Category Archives: Science

Nature Magazine – April 24, 2025 Research Preview

April 23, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

NATURE MAGAZINE (April 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Spatial Awareness’ – AI-powered profiling of immune-cell distribution reveals risk of liver cancer recurring…

Mystery of medieval manuscripts revealed by ancient DNA

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

Print, melt, repeat: 3D-printing formula yields sturdy objects time after time

Complex shapes made of a specially formulated resin are easily recycled into other, equally durable objects.

Roses are red — but their ancestors were yellow

A genomic analysis of 84 species in the genus Rosa traces the evolutionary history of the beloved flower.

Liquids in a glass recover a graceful shape even after being shaken

Oil and water contained in a cylinder with magnetic nickel particles form the shape of a Grecian urn.

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science, Technology

MIT Technology Review – May/June 2025 Preview

April 23, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (April 23, 2025): The Creativity Issue features Defining creativity in the Age of AI: Meet the artists, musicians, composers, and architects exploring productive ways to collaborate with the now ubiquitous technology. Plus: Debunking the myth of creativity, asteroid-deflecting nukes, bitcoin-powered hot tubs, and a new way to detect bird flu.

How AI can help supercharge creativity

Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process.

How creativity became the reigning value of our time

In “The Cult of Creativity,” Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.

AI is coming for music, too

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

Magazines, Research, Science

Scientific American Magazine – May 2025

April 15, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (April 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mind Stretching Shapes’ – The loops, knots and structures pushing the boundaries of math…

How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?

Suddenly Miners Are Tearing Up the Seafloor for Critical Metals

Willem Marx

Mathematicians’ Favorite Shapes Hold the Key to Big Mathematical Mysteries

Rachel Crowell, Violet Frances

A Deadly Parasite Threatens Bees and 130 Crops They Help Grow

Hannah Nordhaus

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Science

Harvard Magazine – May/June 2025 Preview

April 14, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

HARVARD MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Falling Behind’ – Boys, men, and the new gender gaps…

The New Gender Gaps

What to do as men and boys fall behind by Nina Pasquini

Ben Franklin’s Project

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge by Joyce E. Chaplin

Alice Hamilton

Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970 by Daniel Stone

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science

Science Magazine – April 4, 2025 Research Preview

April 3, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

SCIENCE MAGAZINE (April 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Sounds Like Imaging’ – Thin sound sheets visualize living opaque organs…

Stellarators, once fusion’s dark horse, hit their stride

Multiple companies aim to build pilot plants using twisted magnets

Ancient DNA illuminates ‘green Sahara’ dwellers

Skeletons from an ancient, lush interlude offer genetic peek at a lost population

‘Uniquely human’ language capacity found in bonobos

Study is the first to show an animal combining different calls to make new meanings

Magazines, Research, Science

Science: Nature Magazine – March 20, 2025 Preview

March 19, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

NATURE MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Double Impact’ – Whole genome duplication drives multicellular adaptation over 5,000 generations in the lab…

Mega-storm dumps 11 billion tonnes of snow ― and builds up a melting ice sheet

A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected.

Bad romance: male octopuses inject deadly venom into their mates

The paralysing toxin deployed by the male blue-lined octopus might help to protect him from being eaten.

How extreme lethargy can promote healthy ageing

The drop in body temperature that occurs during a torpid state is linked to molecular markers of longer life in mice.

Robotic fingers can tell objects apart by touch

Prosthetic appendage uses three layers of touch sensors to accurately differentiate between textures.

Culture, Magazines, Science, Technology

The New Atlantis Magazine – Spring 2025

March 18, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

THE NEW ATLANTIS (March 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features How the water system works, how virologists lost the gain-of-function debate, living well with AI, a physics that cares, and more…

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen

Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science, Uncategorized

Science Magazine – March 14, 2025 Research Preview

March 13, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

SCIENCE MAGAZINE (March 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Interstellar Dust’ – Mapping dust properties in the Milky Way…

Studies seek signs of consciousness before birth

Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins

In Ukraine, dam’s destruction sets off a ‘toxic time bomb’

Floods threaten to spread sediments laden with toxicants

Oceans’ trenches are home to ‘incredible’ diversity

In trio of studies, scientists explore life in the mysterious hadal zone

NIH kills existing grants on transgender issues

Some termination letters cite “biological realities” to dismiss usefulness of such research

Face to face with the first known Western European

At least 1.1 million years old, a fossil face suggests more than one type of early human inhabited Europe

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science

Nature Magazine – March 13, 2025 Research Preview

March 12, 2025 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

NATURE MAGAZINE (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Good Or Bad?’ – Simple two-point rating system curbs racial bias in the gig economy.