What's So Super About Science? - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2023-08-10

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(1:46) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:15) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Dr. Kiki
(3:26) - Opening Theme Music
(4:00) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Dr. Kiki & Justin — Blair is off for the next couple months as she's HAVING HER BABY! YAY!

(7:19) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(7:24) - Does the Milky Way's supermassive black hole have a companion?, Dr. Kiki
(13:09) - Morphological and morphometric analyses of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Hualongdong, China, Justin
(26:48) - Tropical trees use social distancing to maintain biodiversity, Dr. Kiki
(33:55) - The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor, Justin
See also — The short, spectacular life of that viral room-temperature superconductivity claim
(43:07) - Physicists open new path to an exotic form of superconductivity, Dr. Kiki
(45:47) - Scientists observe first evidence of "quantum superchemistry" in the laboratory, Dr. Kiki

(49:44) - And... we're at the Break!

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...More minions, please!

(50:37) - And we're back from the Break!

(50:43) - (Kinda) Justin's Animal Corner
(50:54) - Crocodiles are alarmingly attuned to the cries of human infants, Justin

More Science News —

(58:52) - Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century., Justin
(1:08:12) - After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic background gravitational waves, Justin
(1:12:10) - Navigators of Nature: Butterflies Exhibit Spatial Learning, Dr. Kiki
(1:21:33) - New study uncover nuclear spin's impact on biological processes, Dr. Kiki

(1:25:33) - Show Wrap-up + volunteer thank you's.

(1:26:24) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:29:27) - End Theme

And that's all, folks! Except, we still have...

(1:30:47) - The After Show! - Justin hand signals he'll be right back. We're all on Blair Baby Watch! No word on up coming baby from Blair... yet... #BABYWATCH2023! Justin addresses a user's confusion over the show start time. And much, much more …