Podcast: What ants communicate when kissing, stars birthed from gas, and linking immune strength and social status

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week, we chat about kissing communication in ants, building immune strength by climbing the social ladder, and a registry for animal research with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Bjorn Emonts about the birth of stars in the Spiderweb Galaxy 10 billion years ago. Related research on immune function and social hierarchy. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Lauren Brent; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.0	Welcome to the science podcast for December 2, 2016. I'm Sarah Crespy. In this week's show,
1:26.6	Bjorn Emonz joins Alexa Billo to discuss the birth of stars in the Spider-Web galaxy 10 billion years ago.
1:35.1	And David Grimm is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:42.2	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:46.0	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:48.5	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:50.1	First up, we have a story on ant kissing.
1:53.3	So this article starts out by saying,
1:55.6	you may have noticed that ants sometimes kiss each other.
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