Media Coverage: January roundup of eLife papers in the news

High-profile news coverage that eLife papers generated in January 2023, including The Washington Post, The New York Times and Earth.com.
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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 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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