SoT 167: Sticky Feet

Published: Nov. 5, 2014, 12:33 p.m.

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Virologist\\xa0Dr. Grant Hill-Cawthorne\\xa0joins us to discuss Ebola. Everything you need to know about the current outbreak.
Researchers in Florida have noticed than in just fifteen years\\xa0a particular species of lizard has grown larger, stickier feet\\xa0as an evolutionary response to an invading Cuban lizard.
In the lead up to the attempted landing of Philae on a comet in a few weeks, the Rosetta probe has taken some readings.\\xa0And now we know what a comet smells like, and it\'s not pretty.
A man with a completely severed spinal cord can now walk again, thanks to\\xa0a revolutionary surgery using stem cells taken from his nose.

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