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exoplanets

  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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SoT 352: Noodle-Fingered Hugs

  • March 31, 2020
  • Tagged as: exoplanets, jellyfish, MEV-1, Mission Extension Vehicle, plants, robots, satellites, space junk

Softly hugging jellyfish, satellite refuelling, musical plants and detecting planets with aurorae.

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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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  • Peter Miller
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SoT 321: Our Favourite Science Stories of 2018

  • January 15, 2019
  • Tagged as: ancient art, Ancient Rome, archaeology, chili, ethics, Europa, evolution, exoplanets, fossils, genetic engineering, hurricanes, lizards, poop, Vulcan, wombats

Our top stories from 2018. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from wombat poop to very hot chilies!

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SoT 309: It’s Not Surf ‘n’ Turf

  • September 19, 2018
  • Tagged as: exoplanets, international space station, mars, Opportunity, rover, sharks

Water-rich explanets, omnivorous sharks, space station sabotage and a looming deadline for the Opportunity rover.

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  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 294: Plastics Bad, Bacteria Good

  • May 1, 2018
  • Tagged as: astronomy, bacteria, enzyme, exoplanets, NASA, plastic, retrotransposons, shellfish, tess

Plastic-eating enzyme, NASA’s new planet-hunting spacecraft, and DNA that spreads to other species remarkably common in the oceans.

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SoT 293: Hot Chilli Wars

  • April 21, 2018
  • Tagged as: Alpha Centauri, capsaicin, chillies, Don't Try This At Home, exoplanets, music, Proxima Centauri, solar flares, whales

Different styles of whale song, massive solar flares and really hot chillies!

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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.

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SoT 261: Mr. Bigglesworth

  • May 1, 2017
  • Tagged as: Alpha Centauri, astronomy, evolution, exoplanets, naked mole rats, weird animals

The weird and ugly naked mole rat can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen, and how we know that Alpha Centauri is a trinary star system.

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SoT 260: The Planetary Protection Office

  • April 26, 2017
  • Tagged as: bacterial resistance, brain cancer, cancer, exoplanets, mosquitoes, space exploration

An atmosphere around an Earth-like planet, possible new brain cancer treatment, superbugs in space, Shazam for mosquitoes!

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SoT 256: Live at Surfcoast Skepticamp 2017

  • March 6, 2017
  • Tagged as: astronomy, cancer, crickets, exoplanets, extinction, grasshoppers, moonshot, NASA, quack, supernova

Discovery of 7 Earth-like exoplanets, concerns over cancer initiative, early spotting of a supernova, and disappearing crickets.

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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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