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🗓️ 19 March 2020
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacL. |
0:34.1 | This is Scientific American 60 Second Science. I'm Annie Sneed. |
0:39.0 | Plastic. It's all over the ocean. And for sea turtles, it's a killer. At least a thousand |
0:45.6 | die every year because they swallow plastic or get tangled up in it. So why do sea turtles |
0:51.5 | run into plastic so often? And why the heck are they eating it? |
0:56.0 | Scientists believed the turtles may think they're biting into their prey, |
1:00.0 | like a jellyfish, when they come across some plastics. |
1:04.0 | But now a study finds the smell of plastic may also be attractive. |
1:10.0 | Researchers exposed 15 loggerhead turtles to different odors in the lab. |
1:15.3 | They tested the animal's response to the smell of turtle food, distilled water, clean plastic, and also to biofowl plastic. |
1:24.4 | That's plastic that has marine organisms growing all over it, which is a common occurrence in the sea and on beaches. |
1:31.3 | It gets occupied by algae and other organisms pretty quickly, and it doesn't take very long. |
1:38.9 | I mean, if you leave a plastic water bottle sitting even on the sand for a week know, a week, it's liable to get |
1:47.0 | covered in these organisms. And once it's covered in biofowl, that's what makes it so appetizing |
1:52.6 | to turtles. Kayla Goforth, a PhD student in biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
2:00.3 | The research team found that the loggerhead turtles |
2:02.8 | had similar responses to biofowl plastic as to their normal food. So they have to come up to breathe, |
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