Highlights from top journals -March 25, 2023

Trying here a new kind of article. Please do let me know if you find it interesting!

My selection from Nature:

• Water crisis affecting hundreds of millions of people’s access to safe water and sanitation.
• First UN conference on water in almost 50 years held to address the issue.
• Fruit flies found to be able to taste alkaline foods, helping them avoid toxic substances.
• Detection of viruses in sewage can help pinpoint typhoid hotspots, prioritizing vaccination campaigns.
• ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object, accelerating due to release of entrapped molecular hydrogen, indicating it originated as a planetesimal relic.
• Beethoven found to be susceptible to liver disease according to geneticists’ analysis of his hair.
• Bioethicists present guidance for fairer scientific collaboration to avoid wealthier countries benefiting more.

My selection from Science:

• Mechanisms underlying the generation of rare insertions and deletions during antibody diversification have been unveiled.
• A mutation that causes night blindness in humans helps whale sharks see in the dark, according to the latest news.
• Ferroelectricity in layered bismuth oxide.
• Evolutionarily conserved role of oxytocin in social fear contagion in zebrafish.