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The Science Show - Separate stories podcast — 334 episodes
Lab Notes: The redback sex-death somersault
The Butterfly Thief
The remarkable Scott sisters
Who should be called Homo?
The problem with fast-flowing rivers
Feeding fats to corals
Lab Notes: The 'Hail Mary' effort to rescue a telescope
Australians smashing it at CERN
Vale botanist Peter Raven
Pollen grains reveal Australia's first flowering plants
Plants that trap insects
Smelly feet attractive for nematodes
Vale Bill Oddie
Hurdles for new battery technology
Victoria's first dark matter detector fires up
Mathematics as the basis of western musical harmony and how J. S. Bach loved numbers
Descend two kilometres underground to the cleanest lab on Earth
Mushroom Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Fungal Lives
Animal senses that work as well in water as on land
Plotting the Oceans: Stories of Powerful Maps and Their Makers
Fluorescent sensors bring cell contents to life
Botany courses becoming an endangered species
Future Right Now reveals concerns of young people
Mirror life risks catastrophe
Diverse background ideal for leader in pioneering science
Celebrating Charles Todd, father of the Overland Telegraph
Lab Notes: How do we predict the snow season?
White possums in peril
How bacteria behave in the body
Fossil graveyards an archive of climate and ecology
The future of sleep
Gillard tribute to Ogilvie
Lab Notes: What's it like to be in a clinical trial?
What Matters? prize-winners reflect on essays
The science of gluten-free baking
Ultrasound used to monitor glaciers in Antarctica
Aboriginal oral history offers clues about Australia’s volcanism
Lab Notes: Is AI taking over mathematics?
The making and storage of memory
Quarantine to protect native mammals from bird flu
How education is being reshaped to open even more doors
The science of peace?
Lab Notes: Is space junk destroying the ozone layer?
How eugenics helped start the birth control movement
The search for elusive subatomic particles - deep in a Canadian nickel mine
Terence Tao's King's birthday honour
Bird brains help biologists understand human brains
Lab Notes: The bird flu risk for Aussie wildlife
Auroras - seen on Earth at the poles and beyond
Australia’s tropical herbarium
Do insects feel pain?
The Selfish Gene turns 50
The role of cellular organelles in fighting pathogens such as toxoplasmosis
Dangerously Well
Lab Notes: What happens when a whale dies?
How Australia can be a leader in clean energy
Roads the biggest threat to tropical forests
Echidnas – not only spiky, but strong with a large brain
The sword linking Filipino pirates to Lord Nelson
Can AI talk whale?
Vale Bridget Ogilvie
Evolution on campus – and in your town
Do crickets feel pain?
Restoring the Daintree rainforest
E=mc2: an equation, a book and a musical for schools
Olympics sex testing will not produce conclusive results
Epilepsy pioneer elected 21st president of the Australian Academy of Science
Kingsley Dixon shares his love for botany and the environment
The ins and outs of pollination
Preparing for the next pandemic
Bird flu moving around Antarctica, Australia threatened
Dark energy – is it running down?
Budget implications for science and research
Scientific challenges in Australia’s tropical north
Vaccines from mammal cells
Monster winds on alien worlds
Ambitious Australia
David Attenborough celebrates 100 years
Lab Notes: What happens if a major ocean current … stops?
Vale Desmond Morris
How to maintain young students’ enthusiasm for science
Research funding in Australia falters
Academy farewells CEO Anna-Maria Arabia
Isotopes reveal environmental deep history
Future threatened if major changes don’t occur
More from Chloe Kwan
Mapping - four engrossing stories
Australia says no to major science collaboration
Lab Notes: Aussies loved Artemis II — and they want more
Celebrating Artemis
Rhonda Marriott wins WA premier's science award
Parasitic worms used to treat autoimmune diseases
We exist thanks to viral DNA
15-year-old can't get enough science!
Nylon that harvests energy from movement and pressure
Getting the most bang for your fertiliser buck
Lab Notes: Is measles back?
Carbon offsets – do they work?
Will rising CO2 provide enhanced growth in the world’s forests?
Applications for quantum mechanics
We know about the rain in Spain. But what about the rain on an ultra-hot Jupiter?
Looking beyond the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
Royal Society of NSW responds to Ambitious Australia report
Lab Notes: What can we grow on the Moon?
Lab Notes: Can we replace lab animals?
Hope for seagrasses in a warming world
Quantum 2.0 - The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Physics
Celebrating 10 years of gravitational waves
Swimming robot to clean up oil
How to save underperforming R&D
Lab Notes: NASA's mission to the Moon
Singing and dancing tardigrades take to the stage
Gut bacteria adjust to digest ultra-processed food
Pottery reveals rich human history on Lizard Island
Seagrasses perform a key ecological role
Two marsupials thought to be extinct found in Indonesian Papua
Lab Notes: Super-K flu is here … but it's not our biggest problem
New account for the birth of language
Making new life forms from DNA with help from AI!
Australian honey also carries medicinal properties
Formula One racing – is talk of sustainable fuel greenwashing?
Lab Notes: Slip! Slop! Slap! SUCCESS!
Australian brilliance in radio astronomy
How finance intersects with space science
In praise of mid-sized planets
Robyn rides in a driverless car
An asteroid chemist who studies LA lead levels
Lab Notes: Why air traffic won’t return to normal for months
A telescope that sees in the far infrared
Correcting Hubble's vision
Do baboons live in the Sahara desert?
Surprises from Jane Goodall's archive
JAMA editor on the balance between science and politics
US science funding off the chopping block — for now
Lab Notes: The surprising history of the backyard sprinkler
As rabbit numbers boom, what's next for biological control?
Extinct giant roos could hop, study finds
The fuss over Little Foot's identity
How tiny bees stop elephants eating crops
Lab Notes: Why buying a star name is nonsense
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney prepares to celebrate 210 years
Writing competition reveals what matters to young Australians!
Cleaner air doesn’t help corals
The cave where two human species may have met
Lab Notes: Skincare, pregnancy and a minefield of mixed messages
Political knowledge worsens amongst young Australians
Widespread benefits of school forest plots
Offshore wind farms a haven for marine life
What matters to young Australians!
Lab Notes: Can we tap the brakes on energy-hungry AI?
Asteroids brought building blocks of life to Earth?
Electric vehicles powering ahead
Green cities develop near public transport lines
Southern humpbacks in genetic strife
Remote links inspiration – how to harness unlikely connections
Lab Notes: What's behind the rising tree death rates?
New mysterious stellar object discovered
Widespread benefits of school forest plots
Science a strength at Curtin University
When did humans first reach Australia?
Vale Emma Johnston
The road to net zero
Lab Notes: The oldest rock art in the world…that we know of
Lab Notes: Why UV levels are so high in Australia
Lab Notes: The Treaty of the Metre: how the metre came to be
Lab Notes: Why do whales strand en masse?
Lab Notes: Tips to reduce microplastics exposure
Searching for a new source of collagen – from crocodiles
Lab Notes: How is sunscreen SPF tested?
Lab Notes: How maths explains nature's weirdness
Prove It!
Science was always present for novelist Terry Pratchett
Genetic rescue helps struggling native plant species
SIMS celebrates 20 years and shows how true collaboration brings great results
COP30 - Food security under threat with climate change
Lab Notes: Are bioplastics the future of packaging?
Space conference makes Sydney mission control
Science Academy president urges business rethink on research and development
Developing more options for people with sleep apnea
Superstar of STEM - Rebecca Duncan
Superstar of STEM - Nicola Lo
Lab Notes: Why aurora season isn't over yet
Top quark used to test quantum concepts
Dog wags tail, or tail wags dog – the impact of increasing technology in our lives
Mechanics of flowing lava used to protect people
Showing possible career paths would encourage science graduates says new STA president
Science writing bridges research and community understanding
Boom time for geology? But university geology departments are shrinking or closing
Lab Notes: How are long-range weather forecasts made?
2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools
Climate intervention becoming increasingly urgent
Launch of The Best Australian Science Writing 2025 and the Bragg Prize for Science Writing
Lab Notes: How breastfeeding can protect against cancer
Lead ingots from a Roman shipwreck - a battle between the past and the future
2025 Prime Minister's Prizes for Science
Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack
Plant diseases impact native vegetation, gardens, crops
The Stronger Sex
Our understanding of changes in biodiversity over time questioned
Ancient people took wallabies to islands in canoes
New Scientist continues in print, boosts on-line
Lab Notes: Times we thought we found aliens
Robots well suited to dangerous drudge work in the chemistry lab
Science OK in the UK
How rocks tell the history of Earth
Signs of life beyond Earth?
Greenhouse paint boosts usable light for plants
Lab Notes: The extinct ape-like human relative that made tools
US Honeybees in steep decline
US Honeybees in steep decline
Transfigured Sea – interweaving of human lives and sea creatures
Charles Todd celebrated at Adelaide’s Marriott Hotel
Uncertainty – a key aspect of our lives
World watching Australia’s social media ban for under-16s
Jonathon Porritt charts lives of young British climate campaigners
Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing
How technology can reduce loneliness
Phage – part of the fight against antibacterial resistance
Biofilms – they’re everywhere
Internet and social media for animals?
Curious animal sounds
Graphene 15 years on
Poor Japanese support for research
Scientific Nobel Prizes 2025
Lab Notes: How humpback whales bounced back
The UK has a telescope?
Archaeology has revealed Australia’s true human history
The threat of misinformation and the value of historical knowledge
The science of predictions
Cardiac professor on the sports field
Meet the Scouse scientist Holly Ellis
Lab Notes: Why CO2 peaks at this time of year
Inside Palau's isolated marine lakes where millions of rare jellyfish are disappearing
Social media’s threat to the human story
Lab Notes: These high-tech mouthguards predict concussions
A tribute to Tom Lehrer
Uncovering the mystery of Palau’s ancient terraces
The human message - I am here
Lab Notes: After the SPF scandal — how is sunscreen tested?
Why archaeology matters
A tour of Hobart’s Botanical Garden
New direction for Missouri Botanical Garden
The emerging field of quantum biology
Mesothelioma diary
SolarAid brings solar light and power to poorest African community
Lab Notes: Move over, NASA — Australia's heading back into space
John Clarke – Lorin Clarke’s film tribute to her father
Clues emerge revealing how birds navigate
Why Are We Like This?
Reducing food waste in hospitals and aged care facilities
Lab Notes: Why your hay fever will get worse with climate change
Lab Notes: Why do whales beach themselves?
Sneaks often prevail in animal reproduction
The role of hope in communicating climate observations and trends
The origin of complex molecules and how they made it to Earth
Springtime allergy from some pollen, not all
Have we lost our attention span?
Lab Notes: The fall of the food pyramid
E-boats - instant power and clean air on the water
Citizen scientists lead to new frog species
Birdsong feature in theatre production
Rocks from space!
CRISPR gene editing cleans up the dust
Lab Notes: The native ants that take down cane toads
Tracing the history of the Solar System
The Skeptic becomes online only publication
Hawks keep tourist sites free of pigeons
Is the scientific chaos being echoed in modern America?
The Monkey Trial centenary
Lab Notes: How do I avoid eating and breathing microplastics?
How physics consols
Physical evidence for dark matter remains elusive
Hush!
Passau in Southern Germany – the town with three rivers
Oceans are becoming hotter, long-term trends show
Lab Notes: What's quantum mechanics ever done for me?
Peter Rose, editor of Australian Book Review retires
The centenary of quantum mechanics
Jeremy Leggett wins US$500,000 Blue Planet Prize
Canada burns again
Lab Notes: Why some mums have all boys or all girls
The bandicoot with a butterfly on its back
The Australian brothers who made everything from EVs to humidicribs
Power from the motion of the ocean
Not all seaweeds will suffer under climate change
Lab Notes: Can bottom trawling be a sustainable way to fish?
Why some trees want to be struck by lightning
A Samoan stone tool puzzle … cracked?
Weird and wonderful surprises in old books
Lab Notes: The telescope redefining the Universe
The science behind weird and wonderful chip flavours
How to bring a frog back from the dead … well, nearly
A silver lining to US research funding woes
Lab Notes: What we can learn from the world’s cleanest air
Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
Lab Notes: The tiny beetle ravaging Perth's trees
Lab Notes: What makes Sydney's cockies so clever?
Dogs help eradicate rats on Lord Howe Island
Tim Entwisle – The Sceptical Botanist
Here comes Roger
The uncanny valley of quantum
Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life
Can we trust scientific papers?
Do people have a place in wilderness?
Lab Notes: AI that outperforms humans is coming
Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long
Antibiotic resistance – a surprising new source
Volcano! Another book for children by prize-winning author Claire Saxby
Effects of early life adversity in marmots and humans
Marsupial reproduction - one at your feet, one in the pouch and one on standby!
Citizen scientists score major fossil find in Victoria
Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales
Is it possible to stop aging?
Two tertiary students and an artist combine learning and creativity
Gus Nossal reflects and launches a new research chair
Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times
Happy 99th birthday to a Science Show friend
The amazing work of dung beetles
A tour of Cockatoo Island – and its hotels for marine creatures
Stellar explosions - where elements are formed
Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?
The dangers of eating pumpkin with pigeon!
A visit to Kangaroo Island in South Australia
AI as a teacher’s aid
Sharks the great survivors now under threat
Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?
Machines identify images and sounds
Palaeontology – revealing the past, helping predict the future
Feeding coral and how spawning is coordinated
Science in Australia’s federal election campaign
Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast
Jared Diamond - CEOs respond to environmental challenge
A new massive fossil deposit – underground?
The history of money