EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #36

After our foray into the glamorous world of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we are now back in our cozy basement studio, ready to bring you another fun- and pun-filled episode of the EUSci podcast. This week, our host Katie Marwick guides us through stories about evolving robots, watching electrons in real time, how having sex increases intelligence, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the sexy cloud 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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  Why Some People Can Sleep Through Anything


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  Little Water on the Moon After All?


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  A Car, POWERED BY POO!


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  New Thoughts on Why Most Mongoose are Born on the Same Day


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  Duck Penis Length Depends on How Big Their Peers' Are

Correspondent Reports:

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  Watching Electrons in Real Time


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  Sex Makes Rats Smarter


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  Robots Evolving Intelligence

Feature:

At the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna, Katie Marwick talks to the hematologist involved in the miraculous cure of an HIV-infected patient after a bone marrow transplant. Long-time listeners might remember us covering this story all the way back in podcast #5.

EU-What?!

• Where would you position the booty call in the spectrum of relationships?

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