Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:00:39 When it comes to giving birth in the animal world, there's mostly only two options: live babies, or eggs. But very rarely, it can be both! Such is the case with the yellow-bellied three-toed skink.
00:06:37 Imagine solar power that worked at night! That's (kind of) the promise of a new type of solar cell being developed by two American researchers.
00:19:50 If you want to train a robot dog, there's the hard way and there's the easy way. The hard way is manually coding everything you want the dog to do. The easy way is to develop machine learning software that learns from watching other dogs!
This episode contains traces of Michael Rowland and Lisa Miller discussing Singapore's robot dog technique of enforcing physical distancing, on ABC News Breakfast.
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!
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Sasquatch Chronicles
The Confessionals
Radiolab
Sasquatch Odyssey
Science Friday