<p>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. </p><p> </p><p>Heart Cells in Space </p><p> </p><ul><li>“Space Travel Found To Disrupt Normal Rhythm in Heart Muscle Cells.” <a href="https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/space-travel-found-to-disrupt-normal-rhythm-in-heart-muscle-cells-391307" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Technology Networks. 2024</a>. </li><li>“Spaceflight-induced contractile and mitochondrial dysfunction in an automated heart-on-a-chip platform.” <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404644121" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Devin B. Mair, et al. 2024. </a> </li></ul><p> </p><p>Ancient Log </p><p> </p><ul><li>“A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change.” <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/burying-log-climate-change" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Jonathan Lambert. 2024.</a> </li><li>“3775-year-old wood burial supports ‘wood vaulting’ as a durable carbon removal method.” <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm8133?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D82649840174138400580474904999936302642%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1727264079" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Ning Zeng, et al. 2024.</a> </li></ul><p> </p><p>Day Chapters </p><p> </p><ul><li>“Our brains divide the day into chapters. New psychology research offers details on how.” <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1059523" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EurekAlert! 2024.</a> </li><li>“Top-down attention shifts behavioral and neural event boundaries in narratives with overlapping event scripts.” <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01224-7?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982224012247?showall%3Dtrue" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">by Alexandra De Soares, et al. 2024. </a> </li></ul><p> </p><p><em>Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with</em><a href="https://twitter.com/producercody" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em> </em></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/calbits/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Calli</em></a><em> and</em><a href="https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em> </em></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Nate</em></a><em> — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to </em><a href="https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity</em></a><em> to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers.</em> </p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
