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Doctors Test the Limits of What Obesity Drugs Can Fix

✇NYT: Science
Gina Kolata
“Obesity first” doctors say they start with one pill, to treat obesity, and often find other chronic diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, simply vanish.

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With Wegovy, one of the new obesity drugs, Lesa Walton not only lost more than 50 pounds; her arthritis cleared up and she no longer needed pills to lower her blood pressure, she said.

In Homes With Children, Even Loaded Guns Are Often Left Unsecured

✇NYT: Science
Teddy Rosenbluth
Firearms often are not stored safely in U.S. homes, a federal survey found. At the same time, gun-related suicides and injuries to children are on the rise.

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A handgun kept in a portable case with biometric fingerprint access. Gun storage practices vary, but in a new survey about half of gun owners with loaded firearms at home did not lock them away.

Wreckage of Shackleton’s Last Ship Is Found Off Coast of Canada

✇NYT: Science
Hank Sanders
Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea.

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The Quest sinking off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on May 5, 1962 — 40 years after the explorer Ernest Shackleton died aboard the boat on a voyage to Antarctica.

Ancient Maya Genomes Sequenced for First Time

✇NYT: Science
Freda Kreier
Thousand-year-old DNA from Chichén Itzá offers eye-opening details of the religious rituals of ancient Maya.

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Human remains were first discovered in the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in the 1960s while workers excavated land to build a proposed airport runway.

Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More LImited

✇NYT: Science
Jim Robbins
Collecting wild mushrooms, berries and other foods from public forests and parks has become so popular that state and federal agencies are imposing more restrictions.

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River Shannon Aloia, an avid forager, hunting for morels with her dog, Jasper, in the woods outside of Missoula, Mont.

How Wombats May Save Other Animals From Wildfires

✇NYT: Science
Darren Incorvaia
They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.

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Wombat a wildlife sanctuary on the South Coast of New South Wales. Their burrows can serve as fireproof refuges for small mammals, birds, and reptiles during and after extreme fires.

New Covid Vaccine Endorsed for Fall

✇NYT: Science
Noah Weiland and Christina Jewett
The panel endorsed targeting a variant of the coronavirus that is now receding, though some officials suggested aiming at newer versions of the virus that have emerged in recent weeks.

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Studies have shown that protection against serious illness from Covid-19 tends to improve as the vaccines more precisely target dominant strains, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
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