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Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…
Glowing Plants, Punk Ankylosaur, And Has The Wow! Signal Been Solved?
IFLScience - Break It Down
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Glowing Plants, Punk Ankylosaur, And Has The Wow! Signal Been Solved?
This week on Break It Down: Think you know Earth? Think again; a new campaign is trying to overturn the highly erroneous map we were all taught in school. A new injection can make succulents glow pretty much any color you like, and better yet, they’re rechargeable. An intriguing new theory to explain the legendary Wow! Signal makes a convincing case. Turns out the oldest known ankylosaur was also ridiculously spiky with a trait we’ve never seen in any vertebrate – living or extinct – before. See the first 3D digital analysis of the only person known to have a proton beam go through their head, and why does frozen seafood glow? Why indeed.
So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…
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Silly mapPacific Ocean antipodesGlowing plantsWow! SignalPunky ankylosaurProton beam to the headGlowing seafoodThe Big Questions – What Will The Fossils Of The Future Look Like?CURIOUS Magazine
IFLScience - Break It Down
Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…