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  1. Health & Medicine

    Hear how people re-learn to live with emotions during brain stimulation

    In the fourth episode of The Deep End, Jon Nelson and others describe dealing with emotions they haven’t felt in a long time.

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  2. Readers discuss Earth’s hidden electric field, black hole measurements, more

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  3. After the fires, LA’s long, hard road to recovery

    Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the challenges communities face after the January wildfires in Los Angeles.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    What experts say about childhood vaccines amid the Texas measles outbreak

    As the Texas measles outbreak grows and HHS head RFK Jr. puts vaccines under new scrutiny, two experts answer questions about the public health tool.

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  5. Tech

    Squirty gels bring the taste of cake and coffee to virtual reality

    By squirting chemicals onto a person’s tongue to taste, a new device aims to replicate food flavors for fuller virtual experiences.

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  6. Astronomy

    Some of Earth’s meteors are probably coming all the way from a neighboring star system

    The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

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  7. Tech

    Robots are gaining new capabilities thanks to plants and fungi

    Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their surroundings.

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  8. Archaeology

    Mount Vesuvius turned this ancient brain into glass. Here’s how

    Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

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  9. Space

    The International Space Station lacks microbial diversity. Is it too clean?

    Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.

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  10. Science & Society

    Married men are doing more cleaning and laundry than in the past

    Some scholars argue that efforts to equalize the time men and women spend on housework has stalled. An analysis reveals slow progress.

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  11. Artificial Intelligence

    More brainlike computers could change AI for the better

    New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.

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  12. Archaeology

    Humans moved into African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago

    This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.

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