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Investigative camera-wielding sharks in the Bahamas, spider-monkey diplomacy in Mexico, carbon dioxide “time bombs” in the Republic of the Congo, and much more in this month’s Quick Hits. Credit: NASA advertisement Bahamas Biologists have attached tiny cameras to tiger sharks…

One It’s not the first time that the oldest and simplest problem in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard. Since ancient times, artists and geometers have wondered how shapes line up across a plane without gaps or overlaps. Still, “it…

how about eggs in the morning? If your answers are very soft and jumbled, you should follow these tips for perfect results. Sam Wong human January 25, 2023 4kodiak/Getty Images In the three years since I started this column, I’ve…

Did humans domesticate plants or us? This provocative question may not be the way we learn about agricultural history in high school, but it fuels current archaeological research. At stake is the issue of perspective. That is, how we, as…

By firing a short, powerful donut-shaped laser beam into the air, researchers created a 45-meter-long structure that can guide light pulses like an optical fiber. Physics January 29, 2023 To Carmela Padavich-Callaghan Lasers can be used to make optical fibers…

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant, disease-causing bacteria is often due to overuse of antibiotics in humans and livestock. But researchers have set their sights on another potential driver of resistance: antidepressants. We tracked what caused drug resistance in “Bacteria develop drug…

Consistent statistical evidence from clinical trials slows the course of Alzheimer’s disease before the Food and Drug Administration this month agreed to lecanemab, which clears the brain of a toxic amyloid protein that has been a key target of Alzheimer’s…

Climate change is already disrupting the lives of billions of people. What was once considered a problem for the future is raging all around us right now. This reality has helped convince a majority of the public that we must…

Research after study is sounding the alarm bells about the degrading Amazon rainforest. Scientists warn that iconic ecosystems plagued by deforestation, droughts, fires and other human disturbances are teetering on perilous cliffs. A new study once again underscores an important…

Slime: natural historyTo Suzanne WedrichTranslated by Ayça TürkoğluMelville House, 2023 ($27.99) of slime: natural history, Science journalist Susanne Wedlich preempts reader backlash. “We are all creatures of slime,” she writes on page two of hers, but the mere mention of…