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
00:00:32 A zebra's stripes seem to reduce the number of flies that they attract, so what would happen if you painted a cow like a zebra? Japanese researchers did exactly that, and found a similar result.
00:08:10 An intriguing new hypothesis for Planet Nine is not a planet at all. Two astrophysicists have speculated it might actually be a very small black hole in our galaxy.
00:25:43 By analysing cut marks on bones left by humans between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago, archaeologists have determined that the bones were kept for later consumption. Weeks after the flesh of the animal was eaten, it's believed, the marrow in the bones was still nutritious.
This episode contains traces of Boeing Communications' Jessica Landa and NASA Public Affairs' Dan Huot immediately after the successful Pad Abort Test of Boeing's Starliner Spacecraft.