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Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely.
Topics covered:
- Mission Accomplished – Red Bull Stratos – World Record Freefall
- Brainless creature solves problems with memories of slime
- Scientists inject ‘Bovril-like’ hope into reef starfish fight
- Moa bones reveal DNA half-life but Jurassic Park remains fiction
- The exoplanet next door
- Cosmic coincidence on the road to Glenelg
- Eat chocolate, win the Nobel Prize?
A handout photograph released by Red Bull Stratos on 14 October 2012 shows Austrian stunt daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumping out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico, USA, 14 October 2012.
Credit: Jay Nemeth / Red Bull Stratos
Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely is a an instrument scientist for the WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer at the Bragg Institute. She writes“The Shores of Titan” column on The Conversation.
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