Category Archives: Science

Previews: New Scientist Magazine – Nov 12, 2022

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New Scientist – November 12, 2022 Issue:

How JWST could find signs of alien life in exoplanet atmospheres

The James Webb Space Telescope can peer into alien skies like never before. With six potentially habitable planets within its sights, astronomers are entering a new era in the search for biology beyond our solar system

What age do you really become an adult? And why it’s vital to know

The age at which you are considered an adult differs around the world, but emerging research into the developing brain suggests we may have got the concept of adulthood all wrong. When do we really become a grown-up?

Arts & Literature, History, Innovations, Magazines, Science, Travel

Previews: Smithsonian Magazine – December 2022

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Smithsonian Magazine – December 2022:

The Sweet and Sticky History of the Date

Throughout the Middle East, the versatile fruit has been revered since antiquity. How will it fare in a changing world?

This Guatemalan Village Is Becoming a Work of Art

To help boost its appeal to tourists, local residents are transforming their lakeside town into a living art installation

Magazines, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Preview: Science News Magazine – Nov 5, 2022

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Science News November 5, 2022 Issue:

Where are the long COVID clinics?

For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge.

NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid

Cooperative sperm outrun loners in the mating race

Magazines, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov 4, 2022

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Science Magazine – Brain connectivity

No neuron is an island

The brain is so much more than its constituent cells. Each neuron in the brain connects with thousands of other neurons—but instead of a cacophony of connections, we have a synchronized symphony.

Atlas-based data integration for mapping the connections and architecture of the brain

Detailed knowledge about the neural connections among regions of the brain is key for advancing our understanding of normal brain function and changes that occur with aging and disease.

Solving brain circuit function and dysfunction with computational modeling and optogenetic fMRI

Can we construct a model of brain function that enables an understanding of whole-brain circuit mechanisms underlying neurological disease and use it to predict the outcome of therapeutic interventions?

Scale matters: The nested human connectome

The emergent properties of the connected brain

Magazines, Previews, Research, Reviews, Science

Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov 3, 2022

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nature – Inside the November 3 Issue:

The surprise saviours of the gut: the neurons that sense pain – Nerve cells that carry pain signals play a part in suppressing inflammation and tissue damage in the gut.
A ship sunk during the Second World War still stirs up the seabed – The wreck of a German patrol boat continues to influence ocean chemistry and microbiology at its final resting spot.
Plagued by problem birds? Call RobotFalcon! – A robotic bird of prey scares off nuisance flocks in a flash — and they don’t seem to get wise to the deception.
Heaviest metal yet found in exoplanet skies – Two super-hot planets have atmospheres laced with barium.

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Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Nov 5, 2022

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How technology is revolutioni z ing our understanding of ancient Egypt

New Scientist – A century on from the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, CT scans, 3D printers and virtual reality are bringing the world of the pharaohs – and ordinary ancient Egyptians – into sharper focus

The truth about the foods said to boost your immune system

Many foods thought to enhance our natural defences, such as orange juice and turmeric, don’t live up to the hype. Instead, the key to a healthy immune system lies in nurturing your gut microbiome

The cosmologist who claims to have evidence for the multiverse

Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton says our universe is one of many – and she argues that we have already seen signs of those other universes in the cosmic microwave background, the light left over from the big bang

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Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct 28, 2022

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Science Magazine – The skeleton of Hope, a young female blue whale that beached in Ireland in 1891, is suspended from the ceiling of London’s Natural History Museum, pictured here empty of visitors while the museum was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bursts in skull evolution weakened with time

The skull shapes of mammals diversified more rapidly early in their history

Forgotten Ebola vaccine could help in outbreak

Merck unearths a frozen batch of an experimental vaccine it made years ago

Harvard studies on infant monkeys draw fire

Experiments involving eyelid suturing and maternal separation divide scientists

Monkeypox outbreak is ebbing—but why exactly?

Models suggest rising immunity in a small group of people, not vaccination, is key

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Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Oct 29, 2022

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FEATURES – The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system
FEATURES – COP27: How the world is doing on climate targets and what to expect
FEATURES – Why we urgently need answers about artificial sweeteners and health

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Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct 27, 2022

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Research Highlights

This dinosaur looked like an ostrich but was as big as an elephant – Beasts with small heads and long legs roved an ancient supercontinent that included North America and most of Asia
Women physicists miss out on ‘first-mover advantage’ – A study of more than a century’s worth of papers helps to explain why women physicists get fewer citations.
How to smuggle a drug into cells: add a lipid ‘tail = ’Molecules equipped with a lipid streamer of just the right length can wriggle through a cell’s defensive membrane.
Cyclones’ inner lives revealed by invisible particlesMeasurements of elementary particles called muons provide insight into the structure of swirling storms.

Agriculture, Food & Drink, Global Warming, Reviews, Science, Videos

Food Science: Developing Hardier Coffee Beans (FT)

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Financial Times – One of world’s favorite drinks is under threat from global warming. The world’s top coffee producing nations all lie at similar tropical latitudes, where even small rises in temperature are forecast to have severe consequences for people and agriculture. But as the FT’s Nic Fildes reports, in Australia, scientists are tackling the problem by trying to develop a better, hardier coffee bean.

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