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Octopus Culture, Schizophrenia Origins, Killing Cancer Sep 15, 2022

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Learn about octopi forming communities, clues to the origins of schizophrenia, and a new compound giving researchers hope for fighting tough to treat cancers.

Octopus Culture

“Hidden World of Octopus Cities and Culture Shows why it’s Wrong to Farm These Sentient Creatures” by Guardian Magazine
- https://www.guardianmag.press/2022/04/hidden-world-of-octopus-cities-and-culture-shows-why-its-wrong-to-farm-these-sentient-creatures.html/
“The question of animal emotions” by Frans B. M. De Waal and Kristin Andrews
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo2378
“Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia” by Annalee Newitz
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/
“A second site occupied by Octopus tetricus at high densities, with notes on their ecology and behavior” by David Scheel, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10236244.2017.1369851
Animal Culture by Zhana Reznikova
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_745

Schizophrenia Origins

“Landmark Study Reveals Clearest Genetic Signals Yet for Schizophrenia Risk” by Rutgers Research
- https://research.rutgers.edu/news/landmark-study-reveals-clearest-genetic-signals-yet-schizophrenia-risk
“Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia” by Vassily Trubetskoy, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04434-5
“What is Schizophrenia?” by The American Psychiatric Association
- https://psychiatry.org/patients-families/schizophrenia/what-is-schizophrenia
“What is a Gene?” by Medline Plus
- https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/basics/gene/#:~:text=A%20gene%20is%20the%20basic,more%20than%202%20million%20bases

Killing Cancer

“Promising Compound Kills Range Of Hard-To-Treat Cancers By Targeting A Previously Undiscovered Vulnerability” by UT Southwestern Medical Center
- https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/hard-to-treat-cancers.html
“Targeting LIPA independent of its lipase activity is a therapeutic strategy in solid tumors via induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress” by Xihui Liu, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, Shourya Kumar, Tae-Kyung Lee, Andrew Moore, Shihong Ma, Liping Chen, Michael Hsieh, Mengxing Li, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, Karla Parra, Eliot B. Blatt, Tanner C. Reese, Yuting Zhao, Annabel Chang, Hui Yan, Zhenming Xu, Uday P. Pratap, Zexuan Liu, Carlos M. Roggero, Zhenqiu Tan, Susan T. Weintraub, Yan Peng, Rajeshwar R. Tekmal, Carlos L. Arteaga, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ratna K. Vadlamudi, Jung-Mo Ahn & Ganesh V. Raj.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-022-00389-8
“Scientists Discover New Molecule That Kills Hard-to-Treat Cancers” By Amanda Siegfried
- https://news.utdallas.edu/health-medicine/new-molecule-cancer-cell-killer-2022/

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Glass Rain Dinosaur Pain, Snarge Science, Human Skin Cyborg Sep 14, 2022

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A new archeological discovery might be from the day of the big asteroid strike that took down the dinosaurs, bird goo is helping us understand airplane accidents, and find out about the most human-like robot finger you’ve ever seen!

Glass Rain Dinosaur Pain

Tanis: Fossil of Dinosaur Killed in Asteroid Strike Found, Scientists Claim by Jonathan Amos
- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61013740
Scientists Claim They've Found a Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Fossil Killed When the Mass Extinction Asteroid Hit the Earth 66 Million Years Ago by Marianne Guenot and Alia Shoaib
- https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/scientists-claim-theyve-found-a-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-fossil-killed-when-the-mass-extinction-asteroid-hit-the-earth-66-million-years-ago/articleshow/90760067.cms
The Day the Dinosaurs Died by Douglas Preston
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
A Seismically Induced Onshore Surge Deposit at the KPg Boundary, North Dakota by Robert A. DePalma, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817407116
Chicxulub Impact Event: Discovering the Impact Site by Lunar and Planetary Institute
- https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/discovery/

Snarge Science

‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer by Jason Bittel
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/science/snarge-birds-airplanes.html
Smithsonian Institution, Feather Identification Lab by Federal Aviation Administration
- https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/smithsonian/
Bird Strike - An Experimental, Theoretical, and Numerical Investigation by Reza Hedayati and Mojtaba Sadighi.
- https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpBSAETNI2/bird-strike-an-experimental/bird-strike-an-experimental
Identifying the Bird, When Not Much Bird Is Left by Matthew L. Wald
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/science/25birds.html

Human Skin Cyborg

“How Humanlike Do We Really Want Robots to Be?” by Brian Handwerk
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humanlike-do-we-really-want-robots-to-be-180980234/
“Living skin on a robot” by Michio Kawai, Minghao Nie, Haruka Oda, Yuya Morimoto, and Shoji Takeuchi
- https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00239-9

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Big Brain Bestfriends, Mars Exploration Fleet, Brain Unpain Sep 09, 2022

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Discover how our brains physically reflect how social we are, a new proposal for Mars exploration vehicles, and patterns in our brain that reveal how we process pain!

Social brains.

“Brain regions linked to empathy bigger in monkeys with more friends” by Alice Klein
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2316110-brain-regions-linked-to-empathy-bigger-in-monkeys-with-more-friends/
“Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society” by Camille Testard, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl5794
“Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure” by R. Kanai, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1959
“Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the human life span” by Yang Claire Yang, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511085112
“An ecocultural model predicts Neanderthal extinction through competition with modern humans” by William Gilpin, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524861113

Mars Cars

Divide and Conquer: Mars Rovers Could be Superseded by Swarms of Two-Wheeled Robots by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
- https://phys.org/news/2022-04-conquer-mars-rovers-superseded-swarms.html
The Two-Wheeled Robotic Swarm Concept for Mars Exploration by Alexander Petrovsky, et al.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522000340
Missions by NASA Science Mars Exploration Program
- https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/
Announcement by MIT Skoltech Program
- https://skoltech.mit.edu/

Pain patterns.

“Discovery In The Brains Of Army Veterans Sheds Light On The Neurobiological Mechanisms Behind Chronic Pain And Trauma” by Conn Hastings
- https://www.psypost.org/2022/06/discovery-in-the-brains-of-army-veterans-sheds-light-on-the-neurobiological-mechanisms-behind-chronic-pain-and-trauma-63313
“Understanding Pain and Trauma Symptoms in Veterans From Resting-State Connectivity: Unsupervised Modeling” by Irina A. Strigo, Andrea D. Spadoni and Alan N. Simmons.
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2022.871961/full?utm_source=fweb&utm_medium=nblog&utm_campaign=ba-sci-fpain-Understanding-pain-and-trauma-symptoms-in-Veterans-from-resting-state-connectivity

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Asteroid-eating Fungi, Psychedelic…Maybe, Printing Organs Sep 08, 2022

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Today, you’ll learn about mushrooms that can eat asteroids to make space soil, how our thoughts affect us as we microdose psychedelics, and efforts to 3D print organs like kidneys and lungs!

Hungry mushrooms.

Fungi Could Make Soil From Asteroids and Homes on Mars by Madeleine Gregory
- https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/fungi-could-make-soil-from-asteroids-and-homes-on-mars
Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi by Jane Shevtsov
- https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Making_Soil_for_Space_Habitats/
Could Future Homes on the Moon and Mars Be Made of Fungi? by Frank Tavares
- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/myco-architecture
Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms by Nick Hilden
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/

Far out thoughts.

Citizen Scientists Show Placebo Effect May Explain Benefits of Microdosing by Ryan O’hare
- https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/216134/citizen-scientists-show-placebo-effect-explain/
Self-Blinding Citizen Science to Explore Psychedelic Microdosing by Balázs Szigeti, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62878
What to Know About Microdosing LSD by Medical News Today
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/microdosing-lsd
Psychedelic Microdosing Benefits and Challenges: An Empirical Codebook by Thomas Anderson, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0308-4

A different kind of printer.

“When we'll be able to 3D-print organs and who will be able to afford them” by Kristen Rogers
- https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/health/3d-printed-organs-bioprinting-life-itself-wellness-scn/index.html
“Advanced Polymers for Three-Dimensional (3D) Organ Bioprinting” by Xiaohong Wang.
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952999/#:~:text=Three%2Ddimensional%20(3D)%20organ%20bioprinting%20is%20the%20utilization%20of,7%2C8%2C9%5D

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Fake Paint Real Carbon, Vanishing Vikings, Sweeping Smarts Sep 07, 2022

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Tune in to understand how new tech to find fake paintings, the mysterious reason a viking colony collapsed, and how doing chores might make kids smarter!

Goodbye forgaries.

Police Rely on Radiocarbon Dating to Identify Forged Paintings by Carolyn Wilke
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00582-w
Detecting Recent Forgeries of Impressionist and Pointillist Paintings with High-Precision Radiocarbon Dating by Lucille Beck, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111214
Discovering Forgeries of Modern Art by the 14C Bomb Peak by L. Caforio, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14006-6
Uncovering Modern Paint Forgeries by Radiocarbon Dating by Laura Hendricks, et al.
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1901540116

Water: the life force.

Greenland’s Vikings May Have Vanished Because They Ran Out of Water by Colin Barras
- https://www.science.org/content/article/greenland-s-vikings-may-have-vanished-because-they-ran-out-water
Prolonged Drying Trend Coincident with the Demise of Norse Settlement in Southern Greenland by Boyang Zhao, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4346
Development of an In Situ Branched GDGT Calibration in Lake 578, Southern Greenland by Boyang Zhao, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104168
Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? by Tim Folger
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-greenland-vikings-vanished-180962119/
Glacier Maxima in Baffin Bay During the Medieval Warm Period Coeval with Norse Settlement by Nicolás E. Young, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500806
What Happened to the Viking Settlement of Greenland? New Research Shows Cooling Weather Not a Factor by Magnús Sveinn Helgason
- https://icelandmag.is/article/what-happened-viking-settlement-greenland-new-research-shows-cooling-weather-not-a-factor

Chores for thinking.

“Children's chores improve brain function” by La Trobe University
- https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2022/release/childrens-chores-improve-brain-function
“Executive functions and household chores: Does engagement in chores predict children's cognition?” by Deanna L Tepper, Tiffani J Howell, and Pauleen C Bennett
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35640882/

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Super X-Ray, Seeing Future Weather, Vitamin D-ementia Sep 02, 2022

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Discover a new x-ray giving us incredible sight into ourselves, the future of weather prediction, and a surprising potential link between dementia and vitamin D.

Ultra visible insides.

Human Organ Atlas
- https://human-organ-atlas.esrf.eu/
Brightest Ever X-ray Shows Lung Vessels Altered by COVID-19 by University College London
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211104100646.htm
Drawing Up a ‘Google Earth’ of the Human Body by Jon Cartwright
- https://physicsworld.com/a/the-body-exposed/
Imaging Intact Human Organs with Local Resolution of Cellular Structures Using Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography by C.L. Walsh, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01317-x

Hotter summers are coming.

Skillful seasonal prediction of North American summertime heat extremes by Liwei Jia, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0364.1
GFDL’s New Modeling System for Seasonal Predictions by Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/gfdls-new-modeling-system-for-seasonal-predictions/
Butterflies, rounding errors, and the chaos of climate models by Emily Becker
- https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/butterflies-rounding-errors-and-chaos-climate-models
SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection by Thomas L. Delworth, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001895

More vitamin D please.

“Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase the Risk of Dementia” by Elizabeth Pratt
- https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-increase-the-risk-of-dementia#Dementia-and-vitamin-D
“Vitamin D Deficiency Leads to Dementia” by University of South Australia
- https://www.newswise.com/articles/vitamin-d-deficiency-leads-to-dementia?ta=home

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Neanderthal Roommates, Sea Dragons, Hidden Egyptian Sep 01, 2022

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

European humans.

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

Dragons of the sea.

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

Lost city.

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

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Skin Print, Testing Birth Control, Race To Bring Mars Home Aug 31, 2022

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

Blood skin.

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

Birth control plus extra.

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

Mars dirt.

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

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Hot Testes, Blasting Diabetes, Robo Fish Cleans Ocean Aug 26, 2022

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

Heating up testes isn’t what you think.

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

Type 2 diabetes potential cure.

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

Robotic fish are the future.

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

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Space Slingshot, Ancient Modern Pants, Lifesaving Silence Aug 25, 2022

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

A different kind of slingshot.

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

Very very old pants.

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

Moth sound absorbers.

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

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