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01/07/2024

https://trulycurious.com/2024/07/01/the-most-famous-human-lie-detector/

Haunted by the death of his mother, Paul Ekman was driven to become the world's premier expert on emotions. Here is his life story

01/07/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/06/29/can-some-fish-can-do-arithmetic/

Work by Vera Schluessel helps chalk up another victory for some discounted deep thinkers

30/06/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/06/19/how-supermountains-impacted-evolution/

Ziyi Zhu wanted to know when these ranges formed, but she also stumbled upon their influence on life on Earth

04/06/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/06/04/drawing-water-from-air/

All it takes to cook up that water is a pinch of salt, a dash of sunlight, a solar panel, and a thirsty polymer

31/05/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/05/30/life-on-earth-may-be-mucholder/

A recent study may have pushed the date for the emergence of life on Earth back to 4.28 billion years ago

03/05/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/05/03/undergrad-discovers-black-hole-pair/

Sidetracked from chemistry by COVID, Sandra O’Neil found a secret hidden among the stars

22/04/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/04/22/evidence-brain-detects-gut-bacteria/

About brain receptors that recognize bacterial waste, muons that can make out mini-tsunamis, and plants can up their photosynthetic game

19/04/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/04/19/did-best-wheat-come-from-georgia/

Trying to find the origins of the modern plant, researchers came upon the ancestor of the best kind of bread wheat

13/04/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/04/12/predicting-rat-thinking-before-action/

Using mathematical models of behavior, researchers see rat brain activity reliably preceding action

09/04/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/04/09/asteroid-may-have-kickstarted-life-on-earth/

Samples and satellite observations hint at how raining meteorites from asteroids may have made the planet habitable

07/04/2022

Kicked off campus by the pandemic, Giulia Semeghini and her team members came up with a quantum spin liquid
https://trulycurious.com/2022/04/06/she-created-a-new-state-of-matter/

Kicked off campus during the pandemic, Giulia Semeghini and her team members came up with a quantum spin liquid, a new state of matter

31/03/2022

New materials help ensure that what you see in the viewfinder is finally what you get in the image
https://trulycurious.com/2022/03/30/metamaterials-make-tiny-color-camera/

Metamaterials help ensure that what you see in the viewfinder is finally what you get in the image

27/03/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/03/27/how-gut-sense-informs-your-brain/

Unlike your tongue, sensors in your intestine can measure the calorie content in sweeteners

09/03/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/03/09/ostrich-beads-mark-ebb-flow-migration/

A self-funded researcher’s work on ostrich shell beads shows how a flooded river basin cut ties between African communities for 40,000 years

07/03/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/03/06/ants-first-responders-rescue-their-own/

Less than a week after getting out of their cocoons, the ants show protective behavior

28/02/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/02/27/four-legged-snake-fossil-false-alarm/

Researchers suggest that a study claiming to have found an ancestral snake fossil had no legs after all

16/02/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/02/16/coral-reefs-can-really-take-the-heat/

Changes in gene activity may be helping corals survive in the Red Sea

08/01/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/01/08/some-electric-fish-use-pauses-effect

Mormyrids know how to create that electric tension while communicating with fellow fish

03/01/2022

https://trulycurious.com/2022/01/03/nanotech-with-some-concrete-solutions/
Carbon fights carbon, by reducing the amount of material needed in building construction

Researchers find out that nanomaterials can reduce the cement used in construction, thus reducing its carbon footprint

30/12/2021

The fossil of Arthopleura, an invertebrate that could tower over a modern human, shows how the giant bug thrived for 45 million years
https://trulycurious.com/2021/12/29/when-giant-millipedes-walked-the-earth/

The fossil of Arthopleura, an invertebrate that could tower over a modern human, shows how the giant bug thrived for 45 million years

27/12/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/12/27/trojan-bacterial-army-brings-down-tumors/
Working from within, modified germs expose cancer cells to an attack from the immune system

Working from within, modified germs expose cancer cells to an attack from the immune system

16/12/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/12/16/hair-color-can-rebound-after-stress/

Researchers find the shade of one's hair can reflect the state of one's mind. And that leads to a conversation on the need for studying health, not disease

18/11/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/11/17/they-protect-mosquitoes-from-dengue/

Researchers help the gnats fight off virus that would otherwise infect humans

12/11/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/11/12/animals-that-take-advice-from-bacteria/

The larvae of many marine creatures drift in plankton, then settle to the seafloor and transform into adults. Bacteria often help the critters pick where to settle — and that may be just a snippet of a far more extensive conversation

10/11/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/11/10/how-amino-acids-drive-mussel-power/

The distance between lysine and dopa in a protein decides how bivalves hold their own against even the mightiest of waves

17/10/2021

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/7/2055974/-The-first-major-city-in-the-United-States-passes-a-dark-sky-ordinance

Stars can’t fight city lights. They’ve turned their backs on us. A hundred years ago, just about anyone could walk outside into their yard at night, look up, and easily see the Milky Way. But now we all take for granted that you can’t see any but the...

12/10/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/10/12/sound-bubbles-drug-fight-alzheimers/

Researchers find a combination of ultrasound and a chemical that reduces the plaques associated with the most common form of dementia

24/09/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/09/24/they-make-plastic-edible/

With genes from two bacteria and a rat, E. coli produces the main ingredient of vanilla

22/09/2021

A space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of S***m
https://trulycurious.com/2021/09/22/apocalypse-then/ ***m

A space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of S***m

17/09/2021

https://trulycurious.com/2021/09/16/ptsd-and-evolution/

Many creatures that endure trauma show lasting changes in behavior and physiology. Researchers now believe this may be adaptive behavior

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