Venomous Snail Unlocks New Diabetes Drugs

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June 22, 2022

Medicine Venomous Snail Unlocks New Diabetes Drugs A cone snail's poison helps to form a fast-acting insulin By Anna Rogers

Climate Change Climate Change Is Turning More of Central Asia into Desert The rapid expansion will have significant impacts on ecosystems and the people and animals who rely on them By Giorgia Guglielmi,Nature magazine

Policy Columbine Should Have Been an Isolated Event: It Was Just a Beginning An emergency medicine physician remembers witnessing the carnage of more than one mass shooting By Christopher Colwell

Climate Change Seville Launches World's First Program to Name and Rank Heat Waves The launch comes after the hottest first two weeks of June ever recorded in Spain By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Space Exploration Gaia's Multi-Billion-Star Map of the Milky Way Keeps Getting Better The latest data release from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research By Sasha Warren

Climate Change Fight over Damages Threatens to Derail Climate Negotiations Small nations that have done little to cause global warming stand to suffer immeasurably and are increasingly vocal about receiving compensation By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Microbiology Marine Microbe Lures Prey into Custom Slime Traps These organisms' private "mucospheres" play an outsize role in the planet's carbon cycle By Susan Cosier

Politics To Prevent Nuclear Annihilation, Resume Negotiations Immediately The war in Ukraine shows the urgency of nuclear arms control By The Editors

Agriculture What Did COVID Teach Us about Preparing for a Plant Pandemic? The question is not whether we'll experience such an event; it's whether we'll be ready when it strikes By Jonathan Margolis

Mental Health Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy--And Simple Ways to Fix It Research suggests platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves By Daisy Yuhas

Pharmaceuticals Birth Control Pills Are Safe and Simple: Why Do They Require a Prescription? The risks associated with hormonal contraception are lower than the risk of pregnancy itself and comparable to those of other over-the-counter drugs By Mariana Lenharo

FROM THE STORE Revolutions in Science Normally science proceeds in incremental steps, but sometimes a discovery is so profound that it causes a paradigm shift. This eBook is a collection of articles about those kinds of advances, including revolutionary discoveries about the origin of life, theories of learning, formation of the solar system and more. *Editor's Note: Revolutions in Science was originally published as a Collector's Edition. The eBook adaptation contains all of the articles, but some of the artwork has been removed to optimize viewing on mobile devices.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Snail's Venom Puts Fish in Insulin Coma The cone snail's venom contains not only neurotoxins, but insulin, too—which stuns the fish it preys on. By Christopher Intagliata | January 26, 2015

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