Your Body Has Its Own Built-In Ozempic

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January 26, 2024

Nutrition Your Body Has Its Own Built-In Ozempic Popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, target metabolic pathways that gut microbes and food molecules already play a key role in regulating By Christopher Damman,The Conversation US

Mathematics A Wild Claim about the Powers of Pi Creates a Transcendental Mystery Mathematicians cannot determine whether multiplying pi by itself repeatedly might produce a whole number By Manon Bischoff

Transportation There Are Quicker Ways to Board a Plane--So Why Don't Airlines Use Them? These boarding methods are more efficient, but they come at a cost By Joanna Thompson

Mathematics This Nomadic Eccentric Was the Most Prolific Mathematician in History The bizarre life and legacy of Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician ever By Jack Murtagh

Animals Pink Fairy Armadillos Have a Weird Double Skin Not Seen in Any Other Mammal Pink fairy armadillos evolved a unique double skin millions of years ago as they moved underground in response to a drying climate By Richard Pallardy,LiveScience

Pharmaceuticals Asthma Drug Still Being Prescribed to Kids Despite Potential Mental Health Risks The allergy and asthma drug montelukast, also known as Singulair, can cause psychiatric side effects—and researchers aren't sure why By Joanna Thompson

Space Exploration Japan Reaches the Moon, but the Fate of Its Precision Lander Is Uncertain Japan's SLIM precision-landing spacecraft—a potential game-changer for upcoming lunar exploration—may expire on the moon before fulfilling its mission By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Animals Animals Can See Colors We Can't--And New Tech Offers Us a Glimpse A colorful new video technique lets scientists see the world like birds and bees By Lauren Leffer

Epidemiology Long COVID Signatures Found in Huge Analysis of Blood Proteins Proteins involved in immunity, clotting and inflammation could help to unravel the complexity of long COVID By Miryam Naddaf,Nature magazine

Evolution A Comic Guide to the Evolution of Ancient Cells into Complex Brains "The anus was a prerequisite for intelligence" said one biologist By Tim Vernimmen,Maki Naro,Knowable Magazine

Mental Health The Internet's 'Dog Mom' Talks the Science of the Human-Dog Bond Jen Golbeck, "dog mom" to a group of golden retrievers called the Golden Ratio on social media, talks about the science of the bond between humans and their dogs and all the ways that the canines benefit people By Andrea Thompson

Water Groundwater Is Declining Globally, but There Are Hopeful Exceptions The most detailed global look at groundwater yet shows a lot of loss but also stories of success in restoring some aquifers By Stephanie Pappas

BRING SCIENCE HOME Stick with It--Put Your Duct Tape to the Test! Stick with it! Learn about the sticky forces behind duct tape--and put them to the test!  Credit: George Retseck You might have heard of the Apollo 13 lunar mission or seen the movie about the amazing survival of the spacecraft's crew after an explosion crippled the ship on its journey to the moon. What you might not know is that duct tape helped save the astronauts' lives! After the main ship was disabled by an explosion, NASA had to figure out a way to keep the three crew members alive in a tiny lunar lander that was only meant to hold two people. They instructed the astronauts to build lifesaving air filters using cardboard, plastic bags spacesuit parts and—you guessed it—duct tape! In this activity we're going to explore how duct tape works—and what can make it stop working.

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