Podcasts

$2.4 billion proposal to commercialise science and the importance of infant gut bacteria

Published: March 20, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Fossil fish site in central NSW now in safe hands and Manly festival celebrates beauty and importance of seaweed

Published: March 13, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 19 seconds

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How Rosalind Franklin aided our pandemic response and attracting the world’s top researchers, despite COVID

Published: March 6, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 4 seconds

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Fish moving polewards and 3D printing of body parts

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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We’ve removed 90% of all large fish from the oceans. Just 10% to go.

Published: Feb. 13, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Consciousness amongst animals and the story of the dire wolf

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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As mining causes roads to crack and houses to collapse, a Swedish city is moved

Published: Jan. 30, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds

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Science Extra: The Moon is more fun than Venus

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds

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Howard Florey - the Australian researcher who developed penicillin

Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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Science Extra: What happened to the COVIDSafe app?

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds

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A portrait of Sir John Eccles - Australian pioneer of neuroscience

Published: Jan. 16, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Science Extra: When your flatmate is Homo erectus

Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds

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A book for children about environmental change, and the discovery of mauve

Published: Jan. 9, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Science Extra: A mountain in the deep

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 3 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds

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Writing science

Published: Jan. 2, 2021, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 50 seconds

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Science Extra: Inside a frantic year in health news

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 21 seconds

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Two scientists, a man and a woman, who changed the course of history

Published: Dec. 26, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild

Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Would you take a ray gun to ringworm?

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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After the AM, here comes the WAM

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Australian Museum reopens, a new monkey named and an emu tries to fly

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds

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The 21st century so far

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 13 seconds

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The profound versus the preposterous - Life vs loony.

Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Three Prime Minister’s Science Prize winners

Published: Nov. 7, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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The Prime Minister’s Science Prize

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 27 seconds

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Hope in Hell?

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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No more fish?

Published: Oct. 17, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The North Pole, gentle robots and the future of AI

Published: Oct. 10, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Three exceptional women

Published: Oct. 3, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Venus - another prompt for the regeneration of science?

Published: Sept. 26, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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How to eliminate CO2 emissions from agriculture? The answer lies in the soil!

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Pipsqueak dinosaurs – How did they become top monsters?

Published: Sept. 12, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Can you have a BBQ 40,000 years before people land?

Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Lithium potential for Australia and time running out climate change action

Published: Aug. 29, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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New ideas about our food choices and how taste and pleasure have helped drive evolution

Published: Aug. 22, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Shall we join the quantum revolution?

Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Dr Dolittle turns 100 and the complex behaviour of birds

Published: Aug. 8, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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The seaweed revolution and keeping brains fit

Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds

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The history of Boeing and the future of passenger flight

Published: July 25, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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The Pilbara - used by ancient people and NASA, blown up by Rio Tinto

Published: July 18, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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The Frog Man remembered + global genomes

Published: July 11, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Are physicists bonkers?

Published: July 4, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Could there be a Goldilocks Universe? And how to save our seahorses

Published: June 27, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds

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The Science Show shares some of its favourite books

Published: June 20, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 12 seconds

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Vale the professor of everything

Published: June 13, 2020, 2:06 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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Climate grief 3 - How comedians approach climate change

Published: June 6, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Tiahni Adamson - first ever Indigenous Time at Sea Scholarship recipient and how hard it is to read faces.

Published: May 30, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Fear for the Amazon, and a chance to compost yourself!

Published: May 23, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 12 seconds

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Climate grief 2 - Singer-songwriter Missy Higgins

Published: May 16, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Climate grief

Published: May 9, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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PREVIEW RN Presents — Hot Mess: Why haven’t we fixed climate change?

Published: April 28, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds

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Jane Goodall, Christof Koch and an app to save dollars

Published: April 25, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 51 seconds

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Three superstars – and one’s only 18!

Published: April 18, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Asteroids chock full of water, multiverses, and our planet full of life – deep as you go!

Published: April 11, 2020, 2:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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A schoolgirl’s plea, a flying monster and kids on screens

Published: April 4, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Fear! Should we be frightened? ...and survive?

Published: March 28, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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Why is it so cold in here?

Published: March 21, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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The arts meet the sciences - and ads in the sky?

Published: March 14, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 29 seconds

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Our superginormous black hole is hungry again

Published: March 7, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 20 seconds

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The grid is wobbling – what to do? And here comes the WA Scientist of the Year, and he’s running!

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 1:05 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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