Episodes

The Orion Project; Significance; Climate Change and domestic animals

30 Jun 2016
Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Australian Academy of Science: Shine Dome

Election science funding promises

23 Jun 2016
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig, Manisha Bhardwaj
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A lesser long-nosed bat pollinates a cross section of a saguaro cactus flower (Photo by Merlin D. Tuttle, Bat Conservation International, via USDA & Flickr)

Potatoes + blood pressure, bats + cacti, and science + film

16 Jun 2016
Lisa Bailey
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Randomness, Night Owls vs early Birds, and Cephalopods take over the ocean

9 Jun 2016
Hosts: Stuart Burns, Manisha Bhardwaj, Claire Farrugia Guests: Dr. Zoe Doubleday
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Fat labradors; new findings on genetically engineered crops and a look at Manganese

2 Jun 2016
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Carp herpes, Noisy miners, Canadian wildfires and diagnosing Parkinson's disease

26 May 2016
Paul Fisher
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A meteor travels through earth's atmosphere

Aphantasia; Devil tumour breakthrough; Eta Aquarid metor shower

19 May 2016
Claire Farrugia; Chris Lassig; Manisha Bhardwaj
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A salty takes a break

Saltwater Crocs; Japanese earthquakes; Dorothy Hodgkin

12 May 2016
Manisha Bharwaj, Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns
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Baby koala vs a bunch of ghost bats (Photos by Erik Veland and Mark Marathon respectively, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammal bias, insect consciousness and fruit fly control

5 May 2016
Ernie Steiner
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Sweet potato varities have long held expressed genes from otehr organisms

Pole Position, "natural" GM, and "un-natural" bacteria

28 Apr 2016
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia
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Coral bleaching at Lizard Island in the northern Great Barrier Reef (Credit: Dorothea Bender-Champ for ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies)

Coral bleaching, bacterial comics and fantasy maths

21 Apr 2016
James Kerry & Gregory Crocetti
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You may recognise it as edamame, but it's also known Glycine max, the ubiquitous soybean (Photo by H. Zell, via Wikimedia Commons)

Bystander effect, wanderlust gene, and phytoestrogens

14 Apr 2016
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The Tesla 3

Hobbit extinction, Electric Dreams, Batmanisha

7 Apr 2016
Chris Lassig, Claire Farrugia, Manisha Bhardwaj
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Portrait of René Descartes with Bunsen burner (apologies to Frans Hals)

Pregnant T-Rex, science birthdays and WD-40

31 Mar 2016
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Pirate Bay of science, cold and flu tablets and your cat's personality

24 Mar 2016
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