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View in browser Latest Headlines 07/06/2023 Antarctic sea ice has been hitting record lows for most of this year Since hitting a record low minimum back in February, the amount of Antarctic sea ice has stayed well below normal all year. Read More   These researchers are reimagining animal behavior through a feminist lens Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer are working to overturn biased, outdated views in biology. Read More   A 407-million-year-old plant's leaves skipped the usual Fibonacci spirals Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving the famous Fibonacci sequence of numbers. But an extinct, ancient plant did not. Read More      New Newsletter Series Find out how brain implants are treating depression — and changing lives — in a six-part series that arrives weekly starting whenever you sign up. SIGN UP NOW In Australia, mosquitoes and possums may spread a flesh-eating disease Field surveys show that genetically identical bacteria responsible for a skin disease called Buruli ulcer appear in mosquitos, possums and people. Read More   Dust from a shrinking Great Salt Lake may be accelerating Utah's snowmelt About a quarter of the record-breaking, snow-melting dust on the Wasatch Mountains in 2022 may have come from exposed lakebed at Great Salt Lake. Read More   How Asia's first nomadic empire broke the rules of imperial expansion New studies reveal clues to how mobile rulers assembled a multiethnic empire of herders known as the Xiongnu more than 2,000 years ago. Read More      Science News is a nonprofit. We depend on our readers to support our journalism. You can help by subscribing for as little as $30. SUBSCRIBE NOW More Recent Headlines Four things to know about malaria cases in the United States Five people have picked up malaria in the United States without traveling abroad. The risk of contracting the disease remains extremely low. READ MORE   Indigenous input revealed early hints of fiber making in the tropics To decipher marks on nearly 40,000-year-old stone tools and figure out what they were used for, researchers turned to the Philippines' Pala'wan people. READ MORE   Static electricity can pull ticks on to their hosts Ticks brought near objects with a static charge frequently get pulled to those surfaces, a new study finds, suggesting one way the bugs find hosts. READ MORE   Boys experience depression differently than girls. Here's why that matters Boys' depression often manifests as anger or irritability, but teen mental health surveys tend to ask about hopelessness. READ MORE   Neutrinos offer a new view of the Milky Way Physicists turned to AI to help map out the newfound origins of ghostly neutrino particles coming from deep in the Milky Way. READ MORE   Humans exploit about one-third of wild vertebrate species An analysis of nearly 47,000 vertebrate animal species reveals that using them for food, medicine or the pet trade is helping push some toward extinction. READ MORE   The snow forest of North America may be about to shrink From 2000 to 2019, the boreal forest's northern boundary didn't move while southern tree cover thinned due to climate change, wildfires and logging. READ MORE   A newfound gravitational wave 'hum' may be from the universe's biggest black holes Scientists reported evidence for a new class of gravitational waves, likely created by merging supermassive black holes. READ MORE   Young squash bugs seek out adults' poop for an essential microbe Squash bug nymphs don't rely on their parents to pick up a bacterium they'd die without. They find it on their own. READ MORE   200 years ago, the Milky Way's central black hole briefly awoke The black hole is thought to be mostly quiet and dim. Now, glowing cosmic clouds have revealed the behemoth's last flare. READ MORE   Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |   Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US

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