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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00:00:56 As unprecedented bushfires ravage Australia, Forbes published an article declaring koalas are "functionally extinct". And while they do face considerable threats, the situation is not quite that dire.
00:11:38 Chinese scientists have discovered a black hole that, according to our current understanding of black-hole formation, is so large it shouldn’t exist. Called LB-1, the black hole has a mass 70 times that of our sun, three times more massive than previously thought possible.
00:25:11 Parked in space and deactivated since 2017, the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft has long finished it's scientific mission. But it's still making discoveries, detecting dozens of tiny impacts on the spacecraft and giving valuable data about cosmic dust.
This episode contains traces of the cast and creators of The Expanse, now on Jeff Bezos' Amazon Prime, talking with engineers from Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin.