Rats driving cars, music and learning, cows and friendships, and very loud birds.
T-Rex kept a cool head, first AI developed human vaccine, and painstakingly mapping a mouse brain.
RIP Dr. Oliver Sacks, the link between lack of sleep and illness, climate change could affect nitrogen fixating-bacteria, New Horizons has a new target.
The Nobel Prizes for 2014, a Central Park blitz, inheriting traits from mum’s ex, and artificial penises grown in a lab.
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 banana peels to people dressed as polar bears!
SoT 142: It’s Like an Old Teddy Bear
- April 12, 2014
- Tagged as: 3D printing, acupuncture, archaea, black death, bobonic, extinction, neuroscience, Permian, plague, pneumonic, rubber hand illusion, STAP, stem cells
3D Printed skulls, airborne Black Death, marble hand illusion, the Permian extinction, STAP fraud and acupuncture.
SoT 111: The Brunswick Manoeuvre
- July 23, 2013
- Tagged as: astronomy, exoplanets, gravity, Kepler, memory, Neptune, neuroscience
Last ditch attempt to save Kepler, the discoveries of a deep blue exoplanet and a new moon for Neptune. Plus, decapitated worms can regrow their heads and their memories.
SoT 97: Hypnopompic Hippopotamuses
- April 21, 2013
- Tagged as: brain, dreams, extinction, nerve cells, neuroscience, psilocybin, spiders
$100m for BRAIN research, dream interpretation, procuring drugs for research and more!
SoT 92: Vulcan Rat Mind-Meld
- March 11, 2013
- Tagged as: brains, mars, neuroscience, ocean life, origins of life, pluto, sleep, space travel, undersea vents
Brain-to-brain communication between rats, the genetic impact of lack of sleep, old people on Mars, undersea vents and more!
SoT 78: The Dark Side of Science
- October 27, 2012
- Tagged as: accountability, babies, earthquake, funding, genetic modification, jail, memories, neuroscience, sexism, sleep, virophage, virus
Mice that detect bombs and forget fears, and the problems with science – sexism, funding cuts, jail sentences 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.