Boiling planets being stretched and squished. Tiny white dwarf stars going supernova. Goldilocks planets potentially with liquid water. Exoplanet hunting is now a lot easier with missions like TESS and veterans like Hubble. We look at some special cases, and how searching for 1 planet can uncover loads more. Sometimes planets are lurking in old observatory data, we just need to know where to look. Too hot, too cold, GJ357 potentially has a planet that's just right with liquid water. What causes a White Dwarf to go supernova? It needs more than itself to kickstart it into a Type 1a nova...so where does the extra boost come from? Devouring another planet? Or another star?
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Episode 298 - Self healing materials, scratch tests and the crockmeter
Episode 297 - Antibiotic superweapons - hunter killer cells, dream teams and evolutionary history
Lagrange Point Episode 296 - Fighting back against hayfever, what histamines do for you, stopping travellers sickness
Episode 295 - Powerful and precise Lasers - Nobel Prize in Physics '18
Episode 294 - What is the biggest bird; Island Giants and dwarfs.
Episode 293 - Finding a fly in you drink, plus placebos on the brain - Ignobel Prize '18 Part 2
Episode 292 - Roller coasters for medical treatment - Ignobel Prize 2018 Part 1
Episode 291 - Concussion science, assessment frameworks and biomarkers
Episode 290 - The strange chemistry of exoplanets from their cores to atmospheres
Episode 289 - Unlikely alliances, from ancient virus and Koalas to farming fruit flies and coral alliances
Episode 288 - Tackling Fatbergs, Recycling Li-On_batteries and new uses for cooking oil
Episode 287 - Fighting back against fungal infections
Episode 286 - Fields Medal 2018 - Solving problems in mathematics with tricks from other fields
Episode 285 - Icey lakes on Mars, a planets worth of dust and unexplained oxygen
Episode 284 - Solar panels that work in the shade, using coal waste and greener concrete
Episode 283 - Dust storms carrying life, harming life and engulfing a planet
Episode 282 - More precise precision medicine plus last chance medications
Episode 281 - Interconnections between animals, ocean currents, climates and ecosystems
Episode 280 - Nanodiamonds, Stardust, Comets and erasing Stars
Episode 279 - Helping farmers fight back against climate change
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