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SciencePod — Dem Bones

20130416100935-0Photo Credit: The authors of the paper via the MIT Newsroom.

On this episode

of the pod, I apologise for being rather tardy over the last couple of weeks, before talking about the link between bones, computers, and building materials. Researchers at MIT have discovered the previously unknown structural mechanism behind the strength of our bones using a pretty clever technique!  The articles were first accessed via the MIT Newsroom. You can find links to some of the news articles–including the original journal article that happens to be open –plus a transcript of the episode after the jump.

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SciencePod — From Highways to the High Seas

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On this week’s

episode of the Tooth Soup Science Pod, the topic is animals and some fascinating evolutionary traits. First up we have cliff swallows whose adaptation to urban environments has seemingly accelerated their evolution, thanks to an unlikely helping hand: roadkill! Following that, the dead eye archer fish takes a trip to the optometrist to see precisely how good its eyesight is. The articles were first accessed via Eurekalert. You can find links to some of the articles, a transcript, as well as a video of the archer fish in action after the jump.

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SciencePod — Waste Not Want Not

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Photo Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology/Bart van Overbeeke

This week, we

follow up the feasibility of some fuel-filled trees from a previous episode, and explore the wonderful world of plastic electronics. The article discussed today was first found on Eurekalert. If you have found this episode at all interesting, please do me a favour and leave a comment or rating either here or at the iTunes subscription page. I’m enjoying making these, but I’d love to know if they’re interesting to people other than myself. :) As per usual, the transcript and some links follow the jump.

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SciencePod — Stretching Our Mussels

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today includes two stories related to the humble mussel. The first has to do with the excellent binding properties of the fibres that mussels use to stick to every conceivable surface (including each other), while the second discusses their continued survival in an ocean environment that continues to warm up; not unlike the chilli mussel soup I found myself craving after researching this one. Both articles were first encountered on Eurekalert. As usual, the transcript follows the jump.

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