Interronauts

This episode Jesse and Harry talk ants and tech: CSIRO's phenomenally successful eradication of African big-headed ants from Lord Howe Island. Good lord, how!? Cat food. Poisonous cat food. They also chat about autonomous cave-exploring droids and also speak with star researcher Dr Elizabeth Mahony about interstellar radio explosions, Fast Radio Bursts, and the newly isolated origins of one in particular. It's also the final episode of Interronauts for some time, so go and have a listen to our others, here: BACK CATALOGUE. Go ahead and give us a rating on iTunes, all the kids are doing it. Or better yet, tell your friends about Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast. Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Jesse sets off on a solo venture through the overgrown and tangled world of science news this Interronauts, beginning at the beginning with early Earth perhaps implanted with purple, not chlorophyll green, pigment, before heading undersea with two new species of very small jellyfish discovered by CSIRO researchers, bushbashing in the crops, the cropage, with our and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' work blending the benefits of brown rice with the pale ease of white rice, trekking through the clonal trunks, the forest of one known as Pando to get to the base of its stunted growth, and finally wrapping up in the cool slightly sour-atmosphere of a packed cinema, finding out how our smells might reveal movies' classification. To learn more about any of the stories we covered on the show, visit the Interronauts blog page, here. Go ahead and give us a rating on iTunes, all the kids are doing it. Or better yet, tell your friends about Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast. Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Umm...ah...it's Interronauts...we think. Join Jesse and Sarah as they discuss the ideal number of choices to choose from, a tiny imperilled fish and how we're helping to rebuild the critically endangered, fearsomely cute spotted handfish in Tasmania, Australia's roadmap towards a future in space, AND we chat with CSIRO researcher Dr Rich Pillans recently back from the Top End and a bonza survey of some of our most endangered aquatic life, including the speartooth shark, northern river shark, and the seven metre leviathan: the largetooth sawfish. To learn more about any of the stories we covered on the show, visit the Interronauts blog page, here. Go ahead and give us a rating on iTunes, all the kids are doing it. Or better yet, tell your friends about Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast. Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Cowabunga! On this episode of Interronauts Kate and Gavin join Jesse to talk about scourges of our times: marine debris and antibiotic resistance, as well as science's endeavours to set us on the straight and narrow, the clean and biotic. They also talk about the use of third person in podcast descriptions ("We don't actually, we prefer first person but are twenty episodes into the precedent..."), NovaSAR-1-a new state of the art satellite, which provides Australia 10% helm-time, and finally, a rare case of organ transplant complications and a crazy little thing called CTVT, a disease, but also a single-celled dog. You'll just have to listen. To learn more about any of the stories we covered on the show, visit the Interronauts blog page, here. Go ahead and give us a rating on iTunes, all the kids are doing it. Or better yet, tell your friends about Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast. Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Up, up, and away with Kate and Gavin and Jesse on this episode of Interronauts where they talk about a new treatment for pancreatic cancer using killer cells, CSIRO's new vehicles powered not on gasoline but hydrogen, and a fortnightly science digest about the oldest cheese, neutron stars, omnivorous sharks, and moooore. Learn more about the stories on the Interronauts blog, here. Go ahead and give us a rating on iTunes, all the kids are doing it. Or better yet, tell your friends about Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast. Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

This episode technophile Ketan teaches technophobe Jesse about big data and the big burden it bears, why robot marketers are more unnerving than you know, how hackers might have swiped your fingerprints (drats; crims are supposed to leave 'em behind, not steal 'em), this fortnight in science news, and isn't it ironic? Well, isn't it? No, not really. It's our new cotton that doesn't crease and doesn't need ironing, it's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife. Learn more about the stories on the Interronauts blog, here. Go ahead and give us a rating on iTunes, all the kids are doing it. Or better yet, tell your friends about Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast. Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Take a walk on the mild side with Rif and Jesse on this XL episode as they explain why Australia was in dire need of a marine microbe census, how every touch of your smartphone screen gives you away, the liquid water lake (what!?) on Mars, and finally, chat with Dr Brenda Lin about sustainable living, resilient cities, and the loss of nature from our lives. Learn more about the stories on the Interronauts blog, here. Enjoyed the show? Give us a rating on iTunes or tell your friends about Interronauts, the CSIRO podcast. Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

In this J-mad episode, Josie, Jessie, and Jesse discuss the need for naming marine heatwaves like you might hurricanes, the plight of the waylaid northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), using non-invasive, surface-level cues for detecting gold deposits, the plants of Antarctica-as part of the Antarctic Festival in Hobart-AND we speak with one of our wearable tech experts, Samy Movassaghi on her research and career path. Give us a rating on iTunes. Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Get your fly swats out (or your sleepy cheeks) because this episode researchers Kate Tepper and Gavin Volpato join Jesse to chat about our project to release sterilised male mosquitoes to drown-out an invasive mozzie species responsible for dengue fever and Zika. We also do a slapdash digest through the last fortnight's science news, and then speak with Dr Cameron Stewart about the discovery of a vital immunity gene and the parlous quest to have the public name it. Get your single-celled, Wolbachia jokes ready because you're about to have a ball. Amendments: •Sorry for the audio quality in the 'science news digest' segment-it was recorded before we resolved our audio issues. •Amendment: Researchers found prehistoric tools in China, not human remains, which suggest an exodus from Africa up to 2 million years ago-the oldest evidence of humans outside Africa. Give us a rating on iTunes. Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

This episode, Ketan Joshi from our Data61 team joins Interronauts to talk about the future, specifically, the future of AI and autonomous cars, and all things robo-librarians, not to mention a recent study on Antarctica set 50 years in the future, which takes a retrospective at two courses of action we humans might take to slow the gradual degradation of that lovely white continent, and, following that, a chat about the >200 new species we've discovered and named in the last year-more than one species every second day, sheesh. And, this episode, we have an interview with our Dr Ben Muir, manager of the Rapid Automated Materials & Processing centre, who's been working with pet pharmaceutical group CannPal on developing a microencapsulation technology for precis medical marijuana delivery. Give us a rating on iTunes. Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Interronauts' nine month hiatus is abatus and we're back! This episode, Sarah Frazer joins the roster to talk about our robot ecologists in the Amazon,  the plan to augment feral cats into all-male clowders, the use of ugly veggies into delightful powders for your coffee, and researchers' best attempt yet at weighing all life on Earth. This time Jesse's on production, but the sound will improve. Koala bear with us. Give us a rating on iTunes. (Not on this episode's sound quality, though) Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

For fear of wasting food, have you ever scrounged about in your fridge, gathering ingredients like a feasting bowerbird and bungled them together into an oddly satisfying meal? Not sure why that's relevant, because here's a bonus episode of our podcast, Interronauts! In this episode we talk about how living on farms helps symptoms of asthma and allergies,  festive heart attacks, being over-run by ever so destructive feral cats,  defining all of plants,  and a pocketful of bloopers, misc and bonus tatters. We also speak with Angus Macoustra about CSIRO's new supercomputer (Bracewell).Give us a rating on iTunes.Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Well listeners, this is it for a little bit - Season One of Interronauts is over. In our last episode, we've got new technology from CSIRO: giving scarecrows a brain, we've got the evolution of the first flower ever (what!?), we've got more research on how tarantula venom can help treat enwormed sheep, and plenty more science shenanigans. (Don't forget to listen back through our back catalogue!) Give us a rating on iTunes. Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

This fortnight Jesse and Sophie have a special selection of science news, plucked from all over town in this, their penultimate episode. In their first ontogenetic episode yet, they chat about breaking news from Yale on the evolution of pregnancy in marsupials and eutherians (ourselves), childhood learning in apes (bonobos' inability to copy silly stuff), a chat with Dr Olivier Salvado about iron deposits' relationship with Alzheimer's, and finally the living funeral of NASA's Cassini as it plummets into the Saturnian atmosphere - and you're invited! Give us a rating on iTunes. Find the show notes at our blog | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Instagram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au.

Join Jesse and Sophie as they snap back to reality, whope there goes gravity...*ahem* - as they discuss last fortnight's science news: plant defences that turn herbivorous caterpillars into cannibals, our RV Investigator's voyage to Sample the Abyss, the new project to rescue imperfect fruit and veg and turn them into healthy food products, and finally their new segment: Deconstructed Croque-MonScience, where Sophie guesses research findings and methods based on the title of a paper. Make sure to check out the clips online, too.  Find the show notes at our blog: blog.csiro.au/interronauts-episode-10-caterpillars-brainwashed-into-cannibals-sampling-the-abyss-croque-monscience-and-transforming-uggo-fruit-into-stars | Send us a message or follow us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/CSIROnews/ | Follow us on Twitter @CSIROnews | Instagram @CSIROgram | Or send us an email: socialmedia@csiro.au. https://blog.csiro.au/interronauts-episode-10-caterpillars-brainwashed-into-cannibals-sampling-the-abyss-croque-monscience-and-transforming-uggo-fruit-into-stars