EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #37

You'll be happy to hear that we've survived Fresher's week, and live to podcast another day. This week, our host Frank Dondelinger guides us through stories about zombie ants, gecko robots, a mystery involving the excellently-named magnetar, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the brainy hive 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:

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  New Drug to Treat Cocaine Addiction


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  Gecko Robot


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  Feeling Clean Makes us Harsher Moral Judges


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  Trees Can't Live Forever Without Sex


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  Dinos Bumped Off by Double-Asteroid Whammy

Correspondent Reports:

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  The Ancient Origins of Zombie Ants and Invisible Fungi can Disarm Immune System


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  Why Time Slows Down When You're Scared


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  Mysterious Magnetar

Feature:

Hayden Selvadurai interviews Dr Peter Lovatt, Principal Lecturer and Reader in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, about the psychology of dance.

EU-What?!

• We discover why old people like reading about bad things happening to young people (the Daily Mail effect).

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