Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:32 Some fish can survive the freezing cold waters of Antarctica thanks to a gene that makes anti-freeze. But how do fish in the Arctic, in the Northern hemisphere, also have the same gene?
00:08:33 Some people can smell when people are sick. Could these 'super-smellers' help diagnose Parkinson's Disease early on?
00:21:26 DNA is made of four nucleotides: G, A, T, and C. Now an interdisciplinary team of researchers has doubled that genetic code by creating synthetic DNA that uses eight letters.
00:27:55 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently orbiting the asteroid 101955 Bennu. But it turns out Bennu is no ordinary asteroid... it spits!
This episode contains traces of 6abc Action News hosts Brian Taff and Jeannette Reyes discussing a cheesy Swiss experiment.
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SoT 358: A Lot Of Poop
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SoT 357: You Get An Ocean!
SoT 356: The Same... But Opposite
SoT 355: E-mouse-icons!
SoT 354: They Smacked It With A Shovel
SoT 353: Crazy Finds A Way
SoT 352: Noodle-Fingered Hugs
SoT 351: Air Sea'n'Sea
SoT Special 28 – Coronavirus with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
SoT 350: Rocks Were Never Not Great
SoT Bites 001 - Hot Drinks In Hot Weather
SoT Bites 001 - Cuttlefish Watching 3D Movies
SoT 349: Our Favourite Science Stories of 2019
SoT 348: Massive Stars Are Fluffy!
SoT 347: Carbonite
SoT 346: Guinea Pig Guinea Pigs
SoT 345: Daisy
SoT 344: Teeny-Tiny Black Holes
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