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Why are the steel beams inside a Manhattan skyscraper buckling? Steel support columns in the Midtown building, which is being converted from offices into apartments, may have been overloaded, experts say Adam Kovac, Sanidhya Sharma

The biological dogma that women don’t make new eggs after birth may be wrong Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus Starre Vartan

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Should you be taking creatine? The sport supplement is popular among health influencers and athletes, who say creatine can help build stronger muscles and sharper brains—but is it legit? Jackie Flynn Mogensen

How working memory could give rise to consciousness Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it may be closely entwined with consciousness Henry Taylor, The Conversation US

250 years later, new history is uncovered from the Battle of Bunker Hill New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major clash of the American Revolution Meghan Bartels

Wordle, but for art history—Anthropeum puts your artifact smarts to the test Anthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts Emma Gometz

How math helped the Allies win World War II During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive move against Nazi Germany Manon Bischoff

RFK, Jr. is turning his attention to another vital health advisory group The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent group that offers guidance on what health screenings and medications health insurance should cover Adam Kovac

Chinese spacecraft beams back first image of Earth’s “mini moon” China’s Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from asteroid Kamo’oalewa and return them to Earth Claire Cameron

Exclusive: International timekeepers to vote on changing the leap second to a leap hour To align Coordinated Universal Time with Earth’s rotation, a second occasionally gets added to the year. That may change in 2027 Emma Gometz

Cases of an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite are rising fast in the U.S. Cyclosporiasis case numbers have skyrocketed from several dozen nationwide in June to now more than 1,000 in the state of Michigan alone Adam Kovac

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