Goodbye
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This podcast has come to an end. So long, and thanks for all the fish! Links to download the archive of all our episodes can be found here:
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SoT 358: A Lot Of Poop
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An anti-malarial microbe, a record-breaking poop, and record-breaking solar panels.
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A quick update
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An update on what's happening with the show.
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SoT 357: You Get An Ocean!
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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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SoT 356: The Same... But Opposite
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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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SoT 355: E-mouse-icons!
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Mice have facial expressions, and a neutron star collision before the birth of our solar system.
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SoT 354: They Smacked It With A Shovel
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InSight gets a helpful tap, amber gives clues towards Ideal Glass, and fish finger development!
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SoT 353: Crazy Finds A Way
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A vaccine delivery system without the needles, and further evidence that Thea helped form our moon!
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SoT 352: Noodle-Fingered Hugs
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Softly hugging jellyfish, satellite refuelling, musical plants and detecting planets with aurorae.
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SoT 351: Air Sea'n'Sea
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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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00:01:24 For the first time, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have purposefully put at least one human patient in suspended animation. This could be a great help to surgeons dealing with traumatic emergencies such as gunshot or stab wounds.
00:10:06 The first geomorphologic map of Saturn's moon Titan has been released. Showing lakes (of liquid methane), dunes (of organic molecule particles) and exposed icy bedrock.
00:12:49 NASA’s Curiosity rover has been analysing the air above Mars’ Gale Crater and found unexpected, and fluctuating, levels of oxygen.
00:20:10 An international team of astronomers have announced the direct detection of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's fourth largest moon Europa for the first time. This is the strongest evidence yet that liquid water exists beneath the Europa's surface.
00:26:46 Molecular astrophysicist Clara Sousa-Silva has written an article in Scientific American calling for more research into the signatures of gases that could indicate the presence of life on other planets.
00:32:53 Palaeontologists in Argentina have excavated a number of nearly 100 million year old snake fossils. Interestingly, these snakes had hind legs, but not front legs.
This episode contains traces of BBC One Breakfast hosts discussing an innovative technique used by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture to boost dairy production.