SoT 294: Plastics Bad, Bacteria Good

Published: May 1, 2018, 11:44 a.m.

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Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall

00:01:31 While studying the enzyme produced by a bacteria that eats plastic, an international team has accidentally made it even better.

00:08:57 NASA\'s new planet-hunding spacecraft has launched. TESS will study 85% of the sky, and will be able to study the mass, size, density and orbit of thousands of exoplanets.

00:23:37 Retrotransposons - elements of DNA that can spread to other species - are being found more and more often. And they\'re almost ubiquitous in marine animals, especially shellfish.

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This episode contains traces of French President Emmanuel Macron speaking before the US Congress.

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