EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #35

This podcast almost did not come into being, as technology conspired to rob us of our hard-earned recording. But you can’t keep the EUSci podcast team down, and the next week we were back in the studio to re-record the whole thing. This week, our host Jess Smith explores stories about cheating plants, mosquitoes, new ways to target viruses, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the buzzing den 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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  Solar Plane Flies for 7 Days and Solar Sails in Space!


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  Junk DNA Isn’t


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  The Social Drinking Gene


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  Astrocytes may also Play a Role in Regulating Breathing


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  Massive Star!

Correspondent Reports:

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  Cheating Plants Don’t Do Well


• New Way to Target Viruses Could Make Antiviral Drugs More Effective


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  Interesting New Way to Fight Mosquitoes and GM Mosquitos Incapable of Transmitting Malaria

Feature:

Katie Marwick talks to Dr Charles Nicolette at the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna about trials of a therapeutic vaccine for HIV.

EU-What?!

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  It turn out that ecstacy may help trauma victims.

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