95bFM: Dear Science

For Dear Science this week our expert Doctor Cushla McGoverin chatted to us about a parasite taking drugs to the brain, tarantulas making friends, and social groups of lions. 

In a unique edition of Dear Science, expert Professor Allan Blackman spoke to us about the 250th anniversary of the discovery of oxygen, the history of the person who did it, and oxygen facts in the 21st century. 

Bit of a strange Dear Science this week, as both of our regularly scheduled experts happened to be absent. In their place, regular Tuesday Wire host Castor and Thursday Wire host Caeden took us through a series of interesting topics new to both them and listeners! This week on Dear Science, we chatted about phone use while driving, potential life on Mars, and iron on the teeth of Komodo dragons. 

For Dear Science this week, our expert Professor Allan Blackman spoke to us about plants not holding as much carbon as we thought, tea tasting worse due to air pressure, and previously extinct giant millipedes.

For Dear Science this week, we chatted to Doctor Cushla McGoverin about giving an old antibiotic a makeover, frozen woolly mammoth DNA, and a mummified crocodile’s final snack. 

This week on Dear Science, Wire host Castor chatted to Professor Allan Blackman about fighting cancer with gold nanoparticles, trends in the melodies of popular music, and NASA's fake Mars mission. 

This week on Dear Science, Dr Cushla McGoverin chatted with us about rifleman making new sounds, Antarctic ice melts, and new developments in quantum computing. 

For Dear Science this week, our expert Professor Allan Blackman chatted to us about the environmental impact of green hydrogen, chimpanzees using drugs, and Nobel laureates born on June 25th. 

This week for Dear Science, Dr Cushla McGoverin chatted to us about a treatment option polycystic ovary syndrome, sex differences in pain receptors, and 34,000 year old termite mounds. 

For Dear Science this week our expert Professor Allan Blackman spoke to us about a genome in a tiny fern, a paper retracted about Alzheimers, and a study on success and failure.