Episode 98
Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth
Plus, the effect of language learning on the brain...
June 19, 202538m 48s
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Show Notes
In the eLife podcast, a university compost heap has turned up Finland's first documented "giant virus". Also, why monkeys de-sand their supper, and how learning more languages actually makes brain tissue thinner. Then, the link between sugar and neonatal sepsis, and how a cancer controls its hydra host by bestowing it with extra tentacles... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website
Topics
sepsisglucosebabycancertransmissibletumourmonkeywashfoodgiantvirusFinlandlanguagelearningBRAIN