Science On Top

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Peter Miller 00:01:10 There's a planet orbiting star HD26965, exactly where Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said Spock's homeworld Vulcan would be. 00:04:16 A fresh analysis of 10 year old data finds the best evidence yet of water vapor venting from Jupiter's fourth largest moon, Europa. 00:05:17 Watch Peter Miller's artistic imagining of life on Europa here. 00:06:11 The oldest example of abstract art, from 73,000 years ago, resembles a hashtag. 00:10:14 Scientific debate has erupted over what could possibly be the world's oldest fossils ever found - or they could be just rocks. 00:14:09 Eating a California Reaper is probably a bad idea, as one man found out when he tried what was then the world's hottest chili. 00:18:06 Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the Caribbean, but they also provided a unique glimpse at evolution. The research involved a lot of measurements, some lizards, and a leaf blower. 00:21:16 This year, we found out how wombats make cubed poops. 00:2