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
00:01:23 Danuvius guggenmosi was a great ape that lived 11.6 million years ago in southern Germany and it has just been formally described in the journal Nature. But the really interesting thing about this discovery is what it could suggest about bipedalism - our ancestors were walking upright much earlier than previously thought.
00:10:19 Spaceflight is a dangerous endeavour. Astronauts risk muscle atrophy, bone weakness, cardiovascular issues, eyesight disorders, and a host of other ailments. But now, researchers have found another serious health risk: stagnant or backwards blood flow in the internal jugular vein.
00:19:16 Some people who don't like vegetables may have a genetic reason to avoid their greens. (But some people are also just fussy!)
00:25:52 Researchers in Sweden have created a molecule that they claim can trap solar energy and store it for decades. But there isn't a lot of information available about it.
This episode contains traces of an ABC News report about a real life "Breaking Bad" situation.