Spore-embedded polyurethane used in shoes can help waste plastics degrade by 90% in 5 months on contact with water & compost - as long as it’s not when you’re wearing them (on a country road)! Nature Communications

nature.com/articles/s4146…

V337M and R406W are the first known mutations in the microtubule-associated protein tau gene that give rise to filaments with the Alzheimer tau fold.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#OverlookedWomen

Evelyn Boyd Granville born 1 May 1924.

Created computer software for NASA

“We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavoured to place upon us.”

#OverlookedWomen
Florence Bell b. 1 May 1913.
Crystallographer who aided the discovery of DNA structure by showing that it had a regular, ordered structure. With Astbury she described it in a 1938 nature paper as a “pile of pennies”.
Image attribution Chris Sawyer

'Hope is the only consolation of an imperfect condition' said the great historian Edward Gibbon, whose name playfully echoes a member of the monkey family. The powerful image captures a chimpanzee at the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre in the Republic of Guinea. 🐒 #AnimalQuotes

A long-term study of 353,742 people from the UK Biobank (with a median follow-up of 12.86 years)
suggests that a healthy lifestyle can offset the effects of life-shortening genes by over 60% and may add 5 years to one’s life.
ebm.bmj.com/content/early/…

#VisualQuotes
“There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” Spoken by King Duncan in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

AI generated image by James Drake

#OverlookedWomen

Mary Wollstonecraft, born 27 April 1759.

Writer and women's rights advocate.

“I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.'

#EdwardGibbon born 27 April 1737.

Historian

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.” The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire