If you'd been subscribed to the Alcedo newsletter, this week you could have read about:
- How hedgehogs harbour bacteria which evolved antibiotic resistamce more than a century before antibiotics were invented, and what this means for human health;
- The incredibly dramatic life-story of diamonds, why everything you think you know about them is probably wrong, and what they can tell us about our planet's history;
- A new way for doctors to analyse patients' gait using mobile phones and tablets, how that can help them to diagnose neurological diseases and conditions faster and more accurately, and monitor progession and recovery;
- Why hot and cold water sound different when poured, in the goofiest and most endearing research paper I've read in over 30 years of science writing;
- Improving the health and wellbeing of penguinds in captivity by supplementing their gut flora and how this could conceivably help save life in Earth's most vulnerable environment.
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Freelance science writer at Alcedo Communications
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