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203 - Glasses, Fungi, and Neutron Stars
Ep. 203
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On today’s episode: Do people with glasses see a wholly different world? 99 NASA balloons floating telescopes in the summer sky. How do fungal spores know it’s time to start growing? How do neutron stars and black holes squeeze that much stuff into one place? All that and more today on All Around Science...
RESOURCES
- https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/fungal-spore-germination#:~:text=Spore%20germination%20is%20a%20preliminary,factors%20that%20aid%20spore%20germination
- https://time.com/6292311/fungal-spores-pathogens-essay/
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Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
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