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Robot Evolution

After our foray into the glamorous world of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we are now back in our cozy basement studio, ready to bring you another fun- and pun-filled episode of the EUSci podcast. This week, our host Katie Marwick guides us through stories about evolving robots, watching electrons in real time, how having sex increases intelligence, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the sexy cloud of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What’s in today’s show:

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• Why Some People Can Sleep Through Anything
• Little Water on the Moon After All?
• A Car, POWERED BY POO!
• New Thoughts on Why Most Mongoose are Born on the Same Day
• Duck Penis Length Depends on How Big Their Peers’ Are

At the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna, Katie Marwick talks to the hematologist involved in the miraculous cure of an HIV-infected patient after a bone marrow transplant. Long-time listeners might remember us covering this story all the way back in podcast #5.

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• Where would you position the booty call in the spectrum of relationships?

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How to Keep Mosquitoes at Bay

This podcast almost did not come into being, as technology conspired to rob us of our hard-earned recording. But you can’t keep the EUSci podcast team down, and the next week we were back in the studio to re-record the whole thing. This week, our host Jess Smith explores stories about cheating plants, mosquitoes, new ways to target viruses, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the buzzing den of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What’s in today’s show:

News:

• Solar Plane Flies for 7 Days and Solar Sails in Space!
• Junk DNA Isn’t
• The Social Drinking Gene
• Astrocytes may also Play a Role in Regulating Breathing
• Massive Star!

Katie Marwick talks to Dr Charles Nicolette at the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna about trials of a therapeutic vaccine for HIV.

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Martin Austwick producing The Sound of the Ladies.

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Does Darth Vader suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder?

We’re back again with more science than you can throw a stick at, including a special report from the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. This week, our host Bethan Lowder guides us through stories about flu vaccines, strange water, quantum gravity, giant molecules IN SPACE, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the grave assembly of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What’s in today’s show:

News:

• Think You Know Your Hands like the Back of Your Hands?
  
• New Way for Making Graphene
  
• Living on the Edge Makes Coral Better Adapted for Climate Change
• Fighting Talk: Upper Body Strength is all in the Pitch of your Voice
• An Extention of the Google Prediction Effect to Tweets and Blogs

Alex Sinclair reports live from the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London.

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• We all know Darth Vader had issues, but could he have been suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Why do different brands of vodka taste differently?

For those of you currently enjoying the sunny weather in Edinburgh, this podcast is perfectly designed for listening to while sunbathing in the Meadows. This week, our host Frank Dondelinger guides us through stories about quantum entanglement, giant molecules, invasive viral DNA, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the viral entanglement of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What’s in today’s show:

News:

• Organic Haze in the Earth’s atmosphere explains Liquid Oceans
• Why Teenagers Take more Risks
• Possible Life on Titan
• Mining Uranium from the Sea for Use as Fuel
• Why Different Brands of Vodka Taste Different

Frank Dondelinger interviews Jorge Cham, creator of Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD) comics.

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• We find out why patients don’t like hospital clothes.

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White solar flares - The result of particle acceleration?

It took a while, but we are finally back with a brand new EUSci podcast. This week, our host and intrepid producer Kirsten Findlay guides us through stories about solar flares, synthetic cells, risks for dementia carers, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the genuine flash of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What’s in today’s show:

News:

• Earthworms Eat Live Plants
• Ball Lightning Finally Explained?
• Cool Scramjet to be Tested
• Thousands of Antimalarial Drug Candidates Published

Frank Dondelinger interviews David Signorini, senior statistician for the Justice Department of the Scottish Government.

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• Who knew, binge drinking can be detrimental for your academic performance.

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Elephants and Bees - They just don't get along.

Not even exams, volcanoes, and the desertion of one of our producers to Eastern Europe could keep us from bringing you the latest EUSci podcast. This week, our host Jess Hedge guides us through stories about supersized crops, elephant alarm calls, twisting nanowires, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the elephantine crop of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What’s in today’s show:

News:

• Regeneration Gene in Worms Identified
• Mice Make their Own Morphine
• People More Likely to Believe in ESP if Told that Science Rejects It
• Safty of Nano Particles in Sunscreen
• Whale Poo Good for the Ocean

Frank Dondelinger interviews Kevin Foster, a biologist at Harvard University, on the topic of social evolution.

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• Stop that desktop napping, it turns out the best position for napping is lying down!

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Could Venusians have problems with ash clouds too?

If you’re living in Britain, you can’t have missed that elections are rapidly approaching. If you’re still undecided, the EUSci podcast is here to inform you about the science policies of the various parties. But first, our host Alan Boyd guides us through stories about opportunistic bees, virtual copycats, volcanoes on Venus, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the virtual eruption of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What’s in today’s show:

News:

• Japansese Guts Adapted to Eating Sushi
• More Hominid Species Discovered -  with Google Earth
• The End for Gene Patenting?
• Floating Nanosheets
• Can You Predict if a Delinquent is going to Reoffend?

Bethan Lowder, Alan Boyd, Jon Manning and Frank Dondelinger discuss the science manifestos of the various parties.

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• Apparently more men prefer “hooking up” than women. Who knew?

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Quentin Cooper being interviewed by the EUSci team.

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