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The eLife Podcast

Written by: Dr Chris Smith
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  • The eLife Podcast, from eLife, the researcher-led, open access digital publication for outstanding research in life science and biomedicine.
    The Naked Scientists
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  • Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia

    Hibernation, Ketamine and Aphantasia
    Apr 19 2024
    This month, how animals hibernate and evidence that muscle myosin makes its own heat in the cold, brain scans to reveal how ketamine relieves resistant depression, the way the brain changes when animals build a bond, the evolution of flu outbreaks, and how aphantasia affects autobiographical memory. Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
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    38 mins
  • Apes reveal language origins, and being dyslexic in science

    Apes reveal language origins, and being dyslexic in science
    Mar 8 2024
    This month we hear what orangutans can tell us about the origins of human speech, we ask if science making life even harder for dyslexics, where do the scientists we train end up and do they stay in science, and new insights into the songs whales sing underwater... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
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    36 mins
  • Bees can't taste pesticides, and how albatrosses get aloft

    Bees can't taste pesticides, and how albatrosses get aloft
    Nov 30 2023
    In the eLife Podcast this month, signs that bees are oblivious to pesticides in nectar, sea anemone stinging strategies, a new means of cell-cell communication to share growth factors and other signals, how plants make a comeback when ice sheets retreat, and how the world's biggest bird uses wind and waves to good effect to minimise the costs of takeoff... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
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    35 mins
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