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 46: Better Than Clay Pots
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Nanotech turns plants into common plastic, subdermal implants delivering medications, a satellite-terminator that destroys obsolete…
SoT 45: Hardcore Honey Badger
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday.
Topics covered:
New supercontinent 'Amasia' to form in 100 million years, and the Zebra's peculiar stripes may ward off dangerous flies. The physiol…
SoT 44: An Elevated Risk Of Blowing Up
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Russian scientists drill through 4km of ice to a 20 million year old pristine lake. The controversial bacteria and ar…
SoT 43: Archaeopteryx Was A Goth
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Tom Sidwell, Dr. Paul Willis.
Topics covered:
How long does it take for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of an elephant? Should Australia introduce elephants…
SoT 42: Sounds Like A Job For My Optical Tweezers
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Research linking HRT to cancer contains many faults, rising carbon dioxide levels are affecting fish brains, multice…
SoT 41: No Riding On The Manta Rays
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Kylie Sturgess.
Topics covered:
Chinese hangover treatment offers hope for alcohol antidote, warmer nests mean smarter lizards, and mantra rays coul…
SoT 40: U R Dumped, lol
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Octopuses edit their RNA to beat the cold, dogs can follow a human's gaze, NASA investigating bacteria-fueled micro-robots, supersol…
SoT 39: The Justin Bieber of Classical Music
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Lucas Randall, Adam vanLangenberg.
Topics covered:
NASA's GRAIL probes in orbit around the moon, hybrid sharks found off the coast of Australia, and can top violin…
SoT 38: A Very Spidery Christmas
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Mitochondria - the 'power-plants' inside cells - might be ancient parasites. Body hair may help us spot parasites, an…
SoT 37: A Press Conference of Nothing
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
Study shows rats have empathy, helping other rats escape. Carbon sequestration is likely to be too costly to combat c…
SoT 36: BREED! Or Be Miserable!
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Aimee Whitcroft.
Topics covered:
Baby turtles with wi-fi! They can listen in to each other's heartbeats! Wasps have a surprisingly go…
SoT 35: Jurassic Asteroid
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Elf Eldridge.
Topics covered:
Pregnancy is hard enough for humans, but a study shows the high energy cost to pregnant dolphins. Paleontologists in China have discovere…
SoT 34: Stupid Little Worms
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Dr. Krystal Evans.
Topics covered:
Dr. Krystal gives us an in-depth progress report on malaria treatment - is this the year we start winning the war on malaria? Also P…
SoT 33: It's Russian For Dirt
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Vanessa Hill.
Topics covered:
NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, is about to launch - and a Russian Mars probe is in trouble. A new d…
SoT 32: A Freezer Full of Drool
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall and Adam vanLangenberg.
Topics Covered:
Does being happy make you live longer? NASA wants rovers with tractor beams, billion year old …
SoT 31: Tasty Human Nom Noms
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall and Jo Benhamu.
Topics covered:
BPA "linked" to behaviour problems in girls - it really isn't, as Food Standards Australia & New Zeala…
SoT 30: Plucky Little Cycads
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, and Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
A new way to turn adult cells into embryonic stem cells, Cycads not so ancient after all, nanotube fibres that twist and untwist cou…
SoT Special: RetractionWatch
It is estimated that in 2006 alone there were 1.3 million papers published in 23,750 scientific journals. But what happens when a paper gets 'unpublished' - withdrawn or retracted? I caught up with D…
SoT 29: The Nobel Prizes
Hosts: Ed Brown, Dr. Shayne Joseph, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
We take a look at the 2011 Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry and Physics. The story of the Nobel Med…
SoT 28: Bugs Bonking Bottles - The Ig Nobel Prizes
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Kylie Sturgess and Aimee Whitcroft
The 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year's winners: fr…