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, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely
00:03:36 NASA's Mars InSight probe has finally managed to drill into the Martian rock and soil - thanks to a traditional repair technique!
00:13:04 The idea that glass is a liquid that flows is largely a myth.... sort of. It's an amorphous solid, so it does flow but very very slowly. Now an analysis of amber has shed some light on the disordered molecules that make glass a "liquid in suspended animation".
00:26:36 When our fishy ancestors slithered onto land nearly 400 million years ago, they had hands and feet. But fingers and toes took a little longer to develop. The discovery of a complete skeleton of a fish from around that time gives some clues about the evolution of fingers.
Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely is a planetary scientist working at ANSTO, Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. She is the co-author of the children's book I Love Pluto.
This episode contains traces of the panel on Have I Got News For You discussing an astrophysicists attempts to make a device to stop you touching your face.