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  1. A summer of escalating existential threats

    Editor in Chief Nancy Shute reflects on the renewed specter of nuclear conflict to record-breaking heat driven by human-caused climate change.

    By Nancy Shute

  2. Readers wonder about quantum biology, babies’ memories and parrot speech

    By Science News Staff
  3. Health & Medicine

    U.S. FDA may nix black box warning on some menopause estrogen treatments

    Experts worry the warning on vaginal estrogen menopause treatments is doing more harm than good and is not supported by science.

    By Tina Hesman Saey and Sofia Caetano Avritzer
  4. Humans

    A child’s biological sex may not always be a random 50-50 chance

    Some people’s biology may set them up to birth babies of a certain sex, explaining why a family with multiple children may have all girls or all boys.