Softly hugging jellyfish, satellite refuelling, musical plants and detecting planets with aurorae.
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.
Lots of exoplanets found, Mt St. Helens recharging, disappearing islands, and the jellyfish with bright gonads!
New elements confirmed, spreading irukandji jellyfish, possibly ninth planet, counting plants and the strange ‘alien’ star is even stranger!
SoT 206: Jellies All Day Long
- November 17, 2015
- Tagged as: cancer, comet, jellyfish, oxygen, parasites, Rosetta, search for life, solar system, tapeworm
A man dies from cancer he got from a tapeworm, and another man has a life tapeworm removed from his brain! Also oxygen found on a comet, and how jellyfish really swim!
We sleep to wash our brains, jellyfish in space, yeti was a bear, urination time and secret botox.
ENCODE finds function in junk DNA, malaria’s role in human evolution, remote controlled cockroaches and where are all the dinosaur tales?
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.