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.
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00:00:29 A new hypothesis in the quest to explain the bizarre dimming patterns of Tabby's Star: could it be a moon getting shredded?
00:18:36 It's a belief that's been widely held since 1971: women who live together sync their periods together. But many attempts to replicate the original study have failed, so why is it still such a prevalent belief?
00:28:13 Take a computer algorithm, teach it to read scientific papers, feed it thousands of journals, and watch it predict future discoveries. This could be a new field of scientific endeavour.
This episode contains traces of The President of the United States talking with astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir while they participated in NASA's first ever all-female spacewalk.