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 343: More Water Rats!
SoT 342: Grumpy, Hungry, Wanting Chocolate
SoT 341: The 2019 Ig Nobel Prizes
SoT 340: They Look Snarly
SoT 339: Sauce Is Key
SoT 338: Hidden Bottoms
SoT 337: Fear-Relevant Non-Slimy Small Animals
SoT 336: Text Neck
SoT 335: Parmesan Not Brie
SoT 334: That's My Clickbait!
SoT 333: Altered State Of Consciousness
SoT 332: Muddy, Liefie and Lixy
SoT 331: A Hyperactive Toddler
SoT 330: A Very Large Horn
SoT 329: Not The Father Of Lies
SoT 328: Thralala, Thralala, Thralala!
SoT 327: You've Been Browned!
SoT 326: A Very Lovely Molecule
SoT 325: We Just Like Meerkats
SoT 324: Kinetic Penetrator
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