Hawaii Science Journal

"The second X chromosome helps women stave off cognitive decline." Views expressed in this science and technology update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 06 March 2025, 2228 UTC. Content and Source:  https://www.nature.com. Please check link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today. Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com).   View this email in your browser Thursday 6 March 2025 Hello  Nature  readers, Today we hear that the US National Institutes of Health are terminating swathes of diversity- and climate-related grants. Plus, we learn that bone tools have been around for much longer than we thought and that the second X chromosome in female cells isn’t so silent after all. Women usually have two X chromosomes (shown here in an artist’s rendering), and one of them is inactivated early in development.  (Cavallini James/BSIP/Alamy) The second X chromosome does make noise The second X...

"An assault against science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere..." Views expressed in this science, ecology, and technology update are those of the reporters and correspondents.  Accessed on 26 February 2025, 2027 UTC. Content and Source:  https://www.nature.com. Please check link or scroll down to read your selections.  Thanks for joining us today.  Russ Roberts (https://hawaiisciencejournal.blogspot.com). View this email in your browser Wednesday 26 February 2025 Hello   Nature   readers, Today we hear a call for the global community to stand united in defence of science in the United States, learn how animals sculpt the surface of Earth and explore how AI might help researcher remedy poverty. You might have noticed that some   Nature   stories now require you to register your e-mail address to read all the way to the end. In the interest of expediency, you could register here first:   my-profile.springernature.com   — then, ...