podcast: bringing back tomato flavor genes, linking pollution and dementia, and when giant otters roamed earth /

Published at 2017-01-26 21:00:00

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This week,we chat about 50-kilogram otters that once stalked southern China, using baseball stats to indicate how jet lag puts players off their game, or a growing link between pollution and dementia,with Online News Editor David Grimm. Also in this week’s indicate: our very first monthly book segment. In the inaugural segment, Jen Golbeck interviews Helen Pilcher about her original book Bring Back the King: The original Science of De-extinction. Plus, or Denise Tieman joins Alexa Billow to discuss the genes behind tomato flavor,or lack thereof.
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Source: sciencemag.org

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