Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

African wild dogs were reintroduced to Gorongosa National Park only last year. Already there are at least two litters of pups.
African wild dogs were reintroduced to Gorongosa National Park only last year. Already there are at least two litters of pups. Brett Kuxhausen/Gorongosa Media
By NATALIE ANGIER
Wild dogs have returned to the famed Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. The first puppy litters were not far behind.
3-D models of two stone stelae collected from an ancient Mayan site in present-day Guatemala. One of the stelae bears a heiroglyph that says the city of Bahlam Jol
A. Tokovinine
By JAMES GORMAN
By linking an ancient text, environmental analysis and ruins, archaeologists have documented a brutal attack.
Bay Area-based company Perfect Day developed a vegan, lactose-free ice cream containing milk proteins made by microbes rather than cows.
Perfect Day
By KNVUL SHEIKH
With advances in synthetic biology, researchers and entrepreneurs strive to create cows' milk without cows.
A colored X-ray of gallstones (orange) in a patient's gall bladder. An endoscope tube runs to the lower left.
Science Source
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Duodenoscopes have sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks. Now some experts are demanding the devices be redesigned or taken off the market.
A makeshift memorial on Monday at the Walmart in El Paso, Tex., where 22 people were killed. 
Jim Wilson/The New York Times
By BENEDICT CAREY
There may be as many explanations as there are killers. But over the decades, scientists have seen some patterns emerge.
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A math equation recently stirred up trouble by seeming to offer two equally valid, and very different, solutions. Some software programs flatly refused to take the bait.
Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images
By STEVEN STROGATZ
The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school.
• The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet
Denise Braun prepared to demonstrate lab work during a media tour at the  Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md., in 2011.
Patrick Semansky/Associated Press
By DENISE GRADY
Problems with disposal of dangerous materials led the government to suspend research at the military's leading biodefense center.
A frame taken from a video by researchers in China shows a self-driving bicycle, whose neuromorphic computer chip helps it understand certain commands.
Pei et al., Nature
By CADE METZ
It's not the first self-driving bike. But equipped with an A.I. chip, it may be the nearest to thinking for itself.
Male black widows, right, are much smaller than females. Only about 12 percent of prospective suitors manage to reach the web of a female ready to mate, and once there, rivals await.
Sean McCann
By KNVUL SHEIKH
Competition among these male spiders is fierce. So suitors take advantage of clues left by their reproductive rivals.
 
Climate Change
Parisians cooled off in the fountains of the Trocadéro on July 25.
Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
European climate researchers said Monday that last month was the hottest month ever recorded, slightly eclipsing the previous record-holder, July 2016.
• Europe's Heat Wave, Fueled by Climate Change, Moves to Greenland
The landscape of the village of Usun-Kyuyol in Yakutia, Russia, is disfigured by thermokarsts, hummocks caused by the shifting temperatures underground.
Emile Ducke for The New York Times
By NEIL MACFARQUHAR AND EMILE DUCKE
Global warming is shrinking the permanently frozen ground across Siberia, disrupting everyday life in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.

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Mikayla Porter, left, with her mother, Rose Porter, center, and sister, Maliya. Mikayla was sickened by a tainted pork roast at a family barbecue in 2015 that nearly killed her.
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Deadly Germs, Lost Cures
By MATT RICHTEL
Drug-resistant infections from food are growing. But powerful industry interests are blocking scientists and investigators from getting information they need to combat the problem.
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By JANE E. BRODY
Too often, people with incurable cancers pursue therapy beyond any hope of benefit — except, perhaps, to the pockets of Big Pharma.
Jun Cen
By PAULA SPAN
One expert warns of "unintended downsides," including overuse of only modestly effective medications.
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Allergy to sesame is more frequent than once thought, but food labels are not required to list sesame among the ingredients.
Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
By ERIC ATHAS
More than one million children and adults are allergic to sesame in the United States, scientists report. But sesame is not among the allergens that must be listed on food labels.
Emily Berl for The New York Times
By JUDI KETTELER
Whether it's waiting in line at amusement parks or airport security checkpoints, standing poses unique challenges to the human body.
Jialun Deng
By JULI FRAGA AND HILARY JACOBS HENDEL
We often think of psychotherapists as "all-knowing," which can make patients feel that complaining about the therapy or the therapist is not allowed.
 
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