Curiosity Weekly

Hear about a new archeological site that suggests humans arrived in Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, what a giant fossil could teach us about the fearsome sea dragon, and a massive archeological find in Egypt!

European humans.

• Homo Sapiens May Have Reached Europe 10,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought by Bruce Bower
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/homo-sapiens-humans-europe-migration-earlier-france-rock-shelter
• Modern Human Incursion into Neanderthal Territories 54,000 Years Ago at Mandrin, France by Ludovic Slimak, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9496
• Apidima Cave Fossils Provide Earliest Evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia by Katerina Harvati, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z

Dragons of the sea.

• Huge Prehistoric 'Sea Dragon' Fossil Discovered in U.K. Reservoir by Rachel Elbaum
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/prehistoric-sea-dragon-ichthyosaur-fossil-discovered-uk-reservoir-rcna11565
• Ichthyosaur Fossil Reptile Group by Encyclopedia Britannica
  • https://www.britannica.com/animal/ichthyosaur
• Rutland Sea Dragon: How Remarkable Ichthyosaur Fossil Was Protected by Greig Watson
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-59969089
• “The World-Renowned Ichthyosaurus”: A Nineteenth-Century Problematic and Its Representations" by John Glendening
  • https://doi.org/10.12929%2Fjls.02.1.02

Lost city.

• Archaeologists in Egypt Discover 3,000-Year-Old ‘Lost Golden City’ by Livia Gershon
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-3400-year-old-egyptian-city-180977471/
• Renowned Archaeologist Zahi Hawass Announces Discovery of Luxor’s ‘Lost City’ by Mustafa Marie
  • https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/100658/Renowned-archaeologist-Zahi-Hawass-announces-discovery-of-Luxor%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98Lost-City%E2%80%99
• The Rise and Fall of Zahi Hawass by Joshua Hammer
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-zahi-hawass-72874123/
• 'Lost Golden City' Found in Egypt Reveals Lives of Ancient Pharaohs by BBC News
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56686448

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You’re going to learn about efforts to print astronaut skin in space with their own blood, the mystifying side effects of birth control, and the race to bring soil samples back from Mars!

Blood skin.

• 3D Bioprinting Artificial Bone for Emergency Medicine in Space by European Space Agency
  • https://scitechdaily.com/3d-bioprinting-artificial-bone-for-emergency-medicine-in-space/
• Upside-Down 3D-Printed Skin and Bone, for Humans to Mars by European Space Agency
  • https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Upside-down_3D-printed_skin_and_bone_for_humans_to_Mars
• Regenerative Medicine and 3D Bioprinting for Human Space Exploration and Planet Colonization by Tommaso Ghidini
  • https://dx.doi.org/10.21037%2Fjtd.2018.03.19
• 3D Bioprinting of Tissues and Organs by Sean V. Murphy & Anthony Atala
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2958

Birth control plus extra.

• Why Birth Control Side Effects Have Eluded Science by Saima Sidik
  • https://undark.org/2022/03/07/why-birth-control-side-effects-have-eluded-science/
• Oral Contraception and Serious Psychiatric Illness: Absence of an Association by M.P. Vessey, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.146.1.45
• The Relationship Between Progestin Hormonal Contraception and Depression: A Systematic Review by Brett L. Worly, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2018.01.010
• Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression by Charlotte Wessel Skovlund, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2387
• Hormonal Contraceptive Use is Associated with Neural and Affective Changes in Healthy Young Women by Nina Lisofsky, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.042

Mars dirt.

• “China plans to return Mars samples to Earth in 2031: report” by Elizabeth Howell
  • https://www.space.com/china-return-mars-samples-earth-2031
• “US military to keep wary eye on Chinese and Russian space ambitions under President Biden” by Mike Wall
  • https://www.space.com/us-space-policy-china-russia-biden-administration
• “China aims to bring Mars samples to Earth 2 years before NASA, ESA mission” by Andrew Jones
  • https://spacenews.com/china-aims-to-bring-mars-samples-to-earth-2-years-before-nasa-esa-mission/

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Come along with us to figure out how heating up testicles could be an effective male contraceptive, how ultrasounds might help us cure Type 2 diabetes, and how a robotic fish might soon clean our oceans.

Heating up testes isn’t what you think.

• “Heating Up Testicles Could Solve a Major Male Contraceptive Issue” by Jeffrey Mo
  • https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/heating-up-testicles
• “Magnetic Testis Targeting and Magnetic Hyperthermia for Noninvasive, Controllable Male Contraception via Intravenous Administration” by Weihua Ding, et al.
  • https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02181

Type 2 diabetes potential cure.

• “Diabetes Successfully Treated Using Ultrasound in Preclinical Study” by Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/medical/focused-ultrasound-prevents-reverses-diabetes-ge-yale/
• “Treating Diabetes Without Drugs? Novel Non-Pharmacological Treatments on the Horizon” by Jane E. Dee
  • https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/treating-diabetes-without-drugs-novel-non-pharmacologic-treatments-on-the-horizon/
• “Ultrasound: The Future of Diabetes Treatment?” by Tim Newman
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325160

Robotic fish are the future.

• “Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas” by Sofia Quaglia
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/22/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas
• “Robust, Healable, Self-Locomotive Integrated Robots Enabled by Noncovalent Assembled Gradient Nanostructure” by Yuyan Wang, Gehong Su, Jin Li, Quanquan Guo, Yinggang Miao, and Xinxing Zhang
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/22/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas#:~:text=is%20described%20in-,a%20research%20paper,-in%20the%20journal

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Hear about a slingshot launching payloads into space, the impressively modern looking world’s oldest pants, and how moth wings are able to absorb sound to avoid detection from bats.

A different kind of slingshot.

• “NASA Will Test Gigantic Centrifuge for Hurling Objects Into Space” by George Dvorsky
  • https://gizmodo.com/nasa-will-test-gigantic-centrifuge-for-hurling-objects-1848784359
• “NASA to Test SpinLaunch, a Giant Slingshot for Launching Satellites Into Space” by Eric Mack
  • https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasa-to-test-spinlaunch-a-giant-slingshot-for-launching-satellites-into-space/

Very very old pants.

• “The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel” by Kiona Smith
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/the-worlds-oldest-pants-are-a-3000-year-old-engineering-marvel/
• “The world’s oldest pants stitched together cultures from across Asia” by Bruce Bower
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pants-oldest-ancient-horseman-asia-culture-origin

Moth sound absorbers.

• “Moth wing-inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough” by The University of Bristol
  • https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2022/june/moth-wing-inspired-sound-absorbing-wallpaper.html
• “Moth wings as sound absorber metasurface” by Thomas R. Neil, Zhiyuan Shen, Daniel Robert, Bruce W. Drinkwater and Marc W. Holderied
  • https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2022.0046

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You’re going to learn about how our body’s pH is helping us fight cancer, how memories aren’t stored where we thought they were, and how drinking coffee could have you spending a lot more at the store.

Ph power.

• “pH-Responsive Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Brief Review” by Yunfeng Yan and Hangwei Ding
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466692/
• Polycarbonate-based ultra-pH sensitive nanoparticles improve therapeutic window by Xu Wang, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19651-7
• Lighting up cancer cells with pH-activated nanoparticles by Angus Chen
  • https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/10/lighting-up-cancer-cells-with-ph-activated-nanoparticles/
• Cancer Statistics by National Cancer Institute
  • https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics

Memory box.

• “A Single Memory is Stored Across Many Connected Brain Regions” by The Picower Institute
  • https://picower.mit.edu/news/single-memory-stored-across-many-connected-brain-regions
• “Innovations and Inventions: SHIELD” by The Picower Institute
  • https://picower.mit.edu/innovations-inventions/shield
• “Protection Of Tissue Physicochemical Properties Using Polyfunctional Crosslinkers” by Young-Gyun Park, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4281?WT.feed_name=subjects_microscopy
• “Memory” by Queensland Brain Institute
  • https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory

Don’t drink before you shop.

• “Caffeine Consumption Leads to Impulsivity during Shopping, New Study Shows” by Natali Anderson
  • http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/psychology/caffeine-shopping-impulsivity-10913.html
• “EXPRESS: Caffeine's Effects on Consumer Spending” by Dipayan Biswas, Patrick Hartmann, Martin Eisend, Courtney Szocs, Bruna Jochims, Vanessa Apaolaza, Erik Hermann, Cristina M. López, and Adilson Borges.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00222429221109247

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Tune in to learn about how fire-breathing creatures are possible, what makes a bad breaker-upper, and new blazing fast, cheap, and accurate COVID tests.

Dragons could be real.

• “House Of The Dragon: Yes, fire-breathing animals could really exist” by Stephen Kelly
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/house-of-dragon-fire-breathing/
• “What Does Science Say About Flying and Fire Breathing Dragons?” by Anne Marie Helmenstine
  • https://www.thoughtco.com/the-science-behind-flying-and-fire-breathing-dragons-4163130#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20a%20flying%2C%20fire,found%20in%20the%20wild%20today

Break up with someone the right way.

• “Study finds “ghosting” short-term partners is associated with psychopathy and Machiavellianism” by Emily Manis
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/study-finds-ghosting-short-term-partners-is-associated-with-psychopathy-and-machiavellianism-62982
• “Dark Triad” by Psychology Today
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dark-triad

Speed meets accuracy with covid tests.

• UT Dallas Researchers Develop Accurate Rapid Test for Viruses by University of Texas at Dallas
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/950413
• COVID-19 and PCR Testing by Cleveland Clinic
  • https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/21462-covid-19-and-pcr-testing
• Digital Plasmonic Nanobubble Detection for Rapid and Ultrasensitive Virus Diagnostics by Yaning Lui, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29025-w

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Do you want to know about a new environmentally friendly way to make TV Screens, what future space warfare might look like, and how we have finally completely unraveled the human genome?

Rice is more than food. It’s TV.

• World’s First LED Lights Developed from Rice Husks by Hiroshima University
  • https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/news/70366
• Orange–Red Si Quantum Dot LEDs from Recycled Rice Husks by Shiho Terada, et al.
  • https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c04985#
• What is Quantum Dot Display Technology? by Dave Haynes
  • https://insights.samsung.com/2021/12/29/what-is-quantum-dot-display-technology/
• Exploring the Environmental Impact of Quantum Dots by Rachel Berkowitz
  • https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.5.7339/full/

Space weapons.

• Analysts Warn Anti-Satellite Weapons Have Evolved Beyond Missiles by Wired
  • https://www.wired.com/story/analysts-warn-anti-satellite-weapons-have-evolved-beyond-missiles/
• Russia Conducts Destructive Anti-Satellite Missile Test by Anthony Blinken
  • https://www.state.gov/russia-conducts-destructive-anti-satellite-missile-test/
• UK Presses UN on Treaty Over Space Weapons by Amanda Miller
  • https://www.airforcemag.com/uk-un-treaty-to-ban-anti-satellite-tests/
• Satellite Debris Forces Space Station Crew to Take Shelter; U.S. Blames "Reckless" Russian Missile Test by William Harwood
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/satellite-debris-space-station-crew-take-shelter/
• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) by Atomic Heritage Foundation
  • https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/strategic-defense-initiative-sdi

100% Genome.

• Complete Human Genome Sequenced for First Time In Major Breakthrough by Becky Ferreira
  • https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3v4y7/complete-human-genome-sequenced-for-first-time-in-major-breakthrough
• The Complete Sequence of a Human Genome by Sergey Nurk, et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6987
• What is the Human Genome Project by The National Human Genome Research Institute
  • https://www.genome.gov/human-genome-project/What
• A Brief Guide to Genomics by The National Human Genome Research Institute
  • https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/A-Brief-Guide-to-Genomics

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Ever wonder about the artificial intelligence helping us find and fight Parkinson’s disease? What about the new methods for collecting energy from solar panels at night or how the tiny immortal jellyfish may help us massively extend our lifespans. Tune in to learn more!

Robots that help.

• Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Uncover Hidden Signatures of Parkinson’s Disease by New York Stem Cell Foundation
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/parkinsons-ai-robotics-20259/
• Integrating Deep Learning and Unbiased Automated High-Content Screening to Identify Complex Disease Signatures in Human Fibroblasts by Lauren Schiff, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28423-4#Sec10
• What is Parkinsons by Ahmad Elkouzi
  • https://www.parkinson.org/understanding-parkinsons/what-is-parkinsons
• Our Agenda by The Michael J. Fox Foundation
  • https://www.michaeljfox.org/our-agenda

Solar but at night.

• Stanford Engineers Invent a Solar Panel That Generates Electricity at Night by Grant Currin
  • https://interestingengineering.com/stanford-solar-panel-night
• Nighttime Electric Power Generation at a Density of 50 mW/m2 Via Radiative Cooling of a Photovoltaic Cell by Sid Assawaworrarit, et al.
  • https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0085205
• How Do Solar Panels Work by Michael Dhar and Ailsa Harvey
  • https://www.livescience.com/41995-how-do-solar-panels-work.html
• Solar Panels That Can Generate Electricity at Night Have Been Developed at Stanford by Rina Torchinsky
  • https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091320428/solar-panels-that-can-generate-electricity-at-night-have-been-developed-at-stanf

Jellyfish: the secret to life.

• The Secrets of the Immortal Jellyfish, Earth's Longest-Living Animal by Thomas Ling
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/immortal-jellyfish/
• Turritopsis dohrnii: The Life Cycle of the Immortal Jellyfish by The Real Immortal Jellyfish
  • https://therealimmortaljellyfish.com/
• Cellular Reprogramming and Immortality: Expression Profiling Reveals Putative Genes Involved in Turritopsis dohrnii’s Life Cycle Reversal by Yui Matsumoto and Maria Pia Miglietta
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab136

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Learn about how we might be flushing the secret to anti-aging down the toilet, how cyborg cockroaches could save your life one day and how mushrooms may be talking to each other!

The connection between poop and aging.

• “Fecal Transplants Reverse Hallmarks of Aging in the Gut, Eyes, and Brain” by The University of East Anglia
  • https://scitechdaily.com/fecal-transplants-reverse-hallmarks-of-aging-in-the-gut-eyes-and-brain/
• “Fecal Microbiota Transfer Between Young and Aged Mice Reverses Hallmarks of the Aging Gut, Eye, And Brain” by Aimée Parker, Stefano Romano, Rebecca Ansorge, Asmaa Aboelnour, Gwenaelle Le Gall, George M. Savva, Matthew G. Pontifex, Andrea Telatin, David Baker, Emily Jones, David Vauzour, Steven Rudder, L. Ashley Blackshaw, Glen Jeffery & Simon R. Carding
  • https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-022-01243-w

Search and rescue roaches.

• “Robotised insects may search collapsed buildings for survivors” by The Economist
  • https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/robotised-insects-may-search-collapsed-buildings-for-survivors/21808326
• “S'pore team turning cockroaches into life-saving cyborg bugs at disaster sites” by Clara Chong
  • https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/spore-team-turning-cockroaches-into-life-saving-cyborg-bugs-at-disaster-sites

Mushroom talks.

• “Language of Fungi Derived From Their Electrical Spiking Activity” by Andrew Adamatzky
  • https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211926
• “Mushrooms may Communicate with Each Other Using Electrical Impulses” by Elizabeth Gamillo
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mushrooms-may-communicate-with-each-other-using-electrical-impulses-180979889/
• “Fungi Appear to Talk in a Language Similar to Humans” by Hannah Osborne
  • https://www.newsweek.com/fungi-language-communication-talk-similar-humans-1695146
• “The Fungus Among Us May Have Their Own Mushroom Language” by Melissa Truth Miller
  • https://nerdist.com/article/mushrooms-fungus-may-communicate-via-language-50-words/
• “Do Trees Talk to Each Other?” by Richard Grant
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/

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Listen in to hear how nostalgic thoughts can be a method of physical pain relief, the recent progress made in the effort to one day upload our minds to the digital world, and how getting nanoplastic out of our drinking water could be as simple as sand!

Memories can be pain free.

• “Scientists Find a Surprising Connection Between Nostalgia and Pain Relief” by Nick Keppler
  • https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/nostalgia-pain-relief-connection
• “Nostalgia Can Reduce Perception of Pain, Study Shows” by Lauren Kent
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/health/nostalgia-pain-relief-study-wellness/index.html

Digital thoughts.

• “Could We Really Use Science To Upload Our Minds?" by Tara Yarlagadda
  • https://www.inverse.com/science/upload-amazon-real-science
• “Will We Ever Be Able to Upload Our Brains?” By K. Thor Jensen
  • https://www.pcmag.com/news/will-we-ever-be-able-to-upload-our-brains
• “Elon Musk says humans could eventually download their brains into robots — and Grimes thinks Jeff Bezos would do it” by Megan Sauer
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/elon-musk-humans-could-eventually-download-their-brains-into-robots.html
• “100 Trillion Connections: New Efforts Probe and Map the Brain's Detailed Architecture” by Carl Zimmer
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-trillion-connections/
• “Ted Williams Frozen In Two Pieces” by Associated Press
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-williams-frozen-in-two-pieces/

Water without plastic.

• “Water Treatment Plants Would Be Ready For The Removal Of Nanoplastics” by Andri Bryner
  • https://www.eawag.ch/en/news-agenda/news-portal/news-detail/water-treatment-plants-would-be-ready-for-the-removal-of-nanoplastics
• “Nanoplastics Removal During Drinking Water Treatment: Laboratory- And Pilot-Scale Experiments And Modeling” by Gerardo Pulido-Reyesa, Leonardo Magherini, Carlo Bianco, Rajandrea Sethi, Ursvon Guntenac, Ralf Kaegi, and Denise M. Mitranod
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389422008007?via%3Dihub
• “How Does a Sand Filter Work?” by Joshua Reijnen
  • https://royalbrinkman.com/knowledge-center/technical-projects/water-filter-technologies-horticulture/sand-filter
• “Methodologies to Characterize, Identify and Quantify Nano- And Sub-Micron Sized Plastics in Relevant Media For Human Exposure: A Critical Review” by Carlo Roberto de Bruin, Eva de Rijke, Annemarie P. van Wezel, and A. Astefanei.
  • https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/va/d1va00024a

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