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<p>Today you’ll learn about how fruit flies are inspiring new forms of gameplay in basketball, how IQ levels are falling around the country, and a potential solution to difficult-to-recycle plastics! </p><p>Basketball Positions </p><ul><li>“Physics model could optimize basketball player positioning” by Kathy Hovis</li><li><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-03-physics-optimize-basketball-player-positioning.html">https://phys.org/news/2023-03-physics-optimize-basketball-player-positioning.html</a></li><li>“Fruit flies and electrons: Researchers use physics to predict crowd behavior” by Linda B. Glaser</li><li><a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-08-fruit-flies-electrons-physics-crowd.html">https://phys.org/news/2018-08-fruit-flies-electrons-physics-crowd.html</a></li><li>“Density-functional fluctuation theory of crowds” by J. Felipe Méndez-Valderrama et al.</li><li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05750-z#Abs1">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05750-z#Abs1</a></li></ul><p>Self-Healing Plastic </p><ul><li>“Researchers build hard, self-healing plastic that can be reshaped and recycled” by Wageningen University</li><li><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hard-self-healing-plastic-reshaped-recycled.html">https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hard-self-healing-plastic-reshaped-recycled.html</a></li><li>“Hard plastics can be recycled if they are constructed differently” by Maarten Smulders</li><li><a href="https://www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/show-home/hard-plastics-can-be-recycled-if-they-are-constructed-differently.htm">https://www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/show-home/hard-plastics-can-be-recycled-if-they-are-constructed-differently.htm</a></li></ul><p>IQ Decline</p><ul><li>“Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows” by Shelby Kearns<ul><li><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21483">https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21483</a></li></ul></li><li>“Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project” by Elizabeth M. Dworak et al.<ul><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156#f0005">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156#f0005</a></li></ul></li><li>“Online tests suggest IQ scores in US dropped for the first time in nearly a century” by Bob Yirka<ul><li><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html">https://phys.org/news/2023-03-online-iq-scores-century.html</a></li></ul></li><li>“IQ Scores In The US Have Recently Dropped For First Time This Century” by Tom Hale<ul><li><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/iq-scores-in-the-us-have-recently-dropped-for-first-time-this-century-67907">https://www.iflscience.com/iq-scores-in-the-us-have-recently-dropped-for-first-time-this-century-67907</a></li></ul></li></ul><p><i>Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with</i><a href="https://twitter.com/producercody"><i> </i></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/calbits/"><i>Calli</i></a><i> and</i><a href="https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer"><i> </i></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/"><i>Nate</i></a><i> — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to </i><a href="https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity"><i>https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity</i></a><i> to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers.</i></p><p><i>Find episode transcripts here: </i>https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/basketball-positions-self-healing-plastic-iq-decline</p>
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