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Complete shutdown

Complete shutdown

FromUnexpected Elements


Complete shutdown

FromUnexpected Elements

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How would it feel wake up years later?

After the US narrowly avoided a government shutdown, we look at how complicated systems - such as living things - can just press pause.

Could humans ever hibernate like bears and squirrels? Or even like simpler animals that can be revived after 46,000 years.

Also, which way does antimatter fall under gravity? And how might IVF save a functionally extinct species of rhino?

Presented by Caroline Steel, with Chhavi Sachdev and Philistiah Mwatee.
Produced by Alex Mansfield, with Margaret Sessa-Hawkins, Ben Motley and Sophie Ormiston.
Released:
Oct 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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