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Back to EpisodesFungus on Mars: A Contamination Story
Season 3
Episode 992
Published 2 months ago
Description
Astrophysics professor Jesse Rogerson joins us with the following science news stories:
- Platypus anatomy just got weirder, the egg-laying oddities are more birdlike than previously thought;
- Scientists traced interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to an extremely cold origin;
- A fungus can survive deep-space conditions, and could hitch a ride to Mars; and
- Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing.
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