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SoT Bites 001 – Cuttlefish Watching 3D Movies

  • January 29, 2020
  • Tagged as: cephalopods, cuttlefish, vision

Have you missed us? Looking forward to another season of Science on Top? Here’s something to whet your appetite – a story of cute cephalopods, curious scientists and red and blue 3D glasses!

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Ed Brown
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  • Helen Maynard-Casely
  • Jo Benhamu
  • Kirsten Banks
  • Lucas Randall
  • Mick Vagg
  • Penny Dumsday
  • Peter Miller
  • Shayne Joseph

SoT Special: 2019 Bloopers and Outtakes

  • January 22, 2020
  • Tagged as: banter, bloopers, mistakes, outtakes, swearing

The funny, interesting or just weird bits from 2019 that didn’t make the final show!

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SoT 349: Our Favourite Science Stories of 2019

  • December 17, 2019

Our top stories from 2019. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from black hole photos to rats driving tiny cars!

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SoT 348: Massive Stars Are Fluffy!

  • December 13, 2019
  • Tagged as: black holes, bushfires, cosmic dust, cosmology, extinction, koalas, LISA

Koalas aren’t extinct, impossible black hole exists and an old spacecraft bombarded by dust.

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SoT 347: Carbonite

  • December 5, 2019
  • Tagged as: alien life, Europa, evolution, exoplanets, mars, SETI, snakes, surgery, suspended animation, Titan

Humans in suspended animation, oxygen on Mars, water on Europa, alien gases, and snakes with legs!

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SoT 346: Guinea Pig Guinea Pigs

  • November 26, 2019
  • Tagged as: bipedalism, evolution, genetics, human ancestors, renewables, solar, space exploration, space health, spaceflight, vegetables

Human ancestors walked upright much earlier than thought, a new health hazard for spaceflight, avoiding veggies because of genetics, and a possible solar energy storing molecule.

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SoT 345: Daisy

  • November 16, 2019
  • Tagged as: birds, cows, driving, friendship, learning, mating calls, music, neuroscience, noise, rats, relaxation, rodents

Rats driving cars, music and learning, cows and friendships, and very loud birds.

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SoT 344: Teeny-Tiny Black Holes

  • November 8, 2019
  • Tagged as: ancient humans, archaeology, black holes, cows, flies, Planet Nine, zebras

Painting cows to look like zebras, Planet Nine could be a black hole and prehistoric humans used bones like soup cans!

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SoT 343: More Water Rats!

  • November 1, 2019
  • Tagged as: astronomy, black holes, cane toads, cosmology, evolution, extinction, repopulation, snails

Tiny snails that nearly went extinct are now back, the mysterious massive explosion in our galaxy, and a native rodent learns to hunt cane toads!

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SoT 342: Grumpy, Hungry, Wanting Chocolate

  • October 22, 2019
  • Tagged as: AI, artificial intelligence, exomoon, exoplanet, menstrual synchrony, periods, Tabby's Star

Another Tabby’s Star theory, why we still believe the myth of menstrual synchrony, and artificial intelligence studying science papers.

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Podcast Reviews

  • Great Show
    September 6, 2012 by Volk613 from Australia

    Always 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 Australia

    Nice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!

  • Fun and smart
    June 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.

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