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.
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00:00:39 When it comes to giving birth in the animal world, there's mostly only two options: live babies, or eggs. But very rarely, it can be both! Such is the case with the yellow-bellied three-toed skink.
00:06:37 Imagine solar power that worked at night! That's (kind of) the promise of a new type of solar cell being developed by two American researchers.
00:19:50 If you want to train a robot dog, there's the hard way and there's the easy way. The hard way is manually coding everything you want the dog to do. The easy way is to develop machine learning software that learns from watching other dogs!
This episode contains traces of Michael Rowland and Lisa Miller discussing Singapore's robot dog technique of enforcing physical distancing, on ABC News Breakfast.