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- Regional response to light illuminance across the human hypothalamus https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/96576v1#x-1043435196 1 comment
- Universal vaccine needed to prevent future COVID-19 waves, study suggests https://elifesciences.org/articles/78933 7 comments science
- A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans ["strength/muscularity was the strongest and only consistent predictor of both mating and reproduction"] https://elifesciences.org/articles/65031 7 comments science
- Evolution of cytokine production capacity in ancient and modern European populations https://elifesciences.org/articles/64971? 3 comments science
- Aging May Not Be a Linear Process, Study on Reversible Stress-Induced Graying Suggests https://elifesciences.org/articles/67437 16 comments science
- The largest placebo-controlled trial of psychedelics to date suggests that the reported psychological benefits of microdosing are likely explained by the placebo effect. Participants were shocked to learn after the study that they hadn’t been taking the real drug https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/6955ddfb/placebo-effect-may-explain-reported-benefits-of-psychedelic-microdoses 3 comments science
- Supplementation of the nutrient selenium protects against diet-induced obesity and may extend the lifespan of mice by controlling energy-regulating hormones. https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/54f89d05/selenium-supplementation-protects-against-obesity-and-may-extend-lifespan 4 comments science
- The exact location of Punt has been a mystery for 150 years .Mummified Baboons from Ancient Egypt are telling Scientists more about this Exotic Land where they came from. https://elifesciences.org/articles/60860#fig5 4 comments science
- Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related memory decline in mice https://elifesciences.org/articles/62048 10 comments science
- Study suggests link between unexplained miscarriages and how women perceive men’s body odour https://elifesciences.org/articles/55305 8 comments science
- Taller body height at the entry to adulthood is associated with lower risk of dementia diagnosis later in life https://elifesciences.org/articles/51168 7 comments science
- Tiny salamander's huge genome may harbor the secrets of regeneration https://elifesciences.org/articles/48511 6 comments science
- Scientists suggest human body temperature in the U.S. has fallen by 0.02C every decade since 98.6C figure from research in 1851 - men being 0.58C cooler, and women 0.32C cooler in 2000s than their counterparts from the 1890s - such a trend was not observed in third world countries https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555 29 comments science
- How do we localize sounds? https://elifesciences.org/digests/47027/how-do-we-localize-sounds? 4 comments cogsci
- Study of 33 three-generation families suggests that each person has, on average, around 70 "de novo" mutations that were not present in their parent’s genomes, and that almost 10% of those mutations did not occur in the parents’ sperm or eggs but in the embryo soon after fertilization. https://elifesciences.org/digests/46922/new-mutations-at-different-speeds?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social 13 comments science
- Histotomography; an increase in resolution and field of view could take X-Ray imaging, analysis, and diagnosis to the next level https://elifesciences.org/articles/44898 5 comments science
- Mass vaccination campaigns between 2010 and 2013 prevented up to 56,000 measles deaths among children in India. https://elifesciences.org/articles/46186 9 comments science
- Hypothesis tested that repeated use of antibiotics has a stronger association with population-wide antibiotic resistance than broadly-distributed, low-intensity use. https://elifesciences.org/articles/39435 5 comments science
- Over 200 fossils found in China suggest that flowering plants first emerged in the Early Jurassic, moving the date of the oldest known flower back by almost 50 million years. https://elifesciences.org/articles/38827 10 comments science
- They have homologous light-emiting enzymes, and structurally identical luciferins, but a comparison of new genomes from fireflies and click-beetles suggest these bioluminescent systems don't share common ancestry https://elifesciences.org/articles/36495 3 comments science
- A second contagious cancer recently discovered in the Tasmanian devil seems to be slowly evolving to better evade the devils' immune systems by losing markers on the surface of its cells. https://elifesciences.org/articles/39976 4 comments science
- New labelling technique allows identifying where latent HIV-1 viruses integrate in the genome https://elifesciences.org/articles/37732 5 comments science
- Fossilized feces from extinct bone-cracking dogs, which roamed North America about 6 million years ago, contain preserved bones from the animal's prey and suggest these predators may have hunted in packs. https://elifesciences.org/articles/34773 4 comments science
- Paralyzed patient feels sensation again. Using a tiny array of electrodes implanted in the brain's somatosensory cortex, Caltech scientists have induced sensations of touch and movement in the arm of a paralyzed man https://elifesciences.org/articles/32904 9 comments science
- Ants can sense a chemical cue from other colony members with a fungal infection and respond by spraying them with an antiseptic poison that kills both the ant and the fungus inside. https://elifesciences.org/articles/32073 47 comments science
- Mobile phones – including basic flip phones – can accurately record the sound of mosquito wingbeats with species-specific frequencies, enabling rapid low-cost mosquito surveillance using a citizen-science approach. https://elifesciences.org/articles/27854 4 comments science
- Skeletal muscle and not the brain may hold answers to some sleep disorders https://elifesciences.org/articles/26557 5 comments science
- Dyslexics' faster decay of implicit memory for sounds and words is manifested in their shorter neural adaptation https://elifesciences.org/content/6/e20557 30 comments science
- Lactic acid triggers prion formation in fermenting yeast, reprogramming carbohydrate metabolism and leading to less alcohol being produced. This explains why lactic acid-producing bacteria are often found in failed wine fermentations, which is something that Pasteur pondered over 140 years ago. https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e22256 31 comments science
- A gene, TP53, is a major part of why elephants beat cancer https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e21864 9 comments science
- Cannabis improves night vision. https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e15932 8 comments science
- The rubber hand illusion not only induces a feeling of "disembodiment", it also makes the brain less able to move the real hand. https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e14972 31 comments science
- Trypanosome parasites are hiding in human skin, a discovery that may undermine the World Health Organization's efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness by 2020. https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e17716 81 comments science
- Potential Herpes Vaccine: Herpes simplex type 2 virus deleted in glycoprotein D protects against vaginal, skin and neural disease in mice https://elifesciences.org/content/4/e06054 4 comments science
- A century of trends in adult human height shows that, on average, Dutch men are the tallest in the world (~182.5 cm), while South Korean women (+20.2cm) and Iranian men (+16.5cm) have seen the largest gain in height in the past 100 years. https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e13410 3 comments science
- Many birds – including finches and sparrows – can see ultraviolet (UV) light; a new study reveals two essential adaptions that enabled these birds to expand their vision into the UV range and see a visual world hidden to humans. https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e15675 9 comments science
- The brain is not as cramped as we thought, new research http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e05793 3 comments science
- Scientists grow World's First Mini Human Lungs from Stem Cells - "In vitro generation of human pluripotent stem cell derived lung organoids" http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e05098 2 comments science
- Genes that define species http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e05377 4 comments science
- We discovered how cells import stuff http://elifesciences.org/content/3/e03648 3 comments science