SoT 318: A Wacky Eukaryote Is Always Fun
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Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:01:10 Wombats - the cute, pudgy marsupials in Australia, have cubic poops. Square, angular blocks of poop. But how and why? We may now have a better understanding.
00:08:25 HD186302 is a star 184 light-years from Earth. And it\'s so similar to our sun, it could be long lost twin.
00:16:49 A team of researchers have studied the genomes of a group of microbes called Hemimastigotes and found that they are so bizarre, they deserve their very own kingdom in the tree of life.
00:26:02 Using the Keck observatory telescopes in Hawaii, astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of a planet 179 light years away.
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This episode contains traces of WNYC\'s On The Media looking at CNN\'s coverage of the U.S. Global Change Research Program\'s National Climate Assessment.
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