Podcasts about plos biology

Since 2004, scientific research has shown that a full night of sleep may lend itself to a burst of insight in the morning. But what about the earlier stages of sleep? And what about just a nap? A research team based in Germany found that even a 20-minute nap could deliver a "eureka" moment, and published their findings in the journal PLOS Biology this week. Have a question about sleep? Email us at shortwave@npr.org — we'd love to hear from you!Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Bactérias que funcionam como um só organismo, sentem o campo magnético da Terra e morrem se forem separadas? Separe trinta minutinhos do seu dia e descubra, com Mila Massuda, como essas criaturas microscópicas podem esconder pistas sobre a origem da vida complexa.Apresentação: Mila Massuda (@milamassuda)Roteiro: Mila Massuda (@milamassuda) e Emilio Garcia (@emilioblablalogia)Revisão de Roteiro: Vee Almeida e Caio de Santis (@caiodesantis)Técnica de Gravação: Julianna Harsche (@juvisharsche)Editora: Lilian Correa (@_lilianleme)Mixagem e Masterização: Rafael de Falco (@rafel.falco) Produção: Prof. Vítor Soares (@profvitorsoares), Matheus Herédia (@Matheus_Heredia), BláBláLogia (@blablalogia), Caio de Santis (@caiodesantis) e Biologia em Meia Hora (@biologiaemmeiahora)Gravado e editado nos estúdios TocaCast, do grupo Tocalivros (@tocalivros)REFERÊNCIASFARINA, M.; ESQUIVEL, D. M. S.; DE BARROS, H. G. P. L. Magnetic iron-sulphur crystals from a magnetotactic microorganism. Nature, v. 343, n. 6255, p. 256–258, 1 jan. 1990.GOSWAMI, P. et al. Magnetotactic bacteria and magnetofossils: ecology, evolution and environmental implications. NPJ biofilms and microbiomes, v. 8, n. 1, p. 43, 1 jun. 2022.SCHAIBLE, G. A. et al. Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells. PLoS Biology, v. 22, n. 7, p. e3002638–e3002638, 11 jul. 2024.

Être « nul en maths » est souvent perçu comme une fatalité ou une conséquence d'un mauvais parcours scolaire. On pointe régulièrement le stress, les mauvaises méthodes pédagogiques ou un environnement peu stimulant. Mais une nouvelle étude publiée dans la revue PLOS Biology vient bouleverser cette vision : l'origine de nos difficultés avec les mathématiques pourrait en réalité se nicher dans la chimie même de notre cerveau.Les chercheurs à l'origine de cette étude se sont penchés sur le rôle des neurotransmetteurs, ces substances qui assurent la communication entre les neurones. En particulier, deux d'entre eux ont été analysés : le glutamate, principal neurotransmetteur excitateur du cerveau, et le GABA (acide gamma-aminobutyrique), qui joue un rôle inhibiteur. Ensemble, ils régulent l'activité cérébrale, un peu comme l'accélérateur et le frein d'un véhicule.En étudiant un groupe d'enfants et d'adolescents à l'aide de techniques d'imagerie cérébrale avancées (spectroscopie par résonance magnétique), les scientifiques ont découvert que l'équilibre entre ces deux neurotransmetteurs dans une région précise du cerveau – le cortex intrapariétal gauche – était directement lié aux compétences mathématiques. Cette zone est connue pour être impliquée dans le traitement numérique et le raisonnement logique.Fait surprenant : le lien entre les niveaux de GABA et de glutamate varie avec l'âge. Chez les plus jeunes, un faible niveau de glutamate est associé à de meilleures performances mathématiques. Mais chez les adolescents plus âgés, c'est un faible niveau de GABA qui semble favoriser les capacités en mathématiques. Cela suggère que la plasticité cérébrale – c'est-à-dire la manière dont le cerveau se reconfigure avec le temps – joue un rôle clé dans la manière dont ces substances influencent notre aisance avec les chiffres.Cette découverte a des implications majeures. Elle montre que nos aptitudes en mathématiques pourraient ne pas être uniquement le fruit d'un bon enseignement ou d'un effort personnel, mais aussi de facteurs biologiques profonds, sur lesquels nous avons peu de contrôle. Cela ne signifie pas pour autant qu'on ne peut pas progresser en maths, mais cela invite à repenser l'approche éducative : certaines personnes pourraient avoir besoin de méthodes plus adaptées à leur fonctionnement cérébral, et non simplement de « travailler plus ».En révélant le rôle du GABA et du glutamate dans la réussite mathématique, cette étude nous pousse à regarder au-delà des notes et des clichés, et à considérer les difficultés scolaires sous un angle plus neuroscientifique – et donc plus humain. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Die Themen in den Nachrichten: +++ Mehr Ratten in den Städten auch wegen Klimawandel +++ Meeresschaum stark mit Ewigkeitschemikalien belastet +++ Fruchtfliegen schmecken und fühlen verfaultes Obst +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Increasing rat numbers in cities are linked to climate warming, urbanization, and human population/ Science Advances, 31.01.2025PFAS im Meeresschaum Untersuchung von per- und polyfluorierten Alkylsubstanzen (PFAS) im Meeresschaum an Nord- und Ostsee-Stränden in Deutschland/ Greenpeace, 03.02.2025Stillbirth rate trends across 25 European countries between 2010 and 2021: the contribution of maternal age and multiplicity/ European Journal of Public Health, 21.01.2025Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins/ Nature Geoscience, 03.02.2025Food hardness preference reveals multisensory contributions of fly larval gustatory organs in behaviour and physiology/ PLOS Biology, 30.01.2025Alle Quellen findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok auf&ab , TikTok wie_geht und Instagram .

Artigo publicado na Plos Biology dá conta de um problema em reproduzir experiências de artigos publicados. 60% dos cientistas inquiridos, acreditam que isto acontece devido à cultura do "publicar ou morrer"

En este episodio de Doctor Mau Informa, descubre cómo el sauna puede mejorar tu salud física y mental con respaldo de evidencia médica. ¡Esto es lo que necesitas saber! #drmauinforma #doctormauinforma Suscríbete a mi boletín informativo en: www.drmauriciogonzalez.com/ Redes sociales: ⁣ YouTube: /@doctormauinforma Instagram: www.instagram.com/dr.mauriciogonzalez TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@drmauriciogonzalez Twitter: www.twitter.com/DrMauricioGon CONTACTO ► booking@drmauriciogonzalez.com ¡Nos escuchamos pronto!⁣ Fuentes: Tomasz, Dudzik., Łucja, Dudzik., Aleksandra, Kozieł., Igor, Domański. (2024). The Impact of Sauna on Health. Journal of Education, Health and Sport, doi: 10.12775/jehs.2024.69.49430 Jörgen, Sandell., Mark, Davies. (2023). Benefits of sauna on lung capacity, neurocognitive diseases, and heart health. World Journal Of Advanced Research and Reviews, 17(1):057-062. doi: 10.30574/wjarr.2023.17.1.1414 Laukkanen, J. A., & Laukkanen, T. (2018). "Sauna bathing and risk of sudden cardiac death, fatal coronary heart disease, and fatal cardiovascular disease." JAMA Internal Medicine, 178(4), 630–637. Laukkanen, J. A., et al. (2015). "Sauna bathing and mortality: A prospective cohort study." JAMA Internal Medicine, 175(4), 542–548. Hypothalamic Menin regulates systemic aging and cognitive decline Leng L, Yuan Z, Su X, Chen Z, Yang S, et al. (2023 )Hypothalamic Menin regulates systemic aging and cognitive decline. PLOS Biology 21(3): e3002033.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002033 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

durée : 00:05:22 - Avec sciences - par : Alexandre Morales - Des chercheurs de l'université de Rennes se sont demandé comment parler des failles du système scientifique académique au grand public, sans pour autant le discréditer. Pour ça, ils ont mis en place une opération de communication sous la forme d'une étude, publiée dans la revue Plos Biology.

În cadrul ediției de pe 22 octombrie 2024 a emisiunii Știința360 de pe Radio România Cultural, Dr. Marius Geantă, Președintele Centrului pentru Inovație în Medicină, a comentat ultimele noutăți din domeniul sănătății. Cercetătorii de la Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center au identificat patru profiluri moleculare distincte ale bolii Alzheimer (AD) folosind o abordare cross-omics. Studiul, publicat în PLOS BIOLOGY, a relevat că unul dintre aceste profiluri este asociat cu o funcție cognitivă mai slabă și caracteristici neuropatologice mai severe. Utilizând tehnici de învățare automată pentru a integra date transcriptomice, proteomice, metabolomice și lipidomice de mare capacitate, această abordare a dezvăluit perspective moleculare noi asupra AD. AD este o tulburare neurodegenerativă complexă, caracterizată de plăci amiloide (Aβ), ghemuri neurofibrilare (NFT), neuroinflamație și pierderea sinaptică și neuronală. Există traiectorii distincte ale patologiei proteinei tau și atrofiei cerebrale, asociate cu multiple caracteristici clinice și patologice ale AD. Cercetătorii au examinat anterior date moleculare provenite din analiza creierului pacienților cu AD și al indivizilor sănătoși, utilizând separat diferite tipuri de analize omice, cum ar fi transcriptomica, proteomica, metabolomica și analiza la nivel de celulă unică. Ei sugerează că, prin combinarea acestor diferite tipuri de date moleculare, pot fi descoperite noi mecansime biologice și schimbări ale căilor moleculare care nu ar fi observate dacă s-ar folosi doar un singur tip de analiză omică. Practic, integrarea mai multor surse de date poate oferi o înțelegere mai completă și mai detaliată a acestei afecțiuni. Mai multe detalii despre subiectele discutate - ▶ Riscul crescut de cancer de sân și ovar, asociat cu mii de mutații ale genei RAD51C ▶ Patru tipuri noi de boală Alzheimer, identificate prin analiză multiomică ▶ Expunerea la radon ar putea crește riscul de leucemie la copii, chiar și la niveluri scăzute ▶ Interzicerea vânzării de tutun la tineri ar putea preveni 1,2 milioane de decese până în 2095

Estudo finlandês, publicado no Plos Biology, conclui que os nossos comportamentos podem provocar mudanças no cérebro que se mantêm durante mais de duas semanas

Il gusto pungente del peperoncino o di una salsa piccante può accendere nel cervello i circuiti nervosi del piacere o del dolore a seconda di quelle che sono le nostre aspettative. Questo è quanto dimostra una ricerca pubblicata sulla rivista Plos Biology che commentiamo con Raffaella Rumiati, Professoressa di neuroscienze cognitive alla SISSA e presidente del corso di laurea triennale in psicologia all'Università di Roma-Tor Vergata.

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Handy-Pausen gegen Ablenkung in der Uni +++ Langsam mit Hunden sprechen ist sinnvoll +++ Gewitter über Städten offenbar heftiger +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Evaluating technology breaks on cell phone use in a college classroom, Frontiers in Education, 2. Oktober 2024Dog–human vocal interactions match dogs' sensory-motor tuning, Plos Biology, 1. Oktober 2024Intensification and Changing Spatial Extent of Heavy Rainfall in Urban Areas, Earth's Future, 10. September 2024Prehistorical and historical occurrence and range dynamic of the Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) and the White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) in Europe, Journal of Ornithology, 19. August 2024The eyes have it: How do gender cues in wine labels influence U.S. women wine consumers?, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Volume 123 , Oktober 2024Alle Quellen findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

A lot changes when you retire. That can be daunting, but it also presents valuable opportunities. It gives you a window to recreate a new approach to life now that you'll have the time and freedom to pursue what you'd like to do. Teresa Amabile, co-author of the new book Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, joins us to discuss the key lessons from over 200 interviews with 120 people and their experiences in retiring. Teresa Amabile joins us from Massachusetts. _____________________ Bio Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School. Originally educated as a chemist, Teresa received her doctorate in psychology from Stanford University. She studies how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their performance. Teresa's research encompasses creativity, productivity, innovation, and inner work life - the confluence of emotions, perceptions, and motivation that people experience as they react to events at work. Teresa's work has earned several awards: the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management's OB Division (2018); the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2017); the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (2018); the Center for Creative Leadership Best Paper Award (in Leadership Quarterly) (2005); and the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (1998). In 2020, she was named one of the top 50 scholars, by citation count, in business/management (PLOS Biology). She has presented her theories, research results, and practical implications to various groups in business, government, and education, including Apple, IDEO, Procter & Gamble, Roche Pharma, Genentech, TEDx Atlanta, the Society for Human Resource Management, Pfizer, and the World Economic Forum. In addition to participating in various executive programs at Harvard Business School, she created the MBA course Managing for Creativity, and has taught several courses to first-year MBA students. Teresa was the host/instructor of Against All Odds: Inside Statistics, a 26-part instructional series originally produced for broadcast on PBS. She was a director of Seaman Corporation for 25 years, and has served on the boards of other organizations. Teresa's discoveries appear in her book, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. The book, based on research into nearly 12,000 daily diary entries from over 200 professionals inside organizations, illuminates how everyday events at work can impact employee engagement and creative productivity. Published in August 2011 by Harvard Business Review Press, the book is co-authored with Teresa's husband and collaborator, Steven Kramer, Ph.D. Her other books include Creativity in Context and Growing Up Creative. Teresa has published over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, in outlets including top journals in psychology (such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and American Psychologist) and in management (Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal). She is also the author of The Work Preference Inventory and KEYS to Creativity and Innovation. Teresa has used insights from her research in working with various groups in business, government, and education, including Procter & Gamble, Novartis International AG, Motorola, IDEO, and the Creative Education Foundation. ___________________ For More on Teresa Amabile Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You  by Teresa M. Amabile , Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary , Douglas T. Hall  and Kathy E. Kram ___________________ Podcast Episodes You May Like Edit Your Life – Elisabeth Sharp McKetta The Balancing Act in Retirement – Stew Friedman Retirement Rookies – Stephen & Karen Kreider Yoder

First, we explore a PLOS Biology study highlighting the effectiveness and challenges of animal research in therapeutic developments. Next, we celebrate a groundbreaking innovation in the fight against antimicrobial resistance—a rapid test cutting bacterial infection diagnosis times from days to minutes. Lastly, we examine U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy's call for safety warning labels on social media to protect youth mental health.

Associate Professor Mathieu Pernice is Deputy Director of the Climate Change Cluster at the University of Technology Sydney, where he also co-leads two research teams in Algal Biotechnology and Seagrass. He is an expert in climate change and sustainability, and has over 15 years of experience in technology transfer from University to Industry more particularly in Environmental Impact assessment, Aquaculture, Food and Biotechnology. In this chat, we chat about the incredible potential for algae, and how science and biotechnology is helping to make this potential a reality. Links:Mathieu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieu-pernice-775b9aa7/Mathieu at UTS: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Mathieu.PerniceFabris et al, 2020, Emerging Technologies in Algal Biotechnology: Toward the Establishment of a Sustainable, Algae-Based Bioeconomy, Frontiers in Plant Science, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00279/fullRalph et al, 2023, Save the planet with green industries using algae, PLOS Biology, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36972294/ For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out at www.oceanprotect.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Episode 148, Justin Shaffer joins host Kevin Patton to discuss high structure course design. Justin shares his success in building a scaffold for learning by using a variety of course structures to improve student engagement and success, such as pre-class and post-class activities, micro-case studies and clicker questions, brief active learning practices, and much more. 00:00 | Introduction 00:46 | Introducing Justin Shaffer 02:49 | High Structure and Low Structure 20:47 | Badge Break 21:43 | Transparency, Expectations, & Flexibility 34:06 | Secret Code: TAA Conference in Nashville 36:04 | Baby Steps or Go All In? 50:16 | Staying Connected ★ If you cannot see or activate the audio player, go to: theAPprofessor.org/podcast-episode-148.html

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Ältere Blaumeisen-Männchen gehen öfter fremd +++ Marshubschrauber funkt letzte Botschaft zur Erde +++ Blutende Madonna hat Milben +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Removal of older males increases extra-pair siring success of yearling males/ Plos Biology, 16.04.2024NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now/ Nasa, 16.04.2024Women's Experiences of Gender-Based Interpersonal Violence in Sport: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis/ Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 09.04.2024Petrol Note in Riesling – 1,1,6-Trimethyl-1,2-dihydronaphthalene (TDN) Selectively Activates Human Odorant Receptor OR8H1/ Journal of Agriculatural and Food Chemistry, 23.02.2024Hydrogen Sulfide Formation in Canned Wines: Variation Among Can Sources/ American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, Februar 2024Alle Quellen findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

Guest Yani Bellini Saibene Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard welcomes guest Yani Bellini Saibene from Argentina. Yani, with a rich background in open source community management, shares her journey into the tech and open source world, and highlights her roles as the rOpenSci Community Manager, R-Ladies Project Lead, and Vice President for the Board of Directors for The Carpentries. The discussion dives into the challenges of funding, sustainability of volunteer-based models, and the importance of including diverse voices in open source development. The conversation also explores the economic disparities and cultural differences affecting contributors form the global south and how building strong local communities can empower individuals by providing them with tools, knowledge, and a sense of belonging in the wider world. Press download to hear more! [00:01:47] Yani describes her start as a researcher at INTA while at university, her degree in computer science, and her initial work developing software and teaching scientists to use computing tools. She also details her career progression and her master thesis at INTA. [00:04:49] We hear about the foundation and global expansion of R-Ladies, as Yani emphasizes community strength and the organizers' passion. She discusses the flexibility and inclusivity of the chapters, and the support and resources shared among the community. [00:08:56] Richard questions about the distinct roles and activities between rOpenSci, R-Ladies, and The Carpentries, which appear to have similar goals in teaching R, and Yani explains the different objectives of the three organizations. [00:12:50] Yani lists the funders, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sloan Foundation, and others. She describes the funding models for R-Ladies and Carpentries and the challenges of sustaining such community-oriented projects. [00:14:52] Richard inquires about the role of the board of directors in establishing post-grant funding. Yani explains The Carpentries' membership model where institutions pay for benefits like workshops and instructor training, she mentions the perks for members, discusses the challenges of maintaining services without sufficient membership or grants, and highlights cultural and financial barriers in Latin America. [00:20:17] Richard is curious about cultural barriers and asks for further insights into overcoming cultural barriers and the limitations of translations. Yani discusses her personal journey with the English language and its importance in coding beyond syntax and shares some data from a recent study that was done, and the paper is called, “The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science,” from PLOS Biology. [00:24:42] Yani discusses additional studies, mentioning the Linux Foundation report on English as a barrier in open source contribution and its influence on perceived expertise. [00:25:55] Richard asks Yani about the point at which translation efforts start to yield benefits for the community and inquires about the visible impacts and dividends from investments in internationalizing materials. Yani cites examples of immediate benefits, and discusses her involvement in translating educational materials, which has supported teaching many Spanish speaking teachers. [00:32:38] Richard raises concerns about the possibility of global exploitation through talent extraction from non-English speaking regions. Yani addresses the issue of local versus international business compensation and the ethical implications for non-profit organizations. [00:36:30] We hear Richard's concerns about how to have conversations about open source contributions and community building in a non-extractive way and he wonders if it's feasible to collectively support open source maintainers financially. Yani explains the concept of three “currencies” in any job: money, heart, and brain. [00:39:16] Yani discusses the champions program at rOpenSci, where stipends were important for participants to allocate time to the tasks and do an excellent job. [00:41:05] Find out where you can follow Yani online. Quotes [00:06:17] “In R-Ladies, you have enough informality and enough expertise to make this a special place to learn.” [00:18:26] “There is little funding for maintaining what you already have.” [00:20:40] “I have to confess that I approached the English language because I loved code.” Spotlight [00:42:26] Richard's spotlight is a book he's reading called, Theodore Rex. [00:43:10] Yani's spotlight is a friend and someone she works with at R-Ladies, Athanasia Mo Mowinckel. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) SustainOSS Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/tags/sustainoss) Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) (https://opencollective.com/sustainoss) Richard Littauer Socials (https://www.burntfen.com/2023-05-30/socials) Yani Bellini Saibene GitHub (https://github.com/yabellini) Yani Bellini Saibene Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@yabellini) Yani Bellini Saibene Website (https://yabellini.netlify.app/) Yani Bellini Saibene LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yabellini/) Teaching Tech Together (https://teachtogether.tech/) R-Ladies (https://rladies.org/) The Carpentries (https://carpentries.org/index.html) rOpenSci (https://ropensci.org/) The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science (PLOS Biology) (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002184) Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (https://chanzuckerberg.com/) Sloan Foundation (https://sloan.org/) Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink (https://www.danpink.com/books/drive/) Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Rex_(book)) Dr. Athanasia Mo Mowinckel (https://drmowinckels.io/) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Yani Bellini Saibene.

Paul & Dan dig into the buried fossils of original D&D -- like the hidden encounter table for Ice Age adventures in the original boxed set. Where else can you get to use Cave Bears, Woolly Mammoths, and Saber-Toothed Tigers in your fantasy RPG? Pour a cup of hot cocoa and bundle up for this one. In the Late Pleistocene, both marine and continental faunas were essentially modern but with many more large land mammals such as Mammoths, Mastodons, Diprotodons, Smilodons, tigers, lions, Aurochs, short-faced bears, giant sloths, species within Gigantopithecus and others. Isolated landmasses such as Australia, Madagascar, New Zealand and islands in the Pacific saw the evolution of large birds and even reptiles such as the Elephant bird, moa, Haast's eagle, Quinkana, Megalania and Meiolania. The severe climatic changes during the Ice Age had major impacts on the fauna and flora. With each advance of the ice, large areas of the continents became depopulated, and plants and animals retreating southwards in front of the advancing glacier faced tremendous stress. The most severe stress resulted from drastic climatic changes, reduced living space, and curtailed food supply. A major extinction event of large mammals (megafauna), which included mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, glyptodons, the woolly rhinoceros, various giraffids, such as the Sivatherium; ground sloths, Irish elk, cave lions, cave bears, Gomphotheres, American lions, dire wolves, and short-faced bears, began late in the Pleistocene and continued into the Holocene. Neanderthals also became extinct during this period. At the end of the last ice age, cold-blooded animals, smaller mammals like wood mice, migratory birds, and swifter animals like whitetail deer had replaced the megafauna and migrated north. Late Pleistocene bighorn sheep were more slender and had longer legs than their descendants today. Scientists believe that the change in predator fauna after the late Pleistocene extinctions resulted in a change of body shape as the species adapted for increased power rather than speed. This description uses material from the Wikipedia article "Pleistocene", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. Cover image by Mauricio Antón from an article by Caitlin Sedwick (1 April 2008): "What Killed the Woolly Mammoth?". PLoS Biology 6 (4): e99. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060099 2008 Public Library of Science. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Die Themen der Wissensmeldungen: +++ Beim Sprachenlernen verliert die linke die Kontrolle über die rechte Hirnhälfte +++ Viele Korallen wechseln jährlich ihr Geschlecht +++WHO: Keine Krise mehr - Covid bleibt aber bedrohlich +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Update ErdeSome corals change sex each year so they can find mates. 10 January 2024Number of COVID-19 cases reported to WHORetinoic acid signaling regulates spatiotemporal specification of human green and red cones, PLOS Biology, 11.1.2024Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Upper Amazon.11.1.1.2024Alle Quellen findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ KI holt sich Rezept aus dem Internet und stellt Ibuprofen her +++ Fehlen Insekten, dann bestäuben sich Blumen selbst +++ Eisbärfell und NASA-Technik als Vorlage für extra warmen Pulli +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Update ErdeAutonomous chemical research with large language models, Nature 20.12.2023Ongoing convergent evolution of a selfing syndrome threatens plant–pollinator interactions, New Phytologist, 19.12.2023Biomimetic, knittable aerogel fiber for thermal insulation textile, Science, 21.12.23Mimicking polar bear hairs in aerogel fibers, Science, 21.12.23Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit, Bloomberg, 21.12.23A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males, PLOS Biology, 21.12.23**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we have world-renowned Performance Coach and Sports Scientist - Tim Gabbett. Vikas and Tim discuss all about training load adaptation and how this impacts a runner's performance. Tim is a renowned figure in the field of applied sports science, bringing over 30 years of invaluable experience in enhancing athletic performance. With a solid academic background, he holds a PhD in Human Physiology and has completed a second PhD in Applied Sport Science, specializing in physical demands, injury prevention, and skill acquisition. Throughout his illustrious career, Tim has been a key player in the Olympic Games, working closely with elite international athletes over multiple Olympic cycles. His expertise extends across a diverse spectrum of sports, including basketball, where he has collaborated with elite teams in America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.Beyond traditional sports, Tim has made significant contributions to the fields of circus, military, corporate, and artistic organizations. His consultancy work spans a wide range of applications, emphasizing workload monitoring to optimize performance. With a prolific research background, Dr. Gabbett has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and has been a presenter at more than 400 national and international conferences. His impact on the field is highlighted by his inclusion in the Top 25 most impactful sports scientists of all time in a study of 8 million scientists published in PLoS Biology. Tim's unique strength lies in translating research findings into practical applications for high-performance organizations. His consultancy work, grounded in the latest scientific insights, reaches across various sports, including American Football, Baseball, Ice Hockey, Soccer, Basketball, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Handball, Australian Football, and Cricket.To train with Gabbett Performance, log on to gabbettperformance.com.auAbout Vikas Singh:Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:Instagram: @vikas_singhhLinkedIn: Vikas SinghTwitter: @vikashsingh101Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

For a three-year period as a postdoctoral researcher, molecular biologist and visual artist Daniel Jay was given both a lab and a sudio to work in. In the final episode of this six-part Working Scientist about art and science, Julie Gould asks why, decades later, Jay's experience is still unusual. Why do scientists with expertise in, say, music, sculpture, pottery or creative writing have to pursue these interests as weekend hobbies, with science “paying the bills?”Jay, who is Dean of the graduate school of biomedical sciences at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, says today's early career researchers want what he calls a “post disciplinary society,” offering the freedom to pick and choose different areas and competencies.Lou Muglia, a medical geneticist who is now president and CEO of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a private foundation located in North Carolina, co-authored a 2023 paper in PloS Biology on art-science collaborations. Muglia says many early career researchers today don't see themselves running a traditional lab, but are as excited about communication and the arts as they are about their science. Many funders now recognise this. Academia should too, he argues.Callie Chappell, Muglia's co-author and a professional artist who researches biosecurity and innovation at Stanford University, California, says: “I would argue that science is actually a type of art. “To do science, you have to be creative, you have to blend different ideas, you have to communicate those ideas by creating something. In many ways that's what artists do.” Each episode in this series concludes with a follow-up sponsored slot from the International Science Council (ISC). The ISC is seeking perspectives from science fiction authors on how science can meet societal challenges, ranging from climate change and food security to the disruption caused by artificial intelligence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Zuckersteuer auf Softdrinks +++ Geschlechterlücke in Wissenschaft schrumpft +++ Hustensaftverkäufe als Indikator +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Projected health and economic impacts of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation in Germany: A cross-validation modelling study, Plos Medicine, 21.11.2023Gender imbalances among top-cited scientists across scientific disciplines over time through the analysis of nearly 5.8 million authors, Plos Biology, 21.11.2023Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models, Nature Communications, 21.11.2023Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish, Nature Communications, 21.11.2023Potential drivers of the recent large Antarctic ozone holes, Nature Communications, 21.11.2023A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays, Scientific Reports, 30.10.2023**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

How does a jellyfish manage to see and learn without a large central brain? Like the Scarecrow of Oz, jellyfish are a without a brain but are still able to learn and do great feats. How does the nervous system of a jellyfish learn to dodge and avoid obstacles without a big brain? Plants respond to light, but is it possible to communicate with them about upcoming dangers? Jan Bielecki, Sofie Katrine Dam Nielsen, Gösta Nachman, Anders Garm. Associative learning in the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora. Current Biology, 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.056 Bo Larsen, Roberto Hofmann, Ines S. Camacho, Richard W. Clarke, J Clark Lagarias, Alex R. Jones, Alexander M. Jones. Highlighter: An optogenetic system for high-resolution gene expression control in plants. PLOS Biology, 2023; 21 (9): e3002303 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002303

We discuss the need for marine eco policies and "sustainable fishing" policies to move toward a non-industrial discourse that treats fish as subjects and as ecological beings rather than primarily objectifying them as human food/stock/seafood – basically sustainable fisheries rhetoric should stop reducing fish and other aquatic animal species to mere economic resources to be 'sustainably managed'. Dr. Jennifer Jacquet, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Univ of Miami, explains her rationales for why a change in our discussion of fish (and relationship with fish) is warranted and ecologically beneficial, in this 25-minute podcast with host Carrie Freeman.  This is based on an provocative perspective piece that Dr. Jennifer Jacquet recently co-authored with Dr. Daniel Pauly, published in the journal PLOS Biology, titled "Reimagining Sustainable Fisheries" that challenges the bias toward industrial fishing and economic commodities in our fisheries and marine environmental policies. She also unpacks the excuse that we need managed industrial fishing with quotas to "feed people" or for "food security" when so much caught fish just goes to feed farmed animals (including farmed fish) and to feed wealthier consumer market demands when these consumers often have more sustainable food options (like plant-based). She explains why sustainable fisheries policies need to focus on subsistence fishing (not industrial) and especially protecting marine habitats to help aquatic animals begin to thrive free of harassment/harm. The move to reimagine whales as beings not commodities can be a model for cultural and political change toward other marine animals. See https://ali.fish/blog/reimagining-sustainable-fisheries  The photo of free/wild fish in the Maldives is by Sebastian Pena Lambarri on Unsplash.  In Tune to Nature is a long-time weekly show airing on Wednesdays from 6:30-7pm EST on Atlanta indie station WRFG (Radio Free Georgia) 89.3FM hosted by Carrie Freeman or Melody Paris. Please consider donating to support this 50-year old independent, non-commercial, progressive Atlanta radio station at https://wrfg.org/   Remember to take care of yourself and others, including other species, like those who live underwater.

Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ So funktioniert Kreativität +++ Erstmals Zahnschmelz im Labor gezüchtet +++ KI liest Musik durch Gehirnwellen +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:How Subjective Idea Valuation Energizes and Guides Creative Idea Generation, APA PsycNet, 2023Single-cell census of human tooth development enables generation of human enamel, Developmental Cell, 14.08.2023Breaking waves on the surface of the heartbeat star MACHO 80.7443.1718, Nature Astronomy, 10.08.2023Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models, PLOS Biology, 15.08.2023Shared genetic architecture between irritable bowel syndrome and psychiatric disorders reveals molecular pathways of the gut-brain axis, Genome Medicine, 01.08.2023Ecological, social, and intrinsic factors affecting wild orangutans' curiosity, assessed using a field experiment, Scientific Reports, 14.08.2023**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.**********Weitere Wissensnachrichten zum Nachlesen: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/nachrichten

In this 186th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens. In this episode we discuss the mechanism of action by which the mRNA vaccines cause heart damage, following the publication of relevant research in Science Immunology. We discuss the nature of science, both empirical and theoretical, and why the eclipsing of theoretical science by the empiricists is dangerous. We discuss how fields become stuck, and why, once they get stuck, it is easy to best them. We discuss a new paper that describes two case studies of teenage males who have recurring myocarditis post mRNA vaccine. And we talk about social learning in bumblebees: they learn how to solve puzzles from others of their own kind. As do we. ***** Our sponsors: UnCruise: Get $500 off any adventure cruise on a small ship into destinations including Galapagos, Panama, Alaska, and the San Juan Islands: https://uncruise.com/pages/darkhorse/ American Hartford Gold: Get up to $5,000 of free silver on your first qualifying order. Call 866-828-1117 or text “DARKHORSE” to 998899. MUDWTR: is a coffee alternative with mushrooms and herbs (and cacao!) and is delicious, with 1/7 the caffeine as coffee. Visit www.mudwtr.com/darkhorsepod and use DARKHORSEPOD at check out for 15% off.  ***** Our book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3at Heather's newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.com Find more from us on Bret's website (https://bretweinstein.net) or Heather's website (http://heatherheying.com). Become a member of the DarkHorse LiveStreams, and get access to an additional Q&A livestream every month. Join at Heather's Patreon. Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @HeatherEHeying), and consider helping us out by contributing to either of our Patreons or Bret's Paypal. Looking for clips from #DarkHorseLivestreams? Check out our other channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music. ***** Q&A Link: https://rumble.com/v35z0um-your-questions-answered-bret-and-heather-186th-darkhorse-podcast-livestream.html?mref=256aqg&mc=eh4u2 Mentioned in this episode: County Highway: https://www.countyhighway.com Barmada et al 2023. Cytokinopathy with aberrant cytotoxic lymphocytes and profibrotic myeloid response in SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine–associated myocarditis. Science Immunology 8(83): p.eadh3455.https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.adh3455 Amodio et al 2023. Relapsing myocarditis following initial recovery of post COVID-19 vaccination in two adolescent males–Case reports. Vaccine: X, 14: p.100318.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590136223000591 Bridges et al 2023. Bumblebees acquire alternative puzzle-box solutions via social learning. Plos Biology, 21(3): p.e3002019. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002019&fbclid=IwAR2jxtImrcpd5PiQqGOFCipsx5t9Th20VR_ZT3H-q9chftbGjqNCGTBk2QsSupport the show

Further ReadingByrne, Allison Q. (2023) Reimagining the future of natural history museums with compassionate collection.  PLOS Biology, 4 May.Byrne, Allison Q. website [https://www.alliebyrne.com/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit qwheeler.substack.com

In this episode, Dr. Brittany Barreto talks to Professor Christine Metz, Co-Director of The ROSE Study. They discuss menstrual effluent, what it is, how it can be used as a diagnostic tool and what this means for people with endometriosis. This is an awesome episode - let us know what you think!Remember to like, rate and subscribe and enjoy the episode!Guest bioDr. Christine N Metz is a Professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Her research primarily focuses on identifying mechanisms that underlie dysfunctional inflammatory responses. Most of this work centers on women's health. Dr. Metz is the author of more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific research papers and more than a dozen review articles and book chapters. She was recently recognized as one of the top 100,000 scientists in the world (among 7 million) based on her productivity and the impact of her work (PLoS Biology, 2019). Company bioThe ROSE study was developed in 2013 by Peter K Gregersen, MD and Christine N Metz, PhD, who serve as co-directors. The ROSE study enrolls menstruators ages 15-50 years to participate in research studies focused on using menstrual effluent (or menstrual blood) as a tool to study endometriosis (as well as as other uterine-health disorders). We are focused on 1) developing non-invasive methods for screening/diagnosing endometriosis (as well as uterine-health disorders) to reduce the delay in diagnosis and 2) better understanding endometriosis to develop more effective and tolerable treatments, which are sorely needed.FemTech Focus Podcast bioThe FemTech Focus Podcast is brought to you by FemHealth Insights, the leader in Women's Health market research and consulting. In this show, Dr. Brittany Barreto hosts meaningfully provocative conversations that bring FemTech experts - including doctors, scientists, inventors, and founders - on air to talk about the innovative technology, services, and products (collectively known as FemTech) that are improving women's health and wellness. Though many leaders in FemTech are women, this podcast is not specifically about female founders, nor is it geared toward a specifically female audience. The podcast gives our host, Dr. Brittany Barreto, and guests an engaging, friendly environment to learn about the past, present, and future of women's health and wellness.FemHealth Insights bioLed by a team of analysts and advisors who specialize in female health, FemHealth Insights is a female health-specific market research and analysis firm, offering businesses in diverse industries unparalleled access to the comprehensive data and insights needed to illuminate areas of untapped potential in the nuanced women's health market.Time Stamps[04:03] Professor Metz's background[06:59] What is endometriosis?[08:09] The ROSE Study[10:02] Progress in understanding endometriosis[10:53] Menstrual Effluent[12:55] The uterus is not a closed system[14:25] Research on Menstrual Effluent[17:36] How to collect Menstrual Effluent[20:23] Study findings so far[22:49] How to get involved[25:37] How quickly could a diagnosis be given with the tool?[26:15] How soon could a tool be on the market?[29:32] Attitudes to studying menstrual effluent[32:19] Funding for endometriosis research[34:23] What would be the impact if we could diagnose endometriosis earlier?[36:00] Current endometriosis treatments[38:33] What is an area of women's health and wellness that still needs innovating?[39:55] Potential law changes in Florida and the impact for endometriosis[41:22] What does the femtech industry as a whole need the most to be successful?Call To Action!Make sure you subscribe to the podcast, and if you like the show please leave us a review!Episode ContributorsProfessor Christine MetzLinkedIn: @Christine MetzTwitter: @CN_METZ The ROSE StudyWebsite: https://feinstein.northwell.edu/institutes-researchers/institute-molecular-medicine/robert-s-boas-center-for-genomics-and-human-genetics/rose-research-outsmarts-endometriosisEmail: rose@northwell.edu Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell HealthWebsite: https://feinstein.northwell.edu/LinkedIn: @Northwell HealthTwitter: @northwellhealthInstagram: @northwellhealthYoutube: @NorthwellHealth Dr. Brittany BarretoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanybarreto/Twitter: @DrBrittBInstagram: @drbrittanybarreto FemTech Focus PodcastWebsite: https://femtechfocus.org/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/femtechfocusTwitter: @FemTech_FocusInstagram: @femtechfocus FemHealth InsightsWebsite: https://www.femhealthinsights.com/LinkedIn: @FemHealth Insights

A survey of over 2000 British adults conducted by the Genetics Society found that trust in genetics is high and went up significantly during the pandemic. In this episode of the G Word our Head of Public Engagement, Vivienne Parry OBE, is joined by guests, Dr Adam Rutherford, geneticist, author, and broadcaster, Professor Laurence Hurst, Professor of evolutionary genetics and  Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution and Dr Cristina Fonseca, Head of Engagement and Communications at Genetics Society, to discuss findings from the survey and the supporting research paper published in Plos Biology exploring the links between someone's understanding of science and their attitudes towards it.   You can read our transcript here: https://files.genomicsengland.co.uk/documents/Podcast-transcripts/Public-views-on-genetics.docx   "We're all responsible for communicating science.... and our jobs will never be done because this is a hard game it turns out."

Heather joins me to talk about psychology being a big part of a healthy lifestyle. What we say to ourselves is important but also how we view ourselves in comparison to others (or our ideal version we have for ourselves) is a big piece of our health.Some key thoughts we need to consider when approaching a healthy lifestyle change:How well you know yourselfHow honest you are with where you are and where you need to beHow small changes in your diet/exercise are often better than massive changesWhat works for others might not work for usWe are human, we will make mistakes and it's ok, get back on track as soon as you canThe difference between food deserts and food swamps - what does your community look likeShe explains the importance of the work of Wellness Discover Labs validating the claims of some of the products on the market. Third party testing like this is a crucial piece we should all look for in the products we purchase.Heather Hausenblas, PhD is the CEO of Wellness Discovery Labs, an award winning researcher, a professor, and a best selling author. She is ranked in the top 1% of most influential scientists in the world (PLOS Biology). Check out her books and journals here.Follow her work on Instagram and LinkedIn.You can visit all of our sponsors here.You can support my efforts to bring you episodes about health and wellness topics via Patreon.Follow me via All In Health and Wellness on Facebook or Instagram.Find my books on Amazon: No More Sugar Coating: Finding Your Happiness in a Crowded World and Confidence Through Health: Life the Healthy Lifestyle God DesignedMusic credit: Ryan The Son, hear more from Ryan The Son on Instagram, YouTube or SpotifyProduction credit: Social Media Cowboys

Why Are Children's Antibiotics So Hard To Find Right Now? Mary Warlo has been extremely worried lately. Her baby Calieb, who is six months old, has sickle cell disease. In early December he went for a few days without liquid penicillin, a medication that he—and thousands of other children in the U.S.—rely on to prevent potentially life threatening infections. Warlo couldn't easily find a pharmacy in Indianapolis that had the medicine in stock. She and her husband frantically drove around for hours, stopping at five different pharmacies before they were able to get their prescription filled. “It was extremely stressful and I am worried about what will happen the next time we need to fill his prescription two weeks from now,” she said. Pediatric sickle cell disease specialists say they are alarmed by signs that the stock of liquid penicillin is dwindling in some places. They say children's lives depend on this medication, and a penicillin shortage could spell disaster. Read the rest at sciencefriday.com.   Bats Use Death Metal 'Growls' To Make Social Calls What do death metal vocalists and bats have in common? Both use their ventricle folds, or “false vocal cords,” to extend their vocal ranges to hit a lower register. This gives bats a huge vocal range—seven full octaves. Humans typically tap out at about three to four octaves. Even people with really impressive vocal ranges, like Mariah Carey, just can't compete with a bat. A study recently published in the academic journal PLOS Biology examines how and why different anatomical structures might help bats achieve such extreme frequency range. Ira talks with one of the study's authors, Coen Elemans, a professor in bioacoustics and animal behavior at the University of Southern Denmark based in Odense, Denmark.   Can Science Answer Life's Biggest Questions? Dr. Alan Lightman has been around the block a few times. Over the past five decades, he has been a theoretical physicist, professor at MIT, and bestselling author—often at the same time. His most notable novel, Einstein's Dreams, has been adapted into dozens of plays and musicals since its publication in 1992, becoming one of the most famous examples of mixing art and science.  Lightman's work follows a philosophical way of thinking about life's biggest questions, like the origins of consciousness. His new venture brings this way of thinking to the silver screen. Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science consults scientists and faith leaders to grapple with some of these theoretical quandaries. And Lightman gives a good argument for why the journey to these answers can be more impactful than the answers themselves.  Ira speaks with Alan Lightman about the new program, available to watch now online and on your local public television station. 

Today we are discussing the greatest, LEGAL, performance-enhancing drug—and that's not clickbait. Listen in as Sue and Alex talk about some things happening personally in their lives, but also the value of sleep and ways you can improve your sleep. As you know, here at PD we live by the motto, "sleep is for the elite." So, let's get into how you can get the best sleep of your life and continue to recover properly while you catch your ZZZs. As always, it is our goal not only to supply you, the listener, with valuable insights on the topics or questions but also to plant some seeds for further research and thought. Without further ado, let's get into today's episode. Timestamps: (0:00) Intro—Catching up with Sue & Alex (4:41) Introducing today's topic (6:37) Things sleep affects (14:50) Best ways to improve sleep (16:22) Routine (22:33) Winding down before bed (30:40) Caffeine (36:16) Environment (42:15) Darkness & light exposure (49:56) Training & nutrition (58:59) Supplements (01:07:09) Some final tips (01:13:34) Wrap-up Products Mentioned: Sage Sleep (pillows) - https://sagesleeporganics.com Cort-Eaze (use code BUSH) - https://nuethix.com/products/cort-eaze Legion Lunar (rutaecarpine supplement - use code SUE) - https://legionathletics.com/products/supplements/lunar-sleep-aid Research: Early evening light mitigates sleep compromising physiological and alerting responses to subsequent late evening light (Scientific Reports) - https://go.nature.com/3iBkPnP Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults (PLOS Biology) - https://bit.ly/3GZbfob Meal Timing Regulates the Human Circadian System (Current Biology) - https://bit.ly/3H1eNWP Books: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - https://amzn.to/3H2amer Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - https://amzn.to/3ILvhUh Have questions for future episodes or have a topic you'd like us to cover? Submit them here - https://forms.gle/AEu5vMKNLDfmc24M7 Looking to hire the last coach you'll ever need? Apply here - https://physiquedevelopment.typeform.com/to/ewAMxk1w Interested in competition prep? Apply here - https://physiquedevelopment.typeform.com/to/Ii2UNA For more videos, articles, and information, head to - https://physiquedevelopment.com Check out the PD Nutrition Calculator - https://physiquedevelopment.com/calculator Band tee sale! 10% off for podcast listeners. Use code PDPOD at checkout - https://physiquedevelopment.com/product-category/gear To follow the team on Instagram: Coach Alex - https://www.instagram.com/alexbush__ Coach Austin - https://www.instagram.com/austincurrent_ Coach Sue - https://www.instagram.com/suegainz Physique Development - https://www.instagram.com/physiquedevelopment_ If you would like to support Physique Development and this podcast, please head over to your favorite podcast app and leave us a rating and review! This goes a long way in supporting this podcast and helps us continue to bring high-quality, honest, content to you in the form of a podcast. Thank you for listening and we will see you all next time! ---- Produced by: David Margittai | In Post Media Website: https://www.inpostmedia.com Email: david@inpostmedia.com © 2023, Physique Development LLC. All rights reserved.

After the dinosaurs went extinct snakes were feeling hungry.  Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/herphighlights Full reference list available here: http://www.herphighlights.podbean.com Main Paper References: Grundler MC, Rabosky DL. 2021. Rapid increase in snake dietary diversity and complexity following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. PLOS Biology 19:e3001414. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001414. Species of the Bi-Week: Goutte S, Reyes-Velasco J, Kassie A, Boissinot S. 2022. Genetic and morphometric analyses of historical type specimens clarify the taxonomy of the Ethiopian Leptopelis gramineus species complex (Anura, Arthroleptidae). ZooKeys 1128:63–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1128.82176. Editing and Music: Podcast edited by Emmy – https://www.fiverr.com/emmyk10  Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson Species Bi-week theme – Michael Timothy Other Music – The Passion HiFi, https://www.thepassionhifi.com

December 2022The papers behind the pod: Menéndez ABC et al. (2022). Creating a kidney organoid-vasculature interaction model using a novel organ-on-chip system. Scientific Reports 12:20699. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-24945-5Karp N et al. (2022). A qualitative study of the barriers to using blinding in in vivo experiments and suggestions for improvement. PLOS Biology 20(11): e3001873. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001873Talbot S et al. (2022). RELSA—A multidimensional procedure for the comparative assessment of well-being and the quantitative determination of severity in experimental procedures. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9:937711. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.937711 It's the third Thursday of December, and you're listening to 3 Minute 3Rs, your monthly recap of efforts to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals in research. To round off 2022 we are highlighting a paper for each R.Follow this link for the full transcript: https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/3-minute-3rs-podcast-december-2022-transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Lars Chittka about the cognitive abilities of bees. They discuss the individuality and evolutionary history of bees. They talk about the various aspects of vision in bees such as polarization, sun compass, and phylogenetic analysis. They discuss the antennae of bees and how they use this sense. They talk about the sociality of bees, the brains of bees, intelligence, and their personality. They also discuss robot bees, bee conservation, and many more topics. Lars Chittka is a zoologist and ecologist who is the founder of the research centre for psychology at Queen Mary, University of London. He is an editor of PLoS Biology, fellow of the Linnean Society, the Royal Entomological Society, and Royal Society of Biology. He is a well-established researcher on sensory physiology and cognition of bees. He is the author of The Mind of A Bee. You can find his work here. Twitter: @lchittka This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit convergingdialogues.substack.com

Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology."Most bees are quite short-lived, not all bees. So queen bees can live for many years, up to seven years, and some stingless bees, the queens can even live much longer than that, but their lives are less exciting in a sense that they are, most of their lives, cave animals, where most of what they do is egg laying.So when we're talking about intelligence tests and bees, these are mostly done with the worker bees, and they only live for a few weeks. And it might be surprising to many people that an animal this short-lived can learn anything at all because, of course, in humans, the process of acquiring crucial life skills takes much longer, many years typically. So when a bee first emerges from the pupa - bees spend their first few days as little grubs inside a wax pot. And this larval stage, of course, there isn't much learning going on. They have a very pampered and easy life in that they are basically immersed in the food that they're required to grow. And then they pupate and turn from what are formerly little helpless grubs into adult bees.Once the bee emerges from the pupa, they have a number of different tasks waiting for them, which in honey bees a fairly defined sequence where the bee might in her first few days simply be involved in the many duties inside the hive – to clean cells, to build wax comb, to feed the larva – and then to transition to their life as a forager.”http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.infoPhoto credit: Markus Scholz / Leopoldina

"Most bees are quite short-lived, not all bees. So queen bees can live for many years, up to seven years, and some stingless bees, the queens can even live much longer than that, but their lives are less exciting in a sense that they are, most of their lives, cave animals, where most of what they do is egg laying.So when we're talking about intelligence tests and bees, these are mostly done with the worker bees, and they only live for a few weeks. And it might be surprising to many people that an animal this short-lived can learn anything at all because, of course, in humans, the process of acquiring crucial life skills takes much longer, many years typically. So when a bee first emerges from the pupa - bees spend their first few days as little grubs inside a wax pot. And this larval stage, of course, there isn't much learning going on. They have a very pampered and easy life in that they are basically immersed in the food that they're required to grow. And then they pupate and turn from what are formerly little helpless grubs into adult bees.Once the bee emerges from the pupa, they have a number of different tasks waiting for them, which in honey bees a fairly defined sequence where the bee might in her first few days simply be involved in the many duties inside the hive – to clean cells, to build wax comb, to feed the larva – and then to transition to their life as a forager.”Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology.http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.info

Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology."The world of bees is under threat, and that is not because bees are singled out, but because bees live in the environment that we all share and they are a kind of a canary in the coal mine for what's going on more largely in destroying our environment. And in a sense they are, I think, a useful sort of mascot and icon to highlight these troubles, but they are only a signpost of other things that are also under threat. We need the bee for our own food because they pollinate our crops, and they pollinate the flowers that we enjoy, but I think their utility for us is not the only reason to support them and their environment. I think the growing appreciation that the world that surrounds us is full of sophisticated and unique minds places on us a kind of onus and obligation to preserve the diversity of these minds that are out there and make sure that they continue to thrive."http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.infoPhoto credit: Markus Scholz / Leopoldina

"The world of bees is under threat, and that is not because bees are singled out, but because bees live in the environment that we all share and they are a kind of a canary in the coal mine for what's going on more largely in destroying our environment. And in a sense they are, I think, a useful sort of mascot and icon to highlight these troubles, but they are only a signpost of other things that are also under threat. We need the bee for our own food because they pollinate our crops, and they pollinate the flowers that we enjoy, but I think their utility for us is not the only reason to support them and their environment. I think the growing appreciation that the world that surrounds us is full of sophisticated and unique minds places on us a kind of onus and obligation to preserve the diversity of these minds that are out there and make sure that they continue to thrive."Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology.http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.infoPhoto credit: Markus Scholz / Leopoldina

Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology."Most bees are quite short-lived, not all bees. So queen bees can live for many years, up to seven years, and some stingless bees, the queens can even live much longer than that, but their lives are less exciting in a sense that they are, most of their lives, cave animals, where most of what they do is egg laying.So when we're talking about intelligence tests and bees, these are mostly done with the worker bees, and they only live for a few weeks. And it might be surprising to many people that an animal this short-lived can learn anything at all because, of course, in humans, the process of acquiring crucial life skills takes much longer, many years typically. So when a bee first emerges from the pupa - bees spend their first few days as little grubs inside a wax pot. And this larval stage, of course, there isn't much learning going on. They have a very pampered and easy life in that they are basically immersed in the food that they're required to grow. And then they pupate and turn from what are formerly little helpless grubs into adult bees.Once the bee emerges from the pupa, they have a number of different tasks waiting for them, which in honey bees a fairly defined sequence where the bee might in her first few days simply be involved in the many duties inside the hive – to clean cells, to build wax comb, to feed the larva – and then to transition to their life as a forager.”http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.infoPhoto credit: Markus Scholz / Leopoldina

"Most bees are quite short-lived, not all bees. So queen bees can live for many years, up to seven years, and some stingless bees, the queens can even live much longer than that, but their lives are less exciting in a sense that they are, most of their lives, cave animals, where most of what they do is egg laying.So when we're talking about intelligence tests and bees, these are mostly done with the worker bees, and they only live for a few weeks. And it might be surprising to many people that an animal this short-lived can learn anything at all because, of course, in humans, the process of acquiring crucial life skills takes much longer, many years typically. So when a bee first emerges from the pupa - bees spend their first few days as little grubs inside a wax pot. And this larval stage, of course, there isn't much learning going on. They have a very pampered and easy life in that they are basically immersed in the food that they're required to grow. And then they pupate and turn from what are formerly little helpless grubs into adult bees.Once the bee emerges from the pupa, they have a number of different tasks waiting for them, which in honey bees a fairly defined sequence where the bee might in her first few days simply be involved in the many duties inside the hive – to clean cells, to build wax comb, to feed the larva – and then to transition to their life as a forager.”Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology.http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.info

Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology."Many of us are now aware that bees are in trouble due to manmade changes to the environment. Large-scale industrial agriculture, of course, means that often there are no floral resources over very large areas of farmland, and bees' flexibility in locating food sources of course can cope with that to some extent because they're very good at locating patches, but this ability only goes so far. Of course, if there are literally no flowers left or very few, then their learning ability won't help them very much.In addition, of course, there is very heavy usage of pesticides and herbicides in industrial agriculture. And these substances in many cases have been designed to be lethal or at least harmful to insects because they are meant to keep herbivores at bay. And of course often, even if insects don't eat the leaves, flower-visiting insects still get exposed to them in the contents of floral nectar or pollen. So they carry these poisons back to their hives, their nests, albeit perhaps in lower concentrations that they're available in the leaves, but they're still present at a level that's harmful to bees so that affects their navigation, that affects the health of their young. So these manmade changes have a huge impact on bees and this is typically measured in those bees that are least affected - that is honeybees.”http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.infoPhoto credit: Markus Scholz / Leopoldina

"Many of us are now aware that bees are in trouble due to manmade changes to the environment. Large-scale industrial agriculture, of course, means that often there are no floral resources over very large areas of farmland, and bees' flexibility in locating food sources of course can cope with that to some extent because they're very good at locating patches, but this ability only goes so far. Of course, if there are literally no flowers left or very few, then their learning ability won't help them very much.In addition, of course, there is very heavy usage of pesticides and herbicides in industrial agriculture. And these substances in many cases have been designed to be lethal or at least harmful to insects because they are meant to keep herbivores at bay. And of course often, even if insects don't eat the leaves, flower-visiting insects still get exposed to them in the contents of floral nectar or pollen. So they carry these poisons back to their hives, their nests, albeit perhaps in lower concentrations that they're available in the leaves, but they're still present at a level that's harmful to bees so that affects their navigation, that affects the health of their young. So these manmade changes have a huge impact on bees and this is typically measured in those bees that are least affected - that is honeybees.”Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology.http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.infoPhoto credit: Markus Scholz / Leopoldina

"Most bees are quite short-lived, not all bees. So queen bees can live for many years, up to seven years, and some stingless bees, the queens can even live much longer than that, but their lives are less exciting in a sense that they are, most of their lives, cave animals, where most of what they do is egg laying.So when we're talking about intelligence tests and bees, these are mostly done with the worker bees, and they only live for a few weeks. And it might be surprising to many people that an animal this short-lived can learn anything at all because, of course, in humans, the process of acquiring crucial life skills takes much longer, many years typically. So when a bee first emerges from the pupa - bees spend their first few days as little grubs inside a wax pot. And this larval stage, of course, there isn't much learning going on. They have a very pampered and easy life in that they are basically immersed in the food that they're required to grow. And then they pupate and turn from what are formerly little helpless grubs into adult bees.Once the bee emerges from the pupa, they have a number of different tasks waiting for them, which in honey bees a fairly defined sequence where the bee might in her first few days simply be involved in the many duties inside the hive – to clean cells, to build wax comb, to feed the larva – and then to transition to their life as a forager.”Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology.http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.info

"If you really want to discover things and feel that excitement of finding new things that no one's found out before, the only way I think to do that is to go into a field that inspires you and to be - rather than being motivated by funding success and so on - is to be motivated by the kinds of things that you study and that you might find out.”Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology.http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.info

Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded a new Research Centre for Psychology in 2008 and was its scientific director until 2012. He is the author of The Mind of a Bee and is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. He studied Biology in Berlin and completed his PhD studies under the supervision of Randolf Menzel in 1993. He has carried out extensive work on the behaviour, cognition and ecology of bumble bees and honey bees, and their interactions with flowers. His discoveries have made a substantial impact on the understanding of animal intelligence and its neural-computational underpinnings. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an editor of biology's foremost open access journal PLoS Biology since 2004. He is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), a Fellow of the Linnean Society and Royal Entomological Society, as well as the Royal Society of Biology."If you really want to discover things and feel that excitement of finding new things that no one's found out before, the only way I think to do that is to go into a field that inspires you and to be - rather than being motivated by funding success and so on - is to be motivated by the kinds of things that you study and that you might find out.”http://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.htmlhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180472/the-mind-of-a-beehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiologywww.oneplanetpodcast.orgwww.creativeprocess.infoPhoto credit: Markus Scholz / Leopoldina

News: Scientists Say New Treatment Lets Alopecia Patients Regrow Hair | Futurism (01:14) Scientists at Yale announced this week that a common arthritis medication (baricitinib) appears to help alopecia patients regrow their hair. a potential treatment for a widespread autoimmune condition. Baricitinib is used to reduce pain, stiffness, and swelling in adults with rheumatoid arthritis after other treatments have failed. Helps slow the progression of bone and joint damage. It is a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor  Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors are a group of medications that inhibit activity and response of one or more of the Janus kinase enzymes (JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, and TYK2). These enzymes normally promote inflammation and autoimmunity. Alopecia is a common autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss Affects people of all ages, although it most commonly appears in adolescence or early adulthood.  Affects 1 in every 500 to 1,000 people in the United States. There is currently no FDA-approved treatment for the disease. Dr. Brett King, lead author on the study told Yale news:“This is so exciting, because the data clearly show how effective baricitinib is … These large, controlled trials tell us that we can alleviate some of the suffering from this awful disease.” For the study, the researchers conducted two large, randomized trials involving a total of 1,200 people. For 36 weeks, participants were given a daily dose of either 4 milligrams of baricitinib, 2 milligrams of baricitinib, or a placebo. One-third of the patients who received the larger dose grew hair back. The researchers stated that baricitinib thwarts the disease by disrupting the communication of immune cells involved in harming hair follicles.  Hopefully this medication will be proven to be safe & effective and approved by regulators.   Waymo says fully driverless rides are coming to San Francisco | The Verge (06:47) Waymo plans to start offering rides in its fully autonomous vehicles — without human safety drivers behind the wheel — in San Francisco.  They join a waitlist and, once approved, sign non-disclosure agreements to get access to the company's early technology. As of right now it is only available to employees but will soon grow to include members of the company's “Trusted Tester” program. The Trusted Tester program is for customers interested in using Waymo's robotaxis.  The vehicles will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Waymo says. Additionally, Waymo is making moves in Arizona.Growing to include downtown Phoenix after operating exclusively in the exurban towns of Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and Tempe for nearly five years. Waymo has been running fully driverless rides without a safety driver in those towns outside of Phoenix for more than a year now.  They must be confident they have enough data to move forward with autonomous taxis.Last year, the company logged the most miles driven autonomously of all the companies permitted to test in the state: 2.3 million miles, a huge increase over 2020, when it had about 629,000 miles driven, and even the pre-pandemic year of 2019, with 1.45 million. The expansion of Waymo's service area in Phoenix and the imminent launch of driverless rides in San Francisco signal the company's sense of confidence that its vehicles can operate safely and efficiently in more dense, urban environments.    Quantum technology could make charging electric cars as fast as pumping gas | Phys.org (12:10) For a long time, batteries had far lower energy density than those offered by hydrocarbons, which resulted in very low ranges of early electric vehicles.Improvements in battery technologies eventually allowed the drive ranges of electric cars to be within acceptable levels However, despite the vast improvements in battery technology, today's consumers of electric vehicles face another difficulty: slow battery charging speed.Takes about 10 hours to fully recharge at home Even the fastest superchargers require up to 20 to 40 minutes to fully recharge This creates additional costs and inconvenience to the customers. To address this problem, scientists looked for answers in the field of quantum physics.Which led to a discovery that quantum technologies may promise new mechanisms to charge batteries at a faster rate.  It was theorized that quantum resources, such as entanglement, can be used to vastly speed up the battery charging process by charging all cells within the battery simultaneously in a collective manner. Conventional batteries collective charging is not possible, where the cells are charged in parallel independently of one another.  In this most recent study, researchers were able to precisely quantify how much charging speed can be achieved with this collective charging scheme vs parallel. The charging speed increases linearly with the number of cells in classical batteries. The study showed, however, that quantum batteries employing global operation can achieve quadratic scaling in charging speed. To illustrate this, consider a typical electric vehicle with a battery that contains about 200 cells. Charging time at home would be cut from 10 hours to about 3 minutes. Quantum charging would lead to a 200 times speedup over classical batteries,  High-speed charging stations, the charge time would be cut from 30 minutes to mere seconds. Of course, quantum technologies are still in their infancy and there is a long way to go before these methods can be implemented in practice. However, this study creates a promising direction and can incentivize the funding agencies and businesses to further invest in these technologies.   HB11's hydrogen-boron laser fusion test yields groundbreaking results | New Atlas (18:24) Australian company HB11 is approaching nuclear fusion from an entirely new angle, using high power, high precision lasers instead of hundred-million-degree temperatures to start the reaction.The 1st demo ​​produced 10 times more fusion reactions than expected The company started tooting their own horn: “the only commercial entity to achieve fusion so far [making it] the global frontrunner in the race to commercialize the holy grail of clean energy." Just to summarize quickly what is required for fusion: Like throwing powerful magnets at each other in space Most companies try to replicate this by magnetically confining hydrogen atoms in a plasma In order to smash atoms together hard enough to make them fuse together and form a new element, you need to overcome the incredibly strong repulsive forces that push two positively-charged nuclei apart.  The Sun accomplishes this by having a huge amount of hydrogen atoms packed into a plasma that's superheated to tens of millions of degrees at its core. HB11 is using a different approach that doesn't require huge amounts of heat, or tricky, radioactive fuels like tritium.Takes advantage of recent advances in ultra-high powered "chirped pulse amplification" lasers that can produce monstrous, unprecedented power levels over 10 petawatts. An HB11 reactor would be a mostly empty metal sphere, with a "modestly sized" boron fuel pellet held in the middle, and apertures in two spots on the sphere for a pair of lasers. One laser, in combination with a capacitive coil, is used to establish a powerful kilotesla magnetic containment field for the plasma. The second is used to massively accelerate hydrogen atoms through the boron sample. The reactor is not heating things up in the hope that they'll smack together at speed.It is aiming the hydrogen right at the boron and using these bleeding-edge lasers to make it go so fast that it'll fuse if it hits a nucleus. Hydrogen-boron fusion doesn't create heat, it merely creates "naked" positively charged helium atoms, or alpha particles They collect that charge to create energy, rather than needing to superheat steam and drive turbines. Initial experiments on laser-triggered chain reactions returned reaction rates a billion times higher than anticipated, and then seem pretty happy about it and a little cocky:“This is many orders of magnitude higher than those reported by any other fusion company, most of which have not generated any reaction despite billions of dollars invested in the field. The results show great potential for clean energy generation: hydrogen-boron reactions use fuels that are safe and abundant, don't create neutrons in the primary reaction so cause insignificant amounts of short-lived waste, and can provide large-scale power for base-load grid electricity or hydrogen generation." Mitochondrial transplants between living cells could save dying organs | ETH News (23:53) In a technological breakthrough, researchers at ETH Zurich have announced the development of a new technique that can transplant mitochondria.Mitochondria are the tiny powerhouses of the cell where the processes of cellular respiration take place In their research, recently published in the journal PLOS Biology, the group successfully used a ‘nanosyringe' they had previously developed to transplant mitochondria from one living cell to another. In more detail:These cylindrical nanosyringes were specially developed for this study, the researchers pierced the cell membrane and sucked up the spherical mitochondria. They then pierced the membrane of a different cell and pumped the mitochondria back out of the nanosyringe into the recipient cell. The position of the nanosyringe is controlled by laser light from a converted atomic force microscope. A pressure regulator adjusts the flow, allowing scientists to transfer incredibly small volumes of fluid in the femtoliter range (millionths of a millionth of a milliliter) during organelle transplants The transplanted mitochondria have a high survival rate – more than 80 percent. The injected mitochondria begin to fuse with the filamentous network of the new cell 20 minutes after transplantation. The technique could be deployed as a way of treating diseased organs, but may also find use in the realm of anti-aging, rejuvenating stem cells that deteriorate in metabolic activity as we grow older.