{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64f1f67000d9130011234429/6744a83c31b12b5319a37584?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Barnacle Polymers, Two Week Brain, Elephant Memory","description":"<p>Today, you’ll learn about a new bacteria-busting polymer inspired by barnacles, how the things you do today will affect your brain in two weeks, and the memories elephants keep of their favorite people from long ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Barnacle Polymers&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“Barnacle-inspired polymers could present new way to design antibiofilm materials, researchers say.” <a href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/10/09/bacterial-biofilms-nature-inspired-polymers/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by Cynthia McCormick Hibbdrt. 2024.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>“Coacervate Dense Phase Displaces Surface-Established <em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa </em>Biofilms.” <a href=\"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c09311\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by Apoorva Vishwakarma, et al. 2024.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Two Week Brain&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago.” <a href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/brain-changes-neuroscience-exercise-sleep-health-two-weeks-1965107\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by Pandora Dewan. 2024.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>“Longitudinal single-subject neuroimaging study reveals effects of daily environmental, physiological, and lifestyle factors on functional brain connectivity.” <a href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002797\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by Ana Maria Triana, et al. 2024.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Elephant Memory&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“Do African Savanna Elephants (<em>Loxodonta africana) </em>Show Interspecific Social Long-Term Memory for Their Zoo Keepers?” <a href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.21871\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by Martin Kranzlin, et al. 2024.&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</li><li>“Truth or Tail: Elephants have good memories.” <a href=\"https://www.clevelandzoosociety.org/z/2021/02/16/truth-or-tail-elephants-have-good-memories\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Zoo Society. 2021.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>“Long-Term Olfactory Memory in African Elephants.” <a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9951961/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">by Franziska Hoerner, et al. 2023.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Discovery"}