SoT 116: The Baby Disease
In a town with no previously recorded earthquakes, more than a hundred were recorded in one year. It's thought they were triggered by the disposal of waste water from fracking.
\nA new world record has been set for the smallest sequenced genome, and it belongs to a symbiotic bacteria living in leafhoppers.
\nMother gibbons teach their daughters to sing, using a kind of 'baby talk'.
\nAnd ancient 'bog body' has been found with the skin intact. The body may be that of a king, killed in a ritual sacrifice. Because axes.
\n'Chronic excreters' could be the big obstacle preventing the global eradication of Polio.
\nA scientist jokes about a testicle-eating fish, and cable news anchors panic. And giggle.