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, teachers and more.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 390
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2023
SoT 102: Made Lethal To Tumor Cells
One third of all US honeybee colonies died last Winter. A protein in breast milk can help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Plants talk to each other through a fungus. Some words may have survived…
SoT 101: Propelled by Propellers
Solar powered plane completes the first leg of its trans-American trip. A Russian scientist claims to have found meterorites from the Tunguska event of 1908. A blood test could determine if you're go…
SoT 100: Intrauterine Cannibalization
The unborn sharks that eat their brothers and sisters. A fish that uses gestures. The ambiguity of language and the seven misused science words. AquAdvantage salmon, the first transgenic animal creat…
SoT 99: Are They Good Eating?
Can we innoculate babies with 'good' bacteria to ward of bad bacteria? An ugly, unpalatable living fossil fish gives clues about the origins of limbs. A 'nano-suit' could protect living specimens in …
SoT 98: WIMPs and MACHOs
Data collected on the ISS gives clues about dark matter. New analysis fo data from a soviet balloon probe suggests it encountered a rain shower on Venus. Iceman Otzi had bad teeth. How eating red mea…
SoT 97: Hypnopompic Hippopotamuses
Obama announces brain-mapping plan. Scientists decode dreams with brain scans. The active ingredient in magic mushrooms could treat severe depression, but conducting trials is a legal nightmare. A tu…
SoT 96: Street View Is Here
Henrietta Lacks's immortal cancer cells, and the ethical controversy surrounding them.
An unusual virus could be the source of a mysterious form of hepatitis that causes liver failure in most horses.
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SoT 95: Bacterial Hugs
Voyager 1 has left the solar system. Or has it? Yes. And No. Sort of.
The Great Roller Derby Bacteria Swap
Three-person IVF could prevent mitochondrial disorders
The bacteria that kills itself to spa…
SoT 93: An Extremely Large Telescope
Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.
A baby has been cured of HIV.
Sub-glacial Lake Vostok has life! No wait, it doesn't.
60 Second Science - a video competition with $10,000 in prizes up …
SoT 92: Vulcan Rat Mind-Meld
The winning names for two new moons of Pluto are "Vulcan" and "Cerberus". Wiring the brain of Rat A to the brain of Rat B and watching them communicate. The genetic effect of lack of sleep. An old sp…
SoT 91: Spiders, Snakes and Dead Mice in Guam
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall and Dr. Simon O'Toole.
The discovery of the smallest planet ever found, and why we should care. Flowers use electric fields to communi…
SoT 90: An Ice Core of Pee
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
The toilet habits of a small mammal gives climate scientists 55,000 years of data. The humble appendix might not be so useless. An ex…
SoT 89: Sky Fall in Russia
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
Huge meteor blazes across the sky in Russia. A computation of what the last common ancestor of placental mammals looked like. A robot with artificial bu…
SoT 88: Monkeys In Space
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Dr. Simon O’Toole.
Topics covered:
TW Hydrae is a star that should be too old to have a proto-planetary disc, but has one. The skeletal remains of K…
SoT 87: Complex Mating Rituals With Balls of Dung
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
A recap of what we talked about last week, in the episode that disappeared. Leprosy bacteria induces stem cells in the host body, d…
SoT 86: Flabby Thighs and Spare Tyres
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Steve Nerlich.
Topics covered:
Genetic expression differs between belly fat and thigh fat, and a breath test that could detect bacter…
2012 Bloopers Episode
Our end of year 'bloopers' episode is online! For all the funny, interesting and weird bits that didn't quite make the show in 2012, download the show from our website, at scienceontop.com/2012. This…
SoT 85: Priscilla The Yutyrannus
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Dr. Mick Vagg, Upulie Divisekera, Lucas Randall.
Ed, Shayne, Upulie, Mick and Lucas take a look back at the big stories in science from 2012. From feathered dinosa…
SoT 84: The Mad, Bad Uncle
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
James Cameron releases results from his deep dive. How maggots heal wounds. NASA plans to send Curiosity t…