Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times
Cobras, taipans, black mambas — Tim Friede's been intentionally bitten more than 200 times by some of the most venomous snakes on Earth.And he survived, mostly because years of self-injecting venom let him develop immunity to them.(Please do not try this yourself!)Now his blood's been used to make a broad-spectrum antivenom that researchers say may protect against nearly 20 deadly snakes.But this is not how antivenom is usually made. So how are snake antivenoms produced, and where are we with a "universal" version?
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A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show
Mansi Kasliwal describes how she detects supernovae – the massive stellar explosions where elements are formed. We learn how dung beetles saved the Australian environment from the big problem, and David Attenborough shares his love for Birds-of-paradise.
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Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?
Hate getting needles? You're in good company — one in five people in Australia have needle fear.
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The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years
Sharks have survived 500 million years while mass extinctions have wiped out other species. Now, sharks are under threat.
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Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?
Somewhere out past Mars in the early hours of Easter Monday, a space probe called Lucy whizzed by an asteroid named Donaldjohanson.Lucy then sent back images showing Donaldjohanson is about five kilometres wide and shaped like a peanut.It's one of a handful of asteroids on Lucy's 12-year itinerary.So what does the billion-dollar mission hope to achieve?
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