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Playing an instrument boosts your brain when you’re old

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Wednesday 31 January 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we learn the real reason that moths are drawn to lights, learn that playing an instrument is associated with sharper minds in older adults and explore the emerging field of cancer neuroscience. Nocturnal insects aren't attracted to artificial lights because they confuse them with the Moon. (Sam Fabian) What draws the moth to the flame Nocturnal inse...

Signs of ‘transmissible’ Alzheimer’s seen in people who received growth hormone

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Tuesday 30 January 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today, we discover what happened to Japan's Moon lander, encounter the weird RNA scraps that infest our gut microbes and learn about signs of 'transmissible' Alzheimer's disease. Japan's Moon lander can be seen tipped upside down in an image taken by a small robot that the probe deployed during its descent. (JAXA/TOMY Company/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha) ...

Drugs like Ozempic could help with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Monday 29 January 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we delve into the origin of some cosmic rays, learn that obesity drugs could also help soothe inflammation and hear a promising plan to eradicate extreme poverty. The Manatee Nebula is a shell of dust and gas left over from a supernova between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago, during which the core of an exploding star collapsed to form a black hole. (B. Saxton, (NRAO/AUI/NSF) from data provided by M. Goss...

Oil sands spew more polluting gases than all Canadians

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Friday 26 January 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we hear that the Marscopter will not fly again, consider the true environmental cost of Canada's oil sands and meet a marsupial that lives fast and dies young. An image that Ingenuity took of its own shadow hints that at least one-quarter of one of its blades is missing. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Record-setting Mars helicopter grounded After a triumphant thr...