Finding frogs with dogs, a diabetes treatment from a platypus, bees that know nothing and mysterious cannibalistic crabs.
SoT 274: The Armadillo Transformer
- August 20, 2017
- Tagged as: atoms, bees, dinosaurs, galaxies
The largest dinosaur, the most well-preserved dinosaur, intergalactic atoms and how bees fly.
Bees teaching bees to play soccer, 10,000 year old microbes woken up, tracking lemurs with facial recognition technology.
Fast Radio Bursts, non-bee pollinators, blue tarantulas and the evolutionary effects of agriculture.
Liquid water found on Mars, the tongues of long-tongued bumblebees are shrinking, four kinds of gut bacteria linked to asthma, volcanoes may have contributed to the dinosaur extinction, and The Martian gets favourable reviews.
SoT 201: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 7, 2015
- Tagged as: appendicitis, bee stings, bees, bribery, business, business leaders, cancer, ceo, chickens, dinosaurs, disasters, economics, eggs, honeybees, huh, Ig Nobel, Ig Nobels, insect stings, insects, kissing, language, law of urination, linguistics, mathematics, natural disasters, pee, protein folding, reproduction, risk-taking, sex, speed bumps, trauma, urination, urine
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from unboiled eggs to painful bee stings!
Mississippi Baby not actually cured of HIV, smallpox found in a storeroom, and epigenetics in mice. Plus the woman who grew nasal tissue on her back, insecticides not just killing bees, and how pandas survive on a bamboo diet.
SoT 121: No Ruttin’ Way!
- October 21, 2013
- Tagged as: bacteria, ballet, bees, fuel, genetic modification, mating, voice
Rutting stags and male larynges, diesel fumes and disappearing bees, why ballerinas can spin without being sick, and GM bacteria produces gasoline.
One third of US honeybees died last year. Breast-milk protein helps antibiotics.Fungus helps plants talk. Could 15,000 year old words still be in use today?
A tiny planet, the ultimate flu vaccine, the bees are a-buzzing and dead mice are a-dropping, plus lots more!