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?
SoT 322: Captain’s Log
- February 20, 2019
- Tagged as: archaeology, lapis lazuli, magnetic field, plants, spiders
Why was lapis lazuli found in a medieval tooth? Can plants be trained? How does body position affect spidey-sense? And why has the Earth’s magnetic field suddenly sped up?
SoT 305: Dolphins Doing Backflips
- August 5, 2018
- Tagged as: bacteria, bacteriophages, CRISPR, Eclipse, gene editing, genetic modification, liquid water, mars, peacock spiders, spiders, viruses
Liquid water lake under Mars, viruses can defeat CRISPR, editing out genetic diseases in utero, and the discovery of two new adorable peacock spiders.
SoT 287: An Army of Clones
- March 3, 2018
- Tagged as: amber, ancestors, bacteria, bacteriophages, Cheddar Man, cloning, crayfish, early humans, rockets, SpaceX, spiders, Tesla
Elon Musk’s Big Rocket, cloned crayfish, bladder-borne bacteriophages, Cheddar Man reconstructed and tiny ancient spider-tails!
Fast Radio Bursts, non-bee pollinators, blue tarantulas and the evolutionary effects of agriculture.
Artificial milk, penguin-like rovers, arachnophobia-curing brain surgery and a bad week for private spaceflight.
SoT 144: Fetch Me My Big Hammer
- April 27, 2014
- Tagged as: arachnids, fossils, liquid water, mars, medications, plate tectonics, seismology, spiders, Tamiflu
Continental drift caused by a meteorite, fossilised arachnids aren’t cute, water on Mars, Tamiflu, expensive violins.
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 89: Sky Fall in Russia
- February 21, 2013
- Tagged as: ancestors, bionics, evolution, insects, light pollution, meteor, origins of life, prosthetics, smell, spiders
Russian meteor strike, the common ancestor of mammals, self-assembling molecules, spiders in the sky and more!
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- 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
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- 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.