Curiosity Weekly

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-...

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-610...

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...

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 fo...

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 Radioc...

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...

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-...

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...

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 Ta...

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 S...

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 se...

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 A...

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 Sh...

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 Fou...

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-t...

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...

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/ “Arrhyth...

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 Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science...

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...

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://...

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_tQ59...

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-...

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...

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 Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive...

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...