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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Today, you’ll learn about the lifelong learning of chimps, a mysterious strange signal from space, and the possible treatment for depression that involves heating up the body.

Chimp Tools

• “Chimps are lifelong learners, study on tool use shows.” by Charles Mpaka. 2024.
• “Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees.” by Mathieu Malherbe, et al. 2024.

Space Radio

• “A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled.” by Manisha Caleb & Emil Lenc. 2024.
• “An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period.” by M. Caleb, et al. 2024.

Hyperthermia Treatment

• “Whole-body hyperthermia shows promising antidepressant effects through anti-inflammatory pathways.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
• “The antidepressant effect of whole-body hyperthermia is associated with the classical interleukin-6 signaling pathway.” by Naoise Mac Giollabhui, et al. 2024.

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Today, you’ll learn about how when chimpanzees can’t figure out how to do something they get their friends to teach them, a potential breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer, and how singing repairs the brain after a stroke.

Chimpanzee Learning

• “Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate.” by Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, et al. 2024.
• “Like Humans, Bumblebees and Chimpanzees Can Pass on Their Skills to Form ‘Cumulative Culture’.” by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes. 2024.

Breast Cancer Gel

• “Scientists make potential breast cancer breakthrough after preserving tissue in gel.” by Matthew Weaver. 2024.
• “Breast cancer statistics.” Cancer Research UK. n.d.

Singing Brain Repair

• “Singing repairs the language network of the brain after a cerebrovascular accident.” University of Helsinki. 2024.
• “Vocal music boosts the recovery of language functions after stroke.” University of Helsinki. 2021.

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Today, you’ll learn about the remarkable social memory of chimps, the gut bacteria that could help fight cancer, and how gene therapy might one day help you out with that pesky lower back pain.

Chimp Memory

• “Chimps Can Still Remember Faces After a Quarter Century.” by Carl Zimmer. 2023.
• “Bonobos and chimpanzees remember familiar conspecifics for decades.” by Laura S. Lewis, et al. 2023.

Bacterial Tumor Killer

• “Gut bacteria boost immune response to fight tumors.” by Marta Wegorzewska. 2024.
• “The Human Microbiome and Its Impacts on Health.” by Grace A. Ogunrinola, et al. 2020.

Gene Disc Repair

• “Gene therapy relieves back pain, repairs damaged disc in mice.” by Emily Caldwell. 2024.
• “Increased Frequency of Low Back Pain in Recent Times: Does the Answer Lie in COVID-19?” by Sreedhar Sathu, et al. 2023.

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Today, you’ll learn about the surprising prevalence of heart abnormalities in elite athletes, how an oxytocin nasal spray might help with chronic loneliness, and a discovery that could help doctors diagnose a disease just by looking at your fingernails.

Elite Athlete Hearts

• “Why are elite athletes prone to abnormal heart rhythms?” by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel. 2024.
• “2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Join Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.” by Jose A. Joglar, et al. 2023.
• “Stroke in endurance athletes with atrial fibrillation.” by Marius Myrstad, et al. 2020.

Oxytocin & Loneliness

• “Can oxytocin help against loneliness?” Uni-Bonn. 2024.
• “Modulating Social Behavior with Oxytocin: How does it work? What does it mean?” by Patricia S. Churchland & Piotr Winkielman. 2011.
• “Relationship Between Loneliness, Psychiatric Disorders and Physical Health? A Review on the Psychological Aspects of Loneliness.” by Raheel Mushtaq, et al. 2014.
• “Oxytocin-Augmented Modular-Based Group Intervention for Loneliness: A Proof-Of-Concept Randomized Controlled Trial.” by Ruben Berger, et al. 2024.

Nail Diagnosis

• “Benign nail condition linked to rare syndrome that greatly increases cancer risk.” NIH. 2024.
• “Long Term Follow-up of Mesothelioma Patients and Their Family Members With Germline Mutations in BAP1 and Other Genes.” Study. 2024.

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Today, you’ll learn about what goes on in our brains when we sleepwalk, how playing video games might actually help us navigate the world IRL, and the endurance hunting of traditional societies.

Sleepwalker Brain

• “Scientists Discover What’s Happening Inside a Sleepwalker’s Brain.” by Rhianna-lily Smith. 2024.
• “Shared EEG correlates between non-REM parasomnia experiences and dreams.” by Jacinthe Cataldi, et al. 2024.
• “Consciousness and cortical responsiveness: a within-state study during non-rapid eye movement.” by Jaakko O. Nieminen, et al. 2016.
• “Parasomnia: what happens inside a sleepwalker’s brain?” Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. 2024.

Games & Navigation

• “Playing video games linked to enhanced wayfinding abilities.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
• “Sea Hero Quest.” Spiers Lab. n.d.
• “5 facts about Americans and video games.” by Andrew Perrin. 2018.
• “Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance.” by Emre Yavuz, et al. 2024

Endurance Hunting

• “Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey.” by Kermit Pattison. 2024.
• “Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans.” by Eugene Morin & Bruce Winterhalder. 2024.

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