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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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SoT 358: A Lot Of Poop

  • August 25, 2020
  • Tagged as: faeces, lizards, malaria, mosquitoes, poop, renewable energy, solar power

An anti-malarial microbe, a record-breaking poop, and record-breaking solar panels.

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  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Penny Dumsday
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SoT 356: The Same… But Opposite

  • May 12, 2020
  • Tagged as: algorithm, alphabet, bimodal reproduction, Boston Dynamics, clean energy, computer learning, eggs, evolution, google, live birth, machine learning, oviparous, photovoltaics, renewable energy, robots, solar power, viviparous

The lizard that lays eggs and gives birth, solar power at night and training a robot dog with real dogs!

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  • Kate Naughton
  • Lucas Randall
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SoT 186: Kiwi Chicks

  • May 20, 2015
  • Tagged as: Audi, Axial Seamount, Blue Crude, cars, conservation, de-extinction, diesel, e-diesel, genome sequencing, renewable energy, Rotoroa, seismology, underwater volcano, woolly mammoth

Audi’s clean diesel, woolly mammoth genome sequenced, real-time monitoring an underground volcano, and a new approach to wildlife conservation.

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Ed Brown
  • Ed Brown
  • Lucas Randall
  • Mick Vagg
  • Shayne Joseph

SoT 94: Save The Fat Bottomed Slug

  • March 26, 2013
  • Tagged as: bacteria, Curiosity (Mars Rover), de-extinction, extinction, mars, misinformation, pseudoscience, renewable energy, resistance, superbug

Should we bring back extinct animals? The CDC warns about ‘nightmare bacteria’, plus windfarms, Tassie devils and more!

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Podcast Reviews

  • Great Show
    September 6, 2012 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
    July 23, 2012 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
    June 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.

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