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 232: Peanut Butter Makes Everything Better
SoT 231: Smoking Pigs
SoT 230: Meat Ants
SoT 229: Lower Ranked Rats
SoT 228: That's So Birch
SoT 227: Aha! There's A Thing!
SoT 226: Seismic Swarms
SoT 225: Memoirs Of A Janitor
Sot 224: Useless Babies
SoT 223: Terminal Buzz
SoT 222: Zombie Penguin!
SoT 221: A Brick On A Sparrow
SoT 220: Paleo That!
SoT 219: Mother's Guilt
SoT 218: It Rips Its Face Off
SoT 217: The Telescope That John West Rejected
SoT 216: Wobble When They Waddle
SoT 215: Yellow Big Head
SoT 214: Gravitational Waves
SoT 213: Everything Zika
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