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This Week: Nobel Prize Time, Tired Blood, Cheesy Spider Feet, What Are You Eating?, Connected States, Intersex spider found, Leafcutter Ants, Dolphin Alzheimers, ChatGPMouseBrain, Nanoparticles, and Much More Science!

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This Week in Science…

Some quick science news!

Nobel Prize Time
And, the winners are… kind of esoteric this year.

Tired Blood
Finally, a test for “chronic fatigue” syndrome.

Cheesy Spider Feet
Black widow females lure males in with every man’s favorite smell – rotting cheesy feet.

What Are You Eating?
Two interesting food-related stories this week involving how we eat the things we do.

Connected States
Is it possible that the Cascadia & San Andreas faults are connected?

Intersex spider found
Aside from this new species having mysteries like an “unknown substance” that covers the males, an individual male on one side and female on the other was found. Did you know that is a thing??

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

Leafcutter ants have blind spots like truck drivers
But wait, not with their eyes. That’s the interesting part!

Do stranded dophins have alzheimers?
It’s possible marine mammal strandings occur for the same reason older humans wander away from the nursing home.

Some Science stories with Kiki!

ChatGPMouseBrain
What happens when you put transformer learning models together with cellular brain data?

Nanoparticles For Good
Could therapeutic nanoparticles lead the way to a new, more effective Alzheimer’s treatment?

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Take a blast into the past…

What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year, we discussed  It’s Nobel Time!!!, Pessimistic Bees, Birds Of A Foot, Plunging Biodiversity?, Combining Jellies, Run Time?, Distant Mirror, DNA Maps, Eating Alzheimer’s, Divided Days, And Much More!

This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Nobel Prizes!, Giraffe Necks. Naledi Feet, The Cone Zone, Poop Mimicry, Nuptial Gifts, Chernobyl Cheer, Interview on Octopuses w/ Dr. Richard Ross, Psychic Robots, Stimulating Sex, And Much More!

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