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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

SOURCES

• 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.

SOURCES

• 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.

SOURCES

• 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.

SOURCES

• 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.

SOURCES

• 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.

SOURCES

• 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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We finally understand how Tylenol blocks pain, women’s pelvises are evolving with medicine, a giant new telescope just saw first light, and your brain may literally be keeping a sleep debt ledger.

SOURCES

• We may finally know how Tylenol works — and it's not how we thought | Live Science
• Women's pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth? | New Scientist
• Recent evolutionary decrease in the human pelvis size | Nature Portfolio
• Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images | New York Times
• Your brain tracks your sleep debt – and now we may know how | New Scientist
• Sleep need–dependent plasticity of a thalamic circuit promotes homeostatic recovery sleep | Science

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AI's dirty emissions secret, a peaceful pharaoh succession, trees that can't save us, and a microbe that's almost a virus.

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A prehistoric boomerang just doubled its age, gastric bypass might slash cancer risk, scientists grow carbon-guzzling materials, and Gen Alpha's secret slang is stumping both parents and AI.

SOURCES

• Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought | New Scientist
• Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland | PLOS One
• Gastric bypass surgery may cut the risk of bowel cancer | New Scientist
• Bile diversion underlies Roux-en-Y antitumor benefits | Science Translational Medicine
• Scientists invent photosynthetic 'living' material that sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere | Live Science
• Generation Alpha's coded language makes online bullying hard to detect | New Scientist
• Understanding Gen Alpha's Digital Language: Evaluation of LLM Safety Systems for Content Moderation | FACCT '25

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A breathalyzer test for disease, how much your cat meows is in its DNA, heart attacks are losing their top killer status, and the new US vaccine panel is already causing problems.

SOURCES

• New 'breathalyzer' could detect signs of disease in human breath, scientists say | Live Science
• New laser-based breathalyzer sniffs out COVID, other diseases in real-time | CU Boulder Today
• Is your cat vocal or quiet? The explanation could be in their genes | The Conversation
• Association between androgen receptor gene and behavioral traits in cats (Felis catus) | PLOS One
• Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of death in the US | New Scientist
• Still top cause of death, the types of heart disease people are dying from is changing | AHA Newsroom
•  Vaccine advisers to review ingredient RFK Jr. has long wanted banned | Politico
• Public health is under attack. Here is how we should fight back. | Washington Post

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