SoT 169: Proper Ice-cream

Published: Nov. 20, 2014, 5:04 a.m.

Shayne and Ed are joined by Dr. George Aranda, curator of the\xa0Science Book A Day\xa0blog and co-host of the\xa0Big Ideas Book Club\xa0in Melbourne. George is\xa0running a Pozible crowdfunding campaign\xa0to investigate the use of 3D Printers in school education.
Scientists from University of Bern in Switzerland have developed a\xa0new approach to the treatment of severe bacterial infections\xa0without the use of antibiotics.
The prestigious\xa0Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books\xa0has been awarded to Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters. The book is an enthralling account of Mark's love of material science, and the extraordinary properties of the materials in our everyday lives.
Cornell University\u2019s Ruth Ley and her colleagues have identified one bacterial taxon, the family Christensenellaceae, as the\xa0most highly heritable group of microbes\xa0in the human gut.
And for the first time ever, humans have\xa0landed a probe on a comet\xa0moving at 50,000kph.