Science On Top

Science On Top


Latest Episodes

Goodbye
September 01, 2023

This podcast has come to an end. So long, and thanks for all the fish! Links to download the archive of all our episodes can be found here:

SoT 358: A Lot Of Poop
August 24, 2020

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:00:30 A team in Kenya and the UK have discovered a microbe that . 00:10:17 Everybody poops, but if you don't it's very bad as one found out. 00:14:22 This year we've seen three big records broken .

A quick update
August 05, 2020

An update on what's happening with the show. The quick version: we're still here, but the world's on fire and things are a bit tough. We'll be back. Stay safe everyone. Wednesday 5 August 2020

SoT 357: You Get An Ocean!
June 17, 2020

Pandas finally mate, a subsurface ocean on Pluto, and could fava beans be the new soy beans?

SoT 356: The Same... But Opposite
May 11, 2020

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:00:39 When it comes to giving birth in the animal world, there's mostly only two options: live babies, or eggs. But very rarely, it can be both! Such is the case . 00:06:37 Imagine ! That's (kind of)...

SoT 355: E-mouse-icons!
April 29, 2020

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:00:40 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany have used a machine-learning algorithm to finally answer one of science's most confounding puzzles: 00:07:54 Astrophysicists from the...

SoT 354: They Smacked It With A Shovel
April 19, 2020

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely 00:03:36 NASA's Mars InSight probe has finally managed to drill into the Martian rock and soil - ! 00:13:04 The idea that glass is a liquid that flows is largely a myth.... sort...

SoT 353: Crazy Finds A Way
April 13, 2020

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:00:35 Professor Maria Croyle from the University of Texas in Austin has been working on alternative delivery mechanisms for vaccines without giant needles. And ! 00:08:15 The formation of our moon is...

SoT 352: Noodle-Fingered Hugs
March 30, 2020

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:00:27 How do you study wibbly wobbly jellyfish, without damaging them or stressing them out? You ! 00:08:27 When a satellite runs out of fuel, it's sent up into a graveyard orbit where it can pose a...

SoT 351: Air Sea'n'Sea
March 20, 2020

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall 00:00:28 An Australian research team has come up with a luxurious plan . 00:04:54 A more precise method of determining the methane produced by human activities . 00:15:07 Remains dating back 65,000 years...