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Mon. 05/30 - Angry Angry Hamsters

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Scientists accidentally created super aggressive mutant hamsters. Meanwhile other scientists have devised a method for pulling drinking water out of thin air with a super affordable thin gel. Different strokes for different folks. And tonight’s possible meteor storm, which could produce thousands of shooting stars an hour. Or not. It could be nothing. Why that is and how to watch just in case. Sponsor: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/cool Links: CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing approach can alter the social behavior of animals (ScienceDaily) CRISPR Editing Accidentally Turns Hamsters Into Angry Bullies, The Opposite Of Researcher's Intentions (IFL Science) Super-Absorbent Gel Pulls Fresh Water Out of Thin Air (Gizmodo) Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air (New Atlas) Episode about SOURCE Global's hydropanels from July 2020 (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Tau Herculids meteor shower could unleash 1,000 shooting stars per hour (Washington Post) You May See a New Meteor Shower in Night Skies, or Nothing at All (NY Times) Meteor shower outburst from new tau Herculids possible May 30 (Space.com) Tau Herculid meteor shower livestream (Virtual Telescope Project) 'Merch!' Documentary Looks to Examine Music Merchandising from Elvis Presley to the Grateful Dead and Beyond (Collider) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it's monday 30th 20 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. Scientists accidentally created super aggressive mutant hamsters. Meanwhile, other scientists have devised a method for pulling drinking water out of thin air with a super affordable thin gel. Different strokes for different folks.

0:56.5

And tonight's possible meteor storm, which could produce thousands of shooting stars an hour.

1:03.7

Or not, it could be nothing.

1:06.3

Why that is and how to watch just in case.

1:09.3

Here is some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:14.6

It's almost like something out of a horror movie. Scientists using gene editing technology

1:20.9

attempted to make friendlier cuddlier hamsters, but instead accidentally turned them into

1:27.1

maniacal rage machines.

1:29.8

Quoting Science Daily, a team of Georgia State University researchers used CRISPR

1:34.6

Cass9 technology to eliminate the actions of a neurochemical signaling pathway that plays

1:40.6

a critical role in regulating social behaviors in mammals.

1:45.0

Vesopressin and the receptor that it acts on, called AVPR-1A,

1:49.8

regulates social phenomena ranging from pair bonding, cooperation, and social communication,

1:55.8

to dominance and aggression.

1:57.9

The new study, published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

2:01.5

finds that knocking out the AVPR-1A receptor and hamsters, and thus effectively eliminating

2:07.2

vasopressin's action on it, dramatically altered the expression of social behavior in unexpected

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