On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meeting
And Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi with an extravaganza of meeting stories including a chat with some of the authors of this year’sThis is the Science Podcast for February 23rd, 2024. I'm Sarah Crespi. This week we have news hot off the presses from the AAAS annual meeting in Denver, newsletter editor Christie Wilcox attended and she brings us tales of tracing horses in the Americas and seeing the world through the eyes of AI using so-called image omics technology.
The reason I'm inspired that way, it comes from collaborating with others who have been studying candle wax. There's also a very beautiful idea. Candles are certainly a peaceful image, and there's a team at Stanford that identified in the '90s that the candle wax, common paraffin, it can be combusted. It's actually just made from carbon hydrogen. So you can mix with oxygen under pressure, it burns and it's low cost.
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