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SoT 339: Sauce Is Key

  • September 16, 2019
  • Tagged as: aliens, astronomy, biology, bioluminescence, blindness, climate change, geology, junk food, media, science reporting, spiders, volcanoes

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?

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SoT 336: Text Neck

  • July 17, 2019
  • Tagged as: black holes, cosmology, dogs, evolution, media, mobile phones, science reporting

Those puppy-dog eyes evolved specially for you, the widely accepted theory of supermassive black hole formation could be wrong, and you’re not growing horns because of your phone.

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SoT 291: Orbital Mechanics Are So Cool

  • April 7, 2018
  • Tagged as: children, diseases, epidemiology, media, newspapers, orbits, scientists, solar system, women in science

Children draw lady scientists, an old star that messed with our solar system, and newspapers a dying tool for epidemiologists.

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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 265: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

  • June 4, 2017
  • Tagged as: bad journalism, biology, climate change, flamingos, international space station, Juno, Jupiter, media, mice, planetary science, space, sperm, Svalbard

Juno results, the real situation at the Svalbard seed vault, very stable flamingos, and Space Sperm used to make baby mice!

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SoT 229: Lower Ranked Rats

  • June 13, 2016
  • Tagged as: bad science journalism, cancer, cancer vaccine, condoms, giant sponge, media, mobile phones, NOAA, oldest animal, sponge, Zika

A universal cancer vaccine, a old giant sponge, mobile phones and rat cancer, and stopping Zika with condoms!

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SoT 227: Aha! There’s A Thing!

  • June 1, 2016
  • Tagged as: bad media reporting, biocontrol, biological control, crabs, folate, invasive-species, lost city, Mayan Civilisation, Mayans, media, parasites, pests, teenager

A teenager may have found a Mayan city, a parasite causing zombie crabs, a folate study is over-hyped, and biocontrol success stories.

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SoT 226: Seismic Swarms

  • May 23, 2016
  • Tagged as: astronomy, climate change, earthquakes, eruption, exoplanets, jellyfish, Kepler, Marianas Trench, media, Mt. St. Helens, NOAA, ocean acidification, Okeanos Explorer, sea level rise, Solomon Islands, volcano

Lots of exoplanets found, Mt St. Helens recharging, disappearing islands, and the jellyfish with bright gonads!

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SoT 194: A Great Big Tool

  • August 4, 2015
  • Tagged as: aliens, Breakthrough Listen, climate change, dentistry, exoplanets, Kepler, malaria, Maunder Minimum, media, modern humans, science communication, SETI, solar activity, vaccination

Mini ice age nonsense, world’s first malaria vaccine, $100m funding to search for aliens, ancient dentistry and (sort of) an Earth-like exoplanet.

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SoT Special – ASC2012

  • March 7, 2012
  • Tagged as: communication, media, science, social media

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Podcast Reviews

  • Great Show
    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
    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
    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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