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[BONUS] How the moon causes tides and ancient viruses lurking in your DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #7
Tiny Matters09/25/24 • 17 min
In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we break down the complicated science of tides and why some places have massive tidal swings while others do not. We also cover the role of ancient viral DNA in our genomes, and how it seems to be making us less responsive to cancer treatments like chemotherapy.
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Here's the tides video George mentioned. The rest of the references and transcript for this episode can be found at acs.org/tinymatters.
09/25/24 • 17 min
Tiny Matters - [BONUS] How the moon causes tides and ancient viruses lurking in your DNA: Tiny Show and Tell Us #7
Transcript
Welcome to Tiny Show and Tell Us the bonus series where you write in with your favorite science story , fact or piece of news . We read your email aloud and then dive deeper . I'm Sam Jones , the exec producer of Tiny Matters , and I want to give a big thank you to science writer and chemist Anne Hilden for doing the research for this episode and so many episodes before it . T
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