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This week on the show, Beckett Kerr discussed some fascinating new discoveries regarding insects. they then finished up with three article regarding how cells fight bacteria, how birds use quantum compasses, and how a new atomic clock could revolutionize space travel […]
Today, Amaya and Blake talked about the new viral outbreak in central in China, a new treatment for Hepatitis C and its symptoms, identified pathways that extend lifespan by 500 percent, how the hippocampus influences future thinking, identified changes in neural circuits underlying self-control during adolescence, how the anterior cingulate cortex ties to human learning, […] […]
Today, Amaya, Blake, and Chole talked about the biggest scientific discoveries of 2019 and of the 2010s. […]
Today Amaya, Blake, and Chloe talked about how penguins ruled after dinasours died, how the Earth was stressed prior to the dinosaur’s mass extinction event, personality studies in mice, satellite records of glacier formation and decay, bone repair, and heat transferred across a vacuum via Casimir effect. […]
Today Amaya and Blake talked about bacterial communities hitchiking on marine plastc, scientists growing a beating human heart out of stem cells, global levels of biodiversity being lower previously thought, the Parker Solar Probe’s data aout the Sun’s magnetic field, how language emerges, and our personality being affected by how we look or how we […] […]
Today Blake, Amaya, and Chloe discussed the physics of time crystals, the implications of birth control and potential links to depression, tendon stem cells’ effects on injury recovery, and bacterial consumption of CO2! […]
Today, Blake and Amaya talked about the abnormal Amazon fires, sequencing the “Devil Worm”, the highest energy gamma ray burst ever recorded, ribosomal assembly, universal features of music, the side effects of evolutionary adaptation, ribose found on meteorites, and implications for better immunity through Caenorhabditis Elegans. […]
Today Amaya and Blake talked about the fate of Mars’ water, how cytotoxic cells affect supercentenarians’ immune systems, the relationship between immunology, ancestory, and Malaria, distant worlds under many stars, specific neurons that map memories now identified in the human brain, age-related hearing loss and cognitive impairment. […]
Today, Amaya and Blake talked about a new possibility for green, grid-scale batteries, Voyager 2 reaching interstellar space, sleep can reduce stress on the brain, carbon dioxide capture as big business, how scientists can use martphones to control nueral cells, and the spookiness of quantum tunneling. […]