Learn about how astronauts may build the first moon base with help from their own urine; how musicians and audiences synchronize their brain activity; and more than you ever thought you wanted to know about narwhal tusks.

Astronauts may use their own urine to help build the first moon base by Cameron Duke

• Astronaut urine to build moon bases. (2020). EurekAlert! sf-aut032720.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/f-sf-aut032720.php
• How to build a Moon base. (2018). Nature.com. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07107-4
• Pilehvar, S., Arnhof, M., Pamies, R., Valentini, L., & Kjøniksen, A.-L. (2020). Utilization of urea as an accessible superplasticizer on the moon for lunar geopolymer mixtures. Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, 119177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119177
• What is Artemis? (2019). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/what-is-artemis

Musicians and their audiences sync their brain activity by Grant Currin

• Young, E. (2020, March 23). Musicians and Their Audiences Show Synchronised Patterns of Brain Activity. Research Digest; British Psychological Society. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/03/23/musicians-and-their-audiences-show-synchronised-patterns-of-brain-activity/
• Hou, Y., Song, B., Hu, Y., Pan, Y., & Hu, Y. (2020). The averaged inter-brain coherence between the audience and a violinist predicts the popularity of violin performance. NeuroImage, 211, 116655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116655
• Taylor, J.M. (2016, July 25). Mirror Neurons After a Quarter Century: New light, new cracks. Science in the News. Harvard University. http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/mirror-neurons-quarter-century-new-light-new-cracks/

Why do male narwhals have tusks? Because the ladies love 'em by Grant Currin

• For narwhals, the “unicorn of the seas,” size matters for sexual selection. (2020). EurekAlert! fnt031220.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/asu-fnt031220.php
• The longer the better: evidence that narwhal tusks are sexually selected | Biology Letters. (2020). Biology Letters. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0950
• Narwhal Tusk Research -- Anatomy and Morphology of the Tusk. (2012). Narwhal.org. https://www.narwhal.org/anatomy.html
• Sexual Selection | Learn Science at Scitable. (2010). Nature.com. https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/sexual-selection-13255240/

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