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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00:00:27 How do you study wibbly wobbly jellyfish, without damaging them or stressing them out? You give them a noodly hug, of course!
00:08:27 When a satellite runs out of fuel, it's sent up into a graveyard orbit where it can pose a threat to any spacecraft leaving Earth. But a recent test of the Mission Extension Vehicle could mean satellites can be refuelled, extending their lifespan significantly.
00:21:25 People are attaching sensors to plants, and translating the electrical conductivity of the plants into "music". It's not very good music, but the idea is to change how people think about plants as living organisms.
00:29:45 Astronomers have found a new planet outside our solar system, with a new technique. They looked for the radio signals from aurorae on the exoplanet!
This episode contains traces of ABC science journalist Tegan Taylor and physician Dr. Norman Swan answering children's coronavirus questions on Coronacast.