Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on a proposal for an orca sanctuary in the sea, the genes behind conceiving fraternal twins, and why CRISPR won’t be fixing the sick anytime soon. Elizabeth Pennisi joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss bold birds, shy spiders, and the importance of animal personality. [Image: Judy Gallagher]
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Folge vom 05.05.2016Podcast: Why animal personalities matter, killer whale sanctuaries, and the key to making fraternal twins
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Folge vom 28.04.2016Podcast: Patent trolls, the earthquake-volcano link, and obesity in ChinaOnline News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on howearthquakes may trigger volcanic eruptions, growing obesity in China’s children, and turning salty watersweet on the cheap. Lauren Cohen joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the rise of patenttrolls in the United States and a proposal for cutting back ontheir sizable profits. [Image: © Alberto Garcia/Corbis] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Folge vom 21.04.2016Podcast: Sizing up a baby dino, jolting dead brains, and dirty miceOnline news editor David Grimm shares stories on a possibledebunking of a popular brain stimulation technique, using “dirty” mice in the lab to simulate the human immune system, and how South American monkeys’ earliest ancestors used rafts to get to Central America. Kristi Curry Rogers joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss insights into dinosaur growth patterns from the bones of a baby titanosaur found in Madagascar. Read the research. [Image: K. Curry Rogers et al./Science] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Folge vom 14.04.2016Podcast: Tracking Zika, the evolution of sign language, and changing hearts and minds with social scienceOnline news editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on the evolution of sign language, short conversations than can change minds on social issues, and finding the one-in-a-million people who seem to be resistant to certain genetic diseases—even if they carry genes for them. Nuno Faria joins host Sarah Crespi to explain how genomic analysis can track Zika’s entry date into Brazil and follow its spread. [Image: r.a. olea/Flickr] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices