SoT 76: 2012 Nobel Prizes

October 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Black mamba in defensive posture, photo taken by Bill Love, Blue Chameleon Ventures. Via WikiCommons.

Nobel prizes for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, snakes on a pain, adaptive mosquitoes and more!

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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 57: Crushed By A Genital

May 26, 2012 By 2 Comments
CrushedByAGenital

Mind-controlled robotic arms, cave paintings of female genitals, piezoelectricity and more!

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SoT 34: Stupid Little Worm

November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Dr. Krystal Evans. Topics covered: Dr. Krystal gives us an in-depth progress report on malaria. There have been two big achievements this year: the final trial of what could be the first malaria vaccine ratified by the World Health Organisation, and the discovery of a ‘master key’ the parasite uses to infect [...]

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SoT 17: Google Sensibly

July 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday,  Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Dr. Krystal Evans. Topics covered: Dr. Krystal’s work developing a live malaria vaccine Search engines change how memory works Study casts doubt on forest carbon capture plans Cities can be carbon sinks too: study Genome Revolution is skipping nonwhites Genetically modified grass could make superweed problem [...]

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SoT 10: Bee Sceptical

May 26, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Rogue planets without stars The galaxy may swarm with billions of wandering planets.

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