Curiosity Weekly

Researchers are making small claws out of dead spiders, dandelion seeds are inspiring scientists to mimic their distribution with small sensors to be able to better track ecological information, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is helping us create a 3D map of the universe.

Undead Spiders 

• “How researchers at Rice University in Texas figured out how to revive dead spiders (sort of)” by Orlando Mayorquin
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/28/texas-dead-spiders-necrobotic-grippers/10176634002/?utm_source=usatoday-EveryonesTalking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=baseline&utm_term=hero&utm_content=USAT-8872UT-E-Everyones-Talking
• “Necrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuators” by Te Faye Yap, Zhen Liu,Anoop Rajappan, Trevor J. Shimokusu, and Daniel J. Preston
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202201174

Dandelion Drones  

• Tiny Battery-Free Devices Float in the Wind Like Dandelion Seeds by Sarah McQuate
  • https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/03/16/battery-free-devices-float-in-wind-like-dandelion-seeds/
• Wind Dispersal of Battery-Free Wireless Devices by Vikram Iyer, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04363-9
• Biomimetic Design: 10 Examples of Nature Inspiring Technology by Gertie Goddard
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/biomimetic-design-10-examples-of-nature-inspiring-technology/
• Scientists Took Cues From Helicopter Seeds to Invent Tiny Microchips That Float on Wind by Lindsay Clark
  • https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/24/microfliers_helicopter_seeds/

Dark Energy Made Light 

• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos by Adam Becker
  • https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2022/01/13/dark-energy-spectroscopic-instrument-desi-creates-largest-3d-map-of-the-cosmos/
• This Map of Distant Galaxies Could Help Untangle the Mystery of Dark Energy by Daniel Clery
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/map-distant-galaxies-could-help-untangle-mystery-dark-energy/
• The DESI Science Mission by Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
  • https://www.desi.lbl.gov/the-desi-science-mission/

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Today we discuss how a fiery pit in Turkmenistan has been burning for more than 50 years, new clues to the origins of cancer, and how ancient cities are hiding beneath the cover of forest canopies!

Gates of Hell 

• The Quest to Extinguish the Flames of Turkmenistan’s Terrifying ‘Gates of Hell’ Firepit by Jane Recker
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-quest-to-extinguish-the-flames-of-turkmenistans-terrifying-gates-of-hell-firepit-180979458/
• The 'Gates of Hell' May Finally Be Closed, Turkmenistan's President Announces by Brandon Specktor
  • https://www.livescience.com/turkmenistan-gates-of-hell-finally-closed
• The ‘Gates of Hell’ Could be Closed After Blazing for 50 Years by Sophia Smith Galer
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7v74n/turkmenistan-gates-of-hell-karakum-desert-fire
• The Gates of Hell by Atlas Obscura
  • https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-gates-of-hell-turkmenistan
• Visiting Turkmenistan's 'Gates Of Hell' by Amos Chapple
  • https://www.rferl.org/a/turkmenistan-gates-of-hell/31649260.html

Cancer Clues 

• “Whole-Genome Analysis of 12,000 Patients Reveals “Treasure Trove” of Cancer Insights” by Molly Campbell
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/whole-genome-analysis-of-12000-tumors-reveals-treasure-trove-of-cancer-insights-360811
• “Large study of whole genome sequencing data reveals 'treasure trove' of clues about causes of cancer” by ScienceDaily
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220421141552.htm

Hidden Jungle Cities

• “Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air” by Brian Handwerk
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/
• “Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon” by Heiko Prümers, Carla Jaimes Betancourt, José Iriarte, Mark Robinson & Martin Schaich
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04780-4
• “About Us” by The Earth Archive
  • http://www.theeartharchive.com/about.html

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Magic mushrooms are giving researchers hope in treating conditions like anxiety and depression, a new study may have found the key to increasing photosynthesis efficiency in plants, and research shows that we love being reached out to by old friends! 

Mushrooming Minds

• 'They Broke My Mental Shackles': Could Magic Mushrooms be the Answer to Depression? by Josh Jacobs
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/10/magic-mushrooms-treatment-depression-aztecs-psilocybin-mental-health-medicine
• Psilocybin Produces Substantial and Sustained Decreases in Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Life-Threatening Cancer: A Randomized Double-Blind Trial by Roland R. Griffiths, et al.
  • https://dx.doi.org/10.1177%2F0269881116675513
• Rapid and Sustained Symptom Reduction Following Psilocybin Treatment for Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Life-Threatening Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Stephen Ross, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116675512
• Psilocybin-Induced Decrease in Amygdala Reactivity Correlates with Enhanced Positive Mood in Healthy Volunteers by Rainer Kraehenmann, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.04.010
• Therapeutic Mechanisms of Psilocybin: Changes in Amygdala and Prefrontal Functional Connectivity during Emotional Processing after Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression by Lea J. Mertens, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0269881119895520
• Limbic System: Amygdala by The University of Texas McGovern Medical School
  • https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s4/chapter06.html

Super Plants 

• Scientists Resurrect Ancient Enzymes To Improve Photosynthesis by Krishna Ramanujan
  • https://cals.cornell.edu/news/2022/04/scientists-resurrect-ancient-enzymes-improve-photosynthesis
• Improving the Efficiency of Rubisco by Resurrecting Its Ancestors in the Family Solanaceae by Myat T. Lin, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm6871
• Scientists Take Step to Improve Crops’ Photosynthesis, Yields by Krishna Ramanujan
  • https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/08/scientists-take-step-improve-crops-photosynthesis-yields
• Small Subunits Can Determine Enzyme Kinetics of Tobacco Rubisco Expressed in Escherichia Coli by Myat T. Lin, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-00761-5

Plz Call Your Friends

• “Unexpectedly reaching out to a friend is more appreciated than people assume, new study shows” by Douglas Heingartner
  • https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/reaching-out-more-appreciated-than-assumed/
• “The Surprise of Reaching Out: Appreciated More Than We Think” by Peggy J. Liu, SoYon Rim, Lauren Min, and Kate E. Min
  • https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspi0000402.pdf

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Today we are discussing new sustainable fuels for airplanes, creating other worldly heat at home, and a new record for quantum entanglement.

Fry Flying

• “Cooking Oil Could Be the New Jet Fuel” by Caroline Delbert
  • https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a39612851/airbus-a380-flies-on-cooking-oil/ 
• “Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Status, Challenges and Prospects of Drop-In Liquid Fuels, Hydrogen and Electrification in Aviation” by Ausilio Bauen, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1595/205651320X15816756012040 
• “Global Biorenewable Development Strategies for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production” by Kok Siew Ng, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111502 
• “A Step Change Towards Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Sewage Sludge” by Muhammad Asif Bashir, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2022.105498

Gas Giants at Home

• “Finally, a Practical Use for Nuclear Fusion” by Amit Katwala
  • https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-fusion-spacecraft-jupiter/
• “Feeling the Heat: Fusion Reactors Used to Test Spacecraft Heat Shields” by The American Physical Society
  • https://phys.org/news/2021-11-fusion-reactors-spacecraft-shields.html
• “DIII-D National Fusion Facility” by General Atomics
  • https://www.ga.com/magnetic-fusion/diii-d
• “Hypervelocity Impact in Stellar Media: Spacecraft Heat Shield Study in DIII-D” by Dmitriy M. Orlov
  • https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP21/Session/WI02.2
• “Laboratory Study of Carbon Ablation in Jupiter-Like Heating Environment” by Eva Kostadinova, et al.
  • https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP21/Session/TO06.7

Entangled Atoms

• “Record-setting quantum entanglement connects two atoms across 20 miles” by Michael Irving
  • https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/quantum-entanglement-atoms-distance-record/2022
• “Entangling single atoms over 33 km telecom fibre” by Tim van Leent, Matthias Bock, Florian Fertig, Robert Garthoff, Sebastian Eppelt, Yiru Zhou, Pooja Malik, Matthias Seubert, Tobias Bauer, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Wei Zhang, Christoph Becher & Harald Weinfurter
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04764-4
• “Quantum Internet Explained” by Ahmed Banafa
  • https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/digital-world/quantum-internet-explained/#:~:text=A%20quantum%20internet%20would%20be,in%20either%20zeros%20or%20ones.
• “Quantum physics: Record entanglement of quantum memories” by ScienceDaily
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220707100920.htm

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Learn about octopi forming communities, clues to the origins of schizophrenia, and a new compound giving researchers hope for fighting tough to treat cancers.   

Octopus Culture 

• “Hidden World of Octopus Cities and Culture Shows why it’s Wrong to Farm These Sentient Creatures” by Guardian Magazine
  • https://www.guardianmag.press/2022/04/hidden-world-of-octopus-cities-and-culture-shows-why-its-wrong-to-farm-these-sentient-creatures.html/
• “The question of animal emotions” by Frans B. M. De Waal and Kristin Andrews
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo2378
• “Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia” by Annalee Newitz
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/
• “A second site occupied by Octopus tetricus at high densities, with notes on their ecology and behavior” by David Scheel, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/10236244.2017.1369851
• Animal Culture by Zhana Reznikova
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_745

Schizophrenia Origins

• “Landmark Study Reveals Clearest Genetic Signals Yet for Schizophrenia Risk” by Rutgers Research
  • https://research.rutgers.edu/news/landmark-study-reveals-clearest-genetic-signals-yet-schizophrenia-risk
• “Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia” by Vassily Trubetskoy, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04434-5
• “What is Schizophrenia?” by The American Psychiatric Association
  • https://psychiatry.org/patients-families/schizophrenia/what-is-schizophrenia
• “What is a Gene?” by Medline Plus
  • https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/basics/gene/#:~:text=A%20gene%20is%20the%20basic,more%20than%202%20million%20bases

Killing Cancer 

• “Promising Compound Kills Range Of Hard-To-Treat Cancers By Targeting A Previously Undiscovered Vulnerability” by UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/hard-to-treat-cancers.html
• “Targeting LIPA independent of its lipase activity is a therapeutic strategy in solid tumors via induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress” by Xihui Liu, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, Shourya Kumar, Tae-Kyung Lee, Andrew Moore, Shihong Ma, Liping Chen, Michael Hsieh, Mengxing Li, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, Karla Parra, Eliot B. Blatt, Tanner C. Reese, Yuting Zhao, Annabel Chang, Hui Yan, Zhenming Xu, Uday P. Pratap, Zexuan Liu, Carlos M. Roggero, Zhenqiu Tan, Susan T. Weintraub, Yan Peng, Rajeshwar R. Tekmal, Carlos L. Arteaga, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ratna K. Vadlamudi, Jung-Mo Ahn & Ganesh V. Raj.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-022-00389-8
• “Scientists Discover New Molecule That Kills Hard-to-Treat Cancers” By Amanda Siegfried
  • https://news.utdallas.edu/health-medicine/new-molecule-cancer-cell-killer-2022/

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A new archeological discovery might be from the day of the big asteroid strike that took down the dinosaurs, bird goo is helping us understand airplane accidents, and find out about the most human-like robot finger you’ve ever seen!

Glass Rain Dinosaur Pain 

• Tanis: Fossil of Dinosaur Killed in Asteroid Strike Found, Scientists Claim by Jonathan Amos
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61013740
• Scientists Claim They've Found a Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Fossil Killed When the Mass Extinction Asteroid Hit the Earth 66 Million Years Ago by Marianne Guenot and Alia Shoaib
  • https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/scientists-claim-theyve-found-a-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-fossil-killed-when-the-mass-extinction-asteroid-hit-the-earth-66-million-years-ago/articleshow/90760067.cms
• The Day the Dinosaurs Died by Douglas Preston
  • https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
• A Seismically Induced Onshore Surge Deposit at the KPg Boundary, North Dakota by Robert A. DePalma, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817407116
• Chicxulub Impact Event: Discovering the Impact Site by Lunar and Planetary Institute
  • https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/discovery/

Snarge Science

• ‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer by Jason Bittel
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/science/snarge-birds-airplanes.html
• Smithsonian Institution, Feather Identification Lab by Federal Aviation Administration
  • https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/smithsonian/
• Bird Strike - An Experimental, Theoretical, and Numerical Investigation by Reza Hedayati and Mojtaba Sadighi.
  • https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpBSAETNI2/bird-strike-an-experimental/bird-strike-an-experimental
• Identifying the Bird, When Not Much Bird Is Left by Matthew L. Wald
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/science/25birds.html

Human Skin Cyborg

• “How Humanlike Do We Really Want Robots to Be?” by Brian Handwerk
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humanlike-do-we-really-want-robots-to-be-180980234/
• “Living skin on a robot” by Michio Kawai, Minghao Nie, Haruka Oda, Yuya Morimoto, and Shoji Takeuchi
  • https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00239-9

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Discover how our brains physically reflect how social we are, a new proposal for Mars exploration vehicles, and patterns in our brain that reveal how we process pain!

Social brains.

• “Brain regions linked to empathy bigger in monkeys with more friends” by Alice Klein
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2316110-brain-regions-linked-to-empathy-bigger-in-monkeys-with-more-friends/
• “Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society” by Camille Testard, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl5794
• “Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure” by R. Kanai, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1959
• “Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the human life span” by Yang Claire Yang, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511085112
• “An ecocultural model predicts Neanderthal extinction through competition with modern humans” by William Gilpin, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524861113

Mars Cars

• Divide and Conquer: Mars Rovers Could be Superseded by Swarms of Two-Wheeled Robots by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
  • https://phys.org/news/2022-04-conquer-mars-rovers-superseded-swarms.html
• The Two-Wheeled Robotic Swarm Concept for Mars Exploration by Alexander Petrovsky, et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522000340
• Missions by NASA Science Mars Exploration Program
  • https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/
• Announcement by MIT Skoltech Program
  • https://skoltech.mit.edu/

Pain patterns.

• “Discovery In The Brains Of Army Veterans Sheds Light On The Neurobiological Mechanisms Behind Chronic Pain And Trauma” by Conn Hastings
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/06/discovery-in-the-brains-of-army-veterans-sheds-light-on-the-neurobiological-mechanisms-behind-chronic-pain-and-trauma-63313
• “Understanding Pain and Trauma Symptoms in Veterans From Resting-State Connectivity: Unsupervised Modeling” by Irina A. Strigo, Andrea D. Spadoni and Alan N. Simmons.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2022.871961/full?utm_source=fweb&utm_medium=nblog&utm_campaign=ba-sci-fpain-Understanding-pain-and-trauma-symptoms-in-Veterans-from-resting-state-connectivity

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Today, you’ll learn about mushrooms that can eat asteroids to make space soil, how our thoughts affect us as we microdose psychedelics, and efforts to 3D print organs like kidneys and lungs!

Hungry mushrooms.

• Fungi Could Make Soil From Asteroids and Homes on Mars by Madeleine Gregory
  • https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/fungi-could-make-soil-from-asteroids-and-homes-on-mars
• Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi by Jane Shevtsov
  • https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Making_Soil_for_Space_Habitats/
• Could Future Homes on the Moon and Mars Be Made of Fungi? by Frank Tavares
  • https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/myco-architecture
• Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms by Nick Hilden
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/

Far out thoughts.

• Citizen Scientists Show Placebo Effect May Explain Benefits of Microdosing by Ryan O’hare
  • https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/216134/citizen-scientists-show-placebo-effect-explain/
• Self-Blinding Citizen Science to Explore Psychedelic Microdosing by Balázs Szigeti, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62878
• What to Know About Microdosing LSD by Medical News Today
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/microdosing-lsd
• Psychedelic Microdosing Benefits and Challenges: An Empirical Codebook by Thomas Anderson, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0308-4

A different kind of printer.

• “When we'll be able to 3D-print organs and who will be able to afford them” by Kristen Rogers
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/health/3d-printed-organs-bioprinting-life-itself-wellness-scn/index.html
• “Advanced Polymers for Three-Dimensional (3D) Organ Bioprinting” by Xiaohong Wang.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952999/#:~:text=Three%2Ddimensional%20(3D)%20organ%20bioprinting%20is%20the%20utilization%20of,7%2C8%2C9%5D

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Tune in to understand how new tech to find fake paintings, the mysterious reason a viking colony collapsed, and how doing chores might make kids smarter!

Goodbye forgaries.

• Police Rely on Radiocarbon Dating to Identify Forged Paintings by Carolyn Wilke
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00582-w
• Detecting Recent Forgeries of Impressionist and Pointillist Paintings with High-Precision Radiocarbon Dating by Lucille Beck, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111214
• Discovering Forgeries of Modern Art by the 14C Bomb Peak by L. Caforio, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14006-6
• Uncovering Modern Paint Forgeries by Radiocarbon Dating by Laura Hendricks, et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1901540116

Water: the life force.

• Greenland’s Vikings May Have Vanished Because They Ran Out of Water by Colin Barras
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/greenland-s-vikings-may-have-vanished-because-they-ran-out-water
• Prolonged Drying Trend Coincident with the Demise of Norse Settlement in Southern Greenland by Boyang Zhao, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4346
• Development of an In Situ Branched GDGT Calibration in Lake 578, Southern Greenland by Boyang Zhao, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104168
• Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? by Tim Folger
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-greenland-vikings-vanished-180962119/
• Glacier Maxima in Baffin Bay During the Medieval Warm Period Coeval with Norse Settlement by Nicolás E. Young, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500806
• What Happened to the Viking Settlement of Greenland? New Research Shows Cooling Weather Not a Factor by Magnús Sveinn Helgason
  • https://icelandmag.is/article/what-happened-viking-settlement-greenland-new-research-shows-cooling-weather-not-a-factor

Chores for thinking.

• “Children's chores improve brain function” by La Trobe University
  • https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2022/release/childrens-chores-improve-brain-function
• “Executive functions and household chores: Does engagement in chores predict children's cognition?” by Deanna L Tepper, Tiffani J Howell, and Pauleen C Bennett
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35640882/

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Discover a new x-ray giving us incredible sight into ourselves, the future of weather prediction, and a surprising potential link between dementia and vitamin D.

Ultra visible insides.

• Human Organ Atlas
  • https://human-organ-atlas.esrf.eu/
• Brightest Ever X-ray Shows Lung Vessels Altered by COVID-19 by University College London
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211104100646.htm
• Drawing Up a ‘Google Earth’ of the Human Body by Jon Cartwright
  • https://physicsworld.com/a/the-body-exposed/
• Imaging Intact Human Organs with Local Resolution of Cellular Structures Using Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography by C.L. Walsh, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01317-x

Hotter summers are coming.

• Skillful seasonal prediction of North American summertime heat extremes by Liwei Jia, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0364.1
• GFDL’s New Modeling System for Seasonal Predictions by Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  • https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/gfdls-new-modeling-system-for-seasonal-predictions/
• Butterflies, rounding errors, and the chaos of climate models by Emily Becker
  • https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/butterflies-rounding-errors-and-chaos-climate-models
• SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection by Thomas L. Delworth, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001895

More vitamin D please.

• “Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase the Risk of Dementia” by Elizabeth Pratt
  • https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-increase-the-risk-of-dementia#Dementia-and-vitamin-D
• “Vitamin D Deficiency Leads to Dementia” by University of South Australia
  • https://www.newswise.com/articles/vitamin-d-deficiency-leads-to-dementia?ta=home

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