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 64: Let's Go On A Journey
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
Spray-on rechargeable batteries, parents are less likely to catch colds. A 'Jekyl and Hyde' bacteria that helps worms but kills inse…
SoT 63: It May Have Helped Harry Potter
Hosts: Ed Brown, Kate Naughton, Mags Lum, Upulie Divisekera.
Topics covered:
Dear Sir David - write your tributes to a great science communicator. Physicists at CERN have discovered 'Higgs-like' part…
SoT 62: The Century of Complex Systems
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
Early warning system for El Nino weather pattern, the mysteries of the gut microbiome. Pests are adapting to the toxins produced by …
SoT 61: You Still Need a Golf Club
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Prof. Daniel Midgely.
Topics covered:
Gorillas use hand gestures to talk to their children, repeating it like 'baby talk'. Primates may first have s…
SoT 60: Pain Prone Personalities
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Dr. Mick Vagg.
Topics covered:
Pain medication derived from cannabis vs opioids. A new theory about why giant insects died out 130 million years ago. Giant raindro…
SoT 59: Might As Well Be Blind
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu.
Topics covered:
A new study suggest there really is an "old people's smell". A combination of therapies help rats with severed spinal cords …
SoT 58: Dreaming of Batman
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Vanessa Hill, Micaela Jemison.
Topics covered:
Micaela discusses the importance of micro-bats for keeping insects under control. For more information check the Austral…
SoT 57: Crushed By A Genital
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Kate Naughton.
Topics covered:
Stroke victims control a robotic arm using just their thoughts. By rerouting nerves, surgeons restore some hand motio…
SoT 56: Our Chimps Are Very Nice
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
Dogs that yawn when their owners do - the only case of contagious yawning crossing species. Santino the Stone-Throwing Chimp gives …
SoT 55: Who Owns An Asteroid?
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Steve Nerlich.
Topics covered:
Planetary Resources, a company backed by several billionaires, plans to mine asteroids in space - and it's not as cra…
SoT 54: A Guy Called Herbert
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Adam vanLangenberg, Kate Naughton.
Topics covered:
Early tetrapods used their body armour for breathing. Using your brain as your password. A lack of diversity in Tas…
SoT Special - Friends of Science in Medicine
In early 2012, the lobby group Friends of Science in Medicine wrote to the vice-chancellors of Australia's universities asking them not to allow the establishment of unscientific alternative medicine…
SoT 53: Rats of the Sky
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph and Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
Bacteria found in a remote, isolated cave is resistant to most of our antibiotics. Baboons can recognise English words, even ones…
SoT 52: They're Bees, Not Borg
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph and Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
A portable plasma gun that zaps bacteria, the ability to identify a person from their RNA, and the risk of brain tumours from den…
SoT 51: Even Crazier Mutants
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Tom Sidwell.
Topics covered:
A new strain of the pertussis bacteria may reduce the effectiveness of the whooping cough vaccine - but only slightly. …
SoT 50: The Little Green Sub
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Dr. Maia Sauren.
Topics covered:
How the shape of your head affects the energy coming from your mobile phone. James Cameron becomes the first person to dive solo to th…
SoT 49: Drunk, Lonely Fruit Flies
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
When turned down by a lady, male fruit flies will drown their sorrows in alcohol. A fossil of the oldest animal with a skeleton is p…
SoT 48: A Good One For Scrabble
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Wearing red clothing may be giving sexual signals to men, an iron spike could explain how bacteriophages attack bacteria, Sequencin…
SoT Special - ASC2012
The Australian Science Communicators National Conference was held at the Sydney Masonic Centre from 27 to 29 February. Opened with an address from Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, th…
SoT 47: Its Got A Kids Corner
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Sumen Rai.
Topics covered:
Meat grown in a lab could be in a hamburger later this year. Australian physicists have created the first fully-functioning s…