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44: Katie Goldin & Alex Schmidt, Space Birds, and the Bison Emoji 🦬

Let's Learn Everything!

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The Role of Birds in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

There's a study kind of ongoing right now where they're taking freeze dried sperm into space to test if there's radiation damage. I don't think the thin shell of an egg would be enough to protect it from that level of radiation. There are birds living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone who have evolved to have higher levels of antioxidants and that helps protect them from the radiation.

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