Newts with superpowers

Newts

curbed the use of ozone-depleting chemicals, were wildly successful because the reduction of the ozone layer led to increased incidence of human cancer. In general, cleaning up the airs and waters of the world was an easy sell because of the connection to human health. But biodiversity and climate change are not so easily linked to human self-interest. Certainly there are connections — but the ...

A Robust Transcriptional Program in Newts

24 Newts have the ability to repeatedly regenerate their lens even during ageing. However, it is 25 unclear whether this regeneration reflects an undisturbed genetic activity. To answer this 26 question, we compared the transcriptomes of lenses, irises and tails from aged newts that had 27 undergone 19-times lens regeneration with the equivalent tissues from young newts that had 28 never experi...

Effects of overtraining on extinction in newts (

Virtual Superheroes: Using Superpowers in Virtual Reality to Encourage Prosocial Behavior

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown that playing prosocial video games leads to greater subsequent prosocial behavior in the real world. However, immersive virtual reality allows people to occupy avatars that are different from them in a perceptually realistic manner. We examine how occupying an avatar with the superhero ability to fly increases helping behavior. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Using a t...

Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

The introductory essay offers a brief overview of current trends in critical globalization studies and international relations scholarship that shed light on three intersections: between imperialism and humanitarianism, between neoliberal globalization and “rescue industry” transnationalism, and between patterns of geopolitical hegemony and trajectories of peacekeeping internationalism. These r...