Episode Details
Back to EpisodesIngroup vs. Outgroup Prosociality; New Radio Signals from a Distant Planet
Season 3
Episode 1547
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Description
Astrophysics professor Jesse Rogerson brings science news to the show with the following stories:
- It turns out love of your ingroup doesn't necessarily go together with hate of an outgroup;
- How ticks use static electricity to cling to you;
- The brain began as two separate organs and is still two separate organs;
- Astronomers have detected radio signals coming directly from an exoplanet for the first time; and
- A volcanic springs amoeba survives 63'C, setting a new heat record for complex life.
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