SoT 91: Spiders, Snakes and Dead Mice in Guam

March 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Flowers can communicate with bees through an electric field. Image: Stefan-Xp via WikiMedia Commons.

A tiny planet, the ultimate flu vaccine, the bees are a-buzzing and dead mice are a-dropping, plus lots 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 80: Indiana Jones on a Spaceship

November 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
An artist's impression of PH1, the exoplanet in a quadruple-star system. Image credit: Haven Giguere/Yale

Planets around 4-star systems, concrete that repairs itself, and see-through mice. Plus the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes, bird speciation and a vaccine for the Hendra virus.

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SoT 66: The Five Hour Quickie

July 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By jjron (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Lasers, bats, exhaustive squid sex, chicken viruses and more!

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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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