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?
SoT 285: Our Favourite Science Stories of 2017
- December 23, 2017
- Tagged as: babies, Cassini, concrete, dinosaurs, dragonflies, fossils, geology, gravitational waves, Juno, Jupiter, music, plate tectonics, Saturn
Our top stories from 2017. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from gravitational waves to Roman concrete!
SoT 284: The Executive Committee Range
- December 11, 2017
- Tagged as: Antarctica, cave art, dogs, geology, grass, Lynne Kelly, neolithic, rock art, scientists taste their samples, supernova, volcano
Looming Antarctic eruptions, rock art depictions of dogs, neolithic excavation, long time supernova and the tasty tasty spinifex grass.
SoT 255: Smelly Twins
- February 28, 2017
- Tagged as: astronomy, bacteria, bacteria transplant, body odour, continents, echolocation, galaxies, geology, malaria, Milky Way, mosquitoes
A new continent, skin bacterial transplants, malaria makes you mosquito-bait, the speed of the Sun’s orbit and an echolocating arborial mammal!
SoT 176: An Echoing Amphitheater of Taste
- February 23, 2015
- Tagged as: 3 person babies, aliens, core, dogs, Earth’s core, endangered species, geology, IVF, popcorn, scat, SETI
The UK gives the OK for 3 person babies, calls to actively search for ET, inner inner cores, dogs sniffing poo and why popcorn pops.
SoT 172: It’s Really Far
- December 23, 2014
- Tagged as: asteroid, astronomy, Brigmanite, Ceres, comet, Dawn, DNA, DNA tests, forensics, geology, meteorite, minerals, minor planet, New Horizons, pasteurisation, pluto, raw milk, Rosetta, twins, water on Earth
Rosetta gives clues to Earth’s water’s origins, one of the most common minerals in our planet, New Horizons and Dawn to visit minor planets, DNA tests for twins, and the dangers of raw milk.
SoT 170: A Big Year For Zircon
- November 27, 2014
- Tagged as: bacteria, climate change, comets, contamination, craters, geology, hydrates, Philae, Rosetta, Zircon
Philae landing, DNA studies contaminated, Australian Zircon found in Vanuatu and the mysterious Siberian craters.
SoT 117: It’s A Hoax
- September 11, 2013
- Tagged as: babies, brain, brain-to-brain communication, canyon, fish, geology, language, leadership, learning, microbiome, testicles
Brain-to-brain communication, Greenland’s hidden Grand Canyon, in utero bacteria, in utero learning, and fish leadership.
SoT 93: An Extremely Large Telescope
- March 20, 2013
- Tagged as: AIDS, astronomy, babies, geology, HIV, space, sub-glacial lakes, telescope, virus
Women in space, HIV Baby ‘cured’, 60 Second Science, new telescopes and diamonds from the sea floor!
SoT 59: Might As Well Be Blind
- June 10, 2012
- Tagged as: astronauts, computing, diet, Flerovium, geology, gerontology, linguistics, Livermorium, mars, meteorite, odour, periodic table, restless leg syndrome, threat instinct, vision
Rats get rehab, fruit flies with restless legs, Old Person Smell, evil eyebrows and more!
Podcast Reviews
- Great Show
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
by SB AUST. from AustraliaNice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!
- Fun and smartby 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.