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tardigrades

SoT 288: The Fly On Kauai With The Lavae

March 13, 2018
Tagged as: chance, crickets, dice, drought, evolution, fate, life, mars, Star Trek, tardigrades

Life in our most Mars-like region on Earth, ancient dice clues about fate and chance, silent crickets and a new species of tardigrade.

SoT 209: Silly Season For Worms

December 9, 2015
Tagged as: antibacterial resistance, antibiotics, bacteria, epigenetics, flatworms, gene transfer, genome, tardigrades, worms

Is this the antibacterial apocalypse? Some bacteria is now resistant to even our last-resort antibiotics. Also biologists making flatworms grow the heads and brains of other species of flatworms, without altering their genome. And the genome of the tardigrade gets sequenced, and there’s a lot of foreign DNA in there.

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I have enjoyed this podcast b/c it is very funny banter about science stories but there is also a serious edge to the analysis. It's proof that you can be amusing and entertaining as well as giving the science content its due. Highly recommended weekly listening.