Today you’ll learn about how a groundbreaking new study explores the nature of singlehood across the globe, how a new drug might be able to treat alcohol addiction, and how scientists have created a new type of ice that has never been seen on Earth before! 

Global Singlehood 

• “Large-scale cross-cultural study provides insights into mating performance and singlehood” by Mane Kara-Yakoubian
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/large-scale-cross-cultural-study-provides-insights-into-mating-performance-and-singlehood-67199
• “Mating Performance and Singlehood Across 14 Nations” by Menelaos Apostolou et al.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14747049221150169

Anti-Drinking Pill 

• “Pre-clinical and clinical evidence for suppression of alcohol intake by apremilast” by Kolter B. Grigsby
  • https://www.jci.org/articles/view/159103
• “The FDA-approved drug apremilast suppresses alcohol intake: clinical and pre-clinical validation” by Kolter B. Grigsby et al.
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.13.444033v1
• “High Drinking in the Dark Mice: A genetic model of drinking to intoxication” by Amanda M. Barkley-Levenson and John C. Crabbe
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016107/

Moon Ice

• “Scientists made a new kind of ice that might exist on distant moons” by Jonathan O'Callaghan
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00293-w?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=a5dcc69734-briefing-dy-20230203&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-a5dcc69734-42946487
• “SCIENTISTS CREATED A NEW TYPE OF ICE — IT COULD ALSO EXIST ON DISTANT MOONS” by Raoul Rao
  • https://www.inverse.com/science/new-form-of-ice-space
• “With frigid innovation, scientists make a new form of ice” By Will Dunham
  • https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/with-frigid-innovation-scientists-make-new-form-ice-2023-02-03/

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