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The Science Show - Full Program Podcast — 195 episodes
Response to Australia’s ESO rejection
Getting more from fertiliser, viral DNA's vital role and help from hookworms!
Australia says no to European Southern Observatory collaboration, applications of quantum mechanics and testing trees’ response to rising carbon dioxide
Australian and New Zealand research presented at Falling Walls Berlin
Saving Australia’s R&D, robot for cleaning up oil, and quantum physics with Paul Davies
Possums thought to be extinct found in Papua, early Indigenous ingenuity, and how we adjust to ultra-processed food
New idea for the origin of language
Astronomy and toxicology converge at Caltech
How the US came close to losing half its science funding
Stories told by feet
Ancient humans lived in an Indonesian cave until Homo sapiens arrived
Social media ban impacts political knowledge of young Australians
Humpbacks threat, green cities and EVs, and origins of life
Mysterious stellar object discovered
Kiruna: The city that moved to make way for a mine
A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
Mary Somerville — Brilliant polymath, scientific genius
Celebrating 50 years of The Science Show
Émilie du Châtelet - portrait of a leader of the Enlightenment
Author Terry Pratchett’s links to science and Adelaide
Evidence shows no link between pain relief drugs and autism
3 young high achievers in science, and Sydney hosts space conference
Rare earth minerals – we’ll need geologists to find them
Bragg winners for science writing, more from the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and water droplets used for geoengineering
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and a dilemma over the appropriate use of artefacts from a Roman shipwreck
The history of life on Earth may be very different to what we think
Paint additive boosts plant growth in greenhouses
Teenagers encounter their challenges
2025 Nobel Prizes plus more from the British Science Festival
Reports from The British Science Festival in Liverpool England
Climate change and pollution effects seen on Palau
Uncovering the mystery of Palau’s ancient terraces
Quantum biology, two botanic gardens, and the importance of archaeology
Bird navigation, reducing food waste and a tribute to John Clarke
The Science Show celebrates 50 years
Complex molecules in space – how they formed and how they got here
Gene editing brings promise for genetic blood disorders
Back to the dark ages for American research?
Climatic changes everywhere as the world’s oceans become hotter
Tracing the 100-year history of quantum mechanics
Australia's forgotten inventor brothers
The trees that harness lightning to kill their rivals
What does it take to bring back an extinct animal?
A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper
Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole!
Black white and green
Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds
Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria
Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans?
A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show
The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years
The power of palaeontology
New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity.
Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant
A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have a biome?
Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?
Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress
Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?
Landscape and islands
Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race
Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research
Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men
A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again.
Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes
Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic?
Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives
Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids
Vale Felicia Huppert
Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back
The wonder of Australia’s deserts
Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it
Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today
Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes
Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again
Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll
Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami
Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer
Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam
Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy
Science Extra: March of the cane toads
Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope
Science Extra: Weight of the world
Science Show Summer - A wire around the world
Science Extra: More auroras in store?
Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste
Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson
Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
Dark energy – not necessarily constant
The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty
Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic
The Science Show celebrates 49 years
New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals
Merlin meets Dr Crispy
Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.
Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts
One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis
Stanford University: the great university with a dark side
The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss
The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter
The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories
The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles
Molecules with their own fingerprint
Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet
Age of Monotremes including three new genera
Are our tall forests really being saved?
Big savings possible for the world’s ships
Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia
Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage?
Scientists protest in Adelaide
Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish
The science of friendship
The amazing world of alpine plants
Meet the man who changed the world forever
Big things
US National Center for Atmospheric Research
Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts
Supernova!
How Chinese science was revealed to the world
Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields
Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG
The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists
Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies
H. G. Wells – father of science fiction
Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope
Portrait of Isaac Newton
Science Extra: One semaglutide please
What to do when science doesn’t cut through
Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines
The Anglo-Australian Telescope – approaching 50 years
Science Extra: It's gettin' hot in here
The bigger Australian story - Odyssey down under
Transitions
The Future Is Now
2FC now Radio National celebrates 100 years
The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy
The Science Show
Getting your rocks off
Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science
Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere
Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction
Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source
Here come the superstars
Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common?
What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet
A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air
Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose
Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience
Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer
Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival
What can we learn from five minutes of silence?
The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres
Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets
There's no age limit to science
Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within
Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite
Where science can lead: An isolated island, the slimy forest floor, and centre stage for stand-up
Communities team up with scientists to tackle flooding
Helping marine life thrive — from Fiji to Goondiwindi
Come inside the vault preserving Pacific plants for future generations
The surprising past — and promising future of women in science
The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds
Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton
Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe
Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday
A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology
Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart
Beaming energy to Earth from space
Technology helps scientists discover new species
Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water
World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen
Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory.
Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum
Visit the world’s biggest fission reactor under construction in France and discover the wonders of algae
The value of seagrasses, fish with remarkable powers and how parasites threaten aquatic life
Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians
Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil
A tour of the antimatter factory and John Wheeler remembered
Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak
The surprising Huxley family, certainty, and climate prospects for 2023
The evolution of galaxies and chasing the big cosmological questions
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics