Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:05:18 — 91.3MB)
What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Otter Day, Reversing Autism, Silent Zoo Tours, Slimy Science, Sweet Damage, Spiders, Seagulls, Neanderthals, Sex Education, Curious Kids, And Much More Science!
Check out the full unedited episode of our science podcast on YouTube or Twitch.
And, remember that you can find TWIS in all the podcast directories. If you are looking for science podcasts on Spotify, we are there! Science podcasts on Google? We are there! Are you looking for science podcasts on iTunes or science podcasts on Apple? We are there, too! Just look for This Week in Science!
Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
For the past many decades, science has been hot on the heels of various treatments, cures, and therapeutic solutions to a long list of diseases…
Gaining knowledge through observations of correlations, aided by genetic sequencing data, biochemical analysis, and a sustained, dedicated, iterative effort to find solutions.
Most of the time, those solutions remain elusive even to the best of scientific efforts.
Just skim through the concluding statements of research papers over the past many decades
Research into cancer, Alzheimer’s, Autism, Parkinson’s, or stem cells…
What you will find at the end of hundreds of thousands of papers
is a passing of the torch
A hopeful plea to the fates dressed in professional caveats
Something along the lines of…
These findings may provide a pathway for future research to explore further the potential causative nature of correlations observed in our study and suggest that eventually, somebody might stumble upon a key to unlock the door of potential clinical treatments…
This is how science functions,
small steps of definitive knowledge gains,
eventually lead to treatments, techniques, and cures.
Science… is the ultimate long-form story.
This is why we offer it to you in long-form installments of
This Week in Science!
Some quantum quick science news!
Predicting Consequences
One of the useful uses of machine learning can help us combat genetic disease.
Reversing Autism…
In mice
Silent zoo tours
Better for all involved!
Slimy Science
Will we ever really understand microbial slime?
Gene editing
In vivo
Sweet Damage
Sucralose metabolite causes gene damage.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A TWIS SHIRT OR MUG OR OTHER ITEM OF TWIS MERCHANDISE CLICK ON THE ZAZZLE LINK TO BROWSE OUR STORE
HELP TWIS GROW! GET OTTER FRIEND TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY!
Blair’s Animal Corner
Funnel-web spiders change their venom
The question is, what can we learn from this?
It’s your fault gulls are stealing your lunch
They learn from watching humans what to eat and who to steal it from
Support us on Patreon!
What science news does Justin have?
Synthetic materials
Made by Neanderthals
Online sex education
Better than nothing?
YOU OTTER NOT FORGET TO GET FRIENDS TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY!
Some Quick Science stories with Kiki!
Second Guessing?
It might be in your genes.
Curious Kids
Human children are more exploratory than other apes. It’s amazing we’ve survived this long.
Support us on Patreon!
Support is the secret to more science with TWIS!
WANT TO HELP TWIS? LEAVE A POSITIVE REVIEW FOR TWIS ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM TODAY!
Do you have questions you want us to answer (like, why otter I be listening to This Week in Science??)? Send us your questions! We will do our best to have answers!
Leave us a message on our Facebook page, email Dr. Kiki, or find us on Mastodon Social if you can!
Take a blast into the past…
What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed AI Updates Theory, Living with dogs, Termite Travels, Gliding Salamanders, Aging Cells Go Placental, Jackdaw Coordination, Diabetic COVID Susceptibility, Not More Severe, Vaccination & Long COVID, Dolphins pee pals, Sea turtles need shades, Corvid Smarts, Comparing Sleeping Brains, And Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Not So Random, Doomsday Higgs, Size Matters, Anxious Fish, Interview w/ Dr. Brian Hare About Dognition, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
