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 252: Our Favourite Science Stories of 2016
SoT 251: The Stellarator At Wolfenstein
SoT 250: Pet Platypuses
SoT 249: Snail Tinder
SoT 248: Through The Melon
SoT 247: Yeast-Growing Robots
SoT 246: Nobel Prizes 2016
SoT 245: The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
SoT 244: Exit The Area
SoT 243: What's Wrong With You, Humans?
SoT 242: Making of a Murdered Fossil
SoT 241: OMG They've Got Radio!
SoT 240: Fat Kids On A Seesaw
SoT 239: The Supervolcano Hissy Fit
SoT 238: It Certainly Does Suck
SoT 237: Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph
SoT 236: Set Phasers To Stun
SoT 235: It's Not Nibiru!
SoT 234: Rock Lobster
SoT 233: Growth Mindset
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