Treating Traces of Trauma, Why Your Shoes Are Untied, and More: 60 Second Science Podcasts

2,751 views · Published 26 April 2017 · 9:30 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Scientific American · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Listen and learn about the way researchers have treated early-life trauma over the course of a mouse's life, how the formation of the Hengduan Mountains in southwestern China led to a substantial increase in plant biodiversity, the science behind how your shoes come untied while you walk, and the state of research on Parkinson's Disease as we observe World Parkinson's Day.

Reported by Erika Baras, Christopher Intagliata, Karen Hopkin, and Steve Mirsky.

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Studies reported:
https://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v41/n11/full/npp201687a.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/114/17/E3444.full.pdf
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/473/2200/20160770

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