Slowly retiring chimps, tanning at the cellular level, and plumbing magma’s secrets

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News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week we have stories on why it’s taking so long for research chimps to retire, boosting melanin for a sun-free tan, and tracking a mouse trail to find liars online with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Allison Rubin about what we can learn from zircon crystals outside of a volcano about how long hot magma hangs out under a volcano. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Project Chimps; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.9	Welcome to the science podcast for June 16, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,
1:29.6	Alison Rubin talks about how volcanoes store their magma. Is it a liquid or a solid? And for
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