Curiosity Weekly

Today you’ll learn about how doctors are successfully using double lung transplants for cancer patients, how blue whale behavior changes with environmental conditions, and how the history of the polygraph machine may have been based on a lie. 

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Double Lung Transplant  

• “New double lung transplant technique is successful in two late-stage cancer patients.” by Kaitlin Sullivan and Kate Snow. 2023.
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/new-double-lung-transplant-technique-successful-two-late-stage-cancer-rcna74886
• “250 days and counting: Waiting on new lungs after Covid.” by Erika Edwards. 2022.
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-lungs-patients-wait-new-lungs-covid-rcna22049
• “New guidelines would nearly double lung cancer screenings, benefit more women and Black people.” by Kelsie Sandoval. 2020.
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/new-guidelines-would-nearly-double-lung-cancer-screenings-benefit-more-n1233069
• Cancer death rates are falling. Advances in lung cancer treatment are playing a major role.” by Erika Edwards. 2020.
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/cancer-death-rates-are-falling-advances-lung-cancer-treatment-are-n1111706

Blue Whale Behavior 

• “Blue whale foraging and reproduction are related to environmental conditions, study shows” by OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/981187
• “Environmental conditions and marine heatwaves influence blue whale foraging and reproductive effort” by Dawn R. Barlow et al.
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.9770
• “Context-dependent variability in blue whale acoustic behaviour” by Leah A. Lewis et al.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6124089/
• “Blue Whale” by Discovery of Sound in the Sea and University of Rhode Island
  • https://dosits.org/galleries/audio-gallery/marine-mammals/baleen-whales/blue-whale/#:~:text=D%20calls%20are%20produced%20by,not%20have%20obvious%20geographic%20variation.
• “The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria” by The IUCN Red List
  • https://www.iucnredlist.org/#:~:text=It%20divides%20species%20into%20nine,in%20the%20Wild%20and%20Extinct.

Lie Detector

• “The Lie Detector Was Never Very Good at Telling the Truth” by Amit Katwala
  • https://www.wired.com/story/lie-detector-never-very-good-at-telling-truth/
• “Lie Detectors Are Junk Science, but We Keep Using Them” by KATRINA GULLIVER
  • https://reason.com/2023/03/07/lie-detectors-are-junk-science-but-we-keep-using-them/
• “What's the Deal with Lie Detectors?” by Michelle Kaminsky
  • https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/whats-the-deal-with-lie-detectors#:~:text=Although%20the%20science%20is%20questionable,make%20people%20tell%20the%20truth.
• “The Effectiveness and Future of Polygraph Testing” by EBPSociety
  • https://www.ebpsociety.org/blog/education/444-the-effectiveness-and-future-of-polygraph-testing

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Today you’ll learn about how being close to the ones you love makes your physical health better, how broken heart syndrome is actually real, and how walking for as little as five minutes every half hour can reverse a lot of damage caused by sitting. 

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Social Rewards 

• “Social Relationships Affect How Your Body Responds to Stress” by Jenalee Doom
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/origins-of-health/202303/social-relationships-affect-how-your-body-responds-to-stress
• “The Rewarding Nature of Social Interactions” by Sören Krach et al.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889690/
• “Social Relationships and Ambulatory Blood Pressure: Structural and Qualitative Predictors of Cardiovascular Function During Everyday Social Interactions” by Julianne Holt-Lunstad et al.
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10597064_Social_Relationships_and_Ambulatory_Blood_Pressure_Structural_and_Qualitative_Predictors_of_Cardiovascular_Function_During_Everyday_Social_Interactions

Broken Heart Syndrome

• “Why the heart breaks; Medical Associates expert explains broken heart syndrome” by Pamela Glennon
  • https://www.mercyone.org/dubuque/about-us/news-releases/why-the-heart-breaks;-medical-associates-expert-explains-broken-heart-syndrome
• “Healthy Maryland woman who essentially died of broken heart syndrome brought back to life” By Mindy Basara
  • https://abc7chicago.com/what-is-broken-heart-syndrome-near-death-experience-symptoms-attack/12930136/
• “A broken heart is a real, potentially fatal condition, explains cardiologist” by KGAN
  • https://cbs2iowa.com/sponsored/circle-of-care/a-broken-heart-is-a-real-potentially-fatal-condition-explains-cardiologist

5 Min Walks 

• “Short walking breaks can offset the harms of sitting too much, research shows.” by Jarred Hill & Dana Carullo. 2023.
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walking-health-sitting-research/
• “Even if you exercise, too much sitting time is bad.” by Robert Preidt. 2016.
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/even-if-you-exercise-prolonged-sitting-time-is-bad-for-heart-health/
• “How much exercise does your heart really need?” by Mary Brophy Marcus. 2016.
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-exercise-does-your-heart-really-need/

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Today you’ll learn about how new discoveries are being made from the fire that nearly destroyed Notre-Dame, how there’s more hypoxia in our rivers than previously thought, and a new theory as to how gravity might be a cause of IBS. 

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Notre-Dame Fire 

• “The 2019 Notre-Dame Fire Revealed Iron Staples Holding the Cathedral Together.” by Sarah Kuta. 2023.
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/notre-dame-is-held-together-with-large-iron-staples-180981824/
• “Unraveling the Secrets of the Sarcophagi Found Beneath Notre-Dame Cathedral.” by Sarah Kuta. 2022.
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/unraveling-the-secrets-of-the-sarcophagi-found-underneath-notre-dame-180981305/
• “Five Things We’ve Learned in the Aftermath of the Notre-Dame Fire.” by Meilan Solly. 2019.
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-weve-learned-aftermath-notre-dame-fire-180971998/

Hypoxia

• “Global study of hypoxia in rivers shows it is more prevalent than previously thought.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://beta.nsf.gov/news/global-study-hypoxia-rivers-shows-it-more
• “Hypoxia.” NOAA. n.d.
  • https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/hypoxia/#:~:text=In%20ocean%20and%20freshwater%20environments,to%20the%20bottom%2C%20and%20decompose.

Gravity and IBS

• “The Rogue Theory That Gravity Causes IBS.” by Jessica Wapner. 2023.
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/03/gravity-cause-disease-irritable-bowel-syndrome-theory/673407/
• “Dry Immersion as a Ground-Based Model of Microgravity Physiological Effects.” by Elena Tomilovskaya, et al. 2019.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446883/pdf/fphys-10-00284.pdf
• “Gravity and the Gut: A Hypothesis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.” by Brennan Spiegel. 2022.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9722391/

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Today you’ll learn about the SpaceX Dragon Capsule, which recently landed back on Earth after visiting the ISS, how scientists are trying to build robots with a brain, and how a potential new treatment for cancer is seeing success in Israel. 

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SpaceX Crew Returns 

• SpaceX's Crew-5 mission returns to earth after five months in space
  • https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacexs-crew-5-mission-safely-returns-to-earth-after-five-months-in-space-184759470.html
• “CST-100 Starliner.” n.a. N.d.
  • https://www.boeing.com/space/starliner/
• “Starship.” SpaceX Website.
  • https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/
• “SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down with Crew-5 astronauts after 157 days in space.” by Josh Dinner. 2023.
  • https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-5-astronauts-splashdown-success
• “Crew Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on Crew-5 mission.” by Justin Davenport. 2023.
  • https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/03/crew-5-return/

Robots With Brains 

• “Flinders University scientist use biology from insects to build robots with a brain.” by Nathan Jeffay. 2023.
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-13/flinders-university-scientists-use-insect-biology-to-build-robot/102080380
• “Boston Dynamics says AI advances for Spot the robo-dog are coming.” by Sharon Goldman. 2022.
  • https://venturebeat.com/ai/boston-dynamics-says-ai-advances-for-spot-the-robo-dog-are-coming/

Cancer Treatment 

• “Israeli scientists say substance prevents cancer's spread in mice with 90% success.” by Nathan Jeffay. 2023.
  • https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-scientists-say-substance-prevents-cancers-spread-in-mice-with-90-success/
• “A novel Pyk2-derived peptide inhibits invadopodia-mediated breast cancer metastasis.” by Shams Twafra, et al. 2022.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41388-022-02481-w
• “Metastatic Breast Cancer.” by Oliver Peart. 2017.
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28500107/

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Today you’ll learn about how video calls can add to social anxiety, how new technology is able to discover the secrets of the Denali Fault, and what goes into designing a new spacesuit for astronauts! 

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Zoom Doom

• “Alcohol and Zoom: A Recipe for Depression?” by Renee Engeln PhD. 2023.
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beauty-sick/202303/alcohol-and-zoom-a-recipe-for-depression
• “Where to Look? Alcohol, Affect, and Gaze Behavior During a Virtual Social Interaction.” by Talia Ariss, et al. 2022.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026221096449
• “Self-focused attention and negative affect: a meta-analysis.” by Nilly Mor & Jennifer Winquist. 2002.
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12081086/

Denali Fault

• “Researchers uncover secrets of how Alaska’s Denali Fault formed.” N.A. 2023.
  • https://beta.nsf.gov/news/researchers-uncover-secrets-how-alaskas-denali
• “Collaborative Research: Understanding lithospheric structure and deformation in Alaska via integration of seismic imaging and geodynamic modeling.” By Karen M. Fischer, et al. 2022.
  • https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829401&HistoricalAwards=false
• “Denali’s Fault.” N.A. 2003.
  • https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/denali

Modern Moon Suit

• “NASA unveils new spacesuit specially tailored for lunar wear.” By Steve Gorman. 2023.
  • https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/nasa-unveils-new-spacesuit-specially-tailored-lunar-wear-2023-03-15/
• “Why did we stop going to the Moon?” n.a. N.d.
  • https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/why-did-we-stop-going-moon

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Today you’ll learn about what long lost genomes from the last ice age teach us about ancient hunter-gatherers, how a covid-era obsession helped make a resilient new material, and a proposal to create something very controversial: the world’s first octopus farm. 

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Ice Age Survivors 

• “Ice age survivors” by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • https://www.mpg.de/19941740/0223-evan-ice-age-survivors-150495-x
• “Large-scale genomic analysis documents migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers” by UNM Newsroom
  • https://news.unm.edu/news/large-scale-genomic-analysis-documents-migrations-of-ice-age-hunter-gatherers

Micro Knots

• “Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough” by Robert Perkins
  • https://phys.org/news/2023-03-smaller-human-hair-materials-unusually.html
• “Knots are not for naught: Design, properties, and topology of hierarchical intertwined microarchitected materials” by WIDIANTO P. MOESTOPO et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade6725

Octopus Farm 

• “World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists” by Claire Marshall
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64814781
• “The world's first octopus farm - should it go ahead?” by Claire Marshall
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59667645
• “Live chilling of turbot and subsequent effect on behaviour, muscle stiffness, muscle quality, blood gases and chemistry” by B Roth, AK Imsland and A Foss
  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/abs/live-chilling-of-turbot-and-subsequent-effect-on-behaviour-muscle-stiffness-muscle-quality-blood-gases-and-chemistry/9578F848E35B0E1C7AD1A6B7DFAD7B21
• “Nitrogen and Water” By Water Science School
  • https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/nitrogen-and-water#:~:text=Excess%20nitrogen%20can%20harm%20water,block%20light%20to%20deeper%20waters.

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Today you’ll learn about a new blood test that’s been developed to assess anxiety, what’s really happening neurologically that causes “mommy brain”, and how a spy may be trying to contact you on Linkedin. 

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Anxiety Blood Test 

• “New Blood Test Developed for Anxiety.” by Molly Campbell. 2023.
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/diagnostics/news/new-blood-test-developed-for-anxiety-370924
• “Towards precision medicine for anxiety disorders: objective assessment, risk prediction, pharmacogenomics, and repurposed drugs.” by K. Roseberry, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-01998-0.epdf?sharing_token=A_OVn-2tf6gm60iaVPZdWdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MyeujxVLAkzaxt_CaMLY7ZaRfpz9zAsO4tWHEF8YKxBLdDtmJkJRjAWo509jvwUBP5hijhPKQPxNuHjKsmH4tNQeZ0PMPrViLREnNhKOnJhhs24tbaOQChY251qZ_Qo9E%3D
• “Post-traumatic stress disorder.” Mayo Clinic. N.d.
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20355967

Mommy Brain

• “‘Mommy brain’ doesn’t capture how the brain transforms during pregnancy.” by Aimee Cunningham. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mommy-brain-transforms-pregnancy
• “Becoming a mother entails anatomical changes in the ventral striatum of the human brain that facilitate its responsiveness to offspring cues.” by Elseline Hoekzema, et al. 2019. .
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31757430/
• “Pregnancy and adolescence entail similar neuroanatomical adaptations: A comparative analysis of cerebral morphometric changes.” by Susanna Carmona, et al. 2019.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6865685/
• “It’s Time to Rebrand ‘Mommy Brain’.” by Clare McCormack, et al. 2023.
  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2801288

Linkedin Spy

• “A Spy Wants to Connect With You on LinkedIn” by Jennifer Conrad and Matt Burgess
  • https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-fake-profiles-state-actors-scams/
• “OPERATION IN(TER)CEPTION: TARGETED ATTACKS AGAINST EUROPEAN AEROSPACE AND MILITARY COMPANIES” by Dominik Breitenbacher and Kaspars Otis
  • https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ESET_Operation_Interception.pdf
• “Community Report” by LinkedIn Transparency
  • https://about.linkedin.com/transparency/community-report

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Today you’ll learn about how our genes can predict how many kids we’ll have, how scientists have created a new method of sucking up CO2 from the atmosphere, and how a baby mouse was born from two biologically male mice! 

Genetic Fertility

• “Genetic variants influencing human fertility identified - new research.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-03-02-genetic-variants-influencing-human-fertility-identified-new-research
• “Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus.” By Mathieson, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01528-6
• “The challenge of detecting recent natural selection in human populations.” by Mills & Mathieson. 2022.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2203237119

CO2 Suck Up

• “Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise.” By Matt McGrath. 2023.
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64886116
• “Carbon capture: What is it and how does it fight climate change?” by Jonah Fisher. 2023.
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64723497
• “Direct air capture (DAC) and sequestration of CO2: Dramatic effect of coordinated Cu(ll) onto a chelating weak base ion exchanger.” by Hao Chen, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1956
• “How much is a ton of carbon dioxide?” by Kathryn Tso. 2020.
  • https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-ton-carbon-dioxide

2 Dad Mice

• “The mice with two dads: scientists create eggs from male cells” by Heidi Ledford & Max Kozlov
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00717-7
• “Healthy mice from same-sex parents have their own pups” by Jeremy Rehm
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-0699

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Today you’ll learn about how fruit flies are inspiring new forms of gameplay in basketball, how IQ levels are falling around the country, and a potential solution to difficult-to-recycle plastics! 

Basketball Positions 

• “Physics model could optimize basketball player positioning” by Kathy Hovis
• https://phys.org/news/2023-03-physics-optimize-basketball-player-positioning.html
• “Fruit flies and electrons: Researchers use physics to predict crowd behavior” by Linda B. Glaser
• https://phys.org/news/2018-08-fruit-flies-electrons-physics-crowd.html
• “Density-functional fluctuation theory of crowds” by J. Felipe Méndez-Valderrama et al.
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05750-z#Abs1

Self-Healing Plastic 

• “Researchers build hard, self-healing plastic that can be reshaped and recycled” by Wageningen University
• https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hard-self-healing-plastic-reshaped-recycled.html
• “Hard plastics can be recycled if they are constructed differently” by Maarten Smulders
• https://www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/show-home/hard-plastics-can-be-recycled-if-they-are-constructed-differently.htm

IQ Decline

• “Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows” by Shelby Kearns
  • https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21483
• “Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project” by Elizabeth M. Dworak et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156#f0005
• “Online tests suggest IQ scores in US dropped for the first time in nearly a century” by Bob Yirka
  • https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html
• “IQ Scores In The US Have Recently Dropped For First Time This Century” by Tom Hale
  • https://www.iflscience.com/iq-scores-in-the-us-have-recently-dropped-for-first-time-this-century-67907

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Today you’ll learn about controversial research by NASA suggesting that extinction-level asteroids may have hit Earth more often than we thought, how scientists are working to create electricity out of thin air, and the effects of using exclusively male mice in scientific research.  

Species-Ending Asteroids     

• “Species-Ending Asteroids Hit Earth More Often Than We Realized, NASA Research Suggests.” by Sarah Wells. 2023.
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxpag/species-ending-asteroids-hit-earth-more-often-that-we-realized-nasa-research-suggests
• “REASSESSING THE PAST MILLION YEARS OF NEO IMPACT CRATERING ON EARTH VIA HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHY.” by J.B. Garvin, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/2608.pdf
• “Dr. James B Garvin.” Bio. n.d.
  • https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/james.b.garvin

Air Into Electricity  

• “Newly discovered enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy” by Monash University
  • https://phys.org/news/2023-03-newly-enzyme-air-electricity-source.html
• “Structural basis for bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen” by Rhys Grinter et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05781-7
• “The enzyme that could help make energy dreams come true” by Rhys Grinter, Ashleigh Kropp, and Chris Greening
  • https://lens.monash.edu/@medicine-health/2023/03/09/1385541/the-enzyme-that-could-help-make-energy-dreams-come-true

Female Mice

• “The Case for Female Mice in Neuroscience Research.” by Catherine Caruso. 2023
  • https://hms.harvard.edu/news/case-female-mice-neuroscience-research
• “Considering sex as a biological variable will require a global shift in science culture.” by Rebecca M. Shansky & Anne Z. Murphy. 2021.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00806-8
• “Sex bias in neuroscience and biomedical research.” by Annaliese K. Beery & Irving Zucker. 2011.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763410001156?via%3Dihub

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