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Science Magazine Podcast

Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take—or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms the world’s hot spots for lightning, and replenishing endangered species with feral pets with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Megan Gannon about the dilemma presented by tissue samples collected during the Nazi era. And Sarah Crespi discusses a new test for mad cow disease with Kelly Servick.   Listen to previous podcasts.   [Image: NASA/flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. and quote, Science Podcast to receive special offers. Welcome to the Science Podcast for January 6, 2017.

0:47.0

I'm Sarah Crespi.

0:48.3

In this week's show, newswriter Megan Gannon discusses the fate of tissue samples

0:53.4

gathered from prisoners by Nazis with

0:56.4

Alexa Billo. Kelly Servic talks with me about a pair of robust-seeming tests for mad

1:02.7

cow disease. And Catherine Matasik is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.

1:09.5

Now we have Catherine Matissick. She's an editor for our daily news site.

1:12.9

Now we have Catherine Mattisick.

1:17.5

She's an editor for our daily news site here to talk about some recent online stories.

1:21.0

First up, we have a story on hatching dino babies.

1:30.7

We know dinosaurs laid eggs and made nests, and it's likely some even sat on their eggs. But how long did they sit there? It's tough to tell looking back millions of years, but now researchers think they found an

1:37.3

answer for some types of dynos based on their teeth. So, Catherine, how can teeth help us with this question?

1:47.2

Sitting on eggs and teeth, it does seem like a bit of a stretch, doesn't it?

1:50.8

Yeah.

1:51.2

You might have heard this before, but did you know that teeth, your teeth, my teeth, your cat's teeth, have growth rings?

1:58.5

Mm-hmm.

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