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1. ‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research
   A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
2. On Second Test of Its Newest Starship Design, SpaceX Sticks the Landing
   It was the 13th test overall of Starship. The success is a boon to NASA’s moon plans and SpaceX’s hopes to deploy a million data centers in orbit.
3. Can This New Enzyme Turn Back the Clock in Bodily Tissues?
   In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.
4. Life of Alan Turing Emerges in Richer Detail From Short Story
   A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.
5. Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards
   The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.
6. Four Young Mathematicians Receive Prestigious Fields Medals
   The awards are bestowed only once every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40.
7. Jackie, Bald Eagle and Webcam Star, Is Recovering After an Attack in California
   Jackie found an online audience through a webcam pointed at her nest in California. She was rescued last week after a fight with other eagles, officials said.
8. What Were the Lotus-Eaters Eating in Homer’s ‘Odyssey’?
   In Homer’s epic, Odysseus’s men eat something so powerful that they forget about home. Which plants could have produced such a soporific, narcotic and amnesiac effect?
9. He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
   Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
10. Paul Andrews, Founder of the Woodstock of U.F.O.s, Dies at 77
    An annual convention in the California desert offered a safe space for believers to discuss extraterrestrial encounters, crop circles and other paranormal phenomena.
11. Guy Tudor, Whose Art Brought Obscure Birds to Life, Dies at 91
    A self-taught ornithologist, he won a MacArthur fellowship for his precise, resplendent illustrations that appeared in definitive field guides to tropical songbirds.
12. What to Know About Peptides the FDA Is Considering for Use
    The agency is considering whether compounding pharmacies should be allowed to produce BPC-157, TB-500 and other previously banned peptides.
13. John Pardon Untangles the Theoretical Loops
    The mathematics professor has won a prestigious Fields Medal for his work at the intersection of geometry, topology and physics.
14. Jacob Tsimerman Lives in Number Theory
    Dr. Tsimerman won one of four Fields Medals, an award for top mathematicians under 40, for his work on the André-Oort conjecture, but is now changing his focus to artificial intelligence.
15. Yu Deng Predicts the Actions of the Whole From Its Tiniest Parts
    Dr. Deng, a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, received a Fields Medal for his work on an equation describing fluid mechanics.
16. Hong Wang Twirls in Fractal Dimensions of Three
    The young mathematician won a prestigious Fields Medal for her work on the so-called Kakeya conjecture.
17. FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides
    In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
18. Should Travelers Give Up on Summer in Western Europe Because of the Heat?
    A favorite vacation option may be at risk because of rising temperatures. Even those sticking with their summer plans agree: More air conditioning would help.
19. How to Eat a 2,000-Pound Fish? These Orcas Choose to Pulverize It.
    Marine biologists in Mexico captured video of a strange maneuver that killer whales used to shred their meal.
20. Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Stripped of Endangered Status by Judge
    The dunes sagebrush lizard, found only in the oil-rich Permian Basin, was classified as endangered two years ago.
21. Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading
    Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans?
22. What the Cyclospora Outbreak Reveals
    Warming is expected to fuel the spread of food-borne pathogens. We might not be prepared.
23. Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans
    Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.
24. Susumu Tonegawa Dies at 86; Nobel Laureate Showed How Antibodies Fight Infection
    The first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he went on to discover how memories are stored, advancing understanding of how the brain works.
25. Cameron Hamilton Poised to Lead FEMA Once More
    Cameron Hamilton defended the agency last year when President Trump talked about eliminating it. Emergency managers hope for more stability if he’s confirmed as administrator.
26. 1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds
    New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.
27. The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency
    The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.
28. Trump Attacks National Academies Over Climate Chapter in Judges’ Manual
    The president joined Republican officials who slammed the National Academies of Sciences for a chapter about climate science in an educational guide for judges.
29. The Sewer Knows What You Ate
    During the Covid-19 pandemic, wastewater testing became a virus warning system. Now, scientists are using the approach to understand how communities eat.