176 - A New Way to Fight Super Bacteria

On today’s episode: A lake in Canada has earned the Golden Spike. How do the protons and neutrons in an atom GLUE themselves together? … The Strong Force. All that and more today on All Around Science...CREDITS:Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura ArmstrongBooking - September Mc ...  Show more

On today’s episode: Scientists made a telescope out of pulsars and now we can see HUGE gravitational waves! Magnets. How DO they work? All that and more today on All Around Science...LINKS: SOURCES NANOGrav hears “hum” of gravitational wave background, louder than expectedLIGO Sc ...  Show more

Weltweit sterben mehr Menschen an multiresistenten Keimen als an AIDS – Tendenz steigend. Was haben wir ihnen künftig noch entgegenzusetzen? 

Antibiotics stopped providing big gains for pharmaceutical companies decades ago, but as bacteria become more resistant to drugs, the world needs new classes of antibiotics to be discovered if we want to prevent the next global health crisis.Dr Tina Joshi, Associate Professor of ...  Show more

Fifty episodes. That’s fifty (sometimes) deadly viruses, bacteria, protozoa, parasites, and poisons. And don’t forget the fifty quarantinis to accompany each! What better way to celebrate this momentous occasion than talking about something that may actually save you: antibiot ...

We are running out of ammunition against certain infections, as bacteria increasingly evade the antibiotics we’ve relied on for nearly a century. Could bacteriophages – viruses that hunt and kill bacteria – be part of the solution?

In 2019, CrowdScience travelled to Geor ...