4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Ep 21
Lava brew, clones from seed, personal heat patches, and Hurricane Maria’s landscape legacy. For more info – After the hurricane: Maria’s far-reaching effects on Puerto Rico’s watersheds and forests: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297288&org=NSF&from=news NSF Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory and Long-Term Ecological Research sites Scientists brew lava and blow it up to better understand volcanoes: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2018/12/009.html University at Buffalo… Read more »
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 20
Sleepless in Angryville, greenhouse gas gobblers, handy robot gloves, and counting on drones For more information on these discoveries: Robot Gloves https://news.stanford.edu/2018/11/21/stanford-develops-electronic-glove-gives-robots-sense-touch/ Stanford Greenhouse Gas Gobbers https://news.utexas.edu/2018/11/27/newly-discovered-deep-sea-microbes-gobble-greenhouse-gases-and-perhaps-oil-spills-too/ UT Austin, UNC at Chapel Hill Sleepless in Angryville https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/11/27/sleepanger Iowa State University Drones & Marine Megafauna https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/11/drones-marine-megafauna/ North Carolina State University
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 19
The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth, slipping into something solar, wet and dry disease, and mucus modifications to save lives The Whole Tooth The Whole Tooth: New Method to Find Biological Sex From a Single Tooth UC Davis, USAFA, Arizona State University, George Mason University, DOD http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2018/11/09/whole-tooth-new-method-find-biological-sex-single-tooth/ Floodwaters and Disease Floodwater in rivers… Read more »
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 18
Catching brain hijackers, landscaping for the birds, a mussel shell tell and faster protein sequencing… much faster! For the Birds Non-native plants in homeowners’ yards endanger wildlife https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2018/october/non-native-plants-birds-insects-washington-chickadee-desiree-narango-doug-tallamy/ University of Delaware Migratory Bird Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Alzheimer’s Domino Effect Model maps ‘domino effect’ of Alzheimer’s protein misfolding https://www.futurity.org/alzheimers-disease-protein-misfolding-1894042 Stevens Institute of Technology Stanford… Read more »
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week – Episode 17
Spooky Antarctic vibes, moving magma matters, tracking the tropics and aging ancient animals. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week. Oldest clue of animal life https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2018/10/15/oldest-evidence-animals-found-ucr-researchers UC Riverside, Uppsala University in Sweden, Stanford University, Central Michigan University, Geoscience Australia, Caltech, MIT Volcanic Super-eruptions https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/10/11/volcano-researcher-learns-how-earth-builds-supereruption-feeding-magma-systems/ Vanderbilt University, University of Canterbury, Brown University,… Read more »
