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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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00:01:14 A team at Howard Hughes Medical Institute has been working with Google, and has just announced that they have mapped the “connectome” in the central region of brain of a fruit fly. That's means they've worked out the precise meanderings of 25,000 neurons and their 20 million connections.
00:15:14 About 2 billion years ago, a giant meteorite smacked into the thick glaciers that then were covering Western Australia. The result could have been the end of a 'snowball event' and the beginning of complex life!
00:24:15 Parkinson's Disease affects more than 10 million people worldwide, yet we know so little about it. But we do know that a build of a protein, alpha-synuclein makes it worse. Now researchers in the US claim to have developed a compound that can target and reduce the levels of alpha-synuclein.
00:28:40 Usually one of the top ten brightest stars in the night sky, the orange giant Betelgeuse has been dimming a lot in the last few months. So is it, like many media outlets have proclaimed, on the verge of going supernova?
This episode contains traces of This episode contains traces of actress Taraji P. Henson, who played NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in the film "Hidden Figures", describing some of the highlights of a remarkable life. Johnson passed away on February 24, 2020, aged 101.