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Science On Top
The Australian podcast about science, health and technology news. Join Ed Brown and his panel of co-hosts each week as we talk about the latest and coolest research and discoveries in the world of science. We're joined by special guests from all over the science field: doctors, professors, nurses, t...
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Goodbye
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: http...
SoT 358: A Lot Of Poop
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:30 A team in Kenya and the UK have discovered a microbe that completely protects mo...
A quick update
An update on what's happening with the show.
The quick version: we're still here, but the world's on fire and things are a bit tough. We'll be b...
SoT 357: You Get An Ocean!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:28 Good news in quarantine, two pandas in Hong Kong have finally mated! It only too...
SoT 356: The Same... But Opposite
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:39 When it comes to giving birth in the animal world, there's mostly only two optio...
SoT 355: E-mouse-icons!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:40 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany have used a machine-learning...
SoT 354: They Smacked It With A Shovel
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely
00:03:36 NASA's Mars InSight probe has finally managed to drill...
SoT 353: Crazy Finds A Way
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:35 Professor Maria Croyle from the University of Texas in Austin has been working o...
SoT 352: Noodle-Fingered Hugs
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:27 How do you study wibbly wobbly jellyfish, without damaging them or stressing the...
SoT 351: Air Sea'n'Sea
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:28 An Australian research team has come up with a luxurious plan to save endangere...
SoT Special 28 – Coronavirus with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
As the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 sweeps the world, the only thing spreading quicker is panic and misinformation. So we caught up with Gideon Meyerowitz-K...
SoT 350: Rocks Were Never Not Great
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:01:14 A team at Howard Hughes Medical Institute has been working with Google, and has...
SoT Bites 001 - Hot Drinks In Hot Weather
Here's a little taste of the sort of thing to expect when Science on Top returns very soon - on hot days are you better off drinking hot or cold drin...
SoT Bites 001 - Cuttlefish Watching 3D Movies
Have you missed us? Looking forward to another season of Science on Top? Here's something to whet your appetite - a story of cute cephalopods, curiou...
SoT 349: Our Favourite Science Stories of 2019
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Ass/Prof Mick Vagg
00:00:48 The switch to agricultural societies 12,000 years ago may h...
SoT 348: Massive Stars Are Fluffy!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:56 As unprecedented bushfires ravage Australia, Forbes published an article declari...
SoT 347: Carbonite
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:01:24 For the first time, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine hav...
SoT 346: Guinea Pig Guinea Pigs
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:01:23 Danuvius guggenmosi was a great ape that lived 11.6 million years ago in souther...
SoT 345: Daisy
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:35 Researchers at the University of Richmond taught a group of 17 rats how to drive...
SoT 344: Teeny-Tiny Black Holes
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:32 A zebra's stripes seem to reduce the number of flies that they attract, so what...
SoT 343: More Water Rats!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:34 Snails are a French delicacy that has led to the near extinction, and now reviva...
SoT 342: Grumpy, Hungry, Wanting Chocolate
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:29 A new hypothesis in the quest to explain the bizarre dimming patterns of Tabby's...
SoT 341: The 2019 Ig Nobel Prizes
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Peter Miller
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make...
SoT 340: They Look Snarly
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:33 The large holes in T-Rex's skull might not have been for muscles, but thermoregu...
SoT 339: Sauce Is Key
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:47 After a British teenager went blind, media reports came thick and fast about the...
SoT 338: Hidden Bottoms
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:26 Tiny, often-overlooked "cryptobenthic" fish are much more plentiful than we rea...
SoT 337: Fear-Relevant Non-Slimy Small Animals
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu
00:00:26 A seemingly successful treatment of a nasty genetic disease would n...
SoT 336: Text Neck
Hosts: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu
00:00:25 Dogs have evolved - mostly through artificial selection - to be our best friends. A...
SoT 335: Parmesan Not Brie
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu
00:00:39 Winemaking in France dates back more than 12,000 years. But new rese...
SoT 334: That's My Clickbait!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Jospeh, Penny Dumsday, Jo Benhamu
00:00:54 After many months away from the show, Shayne discusses his depre...
SoT 333: Altered State Of Consciousness
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu
00:00:23 For bonobo males, sex is often done under mother's watchful eye. But...
SoT 332: Muddy, Liefie and Lixy
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu
00:00:34 Penny gives us a trip report on her recent trip to Lake Mungo - a dr...
SoT 331: A Hyperactive Toddler
Hosts: Ed Brown, Kirsten Banks
00:00:49 For the first time ever, astronomers have taken a photo of the silhouette of the event horizon...
SoT 330: A Very Large Horn
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Kate Naughton, Peter Miller
00:00:40 An extraordinary must-read article in the New Yorker has an in-depth look at...
SoT 329: Not The Father Of Lies
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Chris Curtain-Magee
00:01:22 In 450 B.C., the "Father of History", Herodotus, wrote a 23 line account o...
SoT 328: Thralala, Thralala, Thralala!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:32 Some fish can survive the freezing cold waters of Antarctica thanks to a gene th...
SoT 327: You've Been Browned!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Sean M Elliott
00:01:11 Science educator, communicator and performer Sean M. Elliott has...
SoT 326: A Very Lovely Molecule
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely
00:01:16 NASA's InSight probe begins drilling into the Martian...
SoT 325: We Just Like Meerkats
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:57 As the world becomes more and more urbanised, we hear a lot about the dangers to...
SoT 324: Kinetic Penetrator
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:01:18 Hyabusa 2, Japan's latest sample return mission, has briefly landed on the aster...