Pseudocast

V dnešnom podcaste si povieme novinky o fosfáne na Venuši (hovorili sme o tom v Pseudocaste #470), o zlých správach o teleskope Arecibo a zaujímavosti o mitochondrálnej DNA.

• Prospects for Life on Venus Fade—but Aren’t Dead Yet
• Legendary Arecibo telescope will close forever — scientists are reeling
• Biparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA in Humans
• Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers
• Does It Matter That the DOD Released Those UFO Videos?
• The Tale of the Tape
• COVID vaccine excitement builds as Moderna reports third positive result

V tomto podcaste budeme hovoriť o novej vakcíne proti Covid-19 a o zaujímavých nových možnostiach testovania.

• What Pfizer’s landmark COVID vaccine results mean for the pandemic
• Russia announces positive COVID-vaccine results from controversial trial
• Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
• COVID-19 Artificial Intelligence Diagnosis using only Cough Recordings
• Does your mother tongue make you more prone to covid-19?
• Specificita testu
• Senzitivita testu

V tomto podcaste si povieme o tom, že aj netopiere dodržiavajú sociálny dištanc a prejdeme si cez viacero pozoruhodných štúdií.

• Tracking sickness effects on social encounters via continuous proximity sensing in wild vampire bats
• The 10 Weirdest Science Studies of 2019
• Nature's pitfall trap: salamanders as rich prey for carnivorous plants in a nutrient‐poor northern bog ecosystem
• Mammalian Taste Cells Express Functional Olfactory Receptors
• Hydraulic Coupling of a Leafless Kauri Tree Remnant to Conspecific Hosts
• Analogue black-hole horizons
• Experiments reveal a Bose–Einstein condensate of photons
• The electronic song “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” reduces host attack and mating success in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti
• Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
• Meet the 'odderon': Large Hadron Collider experiment shows potential evidence of quasiparticle sought for decades
• Generation of high-intensity ultrasound through shock propagation in liquid jets

V tomto podcaste budeme hovoriť o prvom schválenom lieku proti ebole, dáme si update na OSIRIS-REx a odpovieme na poslucháčsku otázku ohľadom cookies.

• The FDA has approved the first treatment for Ebola
• FDA Approves First Treatment for Ebola Virus
• In a first, an Ebola vaccine wins approval from the FDA
• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Goes for Early Stow of Asteroid Sample
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