Health, Tech, and Planet, Once a Day That’s All We Ask: New Research on Touch, AI, Prime Numbers, Climate Lawsuits, and More

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New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01841-8

Investigators have assembled the most comprehensive atlas to date of messenger RNA (mRNA) variants in the mouse and human brain. The atlas is an important new resource in understanding brain development, neuron specialization and other brain functions.

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01616-4

Private equity in health care becomes a bigger Washington target

• https://www.axios.com/2024/04/10/private-equity-hospitals-doctors-congress

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Technique for predicting prime numbers claimed to be found – “The Periodic Table of Primes”

• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4742238

How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI

• https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-your-data-from-being-used-to-train-ai

Google Cloud Next 2024: Everything announced so far (including more on Axion, Gemini in Databases, and AI-enhanced security tools)

• https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/google-cloud-next-2024-everything-you-need-to-know

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After a long slog, climate change lawsuits will finally put Big Oil on trial: 32 lawsuits now target fossil fuel companies over climate damage.

• https://stateline.org/2024/04/04/after-a-long-slog-climate-change-lawsuits-will-finally-put-big-oil-on-trial

New study appears to show “acute inhalation of highly purified and thin nanometre-sized graphene oxide nanosheets was not associated with overt detrimental effects in healthy humans.”

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01572-3

The President of the General Assembly on Tuesday announced the UN body’s inaugural Sustainability Week…

…encapsulating a series of high-level discussions and initiatives aimed at propelling the implementation of sustainable practices and to address pressing challenges.

• https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148406

#Data x Materials x People

Epigenetics are being pursued as therapies; epigenetics now explored as a forensic technique

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11003920/pdf/414_2024_Article_3165.pdf