An anti-malarial microbe, a record-breaking poop, and record-breaking solar panels.
A quick update on what’s happening with the show.
The quick version: we’re still here, but the world’s on fire and things are a bit tough. We’ll be back.
Pandas finally mate, a subsurface ocean on Pluto, and could fava beans be the new soy beans?
The lizard that lays eggs and gives birth, solar power at night and training a robot dog with real dogs!
Mice have facial expressions, and a neutron star collision before the birth of our solar system.
InSight gets a helpful tap, amber gives clues towards Ideal Glass, and fish finger development!
A vaccine delivery system without the needles, and further evidence that Thea helped form our moon!
Softly hugging jellyfish, satellite refuelling, musical plants and detecting planets with aurorae.
A luxurious plan to save seahorses, precise methane measurements, 65,000 year old food and the environmental impact of dying.
We interview epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz about the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Podcast Reviews
- Great Show
September 6, 2012 by Volk613 from AustraliaAlways informative, often entertaining. Great selection of regulars with a variety of interests and expertise. Also great guests with and Australian focus.
- Great science roundup
July 23, 2012 by SB AUST. from AustraliaNice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!
- Fun and smartJune 17, 2012 by wertys from Australia
I have enjoyed this podcast b/c it is very funny banter about science stories but there is also a serious edge to the analysis. It's proof that you can be amusing and entertaining as well as giving the science content its due. Highly recommended weekly listening.