SoT 52: They're Bees, Not Borg

Published: April 13, 2012, 6:16 a.m.

Hosts:\xa0Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph and Penny Dumsday.

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A portable plasma gun that zaps bacteria, the ability to identify a person from their RNA, and the risk of brain tumours from dental x-rays. The Japanese honeybee giant ball of death, and how evolution copies itself. A build up of carbon dioxide ended the last ice age, and why hyenas are giving up meat for Lent.