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 - thanks to a traditional repair technique!
00:13:04 The idea that glass is a liquid that flows is largely a myth.... sort of. It's an amorphous solid, so it does flow but very very slowly. Now an analysis of amber has shed some light on the disordered molecules that make glass a "liquid in suspended animation".
00:26:36 When our fishy ancestors slithered onto land nearly 400 million years ago, they had hands and feet. But fingers and toes took a little longer to develop. The discovery of a complete skeleton of a fish from around that time gives some clues about the evolution of fingers.
Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely is a planetary scientist working at ANSTO, Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. She is the co-author of the children's book I Love Pluto.
This episode contains traces of the panel on Have I Got News For You discussing an astrophysicists attempts to make a device to stop you touching your face.
SoT 194: A Great Big Tool
SoT 193: Bat Poo Is Like Gold
SoT 192: Test By Shooting The Journalist
SoT 191: A Matter of Voltage
SoT 190: Why The Long Face?
SoT 189: It Does Horrible Spider Things
SoT 188: Somehow, Because Of Science
SoT 187: Not All Experts Agree
SoT 186: Kiwi Chicks
SoT:185 An Ewok and a Mogwai
SoT 184: Bone Wars
SoT 183: Period Pain Is On Special
SoT 182: Don't Pick a Baboon's Nose
SoT 181: The Urge To Sniff Your Hand
SoT 180: Condescending Chameleons
SoT 179: Mice Are Not People
SoT 178: Live at Surfcoast Skepticamp 2015
SoT 177: Kraken Mare
SoT 176: An Echoing Amphitheater of Taste
SoT 175: I Broke The Scorpion!
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