Research Preview: Science Magazine – Dec 2, 2022
Tag Archives: Science Reviews
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov 25, 2022
Cell engineering
The successful use of engineered white blood cells (cells that are removed from the human body, modified with receptors that allow them to recognize cancer cells, and then returned to the body) to fight and eliminate tumor cells has frequently been called revolutionary and has even allowed researchers the rare opportunity to refer to a cure for certain cancers.
How to regrow a forest? Scientists aren’t sure
Reforestation has become a global priority but evidence on what works is still scant
‘Ancestry problem’ sends CRISPR astray in some people
Reference genomes used to direct the gene editor fail to account for human diversity in those of African descent
AI learns the art of Diplomac
Meta’s algorithm tackles both language and strategy in a classic board game that involves negotiationNASA mulls end for long-lived climate sentinels
NASA mulls end for long-lived climate sentinels
Drifting satellites could still yield insights into wildfires and storms, researchers argue
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Nov 19, 2022
What is pain, how does it work and what happens when it goes wrong?
With a growing number of people living with pain, we desperately need to understand it – but we are still unravelling the mysterious mechanisms behind the phenomenon
Cover Preview: Scientific American – December 2022
How JWST Is Changing Our View of the Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has sparked a new era in astronomy
JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of the distant universe shocked astronomers. Is the discovery of unimaginably distant galaxies a mirage or a revolution?
How Taking Pictures of ‘Nothing’ Changed Astronomy
Deep-field images of “empty” regions of the sky from JWST and other space telescopes are revealing more of the universe than we ever thought possible
Research Preview: Science Magazine – Nov 11, 2022
Invasive mosquito adds to Africa’s malaria toll
Anopheles stephensi may dramatically increase the number of people at risk
As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight
Many researchers are setting up profiles on another social media service known as Mastodon
Scientists on trial after speaking out on harassment
Astrophysicist Christian Ott filed a criminal complaint after job offer withdrawn
Perennial rice could be a ‘game changer’
Long-term study in China shows yields hold up and farmers save money and time
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – Nov 12, 2022
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?
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 – 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.
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.
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – Oct 22, 2022
- CULTURE – The Climate Book review: An essential guide to a better world
- FEATURES – Can a slew of nuclear fusion start-ups deliver unlimited clean energy?
- FEATURES – How to improve your digital diet for greater well-being
- NEWS – Exoskeleton boots learn how you walk to help improve your gait
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