Science On Top
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info_outline SoT 358: A Lot Of PoopScience On Top
An anti-malarial microbe, a record-breaking poop, and record-breaking solar panels.
info_outline A quick updateScience On Top
An update on what's happening with the show.
info_outline SoT 357: You Get An Ocean!Science On Top
Pandas finally mate, a subsurface ocean on Pluto, and could fava beans be the new soy beans?
info_outline SoT 356: The Same... But OppositeScience On Top
The lizard that lays eggs and gives birth, solar power at night and training a robot dog with real dogs!
info_outline SoT 355: E-mouse-icons!Science On Top
Mice have facial expressions, and a neutron star collision before the birth of our solar system.
info_outline SoT 354: They Smacked It With A ShovelScience On Top
InSight gets a helpful tap, amber gives clues towards Ideal Glass, and fish finger development!
info_outline SoT 353: Crazy Finds A WayScience On Top
A vaccine delivery system without the needles, and further evidence that Thea helped form our moon!
info_outline SoT 352: Noodle-Fingered HugsScience On Top
Softly hugging jellyfish, satellite refuelling, musical plants and detecting planets with aurorae.
info_outline SoT 351: Air Sea'n'SeaScience On Top
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
00:00:47 After a British teenager went blind, media reports came thick and fast about the dangers of a junk food diet. But was he just a fussy eater, or was there a lot more to it than the headlines suggested?
00:07:50 Is climate change making spiders more aggressive? Well, yes - but only one species was studied and not aggressive in way that you'd expect.
00:20:39 After a spectacular wall collapse last year, a crater on Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano was left empty. And now it's starting to refill, but not with lava.
00:27:31 Could the search for extra-terrestrial life be easier if the aliens glowed? Under the right circumstances, bioluminescence could help us find life on other worlds.
This episode contains traces of KHON2 News' Brigette Namata and Justin Cruz discussing the teenager who went blind from junk food.