Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall
Topics covered:
- Nanotech turns plants into common plastic
- Sunscreen concern reaches into the school grounds
- A Pharmacy Under Your Skin
- Swiss Want to Build a Satellite That Removes Space Litter
- The Case of the Missing Genes
- Venus slowdown has astronomers in a spin
- Embryos Starved of Oxygen May Be ‘Programmed’ for Heart Disease
- Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results
Image: NASA. Computer generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites.
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On this episode I mentioned an article about how genes from a virus make our method of reproduction possible, but I couldn’t remember the author. Well, it turns out it was the brilliant science writer, and author of A Planet of Viruses, Carl Zimmer.
Here it is, a fascinating article: Mammals Made By Viruses.