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1. Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might.
   Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?
2. How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Species They Are
   Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and learn what they really are.
3. Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling Through Solar System
   3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy.
4. 454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
   Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.
5. Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
   To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do.
6. Sea Spiders Lack a Key Body Part and a Missing Gene Could Explain Why
   Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.
7. Orcas Use Kelp as a Possible Grooming Tool
   In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest were recorded rubbing stalks of kelp against each other’s bodies, a study shows.
8. Stars Passing Near the Sun Could Cause Planets to Collide or Be Ejected, Paper Says
   Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.
9. How the G.O.P. Bill Will Reshape America’s Energy Landscape
   Here’s a rundown on the winners and losers in the legislation muscled through Congress.
10. E.P.A. Employees Are Invited to Adopt Soon-to-Be Homeless Lab Rats
    The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra fish) need new homes.
11. Lovebugs Swarm South Korea’s Capital, Drawing Residents’ Ire
    Municipal workers in the South Korean capital region are responding to a summer infestation by spraying water, but residents wish they would break out the poison.
12. Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots
    Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.
13. Anne Merriman, ‘Mother of Palliative Care’ in Uganda, Dies at 90
    A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.
14. Federal Judge Halts RFK Jr.’s Mass Firing Efforts at H.H.S. For Now
    In an order on Tuesday, a judge found the Trump administration’s plans to drastically change the structure and mission of the Department of Health and Human Services was probably unlawful.
15. Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Ends Many Clean Energy Credits
    By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.
16. National Climate Report Website Goes Dark
    The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.
17. Lucian Leape, Whose Work Spurred Patient Safety in Medicine, Dies at 94
    Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to reduce errors, paving the way for a global standard. Thousands of lives have been saved.
18. The U.S. Sends Lots of Plastic Trash Overseas. Malaysia Just Said No Thanks.
    No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome.
19. What to Know About Measles When Traveling
    Summer travel raises fears that the highly infectious virus will spread. Here’s how to protect yourself and your family.
20. With Etch a Sketches and Apples, Math Is Revealed
    A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall in love’ with math.
21. Near Antarctica, Saltier Seas Mean Less Ice, Study Finds
    Briny warm water is mixing on the surface of the ocean, making sea ice melt faster, a new study found.
22. Crucial Hurricane Monitoring Data Will Go Offline at the End of July
    U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.
23. A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Suggests
    Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. But a new paper suggests it might be more a product of our environment.
24. G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
    Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.
25. Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.
    Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an effective treatment that is being more widely prescribed.
26. Israel and U.S. Smashed Iran Nuclear Site That Grew After Trump Quit 2015 Accord
    Nuclear experts say the president’s rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize an Iranian threat of his own making.
27. A Special ‘Climate’ Visa? People in Tuvalu Are Applying Fast.
    Nearly half the citizens of the tiny Pacific Island nation have already applied in a lottery for Australian visas amid an existential threat from global warming and sea-level rise.
28. Max Fink, Champion of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Dies at 102
    As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spent years battling detractors and a misleading pop-culture depiction of the procedure.
29. Mike Lee’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback
    They love hunting, fishing and conservatism. And they hate a plan by a conservative senator to sell millions of acres of public lands.
30. Critical Hurricane Monitoring Data Is Going Offline
    The loss of access to the data could hamstring forecasters’ ability to track hurricanes and warn residents of their risk.
31. Human Activity Is Driving the Evolution of Wild Animals, New Studies Find
    Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild animals.