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In this edition: Keeping beat with the science of drumming, exploring 51³Ô¹ÏÍø inventions through the ages, and playing ‘hot or cold’ with asteroids.

The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College Podcast is now also available on the brand new visual podcast app, Entale.

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Listen to individual chapters:

– We explore some of the weirdest endangered reptiles in the world (including one that breathes through its genitals), and look forward to the 2018 .

– From Alexander Fleming’s microscope to cheap and comfortable bionic arms, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø inventions through the ages were on display at the latest 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Fringe event.

– Can you keep the beat? Our reporter tests out her skills with a program designed to test the science of drumming, which will at the upcoming 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Festival.

– How do you lose a 20km-wide, 800,000-year-old asteroid crater? And how do you find it? Dr Matt Genge goes on the hunt.

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The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's MSc Science Communication course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service, with contributions from our roving reporters in the Research Communications group.