Hello, and welcome to a very watery TOSP :)

[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site]

This week, Elf and aimee talk of things watery – watery planets, flying squid and plankton blooms – as well as new FTL neutrino info (what may have gone wrong), genius computer software, bioscience’s contribution to NZ’s economy, plus a new brilliant site for science-based ebooks and apps, and the tree of diversification!

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Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results

Plankton-fuelled ocean eddy is 150 kilometres wide

Genius Swedish computer program has IQ of 150

Squid can fly to save energy

Bioscience proves lucrative to NZ economy

Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet

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Sciblogs

A universe in an eBook (or app)

The Tree of Diversification (or why the March of Progress is wrong)

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Events

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Other interesting things

Titan’s Great Dune Seas Rival Science Fiction Worlds

The coming medical revolution

Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom

Honeycomb structure responsible for bacteria’s extraordinary sense

‘Supergiant’ Crustaceans Found Near New Zealand

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