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EPISODE · May 13, 2015

Mercury, caffeine, and zombie bacteria

from Lost in Science

This week we bid farewell to the MESSENGER spacecraft and everything it's revealed about the smallest and closest planet to the Sun, Mercury.We also learn that caffeine is the world's most widely used psychoactive drug, and that scientists are using zombie bacteria stuffed with silver as an antimicrobial Trojan horse.

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