A luxurious plan to save seahorses, precise methane measurements, 65,000 year old food and the environmental impact of dying.
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.
SoT 290: There’s No Fuel Gauge
- March 29, 2018
- Tagged as: astrophysics, birds, China, conservation, cosmology, DNA, exoplanets, genetics, Kepler, media, NASA, space debris, Stephen Hawking, twins
Remembering Stephen Hawking, space twins are still human, a parrot comeback, a plummeting space station and Kepler running on empty.
SoT 278: Nobel Prizes 2017
- October 25, 2017
- Tagged as: chemistry, conservation, jellyfish, kakapo, matter, medicine, Nobel Prize, physics, physiology, sleep, The Universe
Nobel Prizes 2017, sleeping jellyfish, we found some matter, and sequencing the kakapo genome.
SoT 241: OMG They’ve Got Radio!
- September 15, 2016
- Tagged as: aliens, bacteria, birds, cancer, conservation, eggs, EM Drive, extinction, extinction events, finches, fossils, human ancestors, NASA, Otzi, SETI, spaceflight, supernova, supernovae, Tasmanian devils
Otzi’s fashion, weather reporting birds, Tassie devils, supernovas, aliens, EM drive and more!
Underground water in California, ancient bird wings, land conservation, and the microbes that protect coral reefs.
Regrowing human tissue from stem cells a step closer, 3D printing eggs to protect vultures, birds that recognise humans and bad news for the Hitomi space telescope.
SoT 192: Test By Shooting The Journalist
- July 8, 2015
- Tagged as: 3d, conservation, lasers, materials, microbiology, origins of life, ravens, selfhealing, ui, ux
A single-celled organism that can see, 3D computer interfaces could be coming soon, the origins of multicellular life could be a simple gene, self-healing aeroplane wings and shooting ravens with lasers for science!
Audi’s clean diesel, woolly mammoth genome sequenced, real-time monitoring an underground volcano, and a new approach to wildlife conservation.
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.