Media Coverage: July roundup of eLife papers in the news

Seltzer et al.’s Reviewed Preprint, ‘Female Moths Incorporate Plant Acoustic Emissions into Their Oviposition Decision-Making Process’, was covered in:

• BBC News – Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists
• Reuters and Yahoo! News – Israeli research finds that when plants talk, insects listen
• CNN – Breakthrough discovery shows that moths listen to plants — and avoid the noisy ones
• The Jerusalem Post – Israeli scientists: Stressed plants emit ultrasonic sounds influencing insect behavior
• Israel Hayom – The bug whisperer: Israeli scientists decode nature's hidden language
• Ynetnews – Moths can hear plants: Israeli study finds insects respond to plant distress calls
• Jewish News – Insects hear plants ‘talking’ in distress, Israeli groundbreaking study reveals
• Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) – TAU researchers discover first evidence of auditory interaction between plants and animals
• Xinhua (China) – Researchers find moths "listen to" ultrasonic sound from tomato plants
• NDTV (India) – Insects Listen When Plants Talk, Finds Israeli Study
• The Times of India – Insects can hear when plants talk, finds groundbreaking study
• The Economic Times (India) – Moths can hear and decode plant sound signals for reproductive decisions: New study reveals
• Green Matters – Scientists Find the First Evidence of Insects Choosing Egg-Laying Site Based on Plants’ Sounds
• EcoWatch – Scientists Find First Evidence of Auditory Interaction Between Animals and Plants: Study
• IFLScience – For The First Time, An Animal Has Been Shown Responding To Plant-Produced Sounds
• Science Alert – Moths Don't Like to Lay Their Eggs on Plants That Are Screaming

Berger et al.’s Research Article, ‘Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi’, was picked up in:

• IFLScience and MSN – Homo Naledi May Have Buried Its Dead After All, Peer Reviewer Accepts
• New Scientist – Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human
• New Scientist – What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?
• Science & Culture Today – Investigation of Ancient Burials Yields Surprises
• Discover Wildlife – It turns out we aren't as unique as we think we are: Here are 5 ancient human species that once lived alongside us
• The Economic Times (India) – Five ancient human species that lived alongside modern humans revealed: New insights into our prehistoric cousins

Howard-Spink et al.’s Research Article, ‘Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use’, was mentioned in:

• Nature briefing (July 15)
• Earth.com – What aging chimpanzees can teach us about ourselves

This article was also highlighted in the eLife press release, 'Old age takes its toll on tool use in wild chimpanzees'.

The Research Article by Smit and Robbins, ‘Risk-taking incentives predict aggression heuristics in female gorillas’, was featured in:

• Science Blog – Hungry, Pregnant, and Bold: Why Female Gorillas Take Big Risks

Park, Sipe et al.’s Research Article, ‘Astrocytic modulation of population encoding in mouse visual cortex via GABA transporter 3 revealed by multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing’, was covered in:

• Science Blog – Brain’s Silent Partners: How Astrocytes Keep Visual Neurons in Sync
• Neuroscience News – How Astrocytes Keep Neural Teams in Sync

Schmidig et al.’s Research Article, ‘Episodic long-term memory formation during slow-wave sleep’, was highlighted by:

• Sleep Foundation – Can You Learn a Language While Sleeping?

Salehinejad et al.’s Research Article, ‘Sleep-dependent upscaled excitability, saturated neuroplasticity, and modulated cognition in the human brain’, was picked up in:

• mindbodygreen – Sleep-Deprived? Here's How It Actually Impacts Your Brain (& What To Do About It)

Nartker et al.’s Research Article, ‘Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness’, was featured in:

• The Transmitter – Attention not necessary for visual awareness, large study suggests

Phillips et al.’s Research Article, ‘Endogenous oscillatory rhythms and interactive contingencies jointly influence infant attention during early infant-caregiver interaction’, was covered in:

• ZME Science – Who’s Really in Charge? By 12 Months Old, Your Baby Is Already Guiding You

The Tools and Resources article by de Vries, Siegle and Koch, ‘Sharing neurophysiology data from the Allen Brain Observatory’, was featured in:

• The Transmitter – Neuroscience’s open-data revolution is just getting started

And Power et al.’s Research Article, ‘Photoreceptor loss does not recruit neutrophils despite strong microglial activation’, was covered in:

• Neuroscience News – Immune Cells Ignore Retinal Damage While Microglia Step

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