Today, you’ll learn how a stiff gel could one day repair your knee, the dangers of AI when it comes to creating the world’s next pandemic, and a brain-scanning AI song hit machine. 

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Cartilage Regeneration 

• “Biodegradable Gel Shows Promise for Cartilage Regeneration.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/biodegradable-gel-shows-promise-for-cartilage-regeneration-375145

Chatbot Virus

• “Could Chatbots Help Devise the Next Pandemic Virus?” by Robert F. Service. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/could-chatbots-help-devise-next-pandemic-virus

Hit Song Prediction

• “Brain Data Analysis Predicts Chart Hit Songs with Near-Perfect Accuracy.” by Ruairi J. Mackenzie. 2023.
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/informatics/news/brain-data-analysis-predicts-chart-hit-songs-with-near-perfect-accuracy-375013
• “Machine Learning Helps Researchers Identify Hit Songs With 97% Accuracy.” by Deborah Pirchner. 2023.
  • https://blog.frontiersin.org/2023/06/20/machine-learning-identify-hit-songs/

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Today, you’ll learn about a new program that sort of gives sharks smartphones, the oldest known neanderthal engravings, and houses made of diapers. 

Shark Week continues all week long on Discovery. For the latest, head to SharkWeek.com.

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Shark Sensors 

• “‘Smartphones’ for Sharks: Scientists Upgrade Sensors to Keep Track of Cape Cod’s White Sharks.” by Mark Pratt. 2023.
  • https://phys.org/news/2023-06-smartphones-sharks-scientists-sensors-track.html

Cave Engravings  

• “Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years.” by Brian Handwerk. 2023.
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/oldest-known-neanderthal-engravings-discovered-in-french-cave-180982408/
• “Who were the Neanderthals?” by Lisa Hendry. N.d.
  • https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-were-the-neanderthals.html

Diaper Houses

• “This House Was Built Partly From Recycled Diapers.” by Carolyn Gramling. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/house-built-recycled-diapers
• “Disposable Diapers Add Millions Of Tons Of Waste To Landfills Each Year, According To EPA Report.” By Baby Tooshy. 2016. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/disposable-diapers-add-millions-of-tons-of-waste-to-landfills-each-year-according-to-epa-report-300384344.html

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Today, you’ll learn about the good, the bad, and the ugly of shark repellents, how human’s thirst for groundwater is literally changing the tilt of the Earth, and how hairy moles might offer a clue to fighting hair loss. 

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Shark Deterrents  

• “Shark Deterrents are Flooding the Market.” by Nick Kilvert. 2023.
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-06-24/when-it-comes-to-shark-deterrents-here-s-what-the-science-says/102399294
• “Yearly Worldwide Shark Attack Summary.” Florida Museum. 2023.
  • https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/

Earth Axis Tilt   

• “Rampant Groundwater Pumping Has Changed the Tilt of Earth's Axis.” by Davide Castalecchi. 2023.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01993-z#Echobox=1687171115
• “Humans Have Used Enough Groundwater to Shift Earth’s Tilt.” by Aara’L Yarber. 2023.
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/27/groundwater-use-planet-earth-tilt/

Hair Loss Reversal 

• “Common Form of Hair Loss Could Be Reversed by Targeting Aged Skin Pigment Cells.” by Ruairi J. Mackenzie. 2023.
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/common-form-of-hair-loss-could-be-reversed-by-targeting-aged-skin-pigment-cells-375161

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Today, you’ll learn about eels that burrow into the hearts of sharks and feast on their blood, parrots that love to gab on video calls, and the secret of the bowhead whale’s cancer fighting superpower. 

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Shark-Eating Eels

• “Eels Have Been Found Living and Feeding On Blood Inside the Heart of Sharks.” by Rachael Funnell. 2021.
  • https://www.iflscience.com/eels-have-been-found-living-and-feeding-on-blood-inside-the-heart-of-sharks-58317

Lonely Parrots

• “Parrots Taught to Video Call Each Other Become Less Lonely, Finds Research.” by Hannah Devlin. 2023.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/21/parrots-taught-to-video-call-each-other-become-less-lonely-finds-research
• “Birds of a Feather Video-Flock Together: Design and Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Ethical Enrichment.” by Rebecca Kleinberger. 2023.
  • https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581166

Whales Repair DNA

• “Bowhead Whales May Have a Cancer-Defying Superpower: DNA Repair.” by Meghan Rosen. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bowhead-whales-cancer-dna-repair

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Today, you’ll learn how a catatonic woman’s reawakening could shake up the entire field of psychiatry, plans to stop using forever chemicals, and how scientists plan on growing crops without sunshine. 

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Catatonic Wake Up 

• “A Catatonic Woman Awakened After 20 Years. Her Story May Change Psychiatry.” by Richard Sima. 2023.
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/01/schizophrenia-autoimmune-lupus-psychiatry/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQyNTY5MzQiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjg1NTkyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjg2ODg3OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2ODU1OTIwMDAsImp0aSI6ImYyMWIyZDEwLTk1ZjEtNDg0OC04MGExLWI3ZTRmNzhiMGYzNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93ZWxsbmVzcy8yMDIzLzA2LzAxL3NjaGl6b3BocmVuaWEtYXV0b2ltbXVuZS1sdXB1cy1wc3ljaGlhdHJ5LyJ9.83LQPVKW0IfmqRqj5vgUhWwdqhDw8tuEXqqhJdq1eic
• “Lupus.” CDC. 2022.
  • https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/lupus.htm

Forever Chemicals 

• “You probably have “forever chemicals” in your body. Here’s what that means.” by Benji Jones
  • https://www.vox.com/2022/8/25/23318667/pfas-forever-chemicals-safety-drinking-water
• “PFAS and Your Health” by ATSDR
  • https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/index.html
• “Biden-Harris Administration Proposes First-Ever National Standard to Protect Communities from PFAS in Drinking Water” by EPA
  • https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-proposes-first-ever-national-standard-protect-communities
• “Low-temperature mineralization of perfluorocarboxylic acids” by BRITTANY TRANG et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm8868?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D87405751245436731003476501941219687288%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1660658873&_ga=2.228389917.183627334.1660532753-1917198022.1509206891
• “New Study Finds PFAS in Bottled Water, as Lawmakers Call for Federal Limits” by Ryan Felton
  • https://www.consumerreports.org/health/bottled-water/pfas-in-bottled-water-new-study-finds-a1111233122/

Crops With No Sun

• “Let There Be Dark.” by Robert F. Service. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/crops-grown-without-sunlight-could-help-feed-astronauts-bound-mars

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Today, you’ll learn about a high tech brain-spine interference that could revolutionize spinal injury treatments, why you might want to let your child nap as long as they want, and the ancient secrets of the smooch. 

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Post-Paralysis Walking 

• “Walking Naturally After Spinal Cord Injury/Paralysis Using a Brain-Spine Interface.” by Henri Lorach, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5
• “This Brain-Spine Interface Sidesteps Spinal Cord Injuries.” by Michael Nolan. 2023.
  • https://spectrum.ieee.org/brain-spine-interface

Important Naps   

• “Study Highlights the Importance of Napping For Memory Consolidation in Early Childhood.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2023.
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/05/study-highlights-the-importance-of-napping-for-memory-consolidation-in-early-childhood-163785

History of Kissing 

• “The Ancient History of Kissing.” by Troels Pank Arbøll & Sophie Lund Rasmussen. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf0512?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D71526409875569128722259358006205072405%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1684744647&
• “The First Kiss in Recorded History Dates BAck Nearly 5,000 Years.” by Stephanie Pappas. 2023.
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-first-kiss-in-recorded-history-dates-back-nearly-5-000-years/

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Today, you’ll learn about a way we might, one day, be able to sleep our way to the stars, why some of the world’s cities are sinking, and how babies’ brain structures could be influenced by how much we speak to them. 

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Space Hibernation 

• “Hibernation-Like State Induced by Ultrasound Could Enable Long-Distance Spaceflights.” by Ruairi J. Mackenzie. 2023.
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/hibernation-like-state-induced-by-ultrasound-could-enable-long-distance-spaceflights-373862
• “Alpha Centauri: Facts about the stars next door.” by Robert Lea. 2023.
  • https://www.space.com/18090-alpha-centauri-nearest-star-system.html

New York is Sinking

• “New York City Is Sinking. It's Far From Alone.” by Matt Simon. 2023.
  • https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-is-sinking-its-far-from-alone/
• “New York City Is Sinking Under Its Own Weight.” by Meghan Bartels. 2023.
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-york-city-is-sinking-under-its-own-weight/

Baby Talk 

• “Talking to Babies May Help Shape Brain Structure, Research Finds.”  by Nicola Davis. 2023.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/15/talking-to-babies-may-help-shape-brain-structure-research-finds

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Today you’ll learn about lab-grown meat, a world hundreds of feet below a West Antarctic glacier, and a new discovery about the mysterious behavior of ants. 

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Stem Cell Meat  

• “Cultured Meat Produced Using Immortal Stem Cells.” by Molly Campbell. 2023.
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/cultured-meat-produced-using-immortal-stem-cells-373195
• “Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds.” by Oliver Milman. 2021.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study
• “Lab-Grown Meat’s Carbon Footprint Potentially Worse Than Retail Beef.” by Amy Quinton. 2023.
  • https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-footprint-worse-beef#:~:text=Under%20that%20scenario%2C%20researchers%20found,conventional%20beef%20production%2C%20they%20calculate.
• “Yes, Lab-Grown Meat Is Vegan.” by Jude Whiley. 2023.
  • https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat-vegan-ethics-environment/

Antarctica Cavern

• “A massive cavern beneath a West Antarctic glacier is teeming with life.” by Douglas Fox. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cavern-west-antarctic-glacier-life
• “Melting and Refreezing in an Ice Shelf Basal Channel at the Grounding Line of the Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica.” by A Whiteford, et al. 2022.
  • https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021JF006532
• “The Six Moons Most Likely to Host Life in Our Solar System.” by Rebecca Boyle. 2023.
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-six-moons-most-likely-to-host-life-in-our-solar-system/#:~:text=Life%20could%20flourish%20in%20half,dwarf%20planets%20Ceres%20and%20Pluto

Ants Play Dead

• “Kangaroo Island ants 'play dead’ to avoid predators.” University of South Australia. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230509122125.htm#:~:text=Summary%3A,is%20a%20recorded%20world%20first.

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Today you’ll learn how AI might be able to read your mind, what we can learn from a woman who doesn’t feel any physical pain, and a new app that aims to change our approach to mental health treatment. 

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Brain Activity Decoder

• “Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://news.utexas.edu/2023/05/01/brain-activity-decoder-can-reveal-stories-in-peoples-minds/
• “A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading.” by Oliver Whang. 2023.
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/science/ai-speech-language.html

No Pain Molecules   

• “Study Reveals Unique Molecular Machinery of Woman Who Can't Feel Pain.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/may/study-reveals-unique-molecular-machinery-woman-who-cant-feel-pain
• “Molecular basis of FAAH-OUT-associated human pain insensitivity.” by Hajar Mikaeili, et al. 2023.
  • https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awad098/7169317?login=false

Psychiatry Tech

• “Tech Platform to Revolutionize Psychiatric Care Developed by CI MED Student and Harvard Team.” by Beth Hart. 2023
  • https://medicine.illinois.edu/news/tech-platform-to-revolutionize-psychiatric-care-developed-by-ci-med-student-and-harvard-team
• “The State Of Mental Health In America.” MHA. 2023.
  • https://mhanational.org/issues/state-mental-health-america
• “‘Asynchronous Telemedicine’ a CI MED RISE Seminar featuring Aditya Vaidyam.” YouTube Video. 2023.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuCa74jFNCI

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Today you’ll learn about the science behind near-death-experiences, why some music is made for summer, and how the lionfish is invading southern Brazil.   

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Death Hallucinations

• “Scientists Detect Brain Activity in Dying People Linked to Dreams, Hallucinations.” by Becky Ferreira. 2023.
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3p3w/scientists-detect-brain-activity-in-dying-people-linked-to-dreams-hallucinations
• “Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain.” by Gang Xu, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2216268120
• “Taking Psychedelics Helps People Face Mortality Like a Near-Death Experience, Study Finds.” by Beccy Ferreira. 2022.
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnxxw/taking-psychedelics-helps-people-face-mortality-like-a-near-death-experience-study-finds

Music and Weather

• “Here comes the sun: New study shows how UK weather conditions influence music success in the markets.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-05-04-here-comes-sun-new-study-shows-how-uk-weather-conditions-influence-music-success
• “Here comes the sun: music features of popular songs reflect prevailing weather conditions.” by Manuel Anglada-Tort, et al. 2023.
  • https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.221443

Lionfish Invasion 

• “Brazil's Invasion of Voracious Lionfish Has Reached a Worrisome Phase.” by Herton Escobar. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/brazil-s-invasion-voracious-lionfish-has-reached-worrisome-phase

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