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Urine power news by Ian Woolf.
Highlights from the Science Spoken Word Spectacular from:
Ian Bryce "Ode to the Higgs" and "The Bull's Lament",
Vanessa Hill "When you wish upon a star",
Lou Steer "The Demon Duck of Doom" and "View from a Distant Porthole",
Ricky Pannowitz "Science doesn't rhyme with anything".
Organised by Rebecca Rose, Jack Peck and Ariel Pavez.
Recording by Merran Winchester.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
(originally broadcast 2013-07-22)



Word In hand
Blue Space Poetry! Jam
Australian Science Communicators
All The Best
Harold Park Hotel

Army rations rehydrated by urine (2004)
Urine Battery Turns Pee Into Power (2005)
Imagining A Future of Pee Power: Urine the Money (2010)
Mobile phone runs on urine power (2013)
Waste to Real Energy: the first MFC powered mobile phone (2013)

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Crocodiles climb, and use tools, while alligators make video by Ian Woolf,
Michael Morris spoke with Ian Woolf about investigating the basic science of embryology to find out how embryonic stem cells become all other cells.
Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
(originally broadcast 2014-02-17)

Michael Morris
Climbing behaviour in extant crocodilians
Crocodilians use tools for hunting




Animal-Borne Imaging Reveals Novel Insights into the Foraging Behaviors and Diel Activity of a Large-Bodied Apex Predator, the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
Watch: Alligators' Hunting Secrets Revealed by Crittercams

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New physics may have been seen at LHC by Ian Woolf,
PatCat talks about Artificial Intelligence, Smart watches and Augmented Reality.
Production checked by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

Patrick Catanzariti DevDiner

Angular analysis of the B 0 → K *0 μ + μ − decay using 3 fb−1 of integrated luminosity
Do we see the trailer for the upcoming blockbuster of LHC?
LHC sees hint of boson heavier than Higgs
Who ordered that?
Hints of new LHC particle get slightly stronger
New Results From CERN Indicate There Is Something Very Wrong With Particle Physics
Simulation of Rare Decay of Bs Meson
Evidence For Fifth Fundamental Force Grows: Latest LHC Results Indicate The Existence Of Mystery Particle

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Stem cells seeded on apples to make organs for transplant by Ian Woolf,
Patrick Catanzariti talks about kids 3D printers, the perils of Internet Barbie, and how to develop for emerging techgnologies.
Production checked by Charles Willock,
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf.

Patrick Catanzariti

A promising way to grow body parts … using an apple
Spiderwort
DIY CO2 Incubator Bioreactor for Mammalian Cell Culture
Scientists Grow Full-Sized, Working Human Hearts From Stem Cells