Episode #281
News Items
- SETI 50th Anniversary
- Antimatter Breakthrough
- Nanoparticles and Glowing Trees
- Oprah Promotes Psychic Surgeon
- Latest PSI Research
- Bending Time and Space
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Researchers at UBC have found that an organism with the world’s smallest nuclear genome, E. cuniculi, can have 20% of its genes removed with no impact on its function. http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/09/20/mr-10-132/
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Item #2
Science
UBC researchers have been able to directly observe for the first time, the moment when electrons in a super conductor transition from coherent particles into a superconducting state. http://www.science.ubc.ca/news/473
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Item #3
Fiction
UBC researchers have discovered a marsh-dwelling freshwater fish that can evolve to survive in a saltwater marine environment in only 3 generations. http://www.science.ubc.ca/news/449