A man dies from cancer he got from a tapeworm, and another man has a life tapeworm removed from his brain! Also oxygen found on a comet, and how jellyfish really swim!
More communication with Philae, new treatments for depression, OneWeb satellite network, comprehensive virus test, and how the holes in Swiss Cheese are made!
Jupiter’s subsurface ocean, bacteria refuelling through nanotubes, memory manipulation, handshake sniffing and wind on a comet!
Some of our best science stories from 2014. Comet landings, Ebola outbreaks, retracted stem cell studies, faecal transplant capsules and more!
SoT 172: It’s Really Far
- December 23, 2014
- Tagged as: asteroid, astronomy, Brigmanite, Ceres, comet, Dawn, DNA, DNA tests, forensics, geology, meteorite, minerals, minor planet, New Horizons, pasteurisation, pluto, raw milk, Rosetta, twins, water on Earth
Rosetta gives clues to Earth’s water’s origins, one of the most common minerals in our planet, New Horizons and Dawn to visit minor planets, DNA tests for twins, and the dangers of raw milk.
Philae landing, DNA studies contaminated, Australian Zircon found in Vanuatu and the mysterious Siberian craters.
Books, 3D Printing, bacteria and the first probe landing on a comet!
SoT 167: Sticky Feet
- November 5, 2014
- Tagged as: comet, ebola, evolution, lizards, outbreak, Paralysis, Philae, Rosetta, spinal cord injury, stem cells, virology, virus
Everything Ebola, rapid lizard evolution, smelly comets and revolutionary spinal cord repair.
Rosetta arrives at the comet, an uncontacted tribe gets influenza, and a bacteriophage is the most common virus in your body. Plus, how bears overeat but don’t get diabetes, a year long microbiome study, and crazy octopus sex!
Updates on ISEE-3, fossilised brains, electric bacteria and a rubber duckie comet. Plus the largest non-avian flying dinosaur, a cancer vaccine from a cat poo parasite, and snakes on a plane in microgravity.