Hot Dinosaurs, Alien Megastructures, And Reaching Point Nemo

This week on Break It Down, COVID’s new FLiRT variants, when and which dinosaurs went warm-blooded, could a lost river explain the pyramids, the search for alien megastructures, the shrinking Y chromosome, and what’s it like sailing to Point Nemo? Really hard, apparently.

Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…

Links:

FLiRT: https://www.iflscience.com/whats-going-on-with-the-new-covid-flirt-variants-74245

Hot dinosaurs: https://www.iflscience.com/the-first-warm-blooded-dinosaurs-probably-evolved-180-million-years-ago-74237

Lost river: https://www.iflscience.com/this-lost-river-could-explain-how-the-pyramids-were-built-74246

Alien megastructures: https://www.iflscience.com/two-new-searches-find-60-potential-alien-megastructures-in-our-galaxy-74222

Shrinking Y chromosome: https://www.iflscience.com/whats-happening-with-the-y-chromosome-74217

Point Nemo: https://www.iflscience.com/point-nemo-what-its-like-sailing-to-the-most-remote-place-on-earth-74242

Point Nemo video: https://youtu.be/POApwucft2c?si=9SfKuJg9OqX17JQw

CURIOUS Live register: https://ifls.online/3y4rMoS

CURIOUS, May issue: https://curious.iflscience.com/issue-22/full-view.html

Poles of Inaccessibility: https://inaccessibility.net/

Fox in a sink-hole: https://www.iflscience.com/curious-fox-cub-rescued-after-getting-head-stuck-in-a-sink-drain-74238