Science On Top show

Science On Top

Summary: 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, teachers and more.

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Podcasts:

 SoT 302: A Sad Albino Parrot | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:24

Gaming disorder, coldest place on Earth, mind-controlling parasites and an historic cockatoo drawing.

 SoT 301: Underground Camouflaged Silent Frogs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:27

Finding frogs with dogs, a diabetes treatment from a platypus, bees that know nothing and mysterious cannibalistic crabs.

 SoT 300: Science and Selfies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:02

Dunes on Pluto, organics on Mars. Marshmallow test reproduced, blood tests for pregnancy due dates and cancers. A potential refutation of the Planet Nine hypothesis.

 SoT 299: Ingesting Geese | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:17

Vitamins: good or bad? The search for life should include viruses, Europe's oldest tree, and magpies that don't fear planes.

 SoT 298: Streptococcus Galactica | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:03

Advantages of jaundice, giant carnivorous invasive cloned flatworms, a successful eradication project, and the asteroid that orbits the wrong way.

 SoT 297: Creepy Masks Are Creepy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:37

The Yanny vs Laurel audio illusion, plumes of water from Europa, the origin of the amphibian-killing fungus, using ice cores to study Ancient Rome's economy, and clever magpies learn the calls of other birds.

 SoT 296: Classic Neanderthal Styling | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:39

Genetic roadmap from cell to organism, a blood donation hero, a call for WHO action, and seafaring Neanderthals.

 SoT 295: The Red Light District | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:06

Horses can remember your facial expressions, male fruit flies like having sex, a fungus stole genes from a bacteria and why kids have lots of energy.

 SoT 294: Plastics Bad, Bacteria Good | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:06

Plastic-eating enzyme, NASA's new planet-hunting spacecraft, and DNA that spreads to other species remarkably common in the oceans.

 SoT 293: Hot Chilli Wars | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:04

Different styles of whale song, massive solar flares and really hot chillies!

 SoT 292: The Little Telescope That Could | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:07

A possible new organ discovered, Viking navigation, the most distant star ever seen, Big Pharma and Patiet Advocacy Groups, and flourescent puffins.

 SoT 291: Orbital Mechanics Are So Cool | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:15

Children draw lady scientists, an old star that messed with our solar system, and newspapers a dying tool for epidemiologists.

 SoT 290: There's No Fuel Gauge | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 38:46

Remembering Stephen Hawking, space twins are still human, a parrot comeback, a plummeting space station and Kepler running on empty.

 SoT 289: A Wisdom of Wombats | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:23

Jupiter's interior, six types of diabetes, a new supercolony of penguins, and an ancient African custom now helping understand Earth's magnetic field.

 SoT 288: The Fly On Kauai With The Lavae | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:25

Life in our most Mars-like region on Earth, ancient dice clues about fate and chance, silent crickets and a new species of tardigrade.

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