One Drop Robot, Malaria Forecast, Naked Mole Rat Fertility
Today you’ll learn about a robot with the ability to pick up a single drop of water, how scientists have created a computer algorithm that can predict Malaria hotspots, and what naked mole rats have to teach us about human fertility.
Curiosity Weekly · Warner Bros. Discovery
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Today you’ll learn about a robot with the ability to pick up a single drop of water, how scientists have created a computer algorithm that can predict Malaria hotspots, and what naked mole rats have to teach us about human fertility.
One Drop Robot
- “New robot can pick up a single drop of liquid” by Stephen Ornes
- “On-demand, remote and lossless manipulation of biofluid droplets” by Wei Wang et al. (PAYWALL)
- “Novel soft robotic droplet manipulator for hazardous liquid cleanup” by ASHWINI SAKHARKAR
- “Soft Robotics” by Techopedia
Malaria Forecast
- “WHO Coronavirus Dashboard”
- “New analysis could help forecast malaria outbreaks” by Rob Jordan
- “Climatic, land-use and socio-economic factors can predict malaria dynamics at fine spatial scales relevant to local health actors: Evidence from rural Madagascar” by Julie D. Pourtois et al.
- “Estimating the local spatio‐temporal distribution of malaria from routine health information systems in areas of low health care access and reporting” by Elizabeth Hyde et al.
Naked Mole Rat Fertility
- “Naked mole rats reveal biological secrets of lifelong fertility” by Christa Lesté-Lasserre
- “Postnatal oogenesis leads to an exceptionally large ovarian reserve in naked mole-rats” by Miguel Angel Brieño-Enríquez et al.
- “Germ cell nests in adult ovaries and an unusually large ovarian reserve in the naked mole-rat” by Ned J. Place et al.
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