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1. In This Costa Rican Forest, Monkeys Come Face-to-Face With A.I.
   CapuchinAI, a portable testing station equipped with a touch screen and facial recognition software, could help scientists study primate intelligence in the wild.
2. How to Tell if a Giant Manta Is Pregnant? Give Her an Ultrasound.
   Scientists managed to confirm pregnancies in three giant mantas with underwater ultrasound scans, offering clues to the animals’ elusive reproductive habits.
3. Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?
   More light at the day’s end comes at a price: much later winter sunrises across much of the U.S. Scientists have documented consequences for public health and the economy.
4. ‘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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Four Young Mathematicians Receive Prestigious Fields Medals
   The awards are bestowed only once every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40.
10. Bipartisan Anger Grows at Pentagon’s Delayed ‘Forever Chemicals’ Cleanups
    Hundreds of bases are contaminated with PFAS, which are linked to low birth weight and other risks. Politicians from both parties are demanding explanations.
11. How to Watch Two Summer Meteor Showers Peak On the Same Night
    The end of July brings the Alpha Capricornids and the Southern Delta Aquarids, both of which will be most active on Thursday night into Friday morning.
12. Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers
    In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.
13. Fauci Pleads the Fifth, Refusing to Answer Questions on Covid Origins at Senate Hearing
    Senator Rand Paul said the committee he leads would vote next week on whether to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt of Congress.
14. Gunther von Hagens, Creator of Polarizing ‘Body Worlds’ Exhibits, Dies at 81
    A German scientist, he developed a process for turning corpses into posable figures. His shows drew millions of visitors, and many detractors.
15. An Anthropic Claude AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
    Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.
16. How to Predict the Weather in Our Era of Freakish Storms
    I didn’t want to have to depend on a weather app to know when the storms are coming.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.