What's Up with nCoV? - This Week in Science (TWIS) - Episode 756
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2020-01-29

Episode 756 of the This Week in Science news Podcast (TWIS) — "What's Up with nCoV?" Hear the latest science news stories with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich and Justin Jackson!

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(0:00) - Recording Start (a looooooong pre-show, with many fiddling adjustments...)
(0:39) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(1:08) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin 
(2:29) - Opening Theme Music
(3:03) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(5:33) - No, snakes probably aren’t the source of that new coronavirus in China, Justin - http://bit.ly/coronavirus-probably-not-snakes 
See also - Australian Lab Cultures New Coronavirus as Infections Climb, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/new-coronavirus-australian-lab
See also - Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding PDF - http://bit.ly/new-coronavirus-australian-lab-2-PDF
See also - nCoV Global Cases Map by John Hopkins University - http://bit.ly/ncov-global-map
See also - Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak by Numbers by WorldOMeter - http://bit.ly/coronavirus-by-numbers
(25:33) - Snake Venom Gland Organoids Produce Functional Toxins, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/snake-mini-organoid-venom-glands
(33:17) - The most complete brain map ever is here: A fly’s “connectome,” Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/most-complete-brain-map-of-a-fly

(42:05) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(42:18) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(42:40) -  Beating the heat in the living wings of butterflies, Blair - http://bit.ly/butterfly-wings-sense-heat
(51:15) - The color of your clothing can impact wildlife, Blair - http://bit.ly/clothing-color-effects-wildlife

(1:00:13) - And we're at the break!
(1:00:39) - Half-Time Theme Music  - "Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct" by Jake Mann from his album, "Daytime Ghost." https://apple.co/2G3ERxV

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(1:03:05) - Interstitial Music

(1:03:25) - Back from the break!

(1:03:38) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
TWIS Minion Bert writes in to ask for another climate change and u.s. policy stor and to share about his very loud elder parrot's hearing.
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(1:07:37) -  One quarter of bacterial pathogens can spread antibiotic resistance directly to peers, Justin - http://bit.ly/one-quarter-pathogens-spread-antibiotic-resistence
(1:13:40) - Rice lab turns trash into valuable graphene in a flash, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/trash-into-graphene
(1:23:46) - Scientists find record warm water in Antarctica, pointing to cause behind troubling glacier melt, Justin - http://bit.ly/record-warm-water-antarctica
(1:33:22) - Sex pheromone named for Jane Austen character alters brain in mouse courtship, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/jane-austen-mouse-sex-pheromone

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:41:49) - Rachmaninoff the most innovative composer according to network science, Justin - http://bit.ly/rachmaninoff-and-network-science
(1:43:01) - Drug lord's hippos make their mark on foreign ecosystem, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/drug-lord-hippos
(1:50:40) - 'Profound' evolution: Wasps learn to recognize faces, Blair - http://bit.ly/wasps-recognize-faces

(1:52:20) - Show wrap up.

(1:52:52) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:56:03) - End Theme

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