It's Halloween and we're bringing you some extra scares with David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Guess who's back? Schrodinger's cat—as well as Jeff Goldblum, who's more fly than ever (sorry). Freda tries her hardest to convince us that teleportation is NOT cloning, Abi ponders the stupidity of arms wrestling, and somewhere there's a black nylon in a tangled mess.

But can ants do amazing gymnastics?

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Some things you might find interesting:

The Fly Science:https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-ent-the-fly-cinema-science-20171019-story.html

Quantum Teleportation:https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/teleportation-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected/How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQK1WDYI_k

The No Cloning Theorem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPC60Ue0BE&t=158s

Original Quantum Teleportation paper

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1895

CRISPR Ted Talk by Jennifer Doudna (Nobel Laureate 2020!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdBAHexVYzc&t=162sCRISPR readinghttp://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/crispr-a-game-changing-genetic-engineering-technique/

https://theconversation.com/what-is-crispr-gene-editing-and-how-does-it-work-84591

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Halloween (1978). The third instalment of our Science at the Slashers miniseries. Ep 3 of 4

This miniseries we’re talking about some of the best slasher movies across the decades and bringing the science to some of our favourite death scenes! So let’s talk gore, pre-pandemic mask culture and pretty girls running up the stairs! 

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This week we enter the wonderful world of superheroes with the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger.

We're talking world war two, the advent of comic book heroes, vita rays and super serums! Abi get's down with gene therapy while Freda goes on a journey with Hugo and his german accent.

'Gibt es das pretzel?!'

References:

• Is it right to use Nazi research if it can save lives? - BBC Future
• Operation Paperclip - Book review: CIA Library
• More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers - The Atlantic
• Nazis Dosed Soldiers with Performance-Boosting 'Superdrug' - Live Science
• The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments - Live Science
• Muscles in a Vial: Can a Single Shot Turn You Into Captain America - Live Science

• Science behind Captain America - Youtube : Stanford University
• Gene Therapy and making a real Superhero Serum - Youtube : Because Science in partnership with Novartis
• Superhero physiology: the case for Captain America - Brown et al, Advances in Physiology Education Vol. 41, No. 1, 2017

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The Cabin in the Woods (2011). The second instalment of our Science at the Slashers miniseries. Ep 2 of 4

This miniseries we’re talking about some of the best slasher movies across the decades and bringing the science to some of our favourite death scenes! So let’s talk gore, pre-pandemic mask culture and pretty girls running up the stairs! 

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This week: 2016's modern retelling of the zombie film, The Girl with all the Gifts!

Hurry up, because we have apocalyptic fungi (how do you say that?), too many box analogies and ravenous children to discuss. Abi loses the science, Freda scares the living daylights out of herself while researching the episode, and somewhere Miss Justineau is still stuck in an airlock.

Zombie babies????

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• Seven facts about domestic violence and strangulation : CEB
• Why do people fall down when shot : Real Clear Science

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• Will weather control happen in the future? - BBC
• Can China control the weather? - How Stuff Works
• Cloud Seeding: should we or shouldn't we? - Independent
• Geostorm and the ethics of geoengineering - The Conversation
• The disasters of disaster movies - Yale Climate Connections
• Project Poyeye - Office of the Historian (US Dept of State...not an onion article)
• The science behind Geostorm - Smithsonian Mag
• Rockets and rocket launches - National Geographic
• BBC How to build a satellite - Youtube

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