Heart Cells in Space, Ancient Log, Day Chapters
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about the trouble hearts have in space, an ancient log that could help us hit climate targets, and how our brain divides our days into chapters.
Heart Cells in Space
- “Space Travel Found To Disrupt Normal Rhythm in Heart Muscle Cells.” Technology Networks. 2024.
- “Spaceflight-induced contractile and mitochondrial dysfunction in an automated heart-on-a-chip platform.” by Devin B. Mair, et al. 2024.
Ancient Log
- “A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change.” by Jonathan Lambert. 2024.
- “3775-year-old wood burial supports ‘wood vaulting’ as a durable carbon removal method.” by Ning Zeng, et al. 2024.
Day Chapters
- “Our brains divide the day into chapters. New psychology research offers details on how.” EurekAlert! 2024.
- “Top-down attention shifts behavioral and neural event boundaries in narratives with overlapping event scripts.” by Alexandra De Soares, et al. 2024.
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| 0:51.6 | Welcome to Curiosity Daily from Discovery, a great place to get smarter without taking up your whole day. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Nate. Welcome back, everybody. We're so excited to have you here with us today. And if you are just dropping in for the first time, welcome. I'm Callie. Today, you'll |
| 0:59.7 | learn about the trouble parts have in space, an ancient log that could help us hit climate targets |
| 1:05.5 | and how our brain divides our days into chapters. Okay, these are going to be fascinating. |
| 1:11.6 | As if we needed more bad news about the challenges of space travel, a team of scientists at Johns Hopkins |
| 1:16.6 | have found that the final frontier is actually pretty hard on our hearts. |
| 1:21.6 | That's a recurring theme on this show, especially as humans look toward heading back to the |
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