Where are the long COVID clinics?
For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge.
Preview: Science News Magazine – Nov 5, 2022
Category Archives: Science
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov 4, 2022
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
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Nov 3, 2022
- 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.
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Nov 5, 2022
How technology is revolutionizing our understanding of ancient Egypt
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
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct 28, 2022
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
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Oct 29, 2022
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct 27, 2022
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.
Food Science: Developing Hardier Coffee Beans (FT)
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct 21, 2022
Science Magazine – Butterfly wing patterns are mosaics of colored scales. According to new research, ancient and deeply conserved multifunctional gene regulatory elements play a crucial role in creating these diverse patterns.
Heart risks fuel debate over COVID-19 boosters
With benefits unclear, some scientists question new round of shots for young people
Brazil’s election is a cliffhanger for scientists
Second Bolsonaro term could be “final nail” for science and environment
How the Black Death left its mark on immune system genes
Study of DNA from medieval victims and survivors finds gene that helped protect people from deadly pathogen
Has a new dawn arrived for space-based solar power?
Better technology and falling launch costs revive interest in a science-fiction technology
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct 20, 2022
A Nature special issue – 20 October 2022:
RACISM – Overcoming science’s toxic legacy
Science is “a shared experience, subject both to the best of what creativity and imagination have to offer and to humankind’s worst excesses”. So wrote the guest editors of this special issue of Nature, Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam and Elizabeth Wathuti, in a June 2022 editorial announcing their involvement.
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