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The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit microchips. But finding these fakes—as they make their way through a complex global supply chain of fabrication facilities, assembly plants and parts distributors—can be like searching for a needle in a haystack (made entirely of other needles).

Swarms of cicadas are unexpectedly crawling out from under trees from North Carolina to New Jersey. The red-eyed insects are almost impossible to miss; they fly around lazily, plunking into backyard barbeques and crashing into cars. They litter the ground with their crunchy husks as they molt. Most noticeably, they chirp en masse for their mates, producing a relentless, shrill buzz that is recognized as a song of summer. And within a month they are gone.

The world is an unpredictable place. But the brain has evolved a way to cope with the everyday uncertainties it encounters—it doesn’t present us with many of them, but instead resolves them as a realistic model of the world. The body’s central controller predicts every contingency, using its stored database of past experiences, to minimize the element of surprise.

Medical researchers have confirmed what some desperate parents have been claiming for years—that a nonpsychoactive component of marijuana known as cannabidiol (CBD) can reduce epileptic seizures in some children.

Although planetary rings are extremely common in our solar system—every gas giant circling our sun has one—they’ve proved harder to spot around worlds orbiting other stars. That’s a shame, because studies of ring systems around younger worlds could help clarify what the giant planets of our nearly five-billion-year-old solar system looked like in their first few million years.

On New Year’s Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using knives and a machete. Just before his capture Emanuel L. Lutchman had made a video—to be posted to social media following the attack—in which he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Lutchman would later say a key source of inspiration for his plot came from similar videos.

The climbing community is buzzing with news that Mount Everest’s notorious Hillary Step, a nearly vertical rock face just below the summit, may have collapsed.

Who were the first Americans and when and how did they get here? For decades archaeologists thought they knew the answers to these questions. Based on the available evidence, it seemed big game hunters from Asia known as the Clovis people were the first to blaze that trail, trekking across the now submerged land mass of Beringia to enter the New World around 13,000 years ago.

As if Facebook wasn’t already pervasive enough in everyday life, the company’s newly formed Building 8 “moon shot” factory is working on a device they say would let people type out words via a brain–computer interface (BCI). If all goes according to plan—and that’s a big if—Building 8’s neural prosthetic would strap onto a person’s head, use an optical technique to decode intended speech and then type those thoughts on a computer or smartphone at up to 100 words per minute.

Even the most natural-sounding computerized voices—whether it’s Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa—still sound like, well, computers. Montreal-based start-up Lyrebird is looking to change that with an artificially intelligent system that learns to mimic a person’s voice by analyzing speech recordings and the corresponding text transcripts as well as identifying the relationships between them. Introduced last week, Lyrebird’s speech synthesis can generate thousands of sentences per second.

Fires raged on in much of Southern California Friday, as fast-moving flames scorched more than 158,000 acres across four counties, blackening the air and forcing closures of schools and roadways.

"Trump Declares an Emergency as Southern California Blazes Spread" is from the December 08, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by The New York Times and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

For many years the Karolyi Ranch in rural Texas was the ultimate way station for elite American gymnasts, a pressure-cooker training center where young women arrived with visions of Olympic glory. The chosen few left with tickets punched for the next Summer Games and expectations of a spot on the podium.

"USA Gymnastics Cuts Ties With Site of Sexual Abuse" is from the January 18, 2018 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Victor Mather and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

He slumped in a shabby white chair, his neck unnaturally twisted to the right. A cellphone rested inches away, as if he had just put it down. His unlaced shoes lay beneath outstretched legs, a morbid still life of what this town has become.

"The Deadliest Town in Mexico’s Deadliest Year" is from the August 03, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Azam Ahmed and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

Psychotherapist Mark Epstein is known for lucidly mapping the ways in which Buddhism can enrich Western approaches to psychology. In his books, starting with the publication of “Thoughts Without a Thinker” in 1995, the philosophies and practices of those worlds are in fruitful conversation.

"When a Therapist Puts Buddhism Into Practice" is from the January 19, 2018 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by John Williams and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on Friday to become the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, capping a political brawl that lasted for more than a year and tested constitutional norms inside the Capitol’s fraying upper chamber.

"Senate Confirms Gorsuch as Supreme Court Justice" is from the April 07, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Adam Liptak and Matt Flegenheimer and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

To some, it is a tax on blue-state liberalism. To others, President Donald Trump’s plan to end the federal deduction for state and local taxes would eliminate a costly perk for the wealthy.

"Party Lines Blur on Deducting State and City Taxes" is from the April 28, 2017 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Patricia Cohen and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

An extensive cyberattack struck computers across a wide swath of Europe and Asia on Friday, and strained the public health system in Britain, where doctors were blocked from patient files and emergency rooms were forced to divert patients.

"Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked NSA Hacking Tool" is from the May 12, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dan Bilefsky and Nicole Perlroth and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

Mackinac Island has a permanent population of about 500 people and just as many horses, but no cars. From May to October, the picturesque Michigan getaway relies on about 3,000 workers to power its economic engine: summer tourism.

"Preparing for a Summer of Help-Wanted Signs" is from the June 08, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Miriam Jordan and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

Millions of poor children and teenagers grow up without their biological father, and often when you ask them about it, you hear a litany of male barbarism. You hear teens describe how their dad used to beat up their mom, how an absent father had five kids with different women and abandoned them all.

"Why Fathers Leave Their Children" is from the June 15, 2017 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by David Brooks and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

The world’s oceans are littered with trillions of pieces of plastic — bottles, bags, toys, fishing nets and more, mostly in tiny particles — and now this seaborne junk is making its way into the Arctic.

"Study Shows Plastic Debris Finding Path to the Arctic" is from the April 19, 2017 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Tatiana Schlossberg and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.