Over the summer period I’ll be talking science with Julian Morrow on ABC Radio National, every Friday at around 8:15 am.
Last Friday we talked about arsenic eating organisms, Danish vodka foot spas, turkey and alcohol, and sleeping beauties.
You can download or stream the audio from the ABC Radio National website.
A busy week for me as I had to fill in some blanks in the schedule. One story was on genes relating to menarche (onset of female puberty) and the other was traces of oxygen found on Saturn’s moon Rhea.
Yesterday I spoke with Richard Glover on ABC 702 Sydney about research that suggests how Moses parted the sea in Exodus 14.
According to the team at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, a wind of 101 kilometres per hour, blowing steadily for 12 hours, could have pushed back waters 2 metres deep.
You can read more at ABC Science Online, plus you can listen to my interview below.
Australian researchers have unearthed a treasure trove of fossils in outback Queensland. It’s one of the biggest collections of fossils from a single marsupial species ever found and the discovery will allow scientists to see how the animals grew and the similarities between them and their modern day descendants.
You can read the story at ABC Science Online. I also put together an audio version for ABC News: The World Today.
Recently spoke with Richard Glover from ABC702 about a new piece of research that may answer this question.
It’s not 100% solved, but it does provide some intriguing clues. The key seems to be nucleation points within the water, and how they affect the freezing point.
Michael Slezak wrote up the story for ABC Science Online. Another good version appears on Wired Science.
