Koalas aren’t extinct, impossible black hole exists and an old spacecraft bombarded by dust.
Painting cows to look like zebras, Planet Nine could be a black hole and prehistoric humans used bones like soup cans!
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!
Important but tiny and overlooked fish, rapidly spinning black holes, ancient human migration, and the benefits of not staring at your phone.
SoT 336: Text Neck
- July 17, 2019
- Tagged as: black holes, cosmology, dogs, evolution, media, mobile phones, science reporting
Those puppy-dog eyes evolved specially for you, the widely accepted theory of supermassive black hole formation could be wrong, and you’re not growing horns because of your phone.
SoT 315 – It’s Just Gas, Dear
- November 24, 2018
- Tagged as: babies, black holes, fossiles, galaxy, scientific debate
Why do newborn babies smile? More details about the black hole in our galaxy, and could the oldest known fossils be just rocks?
Super sticky frog tongues, intermediate-mass black holes, happy baby songs and a bridge of stars between galaxies.
SoT 219: Mother’s Guilt
- March 28, 2016
- Tagged as: astronomy, bacteria, big numbers, black holes, brain size, dinosaurs, environment, epigenetics, evolution, food, massive stars, mice, PET, plastic, quasars, recycling, rotation, star formation, tyrannosaurus, waste
Bacteria that eats plastic, T-rex evolved from the size of a horse, your parents’ diet before you were born could make you fat, a huge black hole spins super fast, and massive stars are really big.
SoT 214: Gravitational Waves
- February 23, 2016
- Tagged as: aLIGO, astrophysics, BICEP2, black holes, cosmology, gravitational waves, LIGO, spacetime
When two black holes collided 1.3 billion light years away, it sent ripples – gravitational waves – through spacetime that we detected here on Earth!
Stephen Hawking’s new ideas about black holes, the leach that can survive 24 hours in liquid nitrogen, ancient footprints. ancient stars and more!
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.