EUSci Podcast #68

We've got a lip-smackingly good podcast for you this time, with news from Producer Chris (our resident computational linguist), on some new ideas on how lip-smacking in primates relates to our own speech. In our other correspondent piece Jon examines research on how the process of genetic recombination is managed in mice, and he doubles up this episode, also shedding light on brain regions involved in how men like to be fondled, in our EUWhat. We've got an interesting discussion on the well-known Turing Test, but first up we have Alasdair with the news.

News

• Before out-of-Africa, there was out-of-Asia
• Dinosaurs just went on a collective diet
• The transit of Venus and associated experiments
• Vitamin-type molecule found in milk could keep you thin
• Reduced alzheimer's risk with high blood caffeine in older people

Correspondents

• Mouse protein found to choose recombination sites in mice
• Evolutionary origins of human speech may lie in lip-smacking, not calls, in primates

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EUWhat

Heterosexual men prefer to be caressed by women than other men

Discussion

Will computers ever be able to pass the Turing test?

Roundup

• NASA given unused spy satellites to study the heavens, each as powerful as Hubble
• The Morning After pill does not cause abortion
• Evidence that exercise may actually not help with depression