Science On Top 18 - Mighty Mouse

This week's SoT was cut short by a technical difficulty - Lucas' connection cut out momentarily and that stopped the ercording. We did not notice and kept talking...which sucks. Pen lost her entire segment on volcanos and mass extinctions, but the links to the stories are below.

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Our guest was Belinda Nicholson, Twatterer [>;)], blogger and astrophysicist, who is also involved in the Young Asutralian Skeptics podcast. Ed talked to her about her scholarship at the Gemini Observatory in Chile. From there:

*The US government might kill off th James Webb telescope project due to, well, the US economy imploding like a neutron star;
*Hybridisation between two distinct species of mouse confers resistance to Warfarin;
*Changes in a receptor sub-unit changes the nature of the running muscles in mice;
*There's stuff in tea that is not - gasp - tea!;
(...and here's where we lose transmission....)
*Did dinosaurs die because of toxic greenhouse gases?;
...as well as other creatures.


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