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Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth

Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth

Update: 2025-06-19
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In the eLife podcast, a university compost heap has turned up Finland's first documented "giant virus". Also, why monkeys de-sand their supper, and how learning more languages actually makes brain tissue thinner. Then, the link between sugar and neonatal sepsis, and how a cancer controls its hydra host by bestowing it with extra tentacles... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth

Finland's giant virus, and monkeys take care of their teeth

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