Science On Top
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An anti-malarial microbe, a record-breaking poop, and record-breaking solar panels.
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An update on what's happening with the show.
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Pandas finally mate, a subsurface ocean on Pluto, and could fava beans be the new soy beans?
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The lizard that lays eggs and gives birth, solar power at night and training a robot dog with real dogs!
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Mice have facial expressions, and a neutron star collision before the birth of our solar system.
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InSight gets a helpful tap, amber gives clues towards Ideal Glass, and fish finger development!
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A vaccine delivery system without the needles, and further evidence that Thea helped form our moon!
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Softly hugging jellyfish, satellite refuelling, musical plants and detecting planets with aurorae.
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A luxurious plan to save seahorses, precise methane measurements, 65,000 year old food and the environmental impact of dying.
info_outlineHosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu
00:00:26 A seemingly successful treatment of a nasty genetic disease would not have been possible without zebrafish.
00:10:52 It may seem counterintuitive, but a strain of virus linked to the common cold has been used to treat patients with a type of bladder cancer.
00:20:44 Fast Radio Bursts - the strong blasts of radio waves from distant galaxies - have mystified astronomers since they were first detected in 2007. But now for the first time, an FRB has been traced back to its host galaxy, 3.6 billion light years away!
00:33:39 Psychologists have conducted a large survey of nearly 2,000 volunteers to determine which animals and insects people are most afraid of, and most disgusted by. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it didn't go well for spiders.
This episode contains traces of astronaut Buzz Aldrin talking about the meaning of the Apollo 11 moon landing.