Tag: regrow

• Lancelot Drink and Headless Slugs

  What separates us from the primates? Opposable thumbs? Self-awareness? What if it's water efficiency? Anthony and Jeff discuss a new study just might provide an answer an age-old question in an entirely new way. Then, researchers have discovered a kind of sea slug that can cut it's own head off and regrow its body over a series of weeks. Jeff and Anthony wonder what THAT'S like. [more]

  March 14, 2021Episodes

• Forceful Gaze and Gator Tails

  Have you ever sensed that someone might be watching you? You get a prickly feeling at the back of your neck and turn to see a stranger staring at you across the room. It sometimes seems that we can feel a person’s gaze as a physical sensation. Anthony and Jeff discuss research into this very sensation, in an attempt to figure out what we are actually sensing. Then, scientists have found that young American alligators can regrow their tails up to nine inches, or around 18 percent of their body length. Jeff and Anthony ask whether this might eventually give us all powers like The Lizard from Spider-Man. [more]

  January 8, 2021Episodes