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UnDisciplined: February Science News Roundup

The Indian Express
This week on UnDisciplined, we mourn the passing of "Little Miss Perfect," the Mars Rover that could: Opportunity.

This week on UnDisciplined, we're gathering up a motley gang of science geeks to talk about some of the biggest stories in science over the past few weeks. 

We'll be joined by a biomedical researcher, an environmental social scientist and a biochemist-turned-science communicator to talk about the death of a Mars rover, a fatal fight between two tigers and what it's going to take to get female scientists out of the footnotes of history and give them the credit they've always deserved. 

All that and more, on the February Science News Roundup. 

Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.