SoT 87: Complex Mating Rituals With Balls of Dung

February 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A life-size model of a homo neanderthalensis at the Museum Neandertal in Germany. Image: via WikiMedia Commons.

Leprosy alchemy, dung beetle astronomers, bad science journalism, babies falling over and more!

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SoT 83: Science At The Speed Of Science

December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Water Ice Discovered on Mercury

Grand plans for a Mars colony, Curiosity’s findings, water on Mercury and Antarctic bacteria. Plans for a Universal Cancer Blood Test, making flu vaccines without the virus, and a genetic link to birth weight.

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SoT 81: You Asexual Bdelloid!

November 25, 2012 By 1 Comment
Total Solar Eclipse, 14 November 2012

Total solar eclipse experiences, a planet without a star, and the bacteria in your belly button. Plus great apes with mid-life crises, nasal hope for paralysed dogs and a rant about speculation in the media. Also, the Bdelloid Rotifer: 80 million years without sex and still genetically diverse.

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SoT 72: An Army of Roaches

September 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements

ENCODE finds function in junk DNA, malaria’s role in human evolution, remote controlled cockroaches and where are all the dinosaur tales?

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SoT 71: The Least Strange Thing About Christopher Walken

September 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mars One plans to build a colony on Mars, partly funded by reality television

Reality TV on Mars, beer, Denisovan genome, brain destroying bacteria 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 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 53: Rats of the Sky

April 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
RatsoftheSky

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a remote cave, baboons that can read, the ‘cocktail party problem’ and 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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