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EPISODE · Apr 21, 2016 · 26 MIN

Podcast: Sizing up a baby dino, jolting dead brains, and dirty mice

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Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on a possibledebunking of a popular brain stimulation technique, using “dirty” mice in the lab to simulate the human immune system, and how South American monkeys’ earliest ancestors used rafts to get to Central America. Kristi Curry Rogers joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss insights into dinosaur growth patterns from the bones of a baby titanosaur found in Madagascar.  Read the research. [Image: K. Curry Rogers et al./Science] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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