Rats driving cars, music and learning, cows and friendships, and very loud birds.
Different styles of whale song, massive solar flares and really hot chillies!
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 280: The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes
- November 8, 2017
- Tagged as: anatomy, bats, biology, cats, cave insects, cheese, coffee, cognition, crocodiles, didgeridoo, ears, economics, fetus, fluid dynamics, foetus, Ig Nobel, improbable, medicine, music, nutrition, obstetrics, peace, penis, physics, snoring, twins, vagina, vampire bats
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from cats in jars to disgusting cheese!
SoT 271: Seductive Cockatoo Music
- July 20, 2017
- Tagged as: animals, Anne Druyan, Carl Sagan, concrete, golden records, life, mars, music, Romans, tools, Voyager
The secret to Roman concrete, toxic Martian soil, birds play musical instruments, and the man laughing on the Golden Record.
Super sticky frog tongues, intermediate-mass black holes, happy baby songs and a bridge of stars between galaxies.
SoT 67: More Wobble Boards
- August 3, 2012
- Tagged as: astronomy, Curiosity (Mars Rover), mars, music, NASA, pain, termites
Mars Curiosity, artificial jellyfish, pain, suicidal termites, deteriorating music quality & 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.