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.
info_outlineHosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Ass/Prof Mick Vagg
00:00:48 The switch to agricultural societies 12,000 years ago may have changed how we talk, introducing the 'f' and 'v' sounds.
00:04:58 The cane toad is an introduced pest in Australia, with no real natural predators. Until recently, when a small group of water rats learned how to eviscerate them with surgical precision!
00:06:38 The search for Planet Nine continued this year, and a new hypothesis was proposed: it might not be a planet, but a tiny primordial black hole.
00:11:28 The first ever image of a black hole's accretion disk was revealed this year.
00:15:30 NASA's InSight lander has been trying to drill a heat probe into the Martian surface, but it's been a heartbreaking story of progress and setbacks.
00:19:38 DNA testing has found that the same variety of grapes used 9,000 years ago to make wine are still being used today by some winemakers in France.
00:25:29 Researchers painted cows to look like zebras to find out if they were less likely to be bitten by flies. They were!
00:28:47 Scientists found that rats who had been taught to drive tiny electric cars were 'happier' and less stressed.
00:31:34 Australian scientists have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that developed a new flu vaccine.
00:36:59 Some people can smell when other people have early stages of Parkinson's Disease. Thanks to the help of one of these “super-smellers", researchers were able to identify volatile compounds produced by sufferers.
00:40:39 A crater on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has begun to fill up - but with water, not lava.
Associate Professor Mick Vagg is a consultant in rehabilitation and pain medicine.