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- Cadence
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- Independence
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Latest from New Scientist
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- Virtual green spaces and classical music reduce blood pressure in hospital
- Is China catching up to the US and SpaceX on reusable rockets?
- Anthropic’s discovery will, at best, be just another gene-editing tool
- Mathematician discovers rare eight-faced shape
- The first season of Heroes is almost perfect – here’s why
- Copying others can help young orangutans build a broad diet
- Dogs pay more attention to consonants than vowels when we speak
- Backpack massages muscles when it detects they’re fatigued
- Taking HRT in perimenopause may ward off cardiovascular disease
- Benedict Cumberbatch’s nature show is stunning, if a little cloying
- Skin patch that collects sweat could predict ovulation
- OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government healthcare website
- Future of Amazon rainforest may hinge on Brazil presidential election
- This week’s new questions
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Where it sits in Science & Environment
- #35 Scientific American67.5
- #36 SpaceNews67.5
- #37 New Scientist67
- #38 Science Daily59.5
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