T. Rex Leather, Glow-In-The-Dark Gas Clouds, And Musical Sea Lions

This week on Break It Down: a new kind of leather is borrowing its foundations from fossil T. rex collagen, we’ve just discovered an enormous glow-in-the-dark gas cloud surprisingly close to Earth, a musical sea lion has shown it can keep beat better than some humans, a new-to-science embalming technique has been discovered in Austria, man who let himself be envenomated by all the snakes inspires an antivenom not thought possible, and do scientists have a responsibility to fight misinformation about their subjects? We asked them.

So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…

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T. rex leather

Glow-in-the-dark gas cloud

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Ronan the rhythmic sea lion

New embalming tekkers

What happens to eyes during the mummification process?

Novel route to snake antivenom

Scientists VS misinformation

5 kinds of headaches

Ballymacombs More Woman

 

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