Discovery Matters

July bonus - Fun scientific facts

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Dodi and Conor welcome colleague Kaycee Palumbo for the Discovery Matters special of "Did you know?"

Sources: 

  • Drugged-out hallucinating zombie cicadas 
  • Zombie ants
  • 30 000-year-old fruit in Siberian permafrost
  • 50 interesting facts about Biotechnology
  • The human genome - about 99.9% of human DNA is the same. It is the other 0.1% that codes for all of the differences that make each person unique.
  • The length of the human DNA compared to the world - each cell contains about 2m worth of DNA, if you stretch it end to end, It would measure up to be twice the diameter of the solar system
  • Small water pools in Mexico can show us the early seas/life on earth
  • How gut bacteria influence us.

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