SoT 30: Plucky Little Cycads
Hosts:\xa0Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, and Lucas Randall.
\nTopics covered:
\nA new way to turn adult cells into embryonic stem cells, Cycads not so ancient after all, nanotube fibres that twist and untwist could propel nanobots. Astronomers may have directly imaged a planet in the process of forming, the IQ of teenagers fluctuates, and the world's biggest virus: MEGAVIRUS.
\nThe book Penny mentions is\xa0Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, by Stephen Jay Gould.