EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #39

Okay, so we admit that we did actually take a couple of weeks off this time. But rest assured that it was all in a good cause, for we used the extra time to recruit some new voices to the podcast. This week, our host Kirsten Findlay guides us through stories about ants (yes, again!), weird proteins, making electricity from urine, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the tingly stream 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:

• Crystals That Can Lift 600 Times Their Own Weight
• New E-Display with High Speed, High Readability and Low Power Usage
• A Flexible Diamond-studded Electrode Implanted for Life
• Thoroughbreds not so Thoroughly Bred
• Lying Makes You Want to Wash Your Mouth Out

Correspondent Reports:

• Ants as a New Model Organism and a Study Done into Ant Behaviour and Epigenetics
• Protein That Gets More Concentrated the More It is Diluted
• Making Electricity from Urine

Feature:

We interview Kirsten Rose and Rachel Verdon, two interdisciplinary PhD students at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the Queens Medical Research Institute in Edinburgh.

EU-What?!

• We review the 2010 Ig Nobel prizes, including an old EUSci favourite.

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