Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions
Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions  
Podcast: Science Magazine Podcast
Published On: Thu Feb 11 2016
Description: Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on confessions extracted from sleepy people, malaria hiding out in deer, and making squishable bots based on cockroaches. Corinne Simonti joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss whether Neandertal DNA in the human genome is helping or hurting. Read the related research in Science. [Image: Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices