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Boiling Point — 81 episodes

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The role of memory in terrestrial ecosystems

2

Zombification and Museum Collections: the Sci and Fi

3

Spying on Kangaroos

4

What’s in a song? How urban environments change animal behaviour

5

By tooth and nail: Uncovering the ancient history of marsupials

6

Fungi Unearthed: Digging into the Myco-Mysteries of mushrooms!

7

What’s blind, buoyant, and brainless? Bluebottles!

8

What the hail is going on!?

9

The History of Machine Learning in Automation

10

Conserving Mars

11

Ecosystems at risk

12

Understanding the secret language of plants

13

Head in the skies: exploring the psychology of pilots

14

Fire – Friend and Foe?

15

Beneath the Waves: Unmasking the Coral Disease Maze

16

Unlocking the Secrets of Intelligence

17

Talking Australia’s reefs with Dr John Turnbull

18

Detecting lung diseases by breath analysis

19

The Science behind diet and exercise

20

Marine heatwaves explained

21

A Freezing Dive: Hannah and the Antarctic Ocean Currents

22

Tash and the Sea Cucumbers!

23

Gentle Giants of the Ocean: Manta Rays

24

Sam, Vow, and the Future of Cell-Cultured Meat!

25

What poop can tell us about whales

26

Evading predators with colour

27

What does a maritime archeologist do?

28

How plants respond to climate change

29

Nora and the kangaroos

30

Liz and the blennies

31

Griff and the importance of seagrass

32

The sixth major extinction event and illegal wildlife trafficking

33

Sarah and the sea stars

34

Rick and the Sydney rock oysters

35

Hannah the jungle vet

36

The adventure of becoming a doctor

37

A career in science communication

38

Stressed?!

39

From Science to Comedy to Marketing

40

Chronic Wasting Disease – the slow death of deer

41

Solar Energy = Good Energy

42

Varroa mite vs feral honey bees – Boiling Point Science interviews Associate Professor Patrick O’Connor

43

How we can support women in STEM

44

Shark nets kill – Help to ban shark nets!

45

Poopy Parasites

46

Psychedelics – a new era in mental health treatment?

47

PhDo or PhDont?

48

Evolving out of Water

49

A parasite in an invader

50

How dinosaurs were first discovered

51

Got a 3D printer? Let’s make organs!

52

Pint of Science 2022 in Sydney: How do animals deal with climate change?

53

Understanding Invasive Species

54

Making Science into Comedy

55

Why do great white sharks attack people?

56

No friends means no offspring – the tough life of male dolphins

57

Underwater weather reports – made in Sydney

58

PFAS and polar bears – chemical pollution in the Arctic

59

Fighting creepy with crawly: Spider venom in drug discovery

60

Sniffer Dogs for Koala Conservation