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204 - Cloud Seeding
Ep. 204
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On today’s episode: We finally know what the woolly mammoth’s DNA looked like! Can cloud seeding cause major weather events? All that and more today on All Around Science...
RESOURCES
- Wooly Mammoth DNA in 3D
- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00642-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424006421%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8584255/
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240711111343.htm
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drying-woolly-mammoth-dna-3d-glass
- https://x.com/jrotwitguez/status/1811423817069404468?t=cmk6ncJYQJsVtBx39LEezA&s=19
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Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
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