EPISODE · Dec 1, 2008
Parasite Wisdom, warming, space sugar
from Diffusion Science radio · host Ian Woolf
News by Marc West - global warming and the next ice age, - wine's bubbles can track the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, - dating glaciers by atomic bomb residue, - wind farms may create weather, - celestial smiley face Ian Woolf talks parasite wisdom with Professor John Dalton, director of the Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, UTS, who researches how to exploit parasite's knowledge of our immune system to cure diseases. Caitlin Howlett tell us about sugar in space, which may point at life, and how water is a greenhouse gas. Ian Woolf reports on solar powered sea slugs on the sea floor that can make food from sunlight. Monica Sharma updates us on the fate of the spiders in space, and how a brain implant is giving a paralysed man the power of speech, Caitlin Howlett reports on how turtles evolved their shells, Presented by Monica Sharma, produced by Ian Woolf
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News by Marc West - global warming and the next ice age, - wine's bubbles can track the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, - dating glaciers by atomic bomb residue, - wind farms may create weather, - celestial smiley face Ian Woolf talks parasite wisdom with Professor John Dalton, director of the Institute for the Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases, UTS, who researches how to exploit parasite's knowledge of our immune system to cure diseases. Caitlin Howlett tell us about sugar in space, which may point at life, and how water is a greenhouse gas. Ian Woolf reports on solar powered sea slugs on the sea floor that can make food from sunlight. Monica Sharma updates us on the fate of the spiders in space, and how a brain implant is giving a paralysed man the power of speech, Caitlin Howlett reports on how turtles evolved their shells, Presented by Monica Sharma, produced by Ian Woolf
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