Online 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]
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Folge vom 14.04.2016Podcast: Tracking Zika, the evolution of sign language, and changing hearts and minds with social science
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Folge vom 07.04.2016Podcast: Spreading cancer, sacrificing humans, and transplanting organsOnline news editor David Grimm shares stories on evidence for the earth being hit by supernovae, record-breaking xenotransplantation, and winning friends and influencing people with human sacrifice. Staff news writer Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how small membrane-bound packets called “exosomes” might pave the way for cancer cells to move into new territory in the body. [Image: Val Altounian/Science] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Folge vom 31.03.2016Podcast: Building a portable drug factory, mapping yeast globally, and watching cliffs crumbleOnline news editor David Grimm shares stories on yeasty hitchhikers, sunlight-induced rockfalls, and the tiniest gravity sensor. Andrea Adamo joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a revolutionary way of making drugs using a portable, on-demand, and reconfigurable drug factory. [Image: Tom Evans] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Folge vom 24.03.2016Podcast: Battling it out in the Bronze Age, letting go of orcas, and evolving silicon-based lifeOnline News Editor David Grimm shares stories on SeaWorld’s plans for killer whales, the first steps toward silicon-based life, and the ripple effect of old dads on multiple generations. Andrew Curry joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a grisly find in Northern Germany that suggests Bronze Age northern Europe was more organized and more violent than thought. [Image: ANDESAMT FÜR KULTUR UND DENKMALPFLEGE MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN/LANDESARCHÄOLOGIE/S. SUHR ] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices