{"id":17916,"date":"2022-09-15T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=127859"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:23:08","slug":"instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Genius Podcast: Dung Beetles, with Sally-Ann Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Alice Lipscombe-Southwell\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Instant Genius<\/em> is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to Helen Pilcher, a biologist and science author.<\/em><\/p>\n

She discusses whether we can bring back a species after it has gone extinct, and how the research could help us protect species under threat of extinction.<\/p>\n\nFind\u00a0Instant Genius<\/em> on your preferred podcast platform here: <a href=\"\/\/instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast<\/a><\/p>\nListen to more episodes of\u00a0Instant Genius<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/instant-genius-podcast\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-james-bond-gadgets-with-kathryn-harkup\/"\">The science of James Bond gadgets, with Kathryn Harkup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/instant-genius-podcast\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson\/"\">How plants solve crimes, with David Gibson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-crabs-with-peter-davie\/"\">The science of crabs, with Peter Davie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/instant-genius-podcast-meteorites-with-dr-tim-gregory\/"\">Meteorites, with Dr Tim Gregory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-drought-with-kevin-hiscock\/"\">Drought, with Kevin Hiscock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/instant-genius-podcast\/instant-genius-podcast-future-of-artificial-intelligence-with-kate-darling\/"\">Future of artificial intelligence, with Kate Darling<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Published: Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to Helen Pilcher, a biologist and science author. She discusses whether we can bring back a species after it has gone extinct, and how the research could help us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17917,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence.jpg",940,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence-300x128.jpg",300,128,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence-768x327.jpg",768,327,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence.jpg",800,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence.jpg",940,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/09\/instant-genius-podcast-dung-beetles-with-sally-ann-spence.jpg",940,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Alice Lipscombe-Southwell Published: Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to Helen Pilcher, a biologist and science author. She discusses whether we can bring back a species after it has gone extinct, and how the research could help us…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}