19 August, 2020 – Episode 787 – How to Save a Cow

What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Take A Breath, Simple Speech, Slingshot Spiders, Drunk Sensors, Herpes Cure?, Eye Spots, COVID Update, Mystery Gas, Cosmic Rhythm, A Cartilage Fix, Morning Warmup, Baby Bat Babble, And Much More…

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The following program has content pulled from the previous weeks release of scientific stories

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Researchers adept at revealing the secrets of the universe

The stories of planet earth

The mysteries of Life

And the systems by which life manages to survive on a planet

Spinning round a star

Spinning in a galaxy

Just one such galaxy out of billions hurtling through space.

While the significance of human achievements may be somewhat limited

in respect to the size of the universe,

The expanse of our knowledge need know no limits on

This week in science,

Coming up next…

Let’s start with some quick science news stories…

Take A Breath

When you breath, you probably think of breaths happening in your lungs. But, breathing really happens at the level of the oxygen-carrying heme-molecule. When heme holds oxygen it changes shape. New research has discovered that change in shape happens thanks to a cascade of electrons through the molecule.

Politicians use less words than they used to …

Fewer, more simple words in speeches

Holy sling-shotting spiders, Batman!

Nobody needs that…

Drunk Se...