Episodes

Flying after migratory birds, an unsung female astronomer, and another final paper from Stephen Hawking

18 Oct 2018
Amelia Formby
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Donna Strickland winner of 2018 Nobel prize for Physics

Donna Strickland wins Nobel Prize for Physics; Environmental Film Festival; Greenhouse gas emissions missing targets

11 Oct 2018
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia Guest: Chris Gerbing
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Komodo Dragon in Komodo National Park, Indonesia

Komodo Dragons and closer look at Glyphosate research

4 Oct 2018
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Great women of science, and tuskless elephants

27 Sep 2018
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Beneficial bacteria? Research says "maybe"

Do probiotics work? The 2018 Ignobel Prizes

20 Sep 2018
Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves? Also bats, naked mole rats, and more!

13 Sep 2018
Micaela Jemison
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Eureka Prizes for science, science of spaghetti breaking and rosehip neurons

6 Sep 2018
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The numbat is one of thousands of Australian animals found nowhere else in the world

What does the brain stem do, and when is National Threatened Species Day?

30 Aug 2018
Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns, Guest: Dr David Farmer
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Cheese that's way, way, way, way past its use-by date (Image from University of Catania and Cairo University)

Understanding AI, lazy hominins and ancient cheese

23 Aug 2018
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Tiger shark snout showing the pores of its ampullae of Lorenzini, for detecting electric fields (photo by Albert kok, via Wikimedia Commons)

TRIPLE CREATURE FEATURE; Magnet hating sharks, psychedelic cicadas and arctic wolfspiders

16 Aug 2018
Vincent Raoult
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Lost in Science Week!

9 Aug 2018
Hosts: Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia Guest: Chris Gyngell
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Underwater view of a droplet hitting a water surface, forming a resonant bubble (Image Phillips et al., Scientific Reports)

Water plinking physics, space grease and commuting bacteria

2 Aug 2018
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How do wetlands sequester carbon? And is green space in cities good for people?

26 Jul 2018
Hosts: Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia Guest: Paul Carnell
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How will climate change affect the planet? Why haven't we gone back to the moon? What does the new exoplanet tell us?

19 Jul 2018
Claire Farrugia, Stuart Burns, Chris Lassig
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Newly discovered sauropod dinosaur Ingentia Prima (Image supplied by Jorge A. Gonzalez)

Thalidomide, Koko the gorilla, and new (old) giant dinosaur

12 Jul 2018
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