Welcome to A Week in Science. This week we take a look at King Richard III, find out how you can win at Paper Scissors Stone and look at the demise of the dinosaurs.
First up, are you sick of tying when playing Paper Scissors Stone?
Players were given monetary incentives to play a hand that was different to their opponent.
But even with this incentive, they would subconsciously imitate their opponent's gestures.
This may be due to the brain's mirror neuron system, where the neuron that fires when you perform an action is the same one that fires when you observe someone else performing a task.
There's been some debate about whether an asteroid was involved in the extinction of the dinosaurs.
New research suggests that yes, it was a factor.
Some studies reported that the asteroid hit as much as 300,000 years before the end of the dinosaurs and was therefore unlikely to be responsible for their extinction.
However, new studies of the huge Chicxaloo crater in Mexico show that the asteroid impact closely coincided with the mass extinction.
The researchers propose that environmental changes were already putting pressure on many species and that the asteroid provided the coup de grace.
Now for four science headlines in 30 seconds.
Japanese researchers have built robots capable of being controlled by moths.
A blue whale has been spotted in Australian waters for the first time, surprising because it should be feeding in Antarctica.
Rain interfering with radio waves may allow you to soon use your mobile phone as a rain gauge.
And scientists and historians have teamed up to confirm that a skeleton found in a car park are in fact the remains of the 15th century English monarch, King Richard III.
Finally, scientists have recreated what they think is the earliest placental mammal using some of my favourite things, fossils.
The team analyzed thousands of physical characters from a wide range of fossils and living mammals.
By combining that information with DNA data, they reconstructed a mammal that may have lived just after the dinosaurs became extinct.
They think it was a small insect eating shirulite creature weighing less than 250 grams.
The fringe is coming to Adelaide and RIOs has a terrific program of shows in store for you.
With art, comedy, music and science, we've got something for everyone.
Check out our website for performance and ticket information.
That's been the highlights of A Week in Science.
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I'm Paul Willis. Look forward to seeing you next week.
