HAVE you finished your breakfast? Good. Then you’ll be able to contemplate what might lie behind this early candidate for best paper title of the year: “Antioxidant capacity of boar seminal plasma,” by Marta Hernandez and colleagues and published in Reproduction, Fertility and Development.
And Ed Yong provides another contender from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps: “Effects of nuclear weapons on the gastrointestinal system” by D. A. Freshwater. Yong ventures that these may be large and mainly negative, and indeed the abstract begins “Nuclear weapons have both blast injury and radiation effects on the gut…” Despite having finished breakfast, Yong did not dare read the…
