Today, you’ll learn about how a simple walk through nature could make you want to eat healthier foods, a new finding that T.rexes might not have been as cognitively advanced as we thought, and the sheath that keeps sawfish from doing battle in the womb.

Nature & Healthy Food

• “Experiencing nature seems to have an important impact on food choices.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
• https://www.psypost.org/experiencing-nature-seems-to-have-an-important-impact-on-food-choices/
• “Experiencing nature leads to healthier food choices.” by Maria Langlois & Pierre Chandon. 2024.
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-024-00072-x

T.Rex Intelligence

• “T. rex not as smart as previously claimed, scientists find.” University of Bristol. 2024.
• https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/april/t-rex-not-as-smart.html
• “How smart was T. rex? Testing claims of exceptional cognition in dinosaurs and the application of neuron count estimates in palaeontological research.” by Kai R. Caspar, et al.
• https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.25459

Baby Sawfish

• “A built-in pocket protector keeps sawfish from ‘sword fighting’ in the womb.” by Natalie van Hoose. 2024.
• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stops-sawfish-from-sword-fighting-womb
• “Smalltooth Sawfish.” Oceana. N.d.
• https://oceana.org/marine-life/smalltooth-sawfish/
• “Morphology, composition, and deterioration of the embryonic rostral sheath of the smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata).” by Gregg R. Poulakis, et al. 2024.
• https://fisherybulletin.nmfs.noaa.gov/content/morphology-composition-and-deterioration-embryonic-rostral-sheath-smalltooth-sawfish

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Today, you’ll learn about a new method to cryopreserve parts of the brain for later use, the personality changes that happen after organ transplants, and how fungicides cause dangerous fungi to self-destruct.

Cryopreservation

• “Effective cryopreservation of human brain tissue and neural organoids.” by Weiwei Xue, et al. 2024.
• “Brain organoids: Establishment and application.” by Hao Chen, et al. 2022.

Personality Transplant

• “Personality Changes Associated with Organ Transplants.” by Brian Carter, et al. 2024.
• https://www.mdpi.com/2673-3943/5/1/2
• “Does changing the heart mean changing personality? A retrospective inquiry on 47 heart transplant patients.” by B Bunzel, et al. 1992.
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1299456/

Fungal Azoles

• “Azoles activate type I and type II programmed cell death pathways in crop pathogenic fungi.” by Martin Schuster, et al. 2024.
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48157-9
• “Leaf Blotch Disease of Wheat - Septoria tritici Blotch, Stagonospora nodorum Blotch and Tan Spot.” by Jorge David Selgado & Pierce A. Paul. 2016.
• https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-cer-07

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Today, you’ll learn about why giving babies foods with peanuts could crack the peanut allergy problem, a wild discovery of cancer treatment 4,000 years ago, and the sneaky way cuckoos evolve to look like other birds so they can live in their nests.

Peanut Allergy

• “Giving young children peanut products cuts allergy risk, study finds.” by Ian Sample. 2024.
• “Peanut Allergies.” Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 2024.
• “Follow-up to Adolescence after Early Peanut Introduction for Allergy Prevention.” by George Du Toit, et al. 2024.

Ancient Cancer Treatment

• “‘Extraordinary’ 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull may show signs of attempts to treat cancer.” EurekAlert! 2024.
• “Case report: Boundaries of oncological and traumatological medical care in ancient Egypt: new palaeopathological insights from two human skulls.” by Tatiana Tondini, et al. 2024.

Cuckoo Evolution

• “Cuckoos evolve to look like their hosts - and form new species in the process.” University of Cambridge. 2024.
• “Cuckoo guide: why they call ‘cuckoo’, how they trick other birds, and where they go in winter.” by Megan Shersby. 2022.
• “Coevolution with hosts underpins speciation in brood-parasitic cuckoos.” by N.E. Langmore, et al. 2024.

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