Today you’ll learn about a new patch that uses ultrasonic waves to deliver medicine through the skin, research that debunks the myth of the ‘fast learner’, and evidence that a megaflood ended an environmental crisis in the Mediterranean more than five million years ago. 

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Medicine Patch   

• “Wearable Patch Can Painlessly Deliver Drugs Through the Skin.” by Anne Trafton. 2023.
  • https://news.mit.edu/2023/wearable-patch-can-painlessly-deliver-drugs-through-skin-0419
• “A Conformable Ultrasound Patch for Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Cosmeceutical Delivery.” by Chia-Chen Yu, et al. 2023.
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202300066
• “Applications of Synthetically Produced Materials in Clinical Medicine.” by Maleka P. Hashmi, et al. 2018.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/transdermal
• “Ultrasonics.” by Richard E. Berg. n.d.
  • https://www.britannica.com/science/ultrasonics

Fast Learner Myth 

• “The Myth of the Fast Learner.” by Caroline Sheedy. 2023.
  • https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/march/the-myth-of-the-fast-learner
• “An astonishing regularity in student learning rate.” by Kenneth R. Koedinger. 2023.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120

Mediterranean Mega Flood 

• “First direct proof of mega-flood in Mediterranean Sea region.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.uu.nl/en/news/first-direct-proof-of-mega-flood-in-mediterranean-sea-region
• “A terminal Messinian flooding of the Mediterranean evidenced by contouritic deposits on Sicily.” by Gijs van Dijk, et al. 2023.
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sed.13074

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Today you’ll learn about how spider and silkworm silk is being used to repair injured nerves, about a simple trick backed by science to get your kids to eat their vegetables, and about a new study on third trimester ultrasounds and healthier babies. 

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Spider Silk  

• “Silk from spiders and silkworms found to be a promising material to repair injured nerves.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-04-03-silk-spiders-and-silkworms-found-be-promising-material-repair-injured-nerves-0
• “Peripheral nerve injuries.” Mayo Clinic. 2022.
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peripheral-nerve-injuries/symptoms-causes/syc-20355631

Family Meals     

• “Effect of Longer Family Meals on Children’s Fruit and Vegetable Intake.” by Mattea Dallacker, PhD, et al. 2023.
  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802987

Pregnancy Ultrasounds

• “Giving Pregnant Women Routine Third Trimester Ultrasound Scans Could Reduce Rates of Undetected Breech Pregnancy by 71%, Enabling Better Care Before and During Labor and Improved Outcomes for Newborns.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/984712
• “Impact of point-of-care ultrasound and routine third trimester ultrasound on undiagnosed breech presentation and perinatal outcomes: An observational multicentre cohort study.” by Samantha Knights, et al. 2023.
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004192

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Today you’ll learn about how a bolt of lightning created a brand new, never before seen material, how researchers can tell how stressed you are by listening to you type on your keyboard, and a new study that suggests elephants are more like humans than we ever thought. 

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Lightning Material 

• “USF geoscientist discovers new phosphorus material after New Port Richey lightning strike.” by Cassidy Delamarter. 2023.
  • https://www.usf.edu/news/2023/usf-geoscientist-discovers-new-phosphorus-material-after-new-port-richey-lightning-strike.aspx
• “Routes to reduction of phosphate by high-energy events.” by Luca Bindi, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00736-2
• “Lightning.” National Geographic. N.d.
  • https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/lightning?loggedin=true&rnd=1681824031573

Typing Stress 

• “Detecting stress in the office from how people type and click.” by Christoph Elhardt. 2023.
  • https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/04/detecting-stress-in-the-office-from-how-people-type-and-click.html
• “Workplace Stress.” OSHA. N.D.
  • https://www.osha.gov/workplace-stress

Domesticated Elephants 

• “Elephants may be domesticating themselves.” by Virginia Morell. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/elephants-may-be-domesticating-themselves
• “Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication.” by Limor Raviv, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120
• “You Asked: How are pets different from wild animals?” by Katherine J. Wu. 2018.
  • https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/asked-pets-different-wild-animals/

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Today you’ll learn how the language we speak leaves a unique pattern in our brain’s wiring, about proof that people 3,000 years ago on an island in the Mediterranean were using hallucinogens, and how bad our memories actually are, and why. 

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Brain Language   

• “Your brain wires itself to match your native language.” by Elise Cutts. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-wires-native-language-neurons
• “Native language differences in the structural connectome of the human brain.” By Xuehu Wei, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811923001015
• “Your brain wires itself to match your native language.” by Elise Cutts. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-wires-native-language-neurons
• “Native language differences in the structural connectome of the human brain.” By Xuehu Wei, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811923001015

Ancient Hallucinogens 

• “Hair analysis reveals Europe’s oldest physical evidence of drug use.” by Bruce Bower. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hair-europe-oldest-evidence-drug-use
• “Bronze-age people took hallucinogenic drugs in Menorca, study reveals.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/07/bronze-age-people-hallucinogenic-drugs-menorca-study
• “Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age Menorca (Western Mediterranean) from human hair analysis.” by E. Guerra-Doce, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2

Unreliable Memory

• “Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds, scientists find.” by Nicola Davis. 2023.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/05/short-term-memory-illusions-study

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Today you’ll learn how to detect lies, how bears can help scientists prevent blood clots, and how the moon might have been created in just a few hours. 

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Lying Signals  

• “LieLab: the devil is in the details.” University of Amsterdam. 2023.
  • https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/press-releases/2023/03/lielab-the-devil-is-in-the-details.html?cb&cb&cb&cb&cb
• “Top 10 Signs That Someone Is Lying.” by Rachel Drummond. N.d.
  • https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/10-signs-someone-is-lying
• “The Use The Best Heuristic facilitates deception detection.jpg.” Graphic. 2023.
  • https://figshare.com/articles/poster/The_Use_The_Best_Heuristic_facilitates_deception_detection_jpg/22128818

Hibernation Blood Clots    

• “Hibernating bears don’t get blood clots. Now scientists know why.” by Ole Frobert. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hibernating-bears-blood-clots

Moon Creation  

• “Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal.” by Frank Tavares. 2022.
  • https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/lunar-origins-simulations
• “New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin.” YouTube. 2023.
  • https://youtu.be/kRlhlCWplqk

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Today you’ll learn about a gizmo that can repel sharks and potentially bring them back from the brink of extinction, how our brains’ internal compasses work, and how scientists learn about the sleeping habits of seals. 

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Shark Repellant 

• “These devices use an electric field to scare sharks from fishing hooks.” by Darren Incorvaia. 2022.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/device-electric-field-scare-sharks-fishing-hooks

Brain Internal Compass

• “How the brain's 'internal compass' works” by McGill
  • https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/how-brains-internal-compass-works-347094
• “Population dynamics of head-direction neurons during drift and reorientation” by Zaki Ajabi et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05813-2

Sleeping Seals  

• “Seals snooze during 20-minute ‘sleeping dives’ to avoid predators.” by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira. 2023.
  • https://www.popsci.com/environment/seals-sleep-swimming/

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Today you’ll learn about a robot that can resurrect bees from near death, how oral transmission shapes the way music evolves, and the huge power of the tiny cranberry to stave off urinary tract infections. 

Robotic Beehive  

• “Robotic Beehive Resuscitates Honeybee Colony from Fatal Winter Cold.” by Abigail Eisenstadt. 2023. 
  • https://www.aaas.org/news/robotic-beehive-resuscitates-honeybee-colony-fatal-winter-cold
• “Are honeybees dying off? It depends on whom you ask.” by Stephanie Sigafoos & Molly Bilinski. 2021. 
  • https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-science-bees-4539519fb935484e017861a0c0cec79a

Oral Transmission

• “New Research Shows How Cultural Transmission Shapes the Evolution of Music.” n.a. 2023. 
  • https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-03-22-new-research-shows-how-cultural-transmission-shapes-evolution-music
• “Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution.” by Manuel Anglada-Tort, et al. 2023. 
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223002439

Cranberry Juice & UTIs 

• “A myth no more: Cranberry products can prevent urinary tract infections for women.” n.a. 2023. 
  • https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-myth-no-more-cranberry-products-can-prevent-urinary-tract-infections-for-women
• “Urinary tract infection (UTI).” Mayo Clinic. 2022. 
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/urinary-tract-infection/symptoms-causes/syc-20353447
• “Understanding UTIs Across the Lifespan.” n.a. 2016. 
  • https://www.urologyhealth.org/healthy-living/urologyhealth-extra/magazine-archives/summer-2016/understanding-utis-across-the-lifespan

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists finally learned how to manipulate quantum light, the effects of noise on your health, and how kids today are developing fewer food allergies. 

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Noise Pollution    

• “Lizards at US Army installation are stress eating during flyovers” by Mischa Dijkstra
  • https://blog.frontiersin.org/2023/03/29/frontiers-amphibian-reptile-science-colorado-checkered-whiptails-noise-pollution/
• “Behavior, stress and metabolism of a parthenogenic lizard in response to flyover noise” by Megen E. Kepas et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/famrs.2023.1129253/full
• “The Effects of Noise on Health” by Stephanie Dutchen
  • https://hms.harvard.edu/magazine/viral-world/effects-noise-health
• “SOUND LIMITERS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” by Graeme Nash
  • https://www.daftonline.co.uk/sound-limiters-weddings-need-know#:~:text=Most%20live%20amplified%20rock%20%26%20pop,NOT%20a%20%E2%80%9Ctenth%E2%80%9D%20louder.
• “Noise Sources and Their Effects” by Purdue
  • https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm
• “Criteria for Designating Wildlife Species of Special Concern” by Boulder County
  • https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bccp-designating-wildlife-species-of-special-concern-20131112.pdf
• “ketones and diabetes” by Diabetes UK
  • https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/managing-your-diabetes/ketones-and-diabetes#:~:text=Ketones%20are%20a%20type%20of,without%20it%20being%20a%20problem.
• “Noise pollution is hurting animals – and we don’t even know how much” by Fay E. Clark and Jacob Dunn
  • https://theconversation.com/noise-pollution-is-hurting-animals-and-we-dont-even-know-how-much-186408
• “Fear responses to noises in domestic dogs: Prevalence, risk factors and co-occurrence with other fear related behaviour” by Emily J. Blackwell et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016815911200367X?casa_token=hWzg_YfSMNAAAAAA:Cs1o0BRqlGssuYANFCEhFUcQ8LL5ooZdQUB_Jlqz3U8AGI42qCZ8No9bgre8Uu4nL1OpxFew
• “From Soundwave to Soundscape: A Guide to Acoustic Research in Captive Animal Environments” by Fay E. Clark and Jacob C. Dunn
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2022.889117/full

Quantum Light 

• “Scientists Finally Manipulate Quantum Light, Fulfilling Einstein's 107-Year-Old Dream” by Tim Newcomb
  • https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-finally-manipulate-quantum-light-141000650.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMtAq9Zay0TzKLyKHnDSFVvL1q1Qr6j4nprKUiAZulzrf-tBjMbBscJ5NSdVhSFp9-mowNuQhLKbYq0hbUzaEyHjGb9P6mlKJV6nKce9FYpYYImaIqQUQtbUibDtYY5A6oU0IpPoVGuxAdCg5mZsXp2FfzfakXBzE-adQwZsOjSe
• “Photon bound state dynamics from a single artificial atom” by Natasha Tomm et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01997-6?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_DEEPLINK&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=PID100107765&CJEVENT=55514f92cfe911ed811000e50a1cb829
• “Scientists open door to manipulating 'quantum light'” by The University of Sydney
  • https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/03/21/scientists-open-door-to-manipulating-quantum-light-usyd-physics.html
• “Spontaneous emission” by Wikipedia
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_emission
• “This Month in Physics History” by APSNews
  • https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200508/history.cfm

Pets & Food Allergies 

• “Preschoolers with pets have fewer food allergies” by PLOS
  • https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/preschoolers-with-pets-have-fewer-food-allergies
• “Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour” by David P. Groenewald et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282354
• “Living with cats or dogs may lower children’s risk of food allergies” By Dan Hurley
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/03/29/dogs-cats-children-food-allergies/

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Today you’ll learn about why younger men have started taking Viagra, how Meta is trying to get rid of bias in AI, and about a dog named Hacho with some mysterious behavioral issues. 

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Viagra

• “In Conversation: How Viagra became a new ‘tool’ for young men.” by Yasemin Nicola Sakay. 2022.
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/in-conversation-how-viagra-became-a-new-tool-for-young-men#3-men-on-their-experiences-with-Viagra
• “The shocking reasons why thousands of young men are resorting to Viagra: With increasing numbers of the under-30s affected by impotence, experts warn that relying on the little blue pills may be masking serious health dangers.” by Lois Rogers. 2020.
  • https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8783089/The-shocking-reasons-thousands-young-men-resorting-Viagra.html

Inclusive AI 

• “Meta attempts a new, more ‘inclusive’ AI training dataset.” by Andrew Paul. 2023.
  • https://www.popsci.com/technology/meta-ai-casual-conversations-v2/
• “Introducing Casual Conversations v2: A more inclusive dataset to measure fairness.” Meta. 2023.
  • https://ai.facebook.com/blog/casual-conversations-v2-dataset-measure-fairness/
• “There’s More to AI Bias Than Biased Data, NIST Report Highlights.” n.a. 2022.
  • https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/03/theres-more-ai-bias-biased-data-nist-report-highlights
• “What is Artificial Intelligence?” by Alyssa Schroer. 2023.
  • https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence

Mind-Body Connection in Dogs 

• “The Body-Mind Connection in Dogs.” by Wedny Lyons Sunshine, MA. 2023.
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tender-paws/202303/the-body-mind-connection-in-dogs
• “Behavioural disorder in a dog with congenital agenesis of the vomeronasal organ and the septum pellucidum.” by Susan Muniz-de Miguel, et al. 2023.
  • https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/vrc2.571

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Today you’ll learn about a marathoner that can give DC superhero The Flash a run for his money, how drinking alcohol can lead to stomach cancer, and that your coffee bean bag is actually telling you something. 

Watch THE FLASH only in theaters. Get Tickets Now. Rated PG 13.

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Real Life Flash 

• “The incredible science behind Eliud Kipchoge’s 1:59 marathon.” by Herbert Neubauer. 2019.
  • https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eliud-kipchoge-ineos-159-marathon

Stomach Cancer 

• “East Asians more likely to develop stomach cancer because of lower alcohol tolerance, new study says” by Angela Yang
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/east-asians-likely-develop-stomach-cancer-lower-alcohol-tolerance-new-rcna75329
• “Multiancestry genomic and transcriptomic analysis of gastric cancer” by Yasushi Totoki et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01333-x
• “Key Statistics About Stomach Cancer” by American Cancer Society
  • https://www.cancer.org/cancer/stomach-cancer/about/key-statistics.html
• “Problem drinking, wellbeing and mortality risk in Chinese men: findings from the China Kadoorie Biobank” by Pek Kei Im et al.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7156287/
• “East Asians more likely to have stomach cancer due to lower alcohol tolerance, study finds” by Carl Samson
  • https://finance.yahoo.com/news/east-asians-more-likely-stomach-205137231.html

Hole in Coffee Bag  

• “Here’s What That Hole in Your Coffee Bag Is For” by Sarah Vincent
  • https://www.rd.com/article/why-do-coffee-bags-have-holes/
• “2022 Coffee Statistics: Consumption, Purchases, and Preferences” by Lark Allen
  • https://www.driveresearch.com/market-research-company-blog/coffee-survey/
• “The Valve on Your Coffee Bag Can Tell You How Fresh the Beans Are” by Andrea Beck
  • https://www.bhg.com/news/coffee-bag-valve/#:~:text=A%20valve%20allows%20carbon%20dioxide,bag%20of%20coffee%20to%20buy.
• “HOW DOES A DEGASSING VALVE WORK” by Wojin
  • https://www.wojinvalve.com/blog/how-does-a-degassing-valve-work.html
• “Coffee Degassing; What Does It Mean For Brewers & Roasters?” by Perfect Daily Grind
  • https://perfectdailygrind.com/2019/01/why-does-coffee-degas-what-does-it-mean-for-brewers-roasters/
• “What is that hole in your coffee bag?” by Shann Bosnell
  • https://bbcr.ca/en/blogs/news/what-is-that-hole-in-your-coffee-bag

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