Week in Science: Two U.S. lunar landers on the moon

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March 7—This week, two private moon landers touch down. Plus, a new woolly mammoth-like mouse, and how anime fans solved a mathematical proof. Enjoy and have a great weekend! --Andrea Gawrylewski, Chief Newsletter Editor

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Blue Ghost, a Private U.S. Spacecraft, Lands on the Moon After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft Lee Billings

Intuitive Machines' Athena Lander Reaches the Moon Lopsided—Just like Its Predecessor Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon's surface over the next 10 days Gayoung Lee

Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a 'Woolly Mouse' On their quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse Adam Popescu

Your Candy Cravings Might Be Controlled by This Gut Bacterium Mouse and human studies suggest a connection between a gut microbe and the appetite-regulating hormone GLP-1 Claire Maldarelli

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How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years Manon Bischoff

Most People Stop Ozempic after Two Years. What Happens to Weight and Health? Ozempic and similar GLP-1 weight-loss medications are designed to be a lifelong treatment. But a new study finds the majority of people who use these drugs quit after just two years Lori Youmshajekian

Neuroscientists Should Set a High Bar for Evidence against Free Will Neuroscience research claiming to question the existence of free will may have been misinterpreted Aaron Schurger, Adina Roskies, Uri Maoz

Cutting a Parent Out of Your Life Isn't Always the Right Solution Popular culture paints going "no contact" as the best way to deal with hard family relationships. But it's not always the right choice Joshua Coleman, Karl Pillemer

Solar and Wind Are Surging But CO2 Is Still Climbing—Here's Why Renewable energy broke records last year, but so did gas generation. That's a climate problem Benjamin Storrow, E&E News

Why You Can't Get That Song Out of Your Head Some songs get stuck in our head more than others, and scientists have uncovered what makes them so irresistible. Rachel Feltman, Josh Fischman, Fonda Mwangi

Life May Have Emerged a Cosmic Eyeblink after the Big Bang New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang Conor Feehly

The Latest on Egg Prices and a Bird Flu Vaccine in Jeopardy The CDC has sequenced bird flu viruses from people in Nevada and Wyoming, and the Trump Administration has released a strategy for reducing egg prices Tanya Lewis

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