{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6807e44fda41f5ac1acb55c5/68adcba073bf5b629862356a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Pig Lung That Could (for 9 days)","description":"<p>A pig lung transplanted into a human body, why half our farmed calories never reach our plates, microbes that shrug off 100,000 years of ice, and asteroid dust older than the solar system itself.</p><p><br></p><p>SOURCES</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.livescience.com/health/surgery/first-ever-pig-to-human-lung-transplant-attempted-in-brain-dead-person-in-china\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>First-ever pig-to-human lung transplant attempted in brain-dead person in China | Live Science</strong></a> </li><li><a href=\"https://www.newscientist.com/article/2493576-fewer-than-half-the-calories-grown-on-farms-now-reach-our-plates/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates | New Scientist</strong></a> </li><li><a href=\"https://www.newscientist.com/article/2493719-we-are-unlocking-how-frozen-microbes-stay-alive-for-100000-years/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>We are unlocking how frozen microbes stay alive for 100,000 years | New Scientist</strong></a> </li><li><a href=\"https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-bennu-contains-dust-older-than-the-solar-system-itself-and-traces-of-interstellar-space\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space | Live Science</strong></a></li></ul>","author_name":"Robert Frankenberger"}