An anti-malarial microbe, a record-breaking poop, and record-breaking solar panels.
Did a supernova cause human ancestors to walk upright? Is it right to use Nazi illustrations for surgery? And could a fungus produce spider-venom that wipes out mosquitoes?
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!
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.
Mini ice age nonsense, world’s first malaria vaccine, $100m funding to search for aliens, ancient dentistry and (sort of) an Earth-like exoplanet.
SoT 145: This Is Not My Office
- May 4, 2014
- Tagged as: ants, astronomy, earth-like, exoplanets, hospitals, long-term experiments, malaria, Pitch Drop Experiment
The pitch drops, ants that skydive, an Earth-like exo-planet, and a malaria outbreak without mosquitoes!
SoT 115: Ozzie-Nauts
- August 26, 2013
- Tagged as: Fukushima, maggots, malaria, mars, Mars One, oil spills
Using maggots for medicine, a 100% effective Malaria vaccine and a new method of soaking up oil. The Fukushima plant is leaking radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, and 100,000 people sign up for a bizarre one-way trip to Mars
Nobel prizes for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, snakes on a pain, adaptive mosquitoes and more!
ENCODE finds function in junk DNA, malaria’s role in human evolution, remote controlled cockroaches and where are all the dinosaur tales?
SoT 57: Crushed By A Genital
- May 26, 2012
- Tagged as: autism, cave art, disability, genitalia, malaria, mobility, obesity, Paralysis, piezoelectricity, quadriplegia, robot, robots, schizophrenia, vaccine, vagina, virus, vulva
Mind-controlled robotic arms, cave paintings of female genitals, piezoelectricity and more!
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.