It's time for another hour of science with your STEM besties! 🩷🧬🪐aannnddd this week, we are exposing the science behind the ICONIC franchise STAR WARS!

Are midochlorians based on real science? Could we have our very own lightsabers one day and was space depicted accurately in the films? Let's dive straight into it.

and obviouslyyyy, we are bringing you the laboraTEA! Our listener is pretty sure her colleague is pregnant with her PIs baby, and theyre eloping to the UK together? lets unravel this ASAP!!

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Welcome back besties!

This week we are exposing the science in an ABSOLUTE classic, Jurassic Park. If you’ve been living under a rock… or should I say fossil (that was really bad I know), then we delve into the film franchise and how these dinosaurs came to be. Is it realistic? Is the science accurate? Could we actually bring back dinosaurs or other species from extinction? Word on the street is that woolly mammoths might one day roam the earth. Listen in to find out.

Not only that but we are back with the listener favourite, LaboraTEA time. This week we hear from one of our listeners who has asked us for advice on a PI that might be pocketing grant money for himself… look we all know academia doesn’t pay well but its giving thief hunnies…

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This is EXPOSED episode 3 - today we will be exploring the scientific accuracies… and inaccuracies of The Martian. This episode uncovers whether we could sustain life on Mars, whether we could grow crops, or even how you could communicate with Earth.

We will also be discussing this weeks LaboraTEA, although we are taking a different turn and asking you guys to ALL get involved as we uncover the polls we have asked on our instagram stories. One of the polls we asked was whether you poo at work?

Wanna learn more?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385024/#:~:text=Mars'%20surface%20is%20mostly%20basaltic,sulfates%20and%20perchlorates%20%5B4%5D.

https://www.twistbioscience.com/blog/perspectives/what-if-synthetic-biology-was-available-martians-botanist-mark-watney#:~:text=Hydrazine%20is%20used%20as%20thruster,stopping%20his%20plant%20growing%20attempts.

https://theconversation.com/the-martian-a-perfect-balance-of-scientific-accuracy-and-gripping-fiction-48201

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