How to Grow A Leg - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 860
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2022-01-26

What happened 'This Week in Science'??? Researchers are growing frog legs? Will they grow a leg for you? Find out the science behind the scoop with TWIS!

Watch live here or check out our feed over at http://twis.org/live - we have a chatroom! Join us!

Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/ThisWeekinScience

Listen to the full episode in audio or check out the show notes at our website: http://www.twis.org 

Follow us on Twitter AND Instagram! @TWIScience

Subscribe to us on YouTube! http://youtube.com/ThisWeekinScience?sub_confirmation=1

View more videos like this: https://goo.gl/4luU1E

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

[For Story Links, please see our TWIS website for show notes —  https://www.twis.org/.]

(0:00) - Recording Start
(0:48) - Intro, Dr. Kiki 
(1:15) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - This week, done by Dr. Kiki!
(2:44) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(3:20) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Blair (Justin is off for this week — he and his wife just had... A BABY!  👶 ❤️  CONGRATULATIONS! — he shall return!). Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(6:16) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(6:18) - The Webb space telescope made it to L2 - only 5 months until we get pictures!
(9:27) - Why is a SpaceX falcon booster rocket going to hit the moon?
(12:14) - Thanks to biological seasonality we know what month the dinosaurs died.
(18:28) - Ichthyosaurs went backwards. Evolutionarily speaking, of course.
(24:18) - Is a newly reported method going to set us on the path of limb regeneration?
(33:05) - 1200 meters below the seafloor reseachers found microbes not just existing, but running on high metabolisms. What is going on underground?

(39:20) - Do tell friends about TWIS and have them listen & subscribe!
• Twitter — @TWIScience
• Instagram — @TWIScience
• Facebook — http://facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience
• Twitch — https://www.twitch.tv/twiscience
• Web site — https://www.twis.org/
...More minions, please!
Also, do check out our 2022 TWIS Calender — Available for order, with art by Blair! https://twis.org and click on the calendar frog in the upper right of the web page.

(39:32) - TWIS COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2/Coronavirus Update -
• https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
• https://covid19.who.int/ 
• https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

(39:39) - Are new Omicron variants concerning?
(41:48) - More specific COVID variant vaccines are in the Pfizer pipeline!
(46:30) - It looks like SARS-CoV2 variants can infect mice. Is this good or bad news?
(50:07) - What will come after Omicron?

(54:32) - And we're at the break!

(54:50) - Get a TWIS 2022 Calendar, and also, become a TWIS Producer! Please support us through Patreon — https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinscience/.

(55:16) - And we're back!

(55:19) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(55:42) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(56:05) - How do hippos say hello?
(1:02:59) - Are female jaguars flirtatious?

(1:12:14) - More Science News with Dr. Kiki —

(1:12:17) - Can we give technology a taste for sweet?
(1:16:57) - Does the gut differentiate sugar from artificial sweeteners?

(1:24:37) - Show wrap-up — and we say congratulations again to Justin and his wife on their new born baby! Yay! Life always finds a way...

(1:25:51) - Have a Science Question or question on a current or recent Science news story? Or have a question for us about your concerns about Covid-19 vaccines? Send 'em to our TWIS User Questions?? - kirsten@thisweekinscience.com, @TWIScience on Twitter & Instagram, or http://facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience.

(1:26:57) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:30:10) - End Theme

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

(1:31:32) - The After Show! - Hey Yoooo! This is the part where Blair gets to sit. Dr. Kiki, like Elton John, is still standing, because her basement is COOOOOLDD!!  (Brrr...!)  No English-to-Jaguar dictionary, but Blair wants an English-to-Hippo dictionary. Dr. Kiki's Nest Thermostat is betraying her. And much, much more...