A Proper Funnel-head
This week we’re asking what a sarcastic fringehead is, nerding out about Perseverance’s flashy gadgets, finding out how much tyrannical power a naked mole-rat queen has, cooing over an adorable clone, checking if thylacines are back from the dead, and marvelling at Europe’s most active volcano blowing its load.If you find some fun science that you think deserves its place on the show, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch with us at lockdownsciencepodcast@gmail.com and follow us on @LockdownScience on Twitter and @LockdownSciencePodcast on Instagram.Barker et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc6588 Yorzinski (2020): https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0786Know Your Pollinators: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/f229629c-c0c5-11ea-855a-01aa75ed71a1#Music credit: Blippy Trance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One Heck of a Spicy Bath
This week we’re asking whether science can solve one of the world’s greatest conspiracy theories, checking if groundhogs can live forever, delving into Greek myths to find out more about butterflies, being dazzled by a new shade of blue, electrifying ourselves with some genuinely stunning eel research, and finding out what the world’s tiniest chameleon’s rather large secret is.If you find some fun science that you think deserves its place on the show, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch with us at lockdownsciencepodcast@gmail.com and follow us on @LockdownScience on Twitter and @LockdownSciencePodcast on Instagram.Bastos et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7121 Gaume and Puzrin (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00081-8 Glaw et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80955-1 O’Mara et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.042 Yang et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM01230KMusic credit: Blippy Trance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Monkey Economics
This week we’re finding out how to make your Burns Night stellar, deciding whether we have what it takes to control a herd of bison, discovering what’s causing sci-fi blue jets visible from the ISS, asking whether Suki can recognise us from voice alone, and working out how much we now need to fear the criminal potential of macaques.If you find some fun science that you think deserves its place on the show, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch with us at lockdownsciencepodcast@gmail.com!Brumm et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd4648Leca et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0677 Neubert et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03122-6Saito and Shinozuka (2013): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-013-0620-4 Simmons et al. (2021): http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/7249 Music credit: Blippy Trance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A Disgusting Staring Contest
This week we’re finding out just how identical identical twins really are, asking whether the didgeridoo can help us get better sleep, reacquainting ourselves with the mother of palaeontology, listening out for some eery “singing”, investigating what really drives feelings of disgust, and checking out what Sir David Attenborough has been up to lately. If you find some fun science that you think deserves its place on the show, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch with us at lockdownsciencepodcast@gmail.com!Jonsson et al. (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-00755-1Nord et al. (2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.087Puhan et al. (2006): https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38705.470590.55Music credit: Blippy Trance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Punching Nemo
It’s the last show of 2020, a year when finding non-COVID science news was like searching for a needle in a viral haystack. This week we’ve got a bumper edition of our Science of Week quiz, covering news from the whole year, and we’re introducing a brand new feature - Animal Etymologies! We’re investigating the liquid properties of cats, finding out how fast space junk flies around the Earth, looking at what lasers can tell us about ancient archaeological remains, asking whether we’ve just made contact with aliens in the next solar system over, stretching the boundaries of animal lengths with siphonophores, and pitching a gritty new sequel to Finding Nemo.If you find some fun science that you think deserves its place on the show, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch with us at lockdownsciencepodcast@gmail.com!Fardin (2014): https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-of-cats.pdfSampaio et al (2020): https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3266 Music credit: Blippy Trance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.