The Science Show
By ABC Australia
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Dec 28, 2022
Dennis
Aug 1, 2022
The ABC Science show is Australia's longest running science broadcast. Still presented by the indefatigable Robin Williams it explores compelling subjects and highlights dynamic scientists from around the world and remains among the very best science podcasts from around the globe.
Nov 4, 2019
Alfred Dixon
Mar 29, 2019
very informative, well worth your time.
Description
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.
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Australian science under strain
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May 01, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: AI data centres are coming to remote Australia
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Response to Australia’s ESO rejection
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Aussies loved Artemis II — and they want more
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Getting more from fertiliser, viral DNA's vital role and help from hookworms!
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Is measles back?
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Australia says no to European Southern Observatory collaboration, applications of quantum mechanics and testing trees’ response to rising carbon dioxide
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: What can we grow on the Moon?
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Australian and New Zealand research presented at Falling Walls Berlin
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Can we replace lab animals?
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Saving Australia’s R&D, robot for cleaning up oil, and quantum physics with Paul Davies
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: NASA's mission to the Moon
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Possums thought to be extinct found in Papua, early Indigenous ingenuity, and how we adjust to ultra-processed food
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Super-K flu is here … but it's not our biggest problem
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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New idea for the origin of language
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Slip! Slop! Slap! SUCCESS!
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Astronomy and toxicology converge at Caltech
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Why air traffic won’t return to normal for months
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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How the US came close to losing half its science funding
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: The surprising history of the backyard sprinkler
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Stories told by feet
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Why buying a star name is nonsense
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Ancient humans lived in an Indonesian cave until Homo sapiens arrived
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Skincare, pregnancy and a minefield of mixed messages
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Social media ban impacts political knowledge of young Australians
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Can we tap the brakes on energy-hungry AI?
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Humpbacks threat, green cities and EVs, and origins of life
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: What's behind the rising tree death rates?
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Mysterious stellar object discovered
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: The oldest rock art in the world…that we know of
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Kiruna: The city that moved to make way for a mine
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Why UV levels are so high in Australia
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: The Treaty of the Metre: how the metre came to be
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Mary Somerville — Brilliant polymath, scientific genius
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Lab Notes: Why do whales strand en masse?
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Celebrating 50 years of The Science Show
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Tips to reduce microplastics exposure
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Émilie du Châtelet - portrait of a leader of the Enlightenment
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How is sunscreen SPF tested?
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Author Terry Pratchett’s links to science and Adelaide
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How maths explains nature's weirdness
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Evidence shows no link between pain relief drugs and autism
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Are bioplastics the future of packaging?
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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3 young high achievers in science, and Sydney hosts space conference
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why aurora season isn't over yet
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Rare earth minerals – we’ll need geologists to find them
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How are long-range weather forecasts made?
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Bragg winners for science writing, more from the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and water droplets used for geoengineering
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How breastfeeding can protect against cancer
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and a dilemma over the appropriate use of artefacts from a Roman shipwreck
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The history of life on Earth may be very different to what we think
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Times we thought we found aliens
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Paint additive boosts plant growth in greenhouses
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: The extinct ape-like human relative that made tools
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Teenagers encounter their challenges
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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2025 Nobel Prizes plus more from the British Science Festival
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How humpback whales bounced back
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Reports from The British Science Festival in Liverpool England
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why CO2 peaks at this time of year
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Climate change and pollution effects seen on Palau
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: These high-tech mouthguards predict concussions
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Uncovering the mystery of Palau’s ancient terraces
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: After the SPF scandal — how is sunscreen tested?
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Quantum biology, two botanic gardens, and the importance of archaeology
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Move over, NASA — Australia's heading back into space
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Bird navigation, reducing food waste and a tribute to John Clarke
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why your hay fever will get worse with climate change
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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The Science Show celebrates 50 years
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why do whales beach themselves?
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Complex molecules in space – how they formed and how they got here
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: The fall of the food pyramid
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Gene editing brings promise for genetic blood disorders
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: The native ants that take down cane toads
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Back to the dark ages for American research?
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How do I avoid eating and breathing microplastics?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Climatic changes everywhere as the world’s oceans become hotter
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: What's quantum mechanics ever done for me?
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Tracing the 100-year history of quantum mechanics
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why some mums have all boys or all girls
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Australia's forgotten inventor brothers
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Can bottom trawling be a sustainable way to fish?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The trees that harness lightning to kill their rivals
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: The telescope redefining the Universe
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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What does it take to bring back an extinct animal?
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: What we can learn from the world’s cleanest air
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: The tiny beetle ravaging Perth's trees
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: What makes Sydney's cockies so clever?
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole!
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Black white and green
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May 31, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: AI that outperforms humans is coming
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May 27, 2025 |
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Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds
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May 24, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long
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May 20, 2025 |
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Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria
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May 17, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales
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May 13, 2025 |
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Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans?
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May 10, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times
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May 06, 2025 |
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A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show
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May 03, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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The power of palaeontology
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity.
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have a biome?
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Landscape and islands
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again.
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Vale Felicia Huppert
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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The wonder of Australia’s deserts
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Science Extra: March of the cane toads
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Science Extra: Weight of the world
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Science Show Summer - A wire around the world
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Science Extra: More auroras in store?
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Dark energy – not necessarily constant
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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The Science Show celebrates 49 years
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Merlin meets Dr Crispy
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Stanford University: the great university with a dark side
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Molecules with their own fingerprint
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Age of Monotremes including three new genera
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Are our tall forests really being saved?
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May 25, 2024 |
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Big savings possible for the world’s ships
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May 18, 2024 |
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Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia
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May 11, 2024 |
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Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage?
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May 04, 2024 |
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Scientists protest in Adelaide
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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The science of friendship
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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The amazing world of alpine plants
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Meet the man who changed the world forever
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Big things
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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US National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Supernova!
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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The Science Show
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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How Chinese science was revealed to the world
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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H. G. Wells – father of science fiction
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Portrait of Isaac Newton
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Science Extra: One semaglutide please
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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What to do when science doesn’t cut through
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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The Anglo-Australian Telescope – approaching 50 years
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Science Extra: It's gettin' hot in here
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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The bigger Australian story - Odyssey down under
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Transitions
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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The Future Is Now
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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2FC now Radio National celebrates 100 years
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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The Science Show
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Getting your rocks off
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Here come the superstars
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common?
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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What can we learn from five minutes of silence?
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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There's no age limit to science
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Where science can lead: An isolated island, the slimy forest floor, and centre stage for stand-up
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Communities team up with scientists to tackle flooding
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Helping marine life thrive — from Fiji to Goondiwindi
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Come inside the vault preserving Pacific plants for future generations
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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The surprising past — and promising future of women in science
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds
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May 27, 2023 |
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Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton
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May 20, 2023 |
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Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe
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May 13, 2023 |
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Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday
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May 06, 2023 |
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A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Beaming energy to Earth from space
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Technology helps scientists discover new species
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory.
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Visit the world’s biggest fission reactor under construction in France and discover the wonders of algae
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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The value of seagrasses, fish with remarkable powers and how parasites threaten aquatic life
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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A tour of the antimatter factory and John Wheeler remembered
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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The surprising Huxley family, certainty, and climate prospects for 2023
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Jan 21, 2023 |