Today, you’ll learn about a new and stimulating method that could potentially help smokers kick the habit, an innovative copper coating that kills bacteria on touchscreens, and the little birds that sometimes make for great stepdads.  

Tobacco Treatment 

• “Can brain stimulation help people kick their tobacco addiction?” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.  
• “Why Won’t Our Patients Stop Smoking?” by David M. Mannino, MD. 2009.  
• “A randomized controlled trial of intermittent theta burst stimulation to the medial prefrontal cortex for tobacco use disorder: Clinical efficacy and safety.” by Merideth A. Addicott, et al. 2024.  

Clean Touchscreen 

• “Copper coating turns touchscreens into bacteria killers.” by Ben Coxworth. 2024.  
• “Towards transparent and durable copper-containing antimicrobial surfaces.” by Christina Graham, et al. 2024.  

Parrot Stepdads 

• “New animal dads often kill their stepchildren. These parrots adopt them instead.” by Virginia Morell. 2024.  
• “Eviction-driven infanticide and sexually selected adoption and infanticide in a neotropical parrot.” by Steven R. Beissinger & Karl S. Berg. 2024.  

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