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This week on the pod:
🌵 How extreme climatic events threaten cacti
🏥 Testing a new way to define obesity
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🗣️ How Celtic and Germanic languages spread across Europe
🧠 Why part of the brain may not be controlling emotions in the way researchers thought
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This week, the team discussed the emerging field of pet longevity — plus, a researcher decides not to care about their student reviews. Are they wrong?
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🧂 How salt marshes could protect coastal regions from super-storms
💀 Putting a face to the Denisovans
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🌳 The world may have more conservation areas than previously thought
🟫 Giant study expands list of brown fat’s health benefits
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Can adult brains grow new neurons? I had the chance to report on this fascinating question for @Nature and speak with scientists on both sides of a decades-long debate. Here's my take on it: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham.
I spent the last month investigating a massive academic scam, for @Nature
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▪️ Investigating the day-to-day impacts of Financial Abuse
▪️ How opposing forces in the Earth's core alter how the planet spins
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🧠 Human brain-organoids transplanted into mice missing their cortex
📃 The AI tool that lets researchers talk to papers
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Scientists grew human brain cells inside mice born missing a big part of their brains.
The human tissue grew to fill 90% of the space and wired into the spine.
But no, it didn't create super-smart mice. Here's what actually happened, for @Nature
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🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact.
Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇
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This week on the pod:
🌊 The world’s oceans reach a record temperature
👓 How mitochondrial injections could treat vision loss
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This week on the pod:
🌟 The star that could reveal a black hole’s spin
💀 Commercial exoskeletons are hitting the market — what now?
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Are you ready for the eclipse today? Find out what scientists hope to learn 🌚
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NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health.
The agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant", a massive shift for the biomedical funder.
My latest for @Nature
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The team discuss some of the most intriguing science news from this week:
🧬 Is DNA repair the secret to a long life?
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This week on the pod:
🦴 Ancient structures hidden beneath the Amazon’s canopy
🦑 Tiny fossils represent the earliest-known squid ancestor
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This week on the pod:
🌝 The discovery of a moon-like object in a distant star system
🧬 A discovery of a new type of rare transmissible cancer
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If someone's infected with Cyclospora, that means they've ingested trace amounts of human poop.
I break down how that happens, what the parasite does when it's inside the body to cause explosive diarrhea, and how researchers are hunting for the source.
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