This episode Jesse and Harry talk ants and tech: CSIRO's phenomenally successful eradication of African big-headed ants from Lord Howe Island. Good lord, how!? Cat food. Poisonous cat food. They also chat about autonomous cave-exploring droids

Episode 22: Purple Earth and plants' war for the rainbow, white rice; brown benefits, smells like Teen 13+, and an attack on titan

Oct 26th, 2018 25m 22s

Jesse sets off on a solo venture through the overgrown and tangled world of science news this Interronauts, beginning at the beginning with early Earth perhaps implanted with purple, not chlorophyll green, pigment, before heading undersea with

Episode 21: Science of indecision, helping fish with hands, space booty, and a chat with Rich Pillans, giant sawfish conservationist

Oct 11th, 2018 55m 52s

Umm...ah...it's Interronauts...we think. Join Jesse and Sarah as they discuss the ideal number of choices to choose from, a tiny imperilled fish and how we're helping to rebuild the critically endangered, fearsomely cute spotted handfish in Tas

Episode 20: Teenage mutagenic-ingesting turtles (how I gave up balloons), antibiotic inserts, transplant complications, and a Ceres of satellites

Sep 28th, 2018 37m 4s

Cowabunga! On this episode of Interronauts Kate and Gavin join Jesse to talk about scourges of our times: marine debris and antibiotic resistance, as well as science's endeavours to set us on the straight and narrow, the clean and biotic. They

Episode 19: Killer T: immunotherapy returns, hydrogen at the bowser, ancient cheese and vego sharks

Sep 14th, 2018 30m 49s

Up, up, and away with Kate and Gavin and Jesse on this episode of Interronauts where they talk about a new treatment for pancreatic cancer using killer cells, CSIRO's new vehicles powered not on gasoline but hydrogen, and a fortnightly science

Episode 18: Minority Report billboards, un-electric chairs, iron-less cotton, and this fortnight in science news

Aug 31st, 2018 41m 15s

This episode technophile Ketan teaches technophobe Jesse about big data and the big burden it bears, why robot marketers are more unnerving than you know, how hackers might have swiped your fingerprints (drats; crims are supposed to leave 'em b

Episode 17: Mm, I get high-rises with a little help from my fronds, Martian lakes, microbial census, and swiped IDs

Aug 16th, 2018 1h 4m

Take a walk on the mild side with Rif and Jesse on this XL episode as they explain why Australia was in dire need of a marine microbe census, how every touch of your smartphone screen gives you away, the liquid water lake (what!?) on Mars, and

Episode 16: Endangered sexy ibis, Marine Heatwave Gary, gold in eucalypts, and Antarctic flora

Aug 3rd, 2018 39m 11s

In this J-mad episode, Josie, Jessie, and Jesse discuss the need for naming marine heatwaves like you might hurricanes, the plight of the waylaid northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), using non-invasive, surface-level cues for detecting gold

Episode 15: Please no Genie McGene Face, infertile invasive mozzies, and science digest

Jul 19th, 2018 38m 3s

Get your fly swats out (or your sleepy cheeks) because this episode researchers Kate Tepper and Gavin Volpato join Jesse to chat about our project to release sterilised male mosquitoes to drown-out an invasive mozzie species responsible for den

Episode 14: Robolibrarians, medical marijuana for pets, dwindling Antarctica, and +200 new species

Jul 6th, 2018 41m 7s

This episode, Ketan Joshi from our Data61 team joins Interronauts to talk about the future, specifically, the future of AI and autonomous cars, and all things robo-librarians, not to mention a recent study on Antarctica set 50 years in the futu

Episode 13: Broccoli lattes, robot ecologists, and a new hope against the feline menace

Jun 21st, 2018 41m 33s

Interronauts' nine month hiatus is abatus and we're back! This episode, Sarah Frazer joins the roster to talk about our robot ecologists in the Amazon, the plan to augment feral cats into all-male clowders, the use of ugly veggies into delight

[Bonus bowerbird episode]: Collected cut stories, feral cats, festive heart attacks, Croque-MonScience, bloopers, and more misc.

Aug 25th, 2017 38m 28s

For fear of wasting food, have you ever scrounged about in your fridge, gathering ingredients like a feasting bowerbird and bungled them together into an oddly satisfying meal? Not sure why that's relevant, because here's a bonus episode of our

Episode 12: Elephant scarecrow, the OG, Adam & Eve of flowers, tarantula venom to save sheep, and Interronauts farewell

Aug 11th, 2017 44m 58s

Well listeners, this is it for a little bit — Season One of Interronauts is over. In our last episode, we've got new technology from CSIRO: giving scarecrows a brain, we've got the evolution of the first flower ever (what!?), we've got more res

Episode 11: Eggs to live birth - how pregnancy evolved, Alzheimer's link with iron deposits, bonobos don't overimitate, and Cassini's grand finale

Jul 28th, 2017 46m 44s

This fortnight Jesse and Sophie have a special selection of science news, plucked from all over town in this, their penultimate episode. In their first ontogenetic episode yet, they chat about breaking news from Yale on the evolution of pregnan

Episode 10: Caterpillars brainwashed into cannibals, Sampling the Abyss, Croque-MonScience, and transforming uggo fruit into stars

Jul 17th, 2017 38m 10s

Join Jesse and Sophie as they snap back to reality, whope there goes gravity...*ahem* — as they discuss last fortnight's science news: plant defences that turn herbivorous caterpillars into cannibals, our RV Investigator's voyage to Sample the

Episode 9: Where brains store faces, ancient origins of humans, blood vessel algorithm, and Aus spider guide magic

Jun 16th, 2017 37m 15s

Join Jesse and Sophie as they cast their net overboard to snag last fortnight's science news before heaving it aboard with their gelatinous biceps for us all to sort through. Here's the catch: they talk about how it is that we're able to rememb

Episode 7: Polyamorous hammerheads, healthy devils fade fastest, renewable fuels, and a chat with the Jellyfish Goddess

May 19th, 2017 33m 48s

Dive back into science news with the Interronauts! Jesse and Sophie are back with a brand new episode, studio, the whole kit and caboodle (kitten cavoodle?). They talk about why it is that the fittest Tassie devils are most likely to succumb to

Episode 6: The Great Dying, Anal Mandrills, Cutting Cow Methane W/ Seaweed, & Neanderthal Jewellery

Apr 20th, 2017 41m 31s

Join Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian as they talk about how the world's worst extinction was caused by microbes, mandrills that don't groom those with sickly faeces, Neanderthal's making jewellery, and their chat with Dr Rob Kinley about his research

Bonus

[Bonus Deleted (r)extras: Extended Tyrannosaur Skull Segment, And Full Interview With Dr Salisbury]

Apr 6th, 2017 31m 42s

In this extended dino version of Interronauts, we talk about the newly discovered Daspletosaurus horneri and its exquisitely preserved skull.We also speak with Dr Steve Salisbury from the University of Queensland about his research on the Dino

Episode 5: T. Rex Lovers, Toxin-testing Lab-on-a-glove, The Largest Dino Print & Martian Atmospheres

Apr 6th, 2017 34m 41s

Join the Interronauts—Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian—as they go dinosaur hunting along the west Australian coastline with Dr Steve Salisbury (not Turok). They also chat about sensitive dinolovers, CSIRO's new lab-on-a-glove, and Mars' ghost of an at

Episode 4: Carp Herpes, Glass Tardigrades, Nasal Origins, Splashier Splashes, And Sheep With Fitbits

Mar 23rd, 2017 41m 23s

Join Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian as they dive deep on the evolution of the human nose, tardigrades (check 'em out) and how they dry out for 30 years, why water droplets splash, and some work on climbing foxes. They also speak with Dr Ken McColl a

Episode 3: Gate-crashing Gut Flora, Storing Movies On DNA, Arthropods Of Our Homes, & Titanium Bones

Mar 9th, 2017 33m 13s

Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian get together to chat about the uninvited microbes that stumble into our guts, how you can store Amazon gift cards on DNA, the mutations behind mirror movement disorder, and CSIRO's 3D printing of a titanium sternum and

Episode 2: Spartan Ants, Graphene From Soybeans, VNs, And A Chat With Antarctica

Feb 23rd, 2017 34m 11s

Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian join interroforces to discuss the antimicrobial properties of dragonfly wings, how roundworm genes might inform weight gain, how desert ants navigate their way home, and from CSIRO, a new way to make graphene (the worl

Pilot Episode: Whale Menopause, Panda Thumbs, Frisky Wrens, And Antarctic Voyages

Feb 5th, 2017 29m 30s

Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian talk about menopausal whales, panda thumbs, Tasmanian tiger brains, and frisky wrens. They also have a chat with Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith about the launch of the new ASKAP radio telescope, and discuss research around CSIRO

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