Episodes

Kelp forests in peril and dinosaur lips

6 Apr 2023
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Quasicrystals and cellular sorting

30 Mar 2023
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Many worlds

Covid origin update, multiversal madness and IVF history

23 Mar 2023
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Graph of the critical temperature for superconducting of the new material vs applied pressure, along with photos of it changing colour at different pressures (Dasenbrock-Gammon et al., Nature, 2023)

Mosquito victims & superconductor claims

16 Mar 2023
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International Women's Day Special

9 Mar 2023
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A plated up cooked meal of chicken

What is the most pro-earth protein you can eat from farmed animals, and calculating risks of heart disease

2 Mar 2023
Claire Farugia, Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Good news is that our vertebrate ancestors may not have been horrifying vampire fish like these lampreys (Photo by Fernando Losada Rodríguez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Backbone evolution and black hole energy

23 Feb 2023
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Weather balloon science and science we missed in January

16 Feb 2023
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Android child sits at a desk

Journey to the centre of the earth and the end of homework as we know it.

9 Feb 2023
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Helpless humans and disruptive discoveries

2 Feb 2023
Claire Farrugia & Chris Lassig
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Barka (Darling River)

Summer Series: Claire talks to Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston about First knowledges of Australia

26 Jan 2023
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Guest: Zena Cumptson
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Summer series: Catriona on immunology & ecology

19 Jan 2023
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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A lion licks its lips

Summer Series: Claire talks mammals - protecting monotremes and rise of the warmbloods

12 Jan 2023
Claire Farugia, Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Summer series: Michael Mann on climate change

5 Jan 2023
Professor Michael Mann
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A target fuel pellet at the National Ignition Facility in the US, as it would appear to one of the high-powered lasers used to initiate nuclear fusion

Science stories of 2022: where are they now, and research we missed

29 Dec 2022
Stu Burns & Chris Lassig
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