eLife Episode 46: Robin Hood and Autism

Science publishing, diabetes and coenzyme Q, oxygen and evolution, lip-reading, and autism...

28 March 2018

Presented by Chris Smith.

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$Light refracts off the comb-rows of the ctenophore Mertensia ovum producing stripes of rainbow color. One of the two tentacles with which it feeds is deployed while the other is retracted.$

Credit:

Kevin Raskoff, NOAA (CC0)

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How much of the world's scientific literature now sits in SciHub, we hear why statins might be making diabetes worse, if oxygen did - or didn't - hold back the evolution of multicellular life, the neurological basis of lip-reading, and how the brain can compensate for autism...