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SoT 69: The Other Two Mice

August 26, 2012
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Download Now!Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall.

Topics covered:

  • Mars rover: Wind sensor damaged on Nasa’s Curiosity
  • Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam at Martian Rock
    • First results from ChemCam spectrometer
  • Mars Lander Wins Out for 2016 Mission Over Titan Boat and Comet Hopper
  • Sight for sore eyes: optical prosthetic mimics retina functionality
  • Report card shows Australia’s oceans are changing
  • Scientists Discover How Brains Keep Clean
  • New Light Shed On Important Metabolite in Bacteria

Watch Sheila Nirenberg’s TED talk about the prosthetic retina:

The 'glymphatic' system, which cleans the brain of waste.

Two-photon imaging shows how the brain flushes out wastes via a system of water channels (purple) in cells (green) wrapped tightly around blood vessels. Image: J. Iliff and M. Nedergaard. Via Wired Science

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  • Lucas Randall,
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  • #climate change
  • #cybernetics
  • #eyesight
  • #mars
  • #replacement body parts
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