EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #40

Change is afoot! To celebrate the EUSci podcast’s entry into middle age, we have changed our format slightly. You now get double the number hosts (for the same low, low price) as well as a new segment that we like to call Controversy of the Week (or CoW). Really it should be Controversy of Every Second Week, but that doesn’t have a nice acronym. This week, our hosts Katie Marwick and Frank Dondelinger guide us through stories about cold dead stars, science cuts, induced synesthesia, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the sensible matter 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:

• The Infective Disease that is Killing Bats
• Scientists Don’t Know How to Program
• The Tipsy Gene
• Silver-coated Bacteria to Combat Flu
• Clever Non-invasive Way of Monitoring Blood Glucose

Correspondent Reports:

• The Role of Cold Dead Stars in Finding the Properties of Dark Matter
• The Impact of UK Science Cuts
• Mice That ‘Smell’ Light and Hearing Shapes

Feature:

Jess Hedge interviews Dr Paul Hunt about drug resistance in parasites that cause malaria.

EU-What?!

 We find out why men are more likely to be interested in their partner reaching orgasm if they think they have rivals.

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