Новости за 06.08.2021

Gale crater, which NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring for the past eight years, was thought to have once held a huge lake – but it may have been more like a puddle

Some dolphins churn up seafloor mud to form a ring that traps fish – and now we know the technique has been developed independently by dolphins near Belize and near Florida

Microscopic organic blobs created from scratch could provide clues about how biological cells formed spontaneously on early Earth – and further efforts to generate synthetic life

World records seem to be tumbling at an impressive rate at this year’s Olympic games. Is new technology responsible, asks Laura Healey

Study strengthens the evidence that exposure to fine particulate matter increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease

Results are a big improvement over a year earlier, with firms expecting a sustained recovery

Whistleblowers ask Congress, inspector general to investigate EPA managers influenced by industry

United States tells small firm to stop making vaccine in the country, although company pushes ahead elsewhere

Stories written by children in the UK aged 5 to 13 are far more likely to feature male characters – regardless of whether the writer is a boy or a girl

Well, this was a busy week for me. I hope that you have a great weekend, and we'll see you on Monday. 

From the inbox, this position, which requires legal eligibility for work in Canada: 

Location of work: Working remotely preferably located in Toronto, Canada

Via FiercePharma and the Boston Globe, recent testimony before the Massachusetts state legislature: 

During a hearing of the Massachusetts Legislative Manufacturing Caucus on Tuesday, representatives from two drugmakers with physical footprints in Massachusetts told lawmakers that it has become harder to refresh their workforces with skilled workers at a time when they are both looking to increase production.

Forensic experts can tell if high insulin levels have a natural or criminal cause

Since chirally inverted DNA is more stable than its natural counterpart, it can be used to encode secret messages

The NIH director talks to C&EN about the sizable investment in small-molecule drugs for this pandemic and the ones to come

Cathode interlayer materials for highly Eeficient organic solar cells

The biotech firm, founded by Scripps chemists, is using chemoproteomics to develop allosteric modulators and protein degraders