<h2>00:46 Designing new antivenoms to treat snakebites</h2>Researchers have shown that machine learning can quickly design antivenoms that are effective against lethal snake-toxins, which they hope will help tackle a serious public health issue. Thousands of people die as a result of snakebites each year, but treatment options are limited, expensive and often difficult to access in the resource-poor settings where most bites occur. The computer-aided approach allowed researchers to design two proteins that provided near total protection against individual snake toxins in mouse experiments. While limited in scope, the team behind the work believe these results demonstrate the promise of the approach in designing effective and cheaper treatments for use in humans.Research Article: <a href="#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vázquez Torres et al.</a><h2>11:28 Research Highlights</h2>How male wasp spiders use hairs on their legs to sniff out mates, and how noradrenaline drives waves of cleansing fluid through the brain.Research Highlight: ​​​​​​​<a href="#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Male spiders smell with their legs</a>Research Highlight: ​​​​​​​<a href="#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How the brain cleans itself during deep sleep</a><h2>13:53 Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time</h2>News broke last week that in 2024, Earth’s average temperature climbed to more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Although this is only a single year so far, we discuss what breaking this significant threshold means for the 2015 Paris climate agreement and what climate scientists understand about the speed that Earth is heating up.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature: ​​​​​​​<a href="#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?</a><h2>23:39 Briefing Chat</h2>NASA delays deciding its strategy for collecting and returning Mars rocks to Earth, and why papers on a handful of bacterial species dominate the scientific literature.Nature: ​​​​​​​<a href="#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NASA still has no plan for how to bring precious Mars rocks to Earth</a>Nature: ​​​​​​​<a href="#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored</a><a href="#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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