5 Live Science Podcast - The mole rats are coming!!!.

Run for your lives the mole rats are coming! Well maybe not, but they don't drink water and do eat their own faeces. Nice! The perfect dinner guests. Dr Karl also tells us how a trick of the brain could cause obesity and how the desalination of sea water is pretty tricky. Plus has anyone ever found a magnetic monopole? Err...no.

Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2010.

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