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Sean Elliott joins us to talk about the origins of life and his upcoming Melbourne Fringe show,\xa0Rough Science: Life.
Cobi Smith joins us from CERN to talk about her\xa0Melbourne Fringe show, Delusions of Slander.
The\xa0mystery of the \u2018Wandering Stones\u2019 of Death Valley\xa0may no longer be a mystery. Researchers have used video cameras, GPS units and a weather station to document and track how these large rocks move along the dry lake bed.
Researchers at the University of Ottawa have done a really cool experiment with bichirs \u2013 a kind of fish that has gills and lungs. Bichirs have been known on occasion to walk on land \u2013 although somewhat awkwardly. But these researcherswere looking into the evolution of walking limbs. Essentially how our ancestors first crawled out of the ocean and became land-dwellers
Russia\u2019s\xa0infamous \u2018space sex geckos\u2019 did not survive\xa0their microgravity mating experiment. It is believed the heating equipment failed and the lizards froze to death.