In our latest monthly media coverage roundup, we highlight the top mentions that eLife papers generated in January. You can view the coverage, along with the related research articles, below:
Kowalczyk et al.’s Research Article, ‘Complementary evolution of coding and noncoding sequence underlies mammalian hairlessness’, was featured in:
- The Washington Post – Humans still have the genes for a full coat of body hair
- The Jerusalem Post – Why aren’t humans covered in body hair like animals are?
- Tech Explorist – Study reveals how humans lost their body hair
- Earth.com – Hairless mammals evolved at a faster pace
- Horse Talk (New Zealand) – Why are horses hairy and we’re not?
- Muy Interesante (Spain) – This is how humans lost body hair (translated)
- ANSA (Italy) – Fur genes still in human DNA, but silenced (translated)
- Welingelichte Kringen (Netherlands) – Humans still have the genes for thick fur (translated)
- Ancient Origins – How and Why Humans (and Other Mammals) Lost Most of their Body Hair
- Giant Freakin Robot – Humans Should Be Furrier According To Scientists
- Donga Science (Korea) – Identification of genes related to mammalian hair growth (translated)
- Stoplusjednicka (Czechia) – Geneticists unravel the mystery of hair loss in humans and other mammals (translated)
- Focus (Italy) – Why aren’t we humans full of hair like our ancestors? (translated)
- BGR – New discovery shows that humans still have genes for a full coat of fur
- GLAS (Russia) – Disabled thick fur genes found in humans (translated)
- Esquire (Spain) – Humans can still grow full fur on the body (translated)
- MSN (Netherlands) – Humans still have the genes for thick fur (translated)
- BAE Negocios (Spain) – The end of baldness is in silenced genes (translated)
- Correio Braziliense (Brazil) – Humans still have the genes to be hairy (translated)
- Samachar Central – How humans lost their body hair
- Lab Manager – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: How Humans Lost Their Body Hair
- Interesting Engineering – Can humans still grow fur? New study discovers the genes
- NDTV – Humans Can Still Grow A Full Coat Of Body Hair, Study Finds
The Feature Article by Chen et al., ‘Meta-Research: Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation’, was covered in:
- The New York Times – Asian Researchers Face Disparity With Key U.S. Science Funding Source
Schade et al.’s Research Article, ‘Neurovascular anatomy of dwarf dinosaur implies precociality in sauropods’, was covered in:
- Big Think – Braincase study suggests these baby dwarf dinosaurs were precocious
Kim et al.’s Research Article, ‘Hyaluronic acid fuels pancreatic cancer cell growth’, was featured in:
- Zdrowie Wprost (Poland) – Hyaluronic acid nourishes pancreatic cancer? Worrying research has surfaced (translated)
Wang et al.’s Research Article, ‘Insight into the evolutionary assemblage of cranial kinesis from a Cretaceous bird’, was featured in:
- News18 – Chinese Scientists Unearth Fossil of Creature With Dinosaur’s Head and Bird’s Body
- List23 – A 120 million-year-old fossil depicts a modern bird skull that evolved from a mix of dinosaur and bird features
Prasath et al.’s Research Article, ‘Dynamics of cooperative excavation in ant and robot collectives’, was featured in:
- Quo (Spain) – These Robot Ants Coordinate To Escape From Their Prison (translated)
Protsiv et al.’s Research Article, ‘Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the Industrial Revolution’, was mentioned by:
- Newsweek – Weird Drop in Human Body Temperatures May Have an Explanation
Agarwal et al.’s Research Article, ‘Relating pathogenic loss-of function mutations in humans to their evolutionary fitness costs’ was featured in:
- GenomeWeb – Study Follows Evolutionary Fitness Effects of Loss-of-Function Mutations
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