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Cool Science Radio | January 5, 2023

A PET scan shows metabolism of sugar in the human brain.
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A PET scan shows metabolism of sugar in the human brain.

Dr. Herman Pontzer, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, reveals new insight on how we burn calories. The good news? Our metabolisms don't gradually slow down as previously thought!

Then paleontologist Randy Irmis from the Natural History Museum of Utah discusses the long-unsolved mystery of why marine reptiles were fossilized in the Great Basin of Nevada 230 million years ago.