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Curiosity Daily: Super X-Ray, Seeing Future Weather, Vitamin D-ementia
Discover a new x-ray giving us incredible sight into ourselves, the future of weather prediction, and a surprising potential link between dementia and vitamin D.
September 02, 2022
Ultra-visible insides.
- Human Organ Atlas
- Brightest Ever X-ray Shows Lung Vessels Altered by COVID-19 by University College London
- Drawing Up a ‘Google Earth’ of the Human Body by Jon Cartwright
- Imaging Intact Human Organs with Local Resolution of Cellular Structures Using Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography by C.L. Walsh, et al.
Hotter summers are coming.
- Skillful seasonal prediction of North American summertime heat extremes by Liwei Jia, et al.
- GFDL’s New Modeling System for Seasonal Predictions by Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- Butterflies, rounding errors, and the chaos of climate models by Emily Becker
- SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection by Thomas L. Delworth, et al.
More vitamin D please.
- “Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase the Risk of Dementia” by Elizabeth Pratt
- “Vitamin D Deficiency Leads to Dementia” by University of South Australia
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