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Episode 356 - Responding to signs of danger

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Episode 355 - Satellites keeping us safe on the ground

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Episode 354 - Safer pacemakers and mini machines inside our cells

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Episode 353 - Mysteries of plants, from using rare metals to boosting photosynthesis

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Episode 352 - Figuring out where sound comes from and perceiving pitch

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Episode 351 - A new dwarf planet and what makes an exoplanet habitable

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Episode 350 - Developing, tracking, recycling new materials

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Episode 349 - Domesticating fungus for our food

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Episode 348 - More efficient Lithium-Ion batteries and Organic Batteries

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Episode 347 - Capturing carbon with better farms and forests

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Episode 346 - Can washing machines help stop microplastics in oceans and make hospitals safer

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Episode 345 - Overactive immune brain cells and brain cells failing to eat themselves

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Episode 344 - Colliding galaxies, stellar foundires and the emptiness of space

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Episode 343 - The circadian rhythm of plants, and fighting back against fungus

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Episode 342 - Better chemistry and physics in everyday objects

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Episode 341 - Forming, Saving and preserving new memories

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Episode 338 - Exoplanets boiling and stretching, Goldilocks and Supernova

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Episode 332 - Affordable, smart and helpful prosthetics

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Episode 330 - A cells journey, from birth to death

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Episode 328 - Mathematics and Nature, from Bees to Choruses of Frogs

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Episode 325 - Racing against time, from Box Jellyfish to Alzheimers

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Episode 322 - Imaging strange objects in space (and on earth)

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Lagrange Point Episode 321 - Bacterial search engine, blending in with hosts

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Episode 319 - Changing lakes and rivers in the Antarctic and Arctic. Plus carbon capture and storage

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Episode 318 - Stubborn Moose, repulsive smells and Otters with tools

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Lagrange Point Episode 317 - Hydrogen fuel cells, storage, and cleaner generation

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Episode 316 - Mice that sing and see in infrared, balancing predators and 2019MMM Preview

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Episode 315 - Asteroids, meteorites and the destruction of moons

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Episode 314 - Ancient life and life in extreme places

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Episode 313 - Cross continent pop hits from whales and deep divers

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Episode 313 - Cross continent pop hits from whales and deep divers

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Episode 312 - Making water work for us in a Polar Vortex, Drought and Power plant

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Episode 311 - Stellar deaths, black holes, white dwarf accomplices and crystal stars

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Episode 310 - Glial cells and Neurons, putting a stop to degenerative neurological conditions

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Episode 309 - Mysterious signals from outside our galaxy!

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Episode 308 - Farewell to phantom limb pain, and better prostheses

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Episode 307 - Ancient druidic treatments, wasp venom and peptide cages

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Episode 306 - Drones as a force for good and evil

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Episode 305 - Reaching space, the darkside of the moon and wet asteroids

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Episode 304 - Flexible electronics, graphene transfer and paper sensors

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Episode 303 - The risks of life in the big city from insomnia to cardio-metabolic health

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Episode 302 - Ancient empires changing the planet, leaving behind ruins and relics

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Episode 301 - More effective Vaccines.

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Episode 300 - Once in a blue asteroid, hidden objects in the Lagrange Point

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Episode 299 - Redefining the kilogram a history of measurement

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Episode 298 - Self healing materials, scratch tests and the crockmeter

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Episode 297 - Antibiotic superweapons - hunter killer cells, dream teams and evolutionary history

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Lagrange Point Episode 296 - Fighting back against hayfever, what histamines do for you, stopping travellers sickness

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Episode 295 - Powerful and precise Lasers - Nobel Prize in Physics '18

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Episode 294 - What is the biggest bird; Island Giants and dwarfs.

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Episode 293 - Finding a fly in you drink, plus placebos on the brain - Ignobel Prize '18 Part 2

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Episode 292 - Roller coasters for medical treatment - Ignobel Prize 2018 Part 1

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Episode 291 - Concussion science, assessment frameworks and biomarkers

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Episode 290 - The strange chemistry of exoplanets from their cores to atmospheres

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Episode 289 - Unlikely alliances, from ancient virus and Koalas to farming fruit flies and coral alliances

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Episode 288 - Tackling Fatbergs, Recycling Li-On_batteries and new uses for cooking oil

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Episode 287 - Fighting back against fungal infections

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Episode 286 - Fields Medal 2018 - Solving problems in mathematics with tricks from other fields

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Episode 285 - Icey lakes on Mars, a planets worth of dust and unexplained oxygen

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Episode 284 - Solar panels that work in the shade, using coal waste and greener concrete

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Episode 283 - Dust storms carrying life, harming life and engulfing a planet

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Episode 282 - More precise precision medicine plus last chance medications

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Episode 281 - Interconnections between animals, ocean currents, climates and ecosystems

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Episode 280 - Nanodiamonds, Stardust, Comets and erasing Stars

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Episode 279 - Helping farmers fight back against climate change

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Episode 279 - Helping farmers fight back against climate change

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Episode 278 - Lasers combs for wifi and detecting smells

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Episode 277 - Breaking down the brain and figuring out how the pieces work

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Episode 276 - Hunting for gamma rays

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Episode 275 - Protecting biodiversity and ecosystems in flux

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Episode 274 - Micro plastics in the rivers, oceans and soil

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Episode 273 - Volcanoes across the world - keeping track of potential disasters

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Episode 272 - Better Zika virus treatments and making it work for us

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Episode 271 - Cleaning up our own mess - innovative new recycling methods

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Episode 270 - Heart racing sport, slowing aging and detecting doping

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Episode 269 - Finding their way through the magnetosphere with quantum mechanics and chemistry

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Episode 268 - Farewell Tiangong 1, space stations and managing space debris

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Episode 267 - Water, water everywhere, make it safe to drink

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Episode 266 - Strange ways of fighting antibacterial resistance from platypus milk to cooking an egg

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Episode 265 -March Mammal Madness preview, uncovering Tardigrades and the history of lungs

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Episode 264 - Peering back in time to light from the first stars

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Episode 263 -The science of marginal gains at the Winter Olympics

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Episode 262 -Biomaterials saving lives from spider silk cardiac tissue to sticky when wet bandages

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Episode 261 - Stopping unwanted Life on Mars

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Episode 260 - A glimpse of our future from the tropical rain forests and jungles

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Episode 259 - Quantum Computing - Australian of the Year - Prof Michelle Simmons

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Episode 258 - Australian biomedical science from labs on a chip to stopping biofilms

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Episode 257 - Tracking creatures from the deep with social media and NASA

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Episode 256 - Learning from primates about human culture

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Episode 255 - Taking the pain out of needles

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Episode 254 - Heavy metal stars and interstellar forges

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Episode 253 - Smarter food packaging to cut down on waste

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Episode 252 - Dinosaurs gliding and swimming like birds

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Episode 251 - Mysterious underwater worlds and oceans trapped in time

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Episode 250 - Mysterious objects from inside and outside the solar system

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Episode 249 - Unexpected journeys in science from spider silk to quantum proteins

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Episode 248 - Printing with more colours of the rainbow, solar panel printing and hidden messages

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Episode 247 - New techniques for non invasive imaging

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Episode 246 - Lessons on resilience from our insect friends

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Episode 245 - Making diesel less harmful to our lungs, farms and planet