Can even a single-celled organism truly learn? In Episode 70, Jeremy Gunawardena with the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School talks with us about his replication of an experiment originally conducted over a century ago, which suggested that at least one single-cell organism – the trumpet-shaped Stentor roeseli – is able to carry out surprisingly complex decision-making behaviors.
As with SARS and MERS, COVID-19 does not appear to transfer through intrauterine system from mothers to their fetuses, but unlike SARS and MERS, no maternal deaths have occurred across 38 births recorded thus far.
Attributing poverty to situational forces is associated w/ greater concern about inequality, and increasing situational awareness linked to support for egalitarian policies & inequality-reducing behavior up to 5 months later.
New super-capacitor engineered which loses only a few percentage points of performance after 10,000 cycles & which remains fully functional even when stretched to 8x its original size without exhibiting any wear and tear.
Knowing how many bombs were dropped in the area and the general location of where they fell, researchers use AI to determine how many unexploded bombs are left and the specific areas where they might be found.
Though most people consume proteins fairly unevenly throughout the day, eating more protein at breakfast or lunchtime could help older people maintain muscle mass with advancing age.
The tendency for an unfaithful partner to externalize blame and downplay the emotional impact of cheating on the betrayed partner can get in the way of reconciliation.
