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1. How a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies
   James Antaki’s efforts to develop a baby’s heart were close to success when his federal funding was cut off. The grants were eventually restored; rebuilding what was lost wasn’t so easy.
2. Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried With the ‘Iliad’
   For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.
3. Can Some Very Tiny Particles Cool the Planet? One Tech Company Says Yes.
   Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere.
4. A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge
   In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.
5. Building Nests Is Hard. That’s Why Some Birds Steal.
   When researchers used GPS devices to monitor the nests of Hawaiian honeycreepers, they found dozens of cases of brazen avian burglary.
6. How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough
   The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.
7. A Taxidermist Gives Dead Animals a New Life
   The creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist in the U.S. takes both seriously and joyfully.
8. A Fish That Hitches Rides Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine
   The remora often latches on to the exteriors of larger marine creatures. But sometimes it travels in a more intrusive spot: inside a manta ray’s backside.
9. Scientists Press Congress on Dismissal of National Science Foundation Board and Research Funding
   The slowed pace of grants by the National Science Foundation, under attack from the White House, could put the United States at a disadvantage with China, the scientists warned.
10. Scientists Tweaked the Global Warming Outlook. So Trump Weighed In.
    Renewable energy has helped make the worst-case scenario a bit less bad. The president said, falsely, it shows that climate scientists were wrong all along.
11. E.P.A. to Repeal Some Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
    The rules were established by the Biden administration after research linked the compounds to a range of serious health problems.
12. Ebola Was Identified in Congo Weeks Before W.H.O. Declared an Emergency
    Early surveillance and testing failed to identify the rare species of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak. An American doctor is among the confirmed cases.
13. Children’s Mental Health Visits Have Shot Up, Research Shows
    Doctor’s visits for children’s anxiety rose by more than 250 percent over 10 years, according to a study of nearly two million children.
14. When Tornado Weather Hits, These Scientists Break Out the Colored Pencils
    With a battery of modern technology at their fingertips, meteorologists often turn first to an old-fashioned tracking technique.
15. The Quest for Clean Hydrogen Moves Underground
    The dream of clean hydrogen has tantalized energy experts for years, but producing it has been tough. Many start-ups think the answer could lie beneath our feet.
16. How a ‘Model’ for Climate Migration Became a Cautionary Tale
    The residents of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana found safety after moving to higher ground. But the experience left some of them warning others facing relocation: ‘Don’t do it.’
17. Michigan Battles Trump Over His Order to Keep an Old Coal Plant Running
    The Trump administration broke the law, Michigan and others told a court, by declaring an “energy emergency” and forcing an aging coal-burning plant to keep operating.
18. 16 More People in the U.S. Are Being Monitored for Hantavirus, C.D.C. Says
    They were passengers on a plane to Johannesburg with an infected Dutch woman who later died.
19. Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily, but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks
    The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus, scientists agree, but they have found cases where it spread among people without direct contact.
20. Will Her Daughter Be Safe at Pali High as It Rebuilds From LA Wildfires?
    It’s a nightmare faced by families all around Los Angeles: After wildfire smoke blanketed homes, schools and offices with toxic chemicals, when is it OK to go back?
21. Black Bear Fatally Mauls Uranium Contractor in Northern Canada
    The attack, at a remote uranium mining site in northern Saskatchewan, was only the fourth fatal black bear encounter in the province’s recorded history, officials said.
22. Nancy Cox, Who Worked to Conquer the Wily Flu, Dies at 77
    As the leader of the C.D.C.’s influenza division, she battled to keep up with an ever-changing viral opponent, building a global network of researchers and forecasters.
23. Rich Danker, RFK Jr.’s Top Spokesman, Resigns in Protest Over New Vaping Policy
    In a letter to President Trump, the spokesman, Rich Danker, said allowing the sale of flavored e-cigarettes would enhance their appeal to children.
24. With a Friend in Trump, the Tobacco Industry Secures a Lucrative Win
    In a dispute over vapes, the president sided with tobacco companies that filled his groups’ coffers over his own F.D.A. commissioner, who resigned in protest.
25. 5 Great Stargazing Trains
    On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up. The stars will do the rest.
26. Lithuania’s Peat Bogs Could Help the Climate and Defend the Border, Too
    Lithuanian officials hope restored peat bogs can reinforce the border in addition to locking away planet-warming carbon.
27. Marty Makary, Trump’s F.D.A. Commissioner, Resigns After Weeks of Pressure
    The agency’s top food official will step in to the role after Dr. Makary privately said he opposed the administration decision to approve flavored vapes.