EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #28

We hope that by now everybody has had a chance to peruse the new issue of the magazine. Of course the podcast arm of the EUSci media empire has not been idle in the meantime. Today, our host Katie Marwick guides us through stories about RNA healing wounds, a new human species, how bats calibrate their internal compass, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the soothing balm 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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  Record Breaking Metal Atom with 15 Chemical Bonds


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  Towards Male Fertility Home Testing Kit


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  Simon Singh Wins Appeal


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  Scare-tactics in Health Messages can Backfire


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  Swine flu more Similar to Virus that Caused the 1918 Flu Pandemic than We Thought

Correspondent Reports:

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  Heal Chronic Wounds with Silent RNA


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  New Human Species Discovered by Sequencing DNA from a Finger Bone


• Bats Calibrate their Internal Compass using the Sun

Feature:

Frank Dondelinger interviews Rudra Kapila, a PhD student at the School of Geosciences, about her research into carbon capture and storage.

EU-What?!

• It's unsurprising that violent teenagers have bad relationships, but there is more to this story.

And in case anyone is still wondering: The April Fools story from the last podcast was the one about all-yellow bees. Bet we didn't fool you!

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