SoT 66: The Five Hour Quickie
- Author
- Ed Brown
- Published
- Fri 27 Jul 2012
- Episode Link
- https://science.libsyn.com/so-t-66-fire-and-forget
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely, Micaela Jemison, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Helen talks about her work at the Australian Synchrotron, and Shayne explains the chicken vaccines that became a virus. White Nose Syndrome is a fungal disease wiping out populations of bats in North America. A molecule that enables bacteria such as E. Coli to infect cells has been discovered, and physicists have broken a world record by firing 192 lasers and delivering more than 500 trillion watts of power.
