Curiosity Weekly

Today we discuss how infants beat out AI when it comes to common sense, how fruit flies’ use of magnetoreceptors can teach about humans, and what depression has to do with your posture. 

Infant Common Sense 

• “Commonsense psychology in human infants and machines” by Gala Stojnić et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027723000409
• “Infants Outperform AI in “Commonsense Psychology”” by James Devitt
  • https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/february/infants-outperform-ai-in--commonsense-psychology-.html
• “Careers Up Close: Moira R. Dillon on Infants and Children, Humanlike AI, and Commonsense Psychology” by Moira R. Dillon
  • https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/careers-up-close-moira-dillon
• “AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack [Updated]” by BENJ EDWARDS
  • https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-spills-its-secrets-via-prompt-injection-attack/

Magnetoreception 

• “Animals' 'sixth sense' is more widespread than previously thought” by University of Manchester
  • https://phys.org/news/2023-02-animals-sixth-widespread-previously-thought.html
• “Essential elements of radical pair magnetosensitivity in Drosophila” by Adam A. Bradlaugh
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05735-z
• “Magnetism in Animals” by Apex Magnets
  • https://www.apexmagnets.com/news-how-tos/magnetism-in-animals/#:~:text=Animals%20known%20to%20have%20magnetoreception,conditions%20of%20the%20magnetic%20field.

Depression Posture 

• “A New Bodily Approach for Treating Anxiety and Depression” by Vanessa Lancaster
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-a-new-home/202301/a-new-bodily-approach-for-treating-anxiety-and-depression
• “Motor alterations in depression and anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis” by Emma Elkjær et al.
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36037990/
• “How can emotions be both cognitive and bodily?” by Michelle Maiese
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-014-9373-z
• “Evolution and function of multimodal courtship displays” by Clémentine Mitoyen, Cliodhna Quigley, and Leonida Fusani
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.12882

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Today you’ll learn about a robot with the ability to pick up a single drop of water, how scientists have created a computer algorithm that can predict Malaria hotspots, and what naked mole rats have to teach us about human fertility. 

One Drop Robot 

• “New robot can pick up a single drop of liquid” by Stephen Ornes
  • https://www.snexplores.org/article/innovation-2023-robot-can-pick-up-drop-of-liquid
• “On-demand, remote and lossless manipulation of biofluid droplets” by Wei Wang et al. (PAYWALL)
  • https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/mh/d2mh00695b
• “Novel soft robotic droplet manipulator for hazardous liquid cleanup” by ASHWINI SAKHARKAR
  • https://www.inceptivemind.com/novel-soft-robotic-droplet-manipulator-hazardous-liquid-cleanup/28367/
• “Soft Robotics” by Techopedia
  • https://www.techopedia.com/definition/32895/soft-robotics

Malaria Forecast 

• “WHO Coronavirus Dashboard”
  • https://covid19.who.int/
• “New analysis could help forecast malaria outbreaks” by Rob Jordan
  • https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-analysis-malaria-outbreaks.html
• “Climatic, land-use and socio-economic factors can predict malaria dynamics at fine spatial scales relevant to local health actors: Evidence from rural Madagascar” by Julie D. Pourtois et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001607
• “Estimating the local spatio‐temporal distribution of malaria from routine health information systems in areas of low health care access and reporting” by Elizabeth Hyde et al.
  • https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-021-00262-4

Naked Mole Rat Fertility 

• “Naked mole rats reveal biological secrets of lifelong fertility” by Christa Lesté-Lasserre
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2360377-naked-mole-rats-reveal-biological-secrets-of-lifelong-fertility/
• “Postnatal oogenesis leads to an exceptionally large ovarian reserve in naked mole-rats” by Miguel Angel Brieño-Enríquez et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36284-8
• “Germ cell nests in adult ovaries and an unusually large ovarian reserve in the naked mole-rat” by Ned J. Place et al.
  • https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/161/1/REP-20-0304.xml

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists are using AI to talk to animals, the discovery of new, very big, very old candidate galaxies, and how there just may be an extra layer in the earth’s inner core.

AI Animal Translator 

• “How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals” by Sophie Bushwick
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-scientists-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-animals/
• “Bat Chatter Is More Than a Cry in the Dark” By Christopher Intagliata
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/bat-chatter-is-more-than-a-cry-in-the-dark/
• “In Honeybee Dance, Direction Is Key” By Kate Wong
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-honeybee-dance-directi/

Big Old Galaxies  

• “Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist” by Daniel Strain
  • https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/webb-telescope-spots-super-old-massive-galaxies-shouldnt-exist
• “A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang” by Ivo Labbé et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05786-2
• “New space telescope to peer back at the universe’s first galaxies” by Daniel Strain
  • https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/11/10/new-space-telescope-peer-back-universes-first-galaxies
• “First Galaxies Born Sooner After Big Bang Than Thought” By Space.com Staff (from 2011; for compare/contrast on old data versus new)
  • https://www.space.com/11386-galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html
• “How Did Galaxies Form?” by David J. Eicher (from 2019; same note as above link)
  • https://astronomy.com/magazine/greatest-mysteries/2019/07/5-how-did-galaxies-form
• “Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10–12 Revealed by JWST” by Rohan P. Naidu et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9b22
• “Quasars: Brightest Objects in the Universe” By Nola Taylor Tillman
  • https://www.space.com/11386-galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html

Inner Inner Core

• “Bouncing seismic waves reveal distinct layer in Earth's inner core” by AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980308
• “Up-to-fivefold reverberating waves through the Earth’s center and distinctly anisotropic innermost inner core” by Thanh-Son Phạm & Hrvoje Tkalčić
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36074-2
• “Core” by National Geographic
  • https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/core/

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Today we discuss how early morning classes at universities could be leading to poor academic performance, how scientists uncovered the world’s oldest runestone, and a new breakthrough treatment in postpartum depression. 

School Sleep

• “Early morning university classes are associated with impaired sleep and academic performance” by Sing Chen Yeo et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01531-x
• “Study: Early Classes Connected to Poor Academic Performance” by Safia Abdulahi
  • https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/02/22/study-early-classes-connected-poor-academic-performance#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20found%20that,analyzed%20university%20students'%20digital%20traces.
• “Early Morning College Classes Correlated With Poor Academic Performance, Large Study Finds” by James Felton
  • https://www.iflscience.com/early-morning-college-classes-correlated-with-poor-academic-performance-large-study-finds-67627
• “New Study: Lack of Sleep Hurts Students’ Grades” by Scott Jaschik
  • https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/02/17/new-study-lack-sleep-hurts-students%E2%80%99-grades
• “Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college” by J. David Creswell et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209123120

Ancient Runestone 

• “Norway archaeologists find ‘world’s oldest runestone’” by Associated Press
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/norway-archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-runestone-rcna66066
• “‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the World’s Oldest” by Brigit Katz
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sensational-runestone-discovered-in-norway-may-be-the-worlds-oldest-180981470/#:~:text='Sensational'%20Runestone%20Discovered%20in%20Norway%20May%20Be%20the%20World's%20Oldest,-The%20find%20promises&text=During%20the%20fall%20of%202021,Germanic%20peoples%20of%20northern%20Europe.
• “Archaeologists in Norway find ‘world’s oldest runestone’” by Jan M. Olsen
  • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/archaeologists-in-norway-find-worlds-oldest-runestone
• “Found the world's oldest rune stone” by University of Oslo
  • https://www.khm.uio.no/english/news/found-the-world-s-oldest-rune-stone.html
• “Runic magic” by National Museum of Denmark
  • https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/runic-magic/

Postpartum Depression Pill

• “Researchers Uncover Mechanisms of Brexanolone and the Role of Inflammation in Post-partum Depression” by UNC Newsroom
  • https://news.unchealthcare.org/2023/02/researchers-uncover-mechanisms-of-brexanolone-and-the-role-of-inflammation-in-post-partum-depression/
• “Brexanolone therapeutics in post-partum depression involves inhibition of systemic inflammatory pathways” by Irina Balan et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396423000385
• “Postpartum Depression” by Cleveland Clinic
  • https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9312-postpartum-depression#management-and-treatment

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists are developing a form of birth control for men, why humans need more sleep during the winter, and how whales are giving up singing their love songs in favor of fighting for mates.

Male Contraceptive  

• “Sperm-Slowing Male Contraceptive Reversibly Inhibits Mouse Fertility” by Ruairi J Mackenzie
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/sperm-slowing-male-contraceptive-reversibly-inhibits-mouse-fertility-370207
• “On-demand male contraception via acute inhibition of soluble adenylyl cyclase” by Melanie Balbach et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36119-6

Winter Snooze

• “Humans ‘may need more sleep in winter’, study finds” by Jane Clinton
  • https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/feb/17/humans-may-need-more-sleep-in-winter-study-finds
• “Seasonality of human sleep: Polysomnographic data of a neuropsychiatric sleep clinic” by Aileen Seidler et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1105233/full
• “Feeling tired? Humans may need more sleep during the winter, new study suggests” by Wyatte Grantham-Philips
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/02/21/more-sleep-needed-winter-study/11280016002/
• “Humans need more sleep in the winter” by Alison Bosman
  • https://www.earth.com/news/humans-need-more-sleep-in-the-winter-season/

Whale Fight Songs

• “Whales give up singing to fight for love” by UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979939
• “Post-whaling shift in mating tactics in male humpback whales” by Rebecca Dunlop & Celine Frere
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04509-7
• “Global whaling peaked in the 1960s” by Hannah Richie
  • https://ourworldindata.org/whaling#:~:text=At%20its%20peak%20in%20the,to%20manage%20international%20whaling%20stocks.

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Today we discuss how the lost temple of Poseidon may have been discovered, how our circadian rhythms show what time of day is best to exercise, and how researchers decoded a stack of letters written by Mary Queen of Scots during her imprisonment. 

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Poseidon Temple 

• “A lost temple for Poseidon may have finally been rediscovered” by Sara Kiley Watson
  • https://www.popsci.com/science/poseidon-temple-tsunami-greece/
• “Strabo” by Duane W. Roller
  • https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0230.xml
• “Poseidon” by Greek Gods and Goddesses Encyclopedia
  • https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/poseidon/#:~:text=Poseidon%20was%20god%20of%20the,%2C%20Demeter%2C%20Hestia%20and%20Hera.
• “Scientists May Have Discovered the Long Lost Temple of Poseidon” by Amanda Kooser
  • https://www.cnet.com/science/scientists-may-have-discovered-long-lost-temple-of-poseidon/
• “Tsunamis buried the cult site on the Peloponnese” by Johannes Gutenberg
  • https://phys.org/news/2011-07-tsunamis-cult-site-peloponnese.html

Time to Exercise  

• “Time of day may determine the amount of fat burned by exercise” by Felicia Lindberg
  • https://news.ki.se/time-of-day-may-determine-the-amount-of-fat-burned-by-exercise
• “Time of day determines postexercise metabolism in mouse adipose tissue” by Logan A. Pendergrast et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218510120
• “What to know about circadian rhythm” by Janet Johnson
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/circadian-rhythms
• “Work out at this time of day to burn the most fat: scientists” by Adriana Diaz
  • https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/work-out-at-this-time-of-day-to-burn-the-most-fat-scientists/

Queen of Scots Letters

• “Scientists Decipher 57 Letters That Mary, Queen of Scots Wrote before Her Beheading” by Stephanie Pappas
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-decipher-50-letters-from-mary-queen-of-scotts-before-her-beheading1/
• “Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584” by George Lasry, Norbert Biermann, & Satoshi Tomokiyo
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677

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Today we discuss whether or not firing a gun filled with moon dust into space could cool down the planet, how animals that live in social groups usually live longer than solitary creatures, and a saucy discovery from ancient Rome. 

To Re-Caf Choose Decaf

• “A solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers say” by Oliver Milman
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/08/moon-dust-moonshot-geoengineering-climate-crisis
• “Dust as a solar shield” by Benjamin C. Bromley ,Sameer H. Khan, and Scott J. Kenyon
  • https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000133
• “Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast” by Oliver Milman
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis
• “Space dust as Earth's sun shield” by University of Utah
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208155658.htm#:~:text=Summary%3A,the%20impacts%20of%20climate%20change.&text=On%20a%20cold%20winter%20day,of%20the%20sun%20is%20welcome.

Mammal Groups 

• “Mammals that live in groups may live longer, longevity research suggests” by Jake Buehler
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mammals-groups-longevity-genetics
• “Correlated evolution of social organization and lifespan in mammals” by Pingfen Zhu et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-35869-7
• “An 80-Year Harvard Study Found the Secret to a Happy Life” by Bill Murphy Jr
  • https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/an-80-year-harvard-study-found-secret-to-a-happy-life-these-9-simple-habits-will-improve-yours.html

Roman Sex Toy  

• “Discarded Roman artefact may have been more than a good luck charm” by Newcastle University
  • https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2023/02/vindolandaphallus/
• “Touch wood: luck, protection, power or pleasure? A wooden phallus from Vindolanda Roman fort” by Rob Collins and Rob Sands
  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/touch-wood-luck-protection-power-or-pleasure-a-wooden-phallus-from-vindolanda-roman-fort/53F4B0838D23DB65F6A244695624102E

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Today you’ll learn about how fingerprints form, how quickly you can determine whether or not you like a song, and how ancient ancestors to homo sapiens were using tools way earlier than we thought! 

Fingerprint Formation 

• “How fingerprints form was a mystery — until now” by McKenzie Prillaman
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fingerprints-form-mystery
• “The developmental basis of fingerprint pattern formation and variation” by James D. Glover et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00045-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867423000454%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
• “All Patterns Great and Small” By Tina Hesman Saey
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/all-patterns-great-and-small
• “Pigment pas de deux puts stripes on zebrafish” by Tina Hesman Saey
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pigment-pas-de-deux-puts-stripes-zebrafish

I Love This Song

• “Knowing We Like a Song Takes Only Seconds of Listening, New Psychology Research Finds” by James Devitt
  • https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/january/knowing-we-like-a-song-takes-only-seconds-of-listening--new-psyc.html
• “The Whole is Not Different From its Parts: Music Excerpts are Representative of Songs” by Sara J. Philibotte et al.
  • https://online.ucpress.edu/mp/article-abstract/40/3/220/195231/The-Whole-is-Not-Different-From-its-PartsMusic?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Ancient Tools

• “2.9-million-year-old butchery site in Kenya suggests humans perhaps weren't first to use crafted stone tools” By Genelle Weule
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-02-10/fossils-animal-bones-stone-tools-early-hominin-east-africa/101937222
• “Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus” by THOMAS W. PLUMMER et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo7452

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Today you’ll learn about how a cure for peanut allergies could be on the way to being a reality, how scientists are looking into treatments for an unreachable itch, and how a new study reports that talking about your financial debt makes you more likely to pay it off. 

Peanut Allergy Blocker 

• “Researchers Block Allergic Reactions to Peanuts in Mice” by Sarah Wheelan
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/researchers-block-allergic-reactions-to-peanuts-in-mice-370063
• “Peanut allergen inhibition prevents anaphylaxis in a humanized mouse model” by NADA S. ALAKHRAS et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add6373
• “When peanuts are poison” by Julie McDowell
  • http://pubsapp.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v05/i05/html/05health.html#:~:text=About%203%20million%20Americans%E2%80%94children,those%20are%20attributed%20to%20peanuts.
• “Racial and Ethnic Data Reported for Peanut Allergy Epidemiology Do Little to Advance Its Cause, Treatment, or Prevention” by Nigel Mark Thomas
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.685240/full

Unreachable Itch  

• “Drug Shows Promise Against “Unreachable Itch” Condition” by Molly Campbell
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/drug-shows-promise-against-unreachable-itch-condition-370062
• “Phase 2 Trial of Difelikefalin in Notalgia Paresthetica” by Brian S. Kim et al.
  • https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2210699?query=featured_home
• “New Formulation of FDA-Approved Drug Shows Encouraging Results for Treating a Common Itch Condition” by Mount Sinai
  • https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2023/new-formulation-of-fda-approved-drug-shows-encouraging-results-for-treating-a-common-itch-condition
• “Oral Drug Shows Benefit for Notalgia Paresthetica in Mid-Stage Trial” by Elizabeth Short
  • https://www.medpagetoday.com/dermatology/generaldermatology/103021

Debt Fear

• “Fear of judgment is keeping consumers indebted – study shows peer groups can help turn that around” by UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, IVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979755
• “EXPRESS: Helping Those That Hide: Anticipated Stigmatization Drives Concealment and a Destructive Cycle of Debt” by Michael Moorhouse et al.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222437221146521

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Today we discuss how decaf coffee can curb symptoms of caffeine withdrawal, how a recent study revealed that those who are rich in money aren’t necessarily rich in intelligence, and a study that looked into cheap and effective preventative cavity treatment. 

To Re-Caf Choose Decaf

• “Decaf coffee reduces caffeine withdrawal – even when you know it’s decaf” by Matthew Warren
  • https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/decaf-coffee-reduces-caffeine-withdrawal-even-when-you-know-its-decaf
• “Reduction in caffeine withdrawal after open-label decaffeinated coffee” by Llewellyn Mills et al.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02698811221147152

How Smart Are Rich People?

• “The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners” by Marc Keuschnigg, Arnout van de Rijt, and Thijs Bol
  • https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false
• “Extreme earners are not necessarily extremely smart” by Jonas Roslund
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208125113.htm
• “Understanding the Flaws Behind the IQ Test” By Mira Lazine
  • https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/understanding-the-flaws-behind-the-iq-test

Cavities   

• “School Dental Program Prevents 80 Percent of Cavities with One-Time, Non-Invasive Treatment” by Rachel Harrison
  • https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/february/school-dental-program-prevents-80-percent-of-cavities.html
• “Effect of Silver Diamine Fluoride on Caries Arrest and Prevention” by Ryan Richard Ruff, Tamarinda Barry-Godín, and Richard Niederman
  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2801193
• “Children’s Oral Health” by CDC
  • https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/basics/childrens-oral-health/index.html

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