2008

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Episode 78

Episode 78

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Star Date: 2008.03.18.2200
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Death by Gamma Rays – a pair of stars is poised to fire in our general direction, misnamed “planetary” nebulae may actually require planets to form, NASA proposes to cut funding to ill-planned Mars mission, electrons move through rock, and are captured moving through molecules [...]

Episode 77

Episode 77

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Star Date: 2008.03.04.2200
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We’re sheep in human clothing, Darwin was wrong… about chickens, the Kilogram is on a diet, tooth reveals neanderthals traveled, left-handedness of the precursors to life dominated the contents of a pristine meteorite, human embryonic stem cells effective in treating diabetic mice, California cows pass [...]

Episode 76

Episode 76

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Star Date: 2008.02.06.2200
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First synthetic bacterial genome made from scratch, raises promise and bioethics issues, MicroRNAs evolved early in vertebrates, Horseshoe crabs now 100 million years older, nitrogen fertilizers may lower biodiversity of prairie grasses, yet also increase growth in tropical forests, and gene silencing breakthrough may help [...]

Episode 75

Episode 75

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Star Date: 2008.02.06.2200
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First show in Madison!
Embryos created that have three parents, everyone with blue eyes are distant cousins, rail guns not just for fiction anymore – now the US Navy has tested one, orange flavored lollypops for fighting cavitities, and the asteroid 2007 WD5 barely misses Mars, [...]