Pandas finally mate, a subsurface ocean on Pluto, and could fava beans be the new soy beans?
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 204: Let’s Marvin Gaye and Get It On
- November 7, 2015
- Tagged as: aliens, Dyson sphere, food, mystery cells of the male, nematodes, neurons, origin of life, sex, Zircon
Neurons found in worms that affect sexual priority, a possible Dyson sphere discovered, and life may have originated 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
Potential health effects of e-cigarettes, Nasa turning poop into food, new ways to look at fisheries management, and how smelling vomit can make you sick.
Dr. Krystal’s new role at the BioMelbourne Network, astronauts eat space-grown lettuce, more information about the new malaria vaccine, and the genome shows octopuses are pretty complicated.
SoT 157: The Cephalopod Happy Ending
- August 22, 2014
- Tagged as: bacteria, bacteriophages, bears, comets, diabetes, flu, food, influenza, insulin, microbiome, octopus, octopus sex, Rosetta, uncontacted tribes, virus
Rosetta arrives at the comet, an uncontacted tribe gets influenza, and a bacteriophage is the most common virus in your body. Plus, how bears overeat but don’t get diabetes, a year long microbiome study, and crazy octopus sex!
SoT 103: FAOUN
- May 29, 2013
- Tagged as: Ancient Egypt, diet, dogs, ecology, extremophiles, food, stem cells
Eating insects, new kind of stem cells, endangered ecosystems and Ancient Egypt’s ‘sexy time’.
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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.