EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #13

After a one-week hiatus to allow our producer to go sample the Irish beers (all in the name of science of course), we are back with a new EUSci podcast. This week, we talk about brain-controlled wheelchairs, smart whales, DIY biology and much more. We also have a discussion about the nature of superstition. So sit back and enjoy our take on the superstition-free collection of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspaper over the past couple of weeks.

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What's in today's show:-



Headlines

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  Baboons Form Platonic Friendships


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  Images of Memories Being Made


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  Plants Can Communicate
  


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  Giant Fossil Sperm


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  Great White Sharks Hunt Like Hannibal Lector


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  Milking Diatoms for Oil


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  Brain Scans on Flying Pigeons


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  Slightly Overweight People Live Longest


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  Site of Alcohol's Action In The Brain Discovered


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  First Electronic Quantum Processor Created

News Roundup and Discussion:

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  Whales are Smarter Than You Think


• Bye Bye Fusion?


• Open-source Laboratory Research at Home


• Real-time Control Of Wheelchair With Brain Waves

Feature:

In honour of podcast #13, we bring you a discussion of the relationship between superstition and science.

EU-What?!

• Good news! There's a new life-saving flu vaccine... for dogs.

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