SoT 65: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

July 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Magnetic fish, Pluto’s new moon, trade-offs for bigger brains and more!

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SoT 63: It May Have Helped Harry Potter

July 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Photograph: ATLAS, Collaboration Date: 04/07/2012

Dear Sir David, the Higgs Boson found, exploding star fish, oxygen injections and more!

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SoT 62: The Century of Complex Systems

July 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
El Nino

Early warning signs of El Nino, unravelling the mysteries of gut bacteria, the benefits of fatty salad dressings and more!

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SoT 61: You Still Need a Golf Club

June 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
By NASA (NASA website) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Baby talk with gorillas and robots, cannibal cane toads, dyslexia and more!

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SoT 60: Pain Prone Personalities

June 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Meganeuramodell

Cannabis and pain, giant dragonflies, wet mosquitoes, fat fruit flies & more!

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SoT 54: A Guy Called Herbert

May 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
AGuyCalledHerbert

Tetrapods and acid blood, your brain is your password, thylacines, honeybees and lots more!

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SoT 52: They’re Bees, Not Borg

April 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
TheyreBeesNotBorg

Plasma gun that wipes out bacteria, the privacy implications of your genetic data, the Japanese bee ball of death, and more.

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SoT 45: Hardcore Honey Badger

February 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
zebra

Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday Topics covered: Meet ‘Amasia,’ the Next Supercontinent Asia and Americas on Course for Arctic Collision Mystery of Zebra’s Stripes Finally Solved? Massage’s Mystery Mechanism Unmasked Mice study shows fasting weakens cancer Climate speeds up microbial change Image: Gabor Horvath, How The Zebra Got Its Stripes. Download here. Duration: [...]

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SoT 43: Archaeopteryx Was A Goth

February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
goth

Should we introduce elephants to Australia to control invasive grasses? Plus archaeopteryx’s black feathers, stem cell safety tests, magic mushrooms to treat depression and much more.

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SoT 40: U R Dumped, lol

January 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ant

Octopuses Rewrite Their RNA to Beat the Cold In the Eyes of a Dog NASA Wants to Power Robots.

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