Curiosity Weekly

Discover how artificial intelligence can help prevent heart attacks, how scientists are working to bring an extinct species back from the dead, and how sugar in our own body might soon make electricity!

Heart attack prevention.

• “AI Predicts If and When Someone Will Experience Cardiac Arrest” by Jill Rosen
  • https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/04/07/trayanova-artificial-intelligence-cardiac-arrhythmia/
• “Arrhythmic sudden death survival prediction using deep learning analysis of scarring in the heart” by Dan M. Popescu, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s44161-022-00041-9
• “Heart Attack” by Mayo Clinic
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-attack/symptoms-causes/syc-20373106
• “How the body regulates scar tissue growth after heart attacks” by University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706100815.htm
• “Artificial intelligence in healthcare: past, present and future” by Fei Jiang, et al.
  • https://svn.bmj.com/content/svnbmj/2/4/230.full.pdf

Back from the dead.

• “De-Extinction Scientists Are Planning To Bring a Long-Lost 'Tiger' Species Back to Life” by Orlando Jenkinson
  • https://www.newsweek.com/de-extinction-scientists-planning-long-lost-tiger-species-life-1683993
• “Thylacine” by The Australian Musem
  • https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/the-thylacine/
• “Pathways to de-extinction: how close can we get to resurrection of an extinct species?” by Beth Shapiro
  • https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.12705
• “The Roar of the Tiger is Fading from Our Planet” by Project CAT
  • https://projectcat.discovery.com/

Sugar: it’s electric.

• “Ultrathin fuel cell uses the body’s own sugar to generate electricity” by Jennifer Chu
  • https://news.mit.edu/2022/glucose-fuel-cell-electricity-0512
• “This Ultrathin Fuel Cell Uses Your Body’s Sugar to Make Electricity” by Tony Ho Tran
  • https://news.yahoo.com/ultrathin-fuel-cell-uses-body-152533024.html#:~:text=The%20ultrathin%20fuel%20cell%20is,on%20your%20body's%20natural%20sugars.&text=The%20team%20behind%20the%20new,like%20artificial%20hearts%20or%20pacemakers.
• “There’s No Such Thing as a Sugar Rush, According to Science” by Joshua A. Krisch
  • https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/theres-no-thing-sugar-rush-according-science
• “Ultrathin Fuel Cells Could Use Your Body’s Sugar to Power Implants” by Sascha Brodsky
  • https://www.lifewire.com/ultrathin-fuel-cells-could-use-your-bodys-sugar-to-power-implants-5272565

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Hear from Joe Rohde, a former Disney Imagineer and the Experience Architect for Virgin Galactic. As an Imagineer, he was the leader of the team behind Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Joe is also Co-Chair of the Explorers Club 50 program.

• Joe Rohde Interview from 4/23/22

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Hear about a new treatment that may be able to reverse hearing loss, how new solar energy storage technology could eventually power our phones, and the surprisingly grand history of chickens.

Reversing hearing loss. 

• “Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy” by Zach Winn
  • https://news.mit.edu/2022/frequency-therapeutics-hearing-regeneration-0329
• “What are Progenitor Cells? Exploring Neural, Myeloid and Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells” by Nicole Gleichmann
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/cell-science/articles/what-are-progenitor-cells-exploring-neural-myeloid-and-hematopoietic-progenitor-cells-329519
• “Quick Statistics About Hearing” by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
  • https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics-hearing
• “PCA Approach” and “About Hearing Loss” by Frequency Therapeutics
  • https://www.frequencytx.com/science/pca-approach/
  • https://www.frequencytx.com/hearing-loss/about-hearing-loss/
• “FX-322 in Adults With Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss” by Frequency Therapeutics Clinical Trial
  • https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05086276

Phone charger, but make it the sun.

• “Converting solar energy to electricity on demand” by Chalmers University of Technology
  • https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-solar-energy-electricity-demand.html
• “For a Better Future” by The MOST Solar Project
  • https://mostsolarproject.eu/
• “Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage and release system” by Kasper Moth-Poulsen, et al.
  • https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/ee/c2ee22426g
• “Solar Energy: Benefits and Drawbacks” by Matthew Johnston
  • https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/053015/pros-and-cons-solar-energy.asp

Chicken breeding.

• “The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens” by Joris Peters, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Ptolemaios Dimitrios Paxinos, Julia Best, Riley Smallman, Cécile Callou, Armelle Gardeisen, Simon Trixl, Laurent Frantz, Naomi Sykes, Dorian Q. Fuller, and Greger Larson.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2121978119
• “A new origin story for domesticated chickens starts in rice fields 3,500 years ago” by Bruce Bower.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chicken-domestication-bones-origin-asia-rice-fields-exotic-animals
• “Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa” by Julia Best, Sean Doherty, Ian Armit, Zlatozar Boev, Lindsey Büster, Barry Cunliffe, Alison Foster, Ben Frimet, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Tom Higham, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Holly Miller, Joris Peters, Michaël Seigle, Caroline Skelton, Rob Symmons, Richard Thomas, Angela Trentacoste, Mark Maltby, Greger Larson, and Naomi Sykes
  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/redefining-the-timing-and-circumstances-of-the-chickens-introduction-to-europe-and-northwest-africa/0797DAA570D51D988B0514C37C2EC534

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Learn about how Japanese honey bees protect themselves from murder hornets, how a new link has been discovered between ADHD and hoarding disorder, and how your over the counter pain meds, might actually be making your pain worse!

Honey avoiding murder.

• “Key genes enable Japanese honey bees to roast hornets” by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/key-genes-enable-japanese-honey-bees-roast-hornets
• “Murder Hornets vs. Honeybees: A Swarm of Bees Can Cook Invaders Alive” by Mike Baker
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/murder-hornets-asian-giant-hornet-bees.html

Does having ADHD mean you’re more likely to be a hoarder?

• “A Curious Link Between Inattention and Hoarding Could Lead to New ADHD Therapies” by Sarah Sloat”
  • https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/adhd-hoarding
• “Hoarding: People With ADHD are More Likely to Have Problems - New Research” by Sharon Morein
  • https://theconversation.com/hoarding-people-with-adhd-are-more-likely-to-have-problems-new-research-176211

Hold the meds.

• “Anti-inflammatory Medications Raise Risk of Chronic Back Pain in Patients” by Joseph Cariz
  • https://www.aaas.org/news/anti-inflammatory-medications-raise-risk-chronic-back-pain-patients
• “Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the development of chronic pain” by Marc Parisien, Lucas V. Lima, Concetta Dagostino, Nehme El-Hachm, Gillian L. Drury, Audrey V. Grant, Jonathan Huising, Vivek Verma, Carolina B. Meloto, Jaqueline R. Silva, Gabrielle G.S. Dutra, Teodora Markova, Hong Dang, Philippe A. Tessier, Gary D. Slade, Andrea G. Nackley, Nader Ghasemlou, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Massimo Allegri, and Luda Diatchenko.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abj9954

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Today, you’ll learn about a new project trying to keep humans and sharks separate and safe, how all sharks almost mysteriously went extinct 19 million years ago, and how great white sharks may have contributed to the extinction of a shark twice its size!

Boundaries between sharks and humans.

• "DR. CRAIG O’CONNELL INTERVIEW" by James Lynch
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/11cCRcmKohhTGOf67QtF_tQ59cMr2w6pq0DaA5pLrOcI/edit?usp=sharing
• About O’Seas Foundation by O’Seas Foundation
  • https://www.oseasfdn.org/about

Near extinction.

• “Something mysteriously wiped out about 90 percent of sharks 19 million years ago” by Carolyn Gramling
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/shark-die-off-mystery-fossils-pacific-ocean-paleontology
• “Rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide rise unprecedented” by Thomas Sumner
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rate-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-rise-unprecedented
• “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks” by ELIZABETH C. SIBERT AND LEAH D. RUBIN
  • https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aaz3

Great white > megalodon

• “Great White Sharks May Have Driven Megalodons into Extinction” by Elizabeth Gamillo
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-white-sharks-may-have-driven-megalodons-into-extinction-180980179/
• “Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes” by Jeremy McCormack, Michael L. Griffiths, Sora L. Kim, Kenshu Shimada, Molly Karnes, Harry Maisch, Sarah Pederzani, Nicolas Bourgon, Klervia Jaouen, Martin A. Becker, Niels Jöns, Guy Sisma-Ventura, Nicolas Straube, Jürgen Pollerspöck, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Robert A. Eagle & Thomas Tütken
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30528-9
• “Great White Sharks May Have Pushed Megalodons to Extinction” by Isaac Schultz
  • https://gizmodo.com/great-white-sharks-megalodon-extinction-1848995245

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Today, you’ll learn about how some sharks have social relationships, how shark attacks often happen because swimming humans look like other sea creatures, and how your cat might be snacking on endangered sharks!

Sharkship.

• “Not a lone shark: bull sharks may form ‘friendships’ with each other, study finds” by Tom Vierus
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/01/not-a-lone-shark-bull-sharks-may-form-friendships-with-each-other-study-finds
• “Companions and Casual Acquaintances: The Nature of Associations Among Bull Sharks at a Shark Feeding Site in Fiji” by Thibaut Bouveroux, Nicolas Loiseau, Adam Barnett, Natasha D. Marosi and Juerg M. Brunnschweiler
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.678074/full

Sharks could use glasses.

• "Great whites don’t hunt humans—they just have blind spots" by Hannah Seo
  • https://www.popsci.com/animals/great-white-shark-attack-reason/
• “Great white sharks can't see a difference between humans and prey” by Patrick Pester
  • https://www.livescience.com/great-white-shark-mistaken-identity

Check your cat’s food ingredients for shark.

• “Endangered Shark Meat Might Be Hiding in Your Pet’s Food” by Margaret Osborne
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/endangered-shark-meat-might-be-hiding-in-your-pets-food-180979682/
• “Sharks killed for fins, yet little done to protect them” by Michael Casey
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna49476110
• “Genetic identification of threatened shark species in pet food and beauty care products” by Diego Cardeñosa
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-019-01221-0

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Today, you’ll learn about how some sharks do in fact sleep, how sharks are fighting climate change, and how some sharks glow in the dark!

Shark nap time.

• “Sharks Sleep, Even When Both Eyes Are Wide Open” by Veronique Greenwood
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/science/sharks-sleep.html
• “Behavioural Sleep in Two Species of Buccal Pumping Sharks” by Michael Kelly, et al.
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsr.13139
• “Analysis of Draughtsboard Sharks’ Metabolic Rates Suggests They Sleep” by Bob Yirka
  • https://phys.org/news/2022-03-analysis-draughtsboard-sharks-metabolic.html
• “Catshark” by Wikipedia
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catshark
• “Snake” by The San Diego Zoo
  • https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/snake
• “Meet the Animals That Literally Sleep with One Eye Open” by Gian Gastone Mascetti
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-animals-that-literally-sleep-with-one-eye-open/

Sharks are good for the earth.

• “California Is About to Test Its First Solar Canals” by Roger Bales
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/california-is-about-to-test-its-first-solar-canals-180979637/
• “Project Nexus: Water & Energy Integration for the Future” by TID Water and Power
  • https://www.tid.org/about-tid/current-projects/project-nexus/
• “Energy and Water Co-Benefits from Covering Canals with Solar Panels” by Brandi McKuin, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00693-8
• “NOAA Drought Task Force Report on the 2020–2021 Southwestern U.S. Drought” by NOAA Drought Task Force IV
  • https://www.drought.gov/documents/noaa-drought-task-force-report-2020-2021-southwestern-us-drought
• “New NOAA Report: Exceptional Southwest Drought Exacerbated” by Human-Caused Warming by NOAA/NIDIS
  • https://www.drought.gov/news/new-noaa-report-exceptional-southwest-drought-exacerbated-human-caused-warming
• “California Approves New Water Restrictions Amid Worsening Drought” by Soumya Karlamangla
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/california-drought-water-restrictions.html
• “California State Water Project” by Wikipedia
  • ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project
• “California Agricultural Production Statistics” by California Department of Food and Agriculture
  • https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/

A different kind of night light.

• "This deep-sea shark is one of the world’s largest glowing animals" by Annie Roth
  • https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/deep-sea-shark-largest-glowing-animal-bioluminescence
• “Quantification of bioluminescence from the surface to the deep sea demonstrates its predominance as an ecological trait” by Séverine Martini & Steven H. D. Haddock
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/srep45750

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Today, we are continuing our Explorers Club series today with a very special guest, Dr. Natalie Schmitt. Dr. Schmitt can do it all - really. She’s not only a conservation geneticist, but she’s a marine ecologist and documentary host.

• Natalie Schmitt Interview from 4/23/22

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Today, you’ll learn about a new drug that could help you safely lose up to a fifth of your body weight, a new, non-hormonal birth control pill that is made for men, and how drones may hold the key to reforestation.

Weight loss five times faster.

• “Diabetes drug helps patients lose never-before-seen amounts of weight, study shows” by Karen Weintraub
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/06/04/diabetes-drug-could-game-changer-obesity-new-study-shows/7490446001/
• “Tirzepatide Once Weekly for the Treatment of Obesity” by Ania M. Jastreboff, M.D., Ph.D., Louis J. Aronne, M.D., Nadia N. Ahmad, M.D., M.P.H., Sean Wharton, M.D., Pharm.D., Lisa Connery, M.D., Breno Alves, M.D., Arihiro Kiyosue, M.D., Ph.D., Shuyu Zhang, M.S., Bing Liu, Ph.D., Mathijs C. Bunck, M.D., Ph.D., and Adam Stefanski, M.D., Ph.D.
  • https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206038?query=featured_home

Men entering the world of birth control.

• “This birth control pill for men could begin human trials later this year” by Hannah Seo
  • https://www.popsci.com/health/new-male-birth-control-pill/
• “A non-hormonal pill could soon expand men’s birth control options” by The American Chemical Society
  • https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2022/march/non-hormonal-pill-could-soon-expand-mens-birth-control-options.html
• “Male Birth Control Pill Expected to Start Human Trials This Year” by corryn Wetzel
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/male-birth-control-pill-expected-to-start-human-trials-this-year-180979814/
• “Contraceptive Use” by the CDC
  • https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/contraceptive.htm

Seed bombing may not be what you think.

• “Drones Are Setting Down Roots In Wildfire-Scarred Landscapes” by  Ashley Franzen
  • https://www.theverge.com/23022323/drones-wildfire-first-nation-british-columbia
• “Aerial Planting: Bc First Nations Company Trialing Reforestation With Drones” by Maria Church
  • https://www.woodbusiness.ca/aerial-planting-reforestation-drones/

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Today, you’ll learn about why symmetry dominates the natural world, how it may be possible to conserve water using solar panels, and why growing vegetables might soon involve a trip to the Moon.

Two halves make a whole.

• “Life’s Preference for Symmetry Is Like “A New Law of Nature” by Kate Golembiewski
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/science/symmetry-biology-evolution.html
• “What is RNA?” by Michael Dhar
  • https://www.livescience.com/what-is-RNA.html
• “The Origins of Asymmetry: A Protein That Makes You Do the Twist” by Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181123135026.htm

Sun = more water.

• “California Is About to Test Its First Solar Canals” by Roger Bales
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/california-is-about-to-test-its-first-solar-canals-180979637/
• “Project Nexus: Water & Energy Integration for the Future” by TID Water and Power
  • https://www.tid.org/about-tid/current-projects/project-nexus/
• “Energy and Water Co-Benefits from Covering Canals with Solar Panels” by Brandi McKuin, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00693-8
• “NOAA Drought Task Force Report on the 2020–2021 Southwestern U.S. Drought” by NOAA Drought Task Force IV
  • https://www.drought.gov/documents/noaa-drought-task-force-report-2020-2021-southwestern-us-drought
• “New NOAA Report: Exceptional Southwest Drought Exacerbated” by Human-Caused Warming by NOAA/NIDIS
  • https://www.drought.gov/news/new-noaa-report-exceptional-southwest-drought-exacerbated-human-caused-warming
• “California Approves New Water Restrictions Amid Worsening Drought” by Soumya Karlamangla
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/california-drought-water-restrictions.html
• “California State Water Project” by Wikipedia
  • ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project
• “California Agricultural Production Statistics” by California Department of Food and Agriculture
  • https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/

Grocery shopping on the moon.

• “A first: Scientists grow plants in soil from the Moon” By Phys.org
  • https://phys.org/news/2022-05-scientists-soil-moon.html
• “Scientists Grow Plants in Moon Soil for the First Time” by Shea Swenson
  • https://modernfarmer.com/2022/05/plants-grow-in-moon-soil-nasa/

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