SoT 289: A Wisdom of Wombats
Channel: Science on Top
Date: 2018-03-20

SoT 289: A Wisdom of Wombats
http://scienceontop.com/289

The Juno spacecraft has returned extraordinary new data about Jupiter's cloud system and interior.
Diabetes, which affects about 415 million people around the world, has conventionally been categorised into three types - Type 1, Type 2 and gestational diabetes. But a new study indicates that there may in fact be 6 different types of diabetes.
Using satellite and drone technology, researchers have found a new supercolony of more than 1.5 million Adélie penguins.
A tribe of people that lived in Southern Africa nearly a thousand years ago have unintentionally left a legacy that is now a new source of information about the Earth's magnetic field. Penny is reading The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin.

Dr. Helen Maynard-Casely is an instrument scientist for the WOMBAT high-intensity powder diffractometer at the Bragg Institute. She writes“The Shores of Titan” column on The Conversation. Her most recent scientific paper, The Acetylene-Ammonia Co-crystal on Titan, is published in the journal ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.

This episode contains traces of Liz MacDonald, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, describing a newly discovered type of aurora.

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Chapters:
00:02:37 Nasa spacecraft reveals Jupiter's interior in unprecedented detail https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/07/nasa-spacecraft-reveals-jupiters-interior-in-unprecedented-detail
00:14:51 Five categories for adult diabetes, not just type 1 and type 2, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/01/five-categories-for-adult-diabetes-not-just-type-1-and-type-2-study-shows
00:20:39 A Supercolony of Penguins Has Been Found Near Antarctica https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/science/adelie-penguins-supercolony-antarctica.html
00:25:54 What Ancient African Huts Reveal About Earth's Magnetic Flips https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/earth-magnetic-field-south-atlantic-anomaly-africa-science/
00:31:43 The Fifth Season(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Season_(novel)
00:35:01 The Acetylene-Ammonia Co-crystal on Titan https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.7b00135
00:36:19 Science on Top http://scienceontop.com/