Genetic Fertility, CO2 Suck Up, 2 Dad Mice
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Today you’ll learn about how our genes can predict how many kids we’ll have, how scientists have created a new method of sucking up CO2 from the atmosphere, and how a baby mouse was born from two biologically male mice!
Genetic Fertility
- “Genetic variants influencing human fertility identified - new research.” n.a. 2023.
- “Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus.” By Mathieson, et al. 2023.
- “The challenge of detecting recent natural selection in human populations.” by Mills & Mathieson. 2022.
CO2 Suck Up
- “Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise.” By Matt McGrath. 2023.
- “Carbon capture: What is it and how does it fight climate change?” by Jonah Fisher. 2023.
- “Direct air capture (DAC) and sequestration of CO2: Dramatic effect of coordinated Cu(ll) onto a chelating weak base ion exchanger.” by Hao Chen, et al. 2023.
- “How much is a ton of carbon dioxide?” by Kathryn Tso. 2020.
2 Dad Mice
- “The mice with two dads: scientists create eggs from male cells” by Heidi Ledford & Max Kozlov
- “Healthy mice from same-sex parents have their own pups” by Jeremy Rehm
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:09.0 | Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time |
| 0:13.8 | welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. |
| 0:17.4 | If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how our genes can |
| 0:21.5 | predict how many kids will have, how scientists have |
| 0:24.2 | created a new method of sucking up CO2 from the atmosphere, and how a baby mouse was born |
| 0:29.4 | from two biologically male mice. |
| 0:32.0 | Without further ado, |
| 0:33.2 | let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:35.5 | It turns out that we might be able to tell |
| 0:37.7 | how many babies somebody could have |
| 0:39.8 | just by studying their genes. |
| 0:42.1 | Okay, so I don't have any babies. |
| 0:45.0 | I wear skinny jeans usually or sometimes like boot cut. |
| 0:48.0 | Are you telling me that these are determining... |
| 0:51.0 | Genetics? |
| 0:52.0 | Not genetics. not blue genes okay please carry on well this is |
| 0:58.0 | actually just the tip of the iceberg the study which involved |
| 1:01.0 | researchers from Cambridge Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania found |
| 1:05.1 | 43 places in our genomic loci, which is basically like an address for our genes, that are associated |
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