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How an unlikely friendship influenced Pauli’s physics

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Thursday 25 April 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we explore the use of mini-colon and brain 'organoids', learn from the graves of a mysterious nomadic culture called the Avars and discover how a friendship with psychoanalyst Carl Jung influenced the physics of Wolfgang Pauli. Researchers grew colon tumours inside a model of gut tissue created using mouse stem cells. (Matthias P. Lutolf et al/Nature ) O...

‘Octocorals’ push origin of bioluminescence in animals to more than half a billion years ago

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Wednesday 24 April 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today we discover the ancient origins of bioluminescence in animals, hear that the WHO has redefined 'airborne transmission' and explore the legal and ethical challenges of lethal autonomous weapons. It's unclear why animals such as octocorals evolved the ability to glow. Light production could initially have been a byproduct of a biochemical pathway to make antioxidants that only later became useful...

Your ability to track time is skewed by what you are looking at

What matters in science |  View this email in your browser Tuesday 23 April 2024 Hello Nature readers, Today, we find out what skews our time perception, learn that NASA has reestablished clear communication with Voyager 1 and explore whether the world is ready for the next big volcanic eruption. The reason we experience time constriction when viewing cluttered images could be because these are harder to navigate or because the clutter impairs our ability to recognize objects. (Karol Serewis/SOPA Images/LightR...