A Supersmeller Can Detect the Scent of Parkinson's, Leading to an Experimental Test for the Illness

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October 12, 2022

Neurology A Supersmeller Can Detect the Scent of Parkinson's, Leading to an Experimental Test for the Illness This Scottish woman's hypersensitive nose picked up a chemical signature of Parkinson's disease that has been used to develop a skin-swab diagnostic By Diana Kwon

Conservation Drones Sample Rare Specimens from Cliffs and Other Dangerous Places Flying robots help researchers identify and protect threatened plants and other species in places that are inaccessible to humans By Susan Cosier

Planetary Science DART's Smashing Success Shows Humanity Can Divert Asteroids NASA confirms that its DART spacecraft nudged the asteroid Dimorphos into a new orbit By Rahul Rao,Nature magazine

Health Care This Indigenous Scientist Helped Save Lives as Covid Devastated the Navajo Nation Crystal Lee grew up the granddaughter of Navajo medicine men. As Covid wreaked havoc on her community, she decided to act By Tulika Bose

Epidemiology How the Pandemic Shortened Life Expectancy, and New Drugs on the Horizon: COVID, Quickly, Episode 40 In this episode of the podcast, we talk about why we've had years shaved off our average collective lives since 2020. And also, we talk about "mabs" and why you might want to know what they are. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 07:43

Astronomy 'Bit of Panic': Astronomers Forced to Rethink Early JWST Findings Revised calibrations for the James Webb Space Telescope's instruments are bedevilling researchers studying the distant universe By Alexandra Witze,Nature magazine

Conservation These Technologies Help You Live Lightly on a Fragile Planet Ecologically and socially friendly "convivial technologies" help the earth and us By Anitra Nelson,Vincent Liegey

Climate Change U.S. Secretary of the Interior: Satellites Will Help Us Fight Climate Change As USGS takes over operations of a Landsat satellite, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland explains how the data gathered will help the Biden administration's climate change plans By Deb Haaland

Paleontology Ancient Panda 'Thumb' Matches Modern Version Walking on all fours helped shape the panda's "thumb" By Riley Black

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