Celebrating 15 Years of Landmark Climate Research
On its 15th birthday, @NatureClimate Change has looked back at some groundbreaking articles it has published over the years. I'm proud this article led my friend & colleague Stefan @Rahmstorf (of which I was privileged to be a co-author) is featured: https://t.co/NOYmx9O3R7
Our Brains Filter 74GB Daily in Media Overload
Too Much Information, Too Little Time: How the Brain Separates Important from Unimportant Things in Our Fast-Paced Media World "An average person living today processes as much as 74 GB in information a day... Every year it is about 5% more...
Seeking Experiences with GTWY Peptide From Β‑Lactolin
New smart drug peptide alert… (Possibly): who has experience with GTWY peptide isolated from β-lactolin? Research here: https://t.co/Sg7twStXvr
Combating Rising Anti‑Vaccine Activism Through Science Advocacy
Many thanks @uiowa for hosting my lectures this week, on our vaccine development program and the dangers of accelerating antivaccine activism in America, also the history of American anti-science movements and latest book #ScienceUnderSiege with @MichaelEMann @PeterHotez https://t.co/3r0XH08iMu
Space Engineer Shares Journey to Inspire Future Explorers
🛰️ I'm Elio — space engineer by trade, storyteller by necessity. I help build and operate the spacecraft that roam Mars and the Moon, and I talk about it here so the next generation of explorers knows the door is...
Houston Prepares to Greet Artemis II Crew Returning From Moon
The stage is set for Houston to welcome the Artemis II crew home from the Moon. https://t.co/Nwu7iSX1i3
People Question Need for AI-Generated Artemis Images
I don't understand why there are AI photos from Artemis. I mean, the real pictures are super awesome - there's just no reason for fake. Is there?
High‑carb, Low‑fat Diets Boost Triglycerides and Fatty‑acid Synthesis
Effect of high-carbohydrate feeding on triglyceride and saturated fatty acid synthesis "The results of a series of studies in lean and obese weight-stable volunteers showed that very-low-fat (10%), high-carbohydrate diets enriched in simple sugars increased the fraction of newly synthesized fatty...
Graphene Oxide Fuel
A novel interface engineering method boosts graphene oxide fuel cell power density to 0.7 W/cm², matching commercial fluorine-based membranes and advancing eco-friendly hydrogen energy solutions. fuelcells
Light‑Powered Nanorobots Capture and Relocate Bacteria Precisely
Light-driven nanorobots, smaller than a micron, can now hunt, capture, and relocate bacteria with precision, offering new possibilities for targeted manipulation in microbiology and biomedical research. nanotechnology
Melting Ice Halts Algae Rain, Drives Whales Offshore
Gray whales sift through seafloor sediment for tiny crustaceans called amphipods. When sea ice melts, algae on the underside falls to the seafloor, feeding the amphipods. Without enough ice, the "rain" of nutrients stops. Great whales are showing up in...
Weekly Biotech Roundup: Top Insights From X's Best Accounts
Here is my favourite weekly 🧵- made by my dear friend @BiopharmIQ. This post is a comprehensive recap of the past week in BioTech and gathers the best related posts written by some of the smartest & brightest 𝕏 Bio...
Targeting Aging: New Strategies From Fedichev
How We Should Target Aging | Peter Fedichev Love what @EleanorSheekey is doing with @SheekeyScience. One of the sharpest geroscience #scicomm channels around, and @fedichev always brings the fire 🧪 https://t.co/bh6MVJJvRs https://t.co/1VTerakN9p
Renewables Cut Fossil Energy Use by Over Half
The use of primary energy on the vertical axis is an old trick by the fossil fuel industry to mislead people into thinking that one unit of fossils = one unit of renewables. In fact, one unit of primary energy...
Early Aging Jargon Now Mainstream After Decade-Long Obscurity
In the 2000s, our lab invented new terms, just so we could converse about the Information Theory of Aging: Epigenetic noise Epigenetic drift Exdifferentiation Redifferentiation The Observer… No one understood us. We couldn’t publish Crazy to see them being used widely now https://t.co/7bkYUrudfp
Potatoes Omitted From Healthy Plate Due to Sugar Risks
"The School’s Healthy Eating Plate does not include potatoes in its vegetable recommendations given their negative impact on blood sugar. Researchers at the School and elsewhere have found that diets high in potatoes and similarly rapidly digested, high-carbohydrate foods can...
Current and Future Strategies for Parkinson's Therapy
Parkinson disease therapy: current strategies and future research priorities https://t.co/5wq36T3ZQ4 Today is World Parkinson's Day 🧠https://t.co/XUVY6eSg61 Fig. 1: Pathophysiological mechanisms underlying Parkinson disease and possible disease-modifying therapies. 👇👨⚕️ https://t.co/0G7mqNA6nm
Scientists Spot First Ever Proto‑Protoplanet, Pre‑Planetary Stage
Starts With A Bang #128 – Planet formation and proto-protoplanets You've heard of planets, exoplanets, and protoplanets. Now, for the first time, we've discovered something more primitive than any of them: a proto-protoplanet. Here's what it means. https://t.co/1HEVsXDCDp
Artemis II Crew Returns to Ellington Field at 4:15 PM
NASA tells me the Artemis II crew is expected back at Ellington Field (near JSC) "about" 4:15 pm ET. Will be on NASA+, YouTube, and X.
Poor Drug Selection Hampers Stroke Treatment Breakthroughs
1,026 experimental treatments in acute stroke (2006) "The results question whether the most efficacious drugs are being selected for stroke clinical trials. This may partially explain the slow progress in developing treatments..." https://t.co/WllAIz3Xul
IPCC Faces Funding Crisis by 2028 without US
A recent meeting in Bangkok previewed some of the challenges confronting the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change without substantial US involvement — notably a budget shortfall. But it also showed where other countries can play bigger roles, including European...
Erythritol Not Proven Cardiovascular Threat, Evidence Shows
The totality of evidence does not support the conclusion that dietary erythritol drives cardiovascular harm. The paper referenced claims erythritol “adversely affects brain microvascular endothelial cell function,” but it’s an in VITRO study bathing isolated cells in erythritol for 3...
Neural Computers Turn AI Into Integrated Computing Substrate
🚨 NEW paper from Meta What if the model wasn’t just using the computer… but actually became the computer? A new paper from Meta AI + KAUST makes a compelling case for Neural Computers (NCs) — a paradigm where computation, memory, and...
Neocognitron: 1980 Japanese Breakthrough that Birthed CNNs
#otd in 1980 a Japanese computer scientist published a paper proposing the “Neocognitron,” the neural net that directly inspired CNNs: https://t.co/v7TCOMPN6x Kunihiko Fukushima’s paper explained back in 1986: https://t.co/vaIJlc5GdV https://t.co/SgyWzAorUX
B12‑producing Gut Microbes Linked to Colorectal Cancer Progression
Some interesting nuggets in this study which found microbiome subspecies prevalence associated with colorectal cancer (CRC). And one highly associated subspecies makes Vitamin B12. "Interestingly, higher concentrations of B12 are measured in the serum of CRC patients, and these B12 levels...
Epigenetic Clock Detects Aging and Cancer via Blood Test
This is the future: An epigenetic clock for the simultaneous assessment of biological aging and cancer from a simple, cheap blood test 👏 https://t.co/uzGoZWos9C
Spatial Biology, Single‑cell Profiling, and AI Map T‑cell Immunity
Towards Spatial Medicine for individualized cancer immunotherapy @SciImmunology "The convergence of spatial biology platforms, single-cell immune profiling, and machine learning is positioning the community to decode how T cell immunity is spatially organized in human tissues and to exploit that organization...
Aorta Ages First, Driving Heart Disease
13 major organs age at different rates. - Aorta: onset ~30, peak ~55 - Adrenal gland: onset ~30, peak 45-55 - Spleen: onset ~30, peak 45-55 - Pancreas: onset ~35, peak 45-60 - Liver: onset ~40, peak 50-60 - Muscle: onset ~40, peak 55-68 - Heart: onset...
Progerin Bridges Premature and Natural Aging, Biomarker Potential
Progerin expression in humans: implications for natural ageing "These insights may collectively position progerin as a mechanistic link between premature ageing and physiological ageing, positioning it as a potential component of biomarker strategies." https://t.co/KZuV0c7TOK
Cell‑free DNA Manufacturing Eliminates Cloning Bottlenecks
Your DNA synthesis workflow is probably slowing you down more than you think. Cloning introduces delays, contamination risk, and hard limits on what you can build. Most of the field is still living with these constraints — even as mRNA therapeutics,...
Fossil Firms Favor GWP100 to Dodge Real Climate Action
Fossil companies support GWP100 over GWP20 because GWP100 allows them to do nothing about air pollution or global warming-to continue spewing BC, CH4 & O3 precursors & proposing fake solutions to CO2 (carbon capture, direct air capture, blue H2, electro...
Inflammation: Essential Defense, Harmful When Dysregulated
Inflammation is often portrayed as harmful and linked to chronic disease, but is it always bad? This blog explores how inflammation is a vital, tightly regulated part of immune defence, and why problems arise when it becomes dysregulated. Click here:...
Insulin‑Lowering Diets Show Promise for Metastatic Cancer
Insulin lowering diets and metastatic disease. The results are promising but we need more studies that are adequately powered to evaluate whether insulin-lowering diets improve cancer outcomes. On the other hand, there appears to be little downside. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36079800/
Bioinformatics Isn’t a One‑Click, Push‑Button Process
🧵 The Myth of Push-Button Bioinformatics 1/ Some think bioinformatics is just pressing a button: 🔘 RNA-seq Analysis 🔘 Make Fancy Figures 🔘 Submit to GenBank If only it were that easy... but reality is very different. https://t.co/HrPErqRzBV
Trace Logic Unveils Recursive Theory of Collective Agency
Pioneering research by the Levin Lab is exploring multi-scale collective intelligence in biological systems. Here I discuss the potential of a newly discovered “trace logic” to model their findings and to offer a recursive theory of agency. https://t.co/EGFgjSy27V
Stool Test Detects 90% of Colorectal Cancers
As a medical school professor, I've watched colorectal cancer screening rely on colonoscopies for decades. That era may be ending. Researchers at the University of Geneva just published a breakthrough in Cell Host & Microbe: a simple stool test that detects...
Real‑time Biological Data Is the Missing Link for AI
🧵 Unlocking the true potential of AI and bioinformatics hinges on one missing link: real-time biological data. I saw that Prof. Nikolai Slavov posted this, and that reminds me of how complicated a single cell is. https://t.co/UCUeL2Bdge
Early Spring Signs, Science Under Attack, Artemis II Returns
🆓 Saturday links: signs of an earlier Spring, the war against science, and the return of Artemis II. https://t.co/dpB9hb03AZ image: https://t.co/wajFh2C19j https://t.co/1zgF3BBb2o
Stroke Research Stuck: Preclinical Successes Fail Clinically
Translational Block in Stroke: A Constructive and “Out-of-the-Box” Reappraisal 👉"The literature is saturated by >1000 effective preclinical studies in acute stroke research... yet almost none are successfully transferred to the acute clinical routine. This is the well-known translational failure or block...
Choosing Cutoffs for P‑values, Log2
🧵“What cutoff should I use for p-value, log2FC, or mito content?” This is the most common question I get. Here's why it’s not simple: https://t.co/A4P37eEwdc
Canada’s Key Contributions to Artemis II Revealed
When the Moon Met Canada Have you been watching Artemis II with awe? The Canada Letter today, by @LaVjosa, illuminates the Canadian elements in the mission. Sign up to get the New York Times Canada newsletter in your inbox every...
AI Accelerates All Science; Open‑Source Models Will Prevail
EVERY field of Science is currently being accelerated transformed by AI and in the long run, open source models will win over closed.
SpaceX Launches NG-24, Falcon 9 Lands Booster Successfully
🚀SpaceX launched Northrop Grumman NG-24 (CRS-24) this morning at 7:41 a.m. ET from SLC-40. The Falcon 9 carried the Cygnus spacecraft (S.S. Steven R. Nagel) with ~11,000 lbs of supplies and science to the ISS. Booster B1094 (7th flight) nailed...
Artemis II's Parachutes Deploy Flawlessly, Awe-Inspiring Safe Return
Literally holding my breath watching Artemis II deploy those parachutes and return safely. How amazing?!
New Model Could Revolutionize Anti-Doping and Athlete Longevity
Great podcast: Dr. Kristen Holmes in convo with my @enhanced_games co-founder & CEO, Maximilian Martin. From anti-doping rules to athlete longevity, they dive into the science of human performance & explore whether our new model could change sport forever https://t.co/rNp7EXcFIQ
Falcon 9 Lifts ISS Cargo as China Readies Jielong‑3 Launch
LAUNCH at 1141 UTC Apr 11 of a Falcon 9 from Canaveral with the ISS Cygnus NG-24 cargo ship SS Steven R. Nagel. Also waiting to confirm LAUNCH at 1133 UTC of a Jielong-3 from the Yanjiang area in the South...
Decelerators: Slowing Mach 33 to 20 Mph for Planetary Landings
Inspired by the #ArtemisII moon mission and/or working in the space industry? June sees @aiaa and @Aerosociety conference on aerodynamic decelerators - how do you slow down an object from Mach 33 to 20mph to land on Earth or other...
Weather Prediction Markets Could Sharpen Forecast Accuracy
From global temperatures to snowfall in New York, people are betting on the weather. But can markets like Kalshi and Polymarket actually improve forecasts? Read how traders are predicting the weather while climate experts are debating the results here: https://t.co/hAZF79PENx 📷: Charly...
Artemis II Proves Engineering Consistency Fuels Lunar Future
53 years after Apollo 17, humans circled the Moon again with Artemis II and returned safely. The Orion capsule's re-entry was a high-stakes test: faster than ISS returns, intense heat, but the adjusted trajectory and robust design delivered. Crew healthy,...
Beetroot Juice Impairs Bench Press Power in Women
Does beetroot juice work for female athletes? This new study recruited 18 resistance-trained women to a crossover design where they supplemented with… 1️⃣ Beetroot juice (~400mg nitrate) 2️⃣ Nitrate-depleted beetroot juice …2.5 hrs prior to resistance-exercise ⏰ Results 📊 There were no differences...