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This week on Break It Down: a new study has become the first to document what sound a shark makes, Neptune has been confirmed to have an aurora thanks to the best telescope ever, a pipeline construction site turned up the terrifying claw of a new species of therizinosaur, why people are trying to prevent measles with Vitamin A (and why it won’t work), 400-million-year-old fossils may belong to a new branch on the tree of life, and the growing role of psilocybin in new medications inspired by magic mushrooms.
So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…
Links:
Shark sounds
Hear a coral reef
Sharks existed before Saturn’s rings
Neptune’s aurora
New therizinosaur
Measles and Vitamin A
Supplements and liver injury
New branch of life?
Magic mushroom medicine
We Have Questions – How do you rediscover a “lost species”?
Videos galore
Melanistic penguin
CURIOUS magazine
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This week on Break It Down: a new study has become the first to document what sound a shark makes, Neptune has been confirmed to have an aurora thanks to the best telescope ever, a pipeline construction site turned up the terrifying claw of a new species of therizinosaur, why people are trying to prevent measles with Vitamin A (and why it won’t work), 400-million-year-old fossils may belong to a new branch on the tree of life, and the growing role of psilocybin in new medications inspired by magic mushrooms.
So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…
Links:
Shark sounds
Hear a coral reef
Sharks existed before Saturn’s rings
Neptune’s aurora
New therizinosaur
Measles and Vitamin A
Supplements and liver injury
New branch of life?
Magic mushroom medicine
We Have Questions – How do you rediscover a “lost species”?
Videos galore
Melanistic penguin
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