread | New Scientist
• Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis | Nature

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