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New Organs, Better Pain Management, Climate Change, and Asteroid Rocks

AUG 30, 2019
A month’s worth of cool science stories summed up.
New Organs, Opioids, Climate Change, and Space Rocks (August 2019 Monthly Roundup)

On this monthly roundup, Alistair Jennings from Inside Science sums up some of August’s most interesting science: a new organ that senses pain, better opioid use, losing soil on Earth, virtual reality to treat pain, and what rocks tell us about the origin of the Ryugu asteroid.

References:

1.Specialized cutaneous Schwann cells initiate pain sensation

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6454/695

2. Genetic behavioral screen identifies an orphan anti-opioid system

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/08/14/science.aau2078

3. Statewide Implementation of Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1905045

4. Virtual reality for management of pain in hospitalized patients: A randomized comparative effectiveness trial

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219115

5. Climate change and land

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/

6. Recent pace of change in human impact on the world’s ocean

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47201-9

7. Deadly Heat Waves Will Likely Get Worse

https://www.insidescience.org/video/deadly-heat-waves-will-likely-get-worse

8. Top Science Stories of 2018

https://www.insidescience.org/video/top-science-stories-2018

9. Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6455/817

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