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  • Ed Brown
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SoT 355: E-mouse-icons!

  • April 30, 2020
  • Tagged as: animal communication, astronomy, collisions, faces, facial expressions, mice, solar system, solar system formation

Mice have facial expressions, and a neutron star collision before the birth of our solar system.

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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 339: Sauce Is Key

  • September 16, 2019
  • Tagged as: aliens, astronomy, biology, bioluminescence, blindness, climate change, geology, junk food, media, science reporting, spiders, volcanoes

Did junk food cause blindness? Is climate change making spiders more aggressive? What’s filling a Hawaiian volcano crater? And could glowing life be easier to find?

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SoT 338: Hidden Bottoms

  • August 19, 2019
  • Tagged as: ancient humans, astronomy, astrophysics, biology, black holes, fish, mobile phones, Out of Africa, reefs

Important but tiny and overlooked fish, rapidly spinning black holes, ancient human migration, and the benefits of not staring at your phone.

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SoT 337: Fear-Relevant Non-Slimy Small Animals

  • July 31, 2019
  • Tagged as: animals, askap, astronomy, cancer, common cold, disgust, Fast Radio Bursts, fear, genetic disease, medicine, psychology, virus

How zebrafish helped treat a genetic disease, a common cold virus could treat bladder cancer, the origins of a fast radio burst, and the creepy crawlies we find fearful and disgusting.

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SoT 331: A Hyperactive Toddler

  • April 26, 2019
  • Tagged as: astronomy, astrophysics, black hole, event horizon, Event Horizon Telescope

For the first time ever, astronomers have taken a photo of the silhouette of the event horizon of a black hole!

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SoT 327: You’ve Been Browned!

  • March 28, 2019
  • Tagged as: archaeology, astronomy, galaxies, linguistics, Nikola Tesla, plants, rogue planets, speech

Houseplants don’t clean the air, lots of rogue planets in our galaxy, and our galaxy could be bigger than Andromeda. Plus, how our changing diets changed our language.

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SoT 325: We Just Like Meerkats

  • March 16, 2019
  • Tagged as: astronomy, environment, families, koalas, meerkats, NASA, Planet Nine, sacrifice, spaceflight, SpaceX, stress, urban development

Koalas are less stressed in green cities, SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with the ISS, stressed meerkat daughters are more helpful, and even more evidence for Planet Nine.

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SoT 324: Kinetic Penetrator

  • March 5, 2019
  • Tagged as: asteroids, astronomy, conservation, DNA, echidnas, flu, fraud, genetics, Hyabusa 2, influenza, JAXA, Mars One, Ryugu, scam, space exploration, vaccination

Japan’s asteroid sample return mission has a big success, tracking smuggled echidnas, Mars One file bankruptcy and a potential universal flu vaccine.

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SoT 318: A Wacky Eukaryote Is Always Fun

  • December 7, 2018
  • Tagged as: astronomy, exoplanet, faeces, marsupials, microbiology, poop, sun, taxonomy, wombats

Why do wombats have square poops? Earth’s sun may have a twin, a new kingdom in the tree of life and water detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

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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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