Short Science Podcast 068: BP Oil Spill Update

Welcome to the sixty-eighth episode of the Short Science Podcast!

Join Elizabeth and Greg for all the very best science in brief!

We kick off the podcast with a few prominent science news headlines from the week, including:

- intermediate black holes

- colon cancer set to rise by 50%

- handling mice the wrong way may lead to fuzzy results

- model for meningitis identification

- quantum cryptography used to be unhackable

- drug addicts ageing disgracefully

- Viking may have missed the goodies

- cost of ageing population wrong

And we dip into the archives to see what was happening on this day in history.

Greg presents a Capsule Science looking at the ecological consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, while Elizabeth looks at the emotional toll in Capsule Medicine.

Plus we answer your questions and have a special report from Paola Faraca about the oil spill and the media coverage.

Plant expert Austen Zingel is on hand to tackle another listener question.

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