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Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds

24 maj | 55 min

Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long

20 maj | 13 min

Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria

17 maj | 53 min

Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales

13 maj | 14 min

Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans?

10 maj | 53 min

Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times

6 maj | 14 min

A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show

3 maj | 54 min

Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?

29 april | 14 min

The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years

26 april | 54 min

Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?

22 april | 13 min

The power of palaeontology

19 april | 53 min

Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast

15 april | 13 min

New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity.

12 april | 54 min

Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant

8 april | 14 min

A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have a biome?

5 april | 54 min

Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?

1 april | 13 min

Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress

29 mars | 53 min

Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?

25 mars | 12 min

Landscape and islands

22 mars | 54 min

Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race

18 mars | 14 min

Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research

15 mars | 52 min

Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men

11 mars | 13 min

A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again.

8 mars | 54 min

Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings

4 mars | min

Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes

1 mars | 54 min

Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic?

25 februari | 13 min

Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives

22 februari | 53 min

Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids

18 februari | 13 min

Vale Felicia Huppert

15 februari | 54 min

Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back

11 februari | 14 min

The wonder of Australia’s deserts

8 februari | 54 min

Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it

4 februari | 14 min

Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today

1 februari | 54 min

Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes

28 januari | 13 min

Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals

25 januari | 54 min

Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again

21 januari | 13 min

Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll

18 januari | 54 min

Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami

14 januari | 50 min

Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer

11 januari | 54 min

Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam

7 januari | 50 min

Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy

4 januari | 53 min

Science Extra: March of the cane toads

31 december 2024 | 50 min

Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope

28 december 2024 | 54 min

Science Extra: Weight of the world

24 december 2024 | 50 min

Science Show Summer - A wire around the world

21 december 2024 | 54 min

Science Extra: More auroras in store?

17 december 2024 | 50 min

Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes

14 december 2024 | 52 min

Mysterious signal and a mysterious place

7 december 2024 | 53 min

PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug

30 november 2024 | 54 min

Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals

23 november 2024 | 54 min

Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste

16 november 2024 | 54 min

Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world

9 november 2024 | 52 min

Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity

2 november 2024 | 53 min

Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!

26 oktober 2024 | 54 min

Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters

19 oktober 2024 | 54 min

Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson

12 oktober 2024 | 53 min

Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?

5 oktober 2024 | 54 min

Dark energy – not necessarily constant

28 september 2024 | 54 min

The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

21 september 2024 | 54 min

The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty

14 september 2024 | 54 min

Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic

7 september 2024 | 54 min

The Science Show celebrates 49 years

31 augusti 2024 | 52 min

New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals

24 augusti 2024 | 53 min

Merlin meets Dr Crispy

17 augusti 2024 | 54 min

Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.

10 augusti 2024 | 54 min

Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts

3 augusti 2024 | 54 min

One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis

27 juli 2024 | 54 min

Stanford University: the great university with a dark side

20 juli 2024 | 54 min

The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss

13 juli 2024 | 54 min

The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter

6 juli 2024 | 55 min

The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories

29 juni 2024 | 54 min

The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles

22 juni 2024 | 54 min

Molecules with their own fingerprint

15 juni 2024 | 54 min

Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet

8 juni 2024 | 54 min

Age of Monotremes including three new genera

1 juni 2024 | 54 min

Are our tall forests really being saved?

25 maj 2024 | 54 min

Big savings possible for the world’s ships

18 maj 2024 | 54 min

Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia

11 maj 2024 | 54 min

Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage?

4 maj 2024 | 54 min

Scientists protest in Adelaide

27 april 2024 | 54 min

Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish

20 april 2024 | 54 min

The science of friendship

13 april 2024 | 54 min

The amazing world of alpine plants

5 april 2024 | 54 min

Meet the man who changed the world forever

29 mars 2024 | 54 min

Big things

23 mars 2024 | 54 min

US National Center for Atmospheric Research

16 mars 2024 | 54 min

Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts

9 mars 2024 | 54 min

Supernova!

2 mars 2024 | 54 min

The Science Show

24 februari 2024 | 54 min

How Chinese science was revealed to the world

17 februari 2024 | 54 min

Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields

10 februari 2024 | 54 min

Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG

3 februari 2024 | 54 min

The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists

27 januari 2024 | 54 min

Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies

20 januari 2024 | 23 min

H. G. Wells – father of science fiction

20 januari 2024 | 54 min

Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope

13 januari 2024 | 21 min

Portrait of Isaac Newton

13 januari 2024 | 54 min

Science Extra: One semaglutide please

6 januari 2024 | 19 min

What to do when science doesn’t cut through

6 januari 2024 | 54 min

Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines

30 december 2023 | 19 min

The Anglo-Australian Telescope – approaching 50 years

30 december 2023 | 54 min

Science Extra: It's gettin' hot in here

23 december 2023 | 21 min

The bigger Australian story - Odyssey down under

23 december 2023 | 54 min

Transitions

16 december 2023 | 54 min

The Future Is Now

9 december 2023 | 54 min

2FC now Radio National celebrates 100 years

5 december 2023 | 29 min

The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy

2 december 2023 | 54 min

The Science Show

25 november 2023 | 54 min

Getting your rocks off

18 november 2023 | 54 min

Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science

11 november 2023 | 54 min

Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere

4 november 2023 | 54 min

Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research

28 oktober 2023 | 54 min

Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction

21 oktober 2023 | 54 min

Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source

14 oktober 2023 | 54 min

Here come the superstars

7 oktober 2023 | 54 min

Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common?

30 september 2023 | 54 min

What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet

23 september 2023 | 54 min

A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air

16 september 2023 | 54 min

Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose

9 september 2023 | 54 min

Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience

2 september 2023 | 54 min

Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer

26 augusti 2023 | 54 min

Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival

19 augusti 2023 | 54 min

What can we learn from five minutes of silence?

12 augusti 2023 | 54 min

The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres

5 augusti 2023 | 54 min

Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets

29 juli 2023 | 54 min

There's no age limit to science

22 juli 2023 | 54 min

Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within

15 juli 2023 | 54 min

Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite

8 juli 2023 | 56 min

Where science can lead: An isolated island, the slimy forest floor, and centre stage for stand-up

1 juli 2023 | 57 min

Communities team up with scientists to tackle flooding

24 juni 2023 | 55 min

Helping marine life thrive — from Fiji to Goondiwindi

17 juni 2023 | 54 min

Come inside the vault preserving Pacific plants for future generations

10 juni 2023 | 54 min

The surprising past — and promising future of women in science

3 juni 2023 | 54 min

The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds

27 maj 2023 | 54 min

Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton

20 maj 2023 | 54 min

Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe

13 maj 2023 | 54 min

Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday

6 maj 2023 | 54 min

A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology

29 april 2023 | 54 min

Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart

22 april 2023 | 54 min

Beaming energy to Earth from space

15 april 2023 | 54 min

Technology helps scientists discover new species

8 april 2023 | 54 min

Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water

1 april 2023 | 54 min

World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen

25 mars 2023 | 60 min

Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory.

18 mars 2023 | 60 min

Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum

11 mars 2023 | 60 min

Visit the world’s biggest fission reactor under construction in France and discover the wonders of algae

4 mars 2023 | 60 min

The value of seagrasses, fish with remarkable powers and how parasites threaten aquatic life

25 februari 2023 | 60 min

Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians

18 februari 2023 | 60 min

Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil

11 februari 2023 | 60 min

A tour of the antimatter factory and John Wheeler remembered

4 februari 2023 | 60 min

Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak

28 januari 2023 | 60 min

The surprising Huxley family, certainty, and climate prospects for 2023

21 januari 2023 | 60 min

The evolution of galaxies and chasing the big cosmological questions

14 januari 2023 | 60 min

Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics

7 januari 2023 | 60 min

Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph

31 december 2022 | 60 min

A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild

24 december 2022 | 60 min

Human impact on and response to changing climate

17 december 2022 | 60 min

Smart cameras watch for anomalies, Prime Minister’s awards for top science teachers and DNA reveals the history of disease

10 december 2022 | 60 min

PM’s Prizes for Science, koalas, COP27 and Catherine the Great

3 december 2022 | 60 min

Recovering aluminium from tailings, aluminium formate to absorb carbon dioxide from power station exhausts, and a Neanderthal family like us

26 november 2022 | 60 min

Best Australian Science Writing winners and prospects for computing

19 november 2022 | 60 min

New technology brings added value to museum collections

12 november 2022 | 60 min

How crows use deception, saving freshwater turtles and the history of horses

5 november 2022 | 60 min

Storms changing our coasts, plastic in the ocean, and a call for geoengineering

29 oktober 2022 | 60 min

How carbon is our friend and unravelling the mystery of communication in plants

22 oktober 2022 | 60 min

Grid batteries made in Australia and pumped hydro using abandoned underground mines

15 oktober 2022 | 60 min

Nobel Prizes, climate extremes and how science can help save us

8 oktober 2022 | 60 min

Vanillin from plastic, battery trailers for EVs, and UK fossils rewriting the story of life

1 oktober 2022 | min

Cheap solar, materials to capture carbon dioxide and a cancer test based on breath

24 september 2022 | 60 min

UN Peacekeepers train with virtual reality, drones for the battlefield and the transformation of Newcastle

17 september 2022 | 60 min

Testing Einstein, designing a lunar rover and help for stretched emergency departments

10 september 2022 | 60 min

2022 Eureka science awards, new insights in the giant dinos and AI concerns

3 september 2022 | 60 min

Australia’s megafauna, new building materials, and dung beetles

27 augusti 2022 | 60 min

The story of mammals, how they coexisted with dinosaurs for 225 million years and survived when dinos couldn’t

20 augusti 2022 | 54 min

Trees – allowing native species to return in Scotland, clearing them away in the Amazon, and seeing how they work in Tasmania

13 augusti 2022 | 60 min

Vale James Lovelock

6 augusti 2022 | 54 min

Best approach for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

30 juli 2022 | 54 min

Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph

23 juli 2022 | 54 min

The physics of music - part 6

16 juli 2022 | 54 min

The physics of music - part 5

9 juli 2022 | 54 min

The physics of music - part 4

2 juli 2022 | 54 min

Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia

25 juni 2022 | 54 min

Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration

18 juni 2022 | 54 min

Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind

11 juni 2022 | 54 min

Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years

4 juni 2022 | 54 min

Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy

28 maj 2022 | 54 min

Where did the Universe come from?

21 maj 2022 | 54 min

Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions

14 maj 2022 | 54 min

Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world

7 maj 2022 | 54 min

Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics

30 april 2022 | 54 min

Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga

23 april 2022 | 54 min

How our biggest threat is us

16 april 2022 | 54 min

Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen

9 april 2022 | 54 min

The end of astronauts?

2 april 2022 | 54 min

Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls

26 mars 2022 | 54 min

The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate impacts made years ago.

19 mars 2022 | 54 min

Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey

12 mars 2022 | 54 min

We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland

5 mars 2022 | 54 min

How trees are gold – when alive

26 februari 2022 | 54 min

How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat

19 februari 2022 | 54 min

Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space

12 februari 2022 | 54 min

Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson

5 februari 2022 | 54 min

HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future

29 januari 2022 | 54 min

University geology depts becoming smaller or closing

22 januari 2022 | 54 min

Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain?

15 januari 2022 | 49 min

Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world

15 januari 2022 | 54 min

Science Extra: The facts on fake news, 3D printed body parts and will Meta be better?

8 januari 2022 | 46 min

New fossil site in NSW and the first computer

8 januari 2022 | 54 min

Science Extra: malaria vax breakthrough, surviving snake bite and, of course, COVID-19

1 januari 2022 | 49 min

The physics of music - part 3

1 januari 2022 | 53 min

Science Extra: Cosmic explosions, bits and bobs from the Big Bang and space rocks on Earth

25 december 2021 | 50 min

The physics of music - part 2

25 december 2021 | 53 min

Science extra: Quantum computing, lucid dreams and bin-flipping cockatoos

18 december 2021 | 49 min

The physics of music - part 1

18 december 2021 | 54 min

Three scientific gift ideas and prospects for 2030

11 december 2021 | 54 min

Stunning capability, variety and beauty in the natural world

4 december 2021 | 54 min

Books for children about the origin of life and Einsteinian physics and L’Oréal awards for rechargeable batteries and balancing fish stocks with needs of human nutrition

27 november 2021 | 53 min

Always on? Or better sometimes off? The good and bad of smartphone technology

20 november 2021 | 53 min

How science has been used to justify horrid acts through history

13 november 2021 | 53 min

On a roll - Ceridwen Dovey wins Bragg Prize for Science Writing again

30 oktober 2021 | 54 min

More hopes for Glasgow, more value from waste, and a new ship for Antarctic research

23 oktober 2021 | 54 min

Birds, polar ice and hopes for Glasgow climate talks

16 oktober 2021 | 54 min

Prizes, prizes, prizes! Nobels, Earthshot and Eurekas

9 oktober 2021 | 54 min

New ways to inspire young students about the world of science

2 oktober 2021 | 54 min

As melting ice threatens polar ecosystems hopes emerge that international investment law will help speed transition to clean energy

25 september 2021 | 54 min

Acacias a new weapon against climate change

18 september 2021 | 54 min

Musical palm cockatoos sing duets and more

11 september 2021 | 54 min

Authors combine science with popular characters and gripping story lines

4 september 2021 | 54 min

The Science Show celebrates 46 years with Douglas Adams, a pit full of snakes and a memory from the start

28 augusti 2021 | 54 min

Crazy ants, smart birds and an Aussie space mission

21 augusti 2021 | 54 min

The physics of music - part 4

Senaste avsnitt

Tracing the 100-year history of quantum mechanics

Lab Notes: Why some mums have all boys or all girls

Australia's forgotten inventor brothers

Lab Notes: Can bottom trawling be a sustainable way to fish?

The trees that harness lightning to kill their rivals

Lab Notes: The telescope redefining the Universe

What does it take to bring back an extinct animal?

Lab Notes: What we can learn from the world’s cleanest air

A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper

Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings

Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph

Lab Notes: The tiny beetle ravaging Perth's trees

Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist

Lab Notes: What makes Sydney's cockies so clever?

Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole!

Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life

Black white and green

Lab Notes: AI that outperforms humans is coming

Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds

Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long

Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria

Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales

Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans?

Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times

A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show

Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?

The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years

Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?

The power of palaeontology

Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast

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