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🧪 lovely paper on companion animals and wellbeing www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Human-animal interaction: understanding the role of dog and cat interactions in emotional wellbeingCompanion animals are often assumed to benefit human emotional wellbeing, yet empirical evidence for this effect and the proposed stress-buffering mechanism ...www.frontiersin.org🧪 really interesting study on visceral fat stores and cognition www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Regional adiposity shapes brain and cognition in adults - Nature Mental HealthIn this large-scale study, the authors used multimodal neuroimaging and cognitive data from UK Biobank participants to examine the relationship between regional adiposity and brain health.www.nature.com#scicomm 🧪 I’m no expert on astrophysics but I like this idea theconversation.com/does-dark-en...
Does dark energy really exist? Our work identifies cracks in the foundations of today’s cosmological modelThe expansion of the universe may not in fact be accelerating, calling dark energy into question.theconversation.com🧪 Wow. “Elephants can communicate with other elephants across distances of up to five kilometers by producing sounds that travel by air. However, they have a second way of sending signals: seismic waves traveling through the ground.” www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/07...
Elephants communicate through ground vibrations thanks to large middle ear bones and a special muscleResearchers may have uncovered the mechanisms behind elephants’ long-distance communication through ground vibrations: large and heavy ears and ear canals thatwww.frontiersin.org🧪 This is somewhat gross and disturbing but potentially has major implications for cancer treatment in the future theconversation.com/largest-stud...
Largest study yet reveals which cancers have their own microbiomesKnowing which cancer tumours have their own microbiomes could lead to more personalised treatments.theconversation.com🧪#SciComm “Instead of a rigid plate diving cleanly and steadily into the depths, a whole section of the soft, water-bearing crust sagged and foundered into the mantle in short, local bursts. It’s a part-time, improvised version of subduction.” theconversation.com/3-1-billion-...
3.1 billion-year-old rocks in Australia reveal a forgotten chapter of Earth’s water cycleToday, plate tectonics carry water into Earth’s depths. But this deep water cycle goes back much further.theconversation.com🧪 Exercise is how I quit smoking back in 1984. I still run and still don’t smoke 42 years later. adelaide.edu.au/about/news/2...
Move to quit: Exercise boosts smoking quit ratesadelaide.edu.au🧪 This is potentially huge. This technique enabled pigs with severed spinal to walk again (not endorsing animal experimentation though) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Fusogen-induced recovery of spinal cord function and morphology after complete transectionSpinal cord injury is a critical issue in neurosurgery, lacking established clinical methods for functional restoration. This study reports the effects of a fusogen sealant, composed of polyethylene g...journals.plos.org🧪 ooh, cool study looking at suburban design and emissions Paper link in article phys.org/news/2026-06...
Suburban street design has driven emissions since WWII, study suggestsHalf of all Americans live in the suburbs. For decades, planners and policymakers have blamed suburban sprawl's environmental and social costs on one thing: distance. The farther people live from city...phys.org“This raises two important questions: What was the war actually for? And what did the U.S. achieve? As an international and nuclear security expert, I believe the answer is nothing – and in the process the U.S. lost credibility as a negotiating partner.” theconversation.com/trumps-us-ir...
Trump’s US-Iran ceasefire deal is a costly return to prewar conditions – and resolving nuclear questions will run into the ‘indivisibility problem’Iran has emerged with its uranium enrichment knowledge intact, its stockpile buried and fresh reason to believe that only a nuclear weapon would have deterred the US-Israel attack.theconversation.comThere are thousands of cockatoos where I live. I for one love them www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Lorne residents hope invention will stop cockatoos from trashing townResidents of the scenic Great Ocean Road are at their wits' end after the increasingly intelligent birds learnt how to lift the lids of wheelie bins, spreading rubbish through the scenic town.www.abc.net.au🧪#scicomm “We also found a general trend showing that species vulnerability to climate change increases towards tropical latitudes. This means tropical bees that nest above ground are the most vulnerable to climate change.” theconversation.com/how-will-aus...
How will Australian native bees cope with climate change? Their nests hold a clueSurprisingly, the species that are the most tolerant to heat, are also the most vulnerable to future warming.theconversation.com🧪 #scicomm this is an n=1 but fascinating medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06...
Single high dose of psilocybin temporarily restores lost abilities in an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patientPsilocybin is a naturally occurring psychoactive compound found in mushrooms of the Psilocybe genus. These mushrooms may have existed on Earth for nearly 65 million years, dating to the asteroid impac...medicalxpress.com🧪 wow, how fascinating www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - NatureResearchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...www.nature.com🧪 we are on the way to eliminate cervical cancer too insightplus.mja.com.au/2026/19/trac...
Trachoma successfully eliminated in Australia through Indigenous-led…The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated that Australia is the 30th nation to eliminate Trachoma, a preventable infectious eye disease, which…insightplus.mja.com.au🧪#SciComm sad “This means the animals are adapting to communicate in times when it is noisy – kind of like having a conversation in a crowded place and you having to raise your voice to be heard.” theconversation.com/squeak-up-i-...
Squeak up! I can’t hear you: pilot whales are shouting to hear themselves over ship noiseA new study highlights how noise pollution in the ocean is changing animals’ behaviour.theconversation.com🧪#SciComm “Across this large international sample, we found that people who felt more connected to nature consistently reported higher levels of well-being and mindfulness.” theconversation.com/a-connection...
A connection to nature fuels well-being worldwide, according to a study of 38,000 peopleFeeling part of something larger than yourself may make it easier to cope with stress and uncertainty.theconversation.com
