SoT 255: Smelly Twins
Feb 28, 2017•27 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
00:01:17 Have scientists really discovered a new continent under New Zealand? Well, sort of!
00:07:24 Bad body odour could be treated by a bacteria transplant from someone with less offensive armpits!
00:12:07 The malaria parasite could be making your blood attractive to mosquitoes.
00:15:11 By combining multiple datasets, astronomers have developed a more accurate idea about how fast our sun orbits the centre of our galaxy. It's pretty fast.
00:22:21 Many animals use echolocation to navigate, but the Vietnamese pygmy dormouse could be the first tree-climbing mammal that does.
This episode contains traces of TVNZ's news report about the continent Zealandia.
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