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101

His snailyness (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 3)

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Rats to the rescue (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 2)

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The mighty fly army (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 1)

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Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author[REPEAT]

105

Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed?

106

Move over Mills and Boon, the HOT SCIENTISTS are here

107

The STEAM Room science experiment — I wannabe a stand-up comic!

108

How two short words triggered a racism reckoning for plant scientists

109

The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure (REPEAT)

110

The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind (REPEAT)

111

Should Big Pharma profit from secret COVID-19 vaccine deals? Moderna responds

112

Feeling a bit hopeless? Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is here for YOU

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Scratch that itch! She of flamenco flair and molecular dances

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AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her

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World-first pig to human heart transplant. What happened?

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Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist

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Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain - superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky

118

Foodies, why you should give a f*** about farming!

119

The gun dealer’s defence — on nukes, fossil fuels, and Australia

120

Breaking Buruli, part two

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Breaking Buruli, part one

122

Masha and Dasha

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Twinning!

124

Does Omicron spell the end of Covid-zero in China?

125

Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do (REPEAT)

126

The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world (REPEAT)

127

Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice (REPEAT)

128

Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers (REPEAT)

129

I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood (REPEAT)

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From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel (REPEAT)

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Science meets high vaudeville - who will win our 2021 quiz?

132

Nature Fast, Nature Slow - ballistic mushrooms, moss piglets and more!

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The Lost Family - how DNA testing is upending our lives

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Two guys. Two kayaks. And 2500km to make the Murray River sing

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Get me out of here! My life in medical research is on life support

136

Carbon capture and storage – climate saviour or fantasy?

137

Net Zero by 2050 - is the Earth at the negotiating table at COP26?

138

Sex cells! Are there just two biological sexes? [Part 2 of 2]

139

Simón(e) Sun - I knew I was trans because of science [Part 1]

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In deep: why mining is heading to the seafloor

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What's up Doc? Elmer Fudd meets biological warfare

142

My Afghanistan escape - just a body, not a soul, or a heart (Part 2)

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What happens when your students join the Taliban? Afghan scientists in hiding (Part 1)

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We've got cosmic vertigo!

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The art of more - did maths create civilisation?

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The virus busters: how do you kill something that's not really alive?

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What if Picasso's canvas was smaller than a human hair? (REPEAT)

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Science Week debate: You can't handle the (scientific) truth!

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Hunting the ghosts of pandemics past

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When fish are kin: Max Liboiron's anti-colonial science

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The long COVID doctors (Part 2 of 2)

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The long COVID doctors (Part 1 of 2)

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The art and science of Deep Time travel

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Pain-free meat — is it possible?

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Medicine listen up! Birthing on country makes the land shake

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The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure

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The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind

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14-day rule on human embryo research – why do scientists want it lifted?

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The wattle war

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The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing! [REPEAT]

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Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird [REPEAT]

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Troublemakers for truth — death threats for calling out bad COVID science

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The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world

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Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice

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I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood

166

Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers

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The mystery of the flute boy bones: a child lost in time

168

Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN (REPEAT)

169

Trust after genocide: this African COVID success is a big wake-up call for the West

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Laurence Vincent Lapointe's 'Pee of Gold': Has anti-doping science gone too far?

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How to Be Animal - go on, embrace your inner beast!

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Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author

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Meaning in mayhem: COVID death counts and a Black Lives Matter reckoning

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Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do

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DEMONS: be scared, very scared*

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From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel

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Of Mice and Men: This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it.

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COVID-19, China’s wild wet markets, pangolins, and bats - is it US not THEM?

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School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)

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How to be Two Ways strong: Dreamtime science and finding yourself (Part 1)

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The carnivorous woman – a saga from Charles Darwin to Wheatbelt Western Australia (Part 2)

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A wild and whimsical world of flesh-eating plants (Part 1)

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Mike's Miracle at Lightning Ridge

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Two thousand flamingos & a war-torn island: controversy over Australian mine proposal

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Phallacy! Life lessons from the animal penis

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The BIG 20 Science Friction quiz! Wow or what!? moments in 21C science

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How do you solve a problem like Dark Matter? With poet Alicia Sometimes

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Machines as kin or the new colonisers? Indigenous tech revolutionaries rethinking A.I

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Hacks turned quacks!

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Arson, evil and getting inside humanity's dark side: Dr Julia Shaw and Chloe Hooper

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Censorship, political interference, and COVID-19 chaos - should scientists take a position in USA Election?

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These doctors got COVID-19, now they're suffering the serious, mysterious symptoms of 'long COVID'

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The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing!

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Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird

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Click-Sick: Part 3 Can 'wellness' make you...sick?

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Click-Sick: Part 2 The hidden political forces pushing pandemic conspiracies

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Click-Sick: Part 1 Why sharing isn't always caring. On the trail of COVID-19 misinformation

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The rise of vaccine nationalism – should we be worried?

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Presents... Patient Zero

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This river is a Person – Maori knowing meets Western science