Science Friction

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Al Dixon
 Feb 11, 2022
Cut back on the background music. Way too loud. I'll add the 5th star w/o the music.

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Artificial Intelligence has suddenly gone from the fringes of science to being everywhere. So how did we get here? And where's this all heading? In this new series of Science Friction, we're finding out.

Episode Date
06 | Is super-intelligent AI around the corner?
Nov 28, 2023
05 | The year the world woke up to AI with a bang
Nov 21, 2023
04 | If you control AI, you control the world
Nov 14, 2023
03 | The bumpy history of driverless cars and their AI brains
Nov 07, 2023
02 | Locked up by AI for a crime he didn't commit
Oct 31, 2023
01 | The day modern AI toppled humanity's champion
Oct 24, 2023
I for one welcome... Hello AI Overlords!
Oct 23, 2023
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 4) — The Lost Boys
May 19, 2023
What family secrets hide inside your cells? Epigenetics, trauma, and ancestry
May 12, 2023
Robbie and the DNA Detectives
May 05, 2023
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 3) — The superstar of Tai Asks Why
Apr 28, 2023
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 2) — I grew up in a cult
Apr 23, 2023
REAL WILD CHILD (Part 1) — The nuclear boy scouts
Apr 14, 2023
Thanks for the fun! Science Friction's Natasha Mitchell has some news
Apr 09, 2023
The fantastical world of fusion – The Expanse's Ty Franck and futurist Karl Schroeder (Part 2)
Apr 06, 2023
Nuclear disruption — will starry-eyed startups win the nuclear fusion race? (Part 1)
Mar 31, 2023
The unexpected lives of Lab Shenanigans and The Scholar Diaries
Mar 24, 2023
Out of jail, is the CRISPR-baby scandal scientist at it again?
Mar 17, 2023
Science is political — Australia's science minister Ed Husic
Mar 10, 2023
Quantum bullsh*t — how (not) to ruin your life with advice from quantum physics
Mar 03, 2023
We're here, we're queer, and omg science!
Feb 24, 2023
World Pride 2023 - Love Your Nature
Feb 17, 2023
Rock celebrity! The big bucks and wild geopolitics of meteorites - Part 2
Feb 10, 2023
Rock celebrity! The Black Beauty saga - Part 1
Feb 03, 2023
Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed? (REPEAT)
Jan 27, 2023
Twinning! (REPEAT)
Jan 22, 2023
Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain — superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky (REPEAT)
Jan 15, 2023
AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her (REPEAT)
Jan 08, 2023
Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist (REPEAT)
Jan 01, 2023
The mighty fly army (REPEAT)
Dec 25, 2022
Brains vs brains, boys vs girls! Science Friction's 2022 quiz show
Dec 16, 2022
Prison for protesting - climate change activists or criminals?
Dec 09, 2022
The soul in the machine — anthropologist, technologist, futurist Genevieve Bell
Dec 02, 2022
The End of the Universe with poet Alicia Sometimes (Part 2 of 2)
Nov 25, 2022
Presents: WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? Citizens Assemble!
Nov 17, 2022
Presents: WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? Better Call Saul
Nov 11, 2022
Love and Exile: An everlasting mystery (Part 2 of 2)
Nov 04, 2022
Love and Exile: An everlasting mystery (Part 1 of 2)
Oct 30, 2022
Sex, tech, intimacy and power — Jennifer Mills, Rob Brooks, Josephine Taylor
Oct 20, 2022
Deep Past meets Deep Future — science fiction star Becky Chambers
Oct 14, 2022
What came before the Big Bang? Poet Alicia Sometimes wants to know
Oct 07, 2022
Do we need a revolution? Bruce Pascoe, James Bradley, Michelle Johnston, Lesley Head
Sep 30, 2022
Sex cells! Are there just two biological sexes? [Part 2]
Sep 21, 2022
Simón(e) Sun - I knew I was trans because of science [Part 1] REPEAT
Sep 18, 2022
I still call Australia home ... but. Why the USA is stealing our scientists
Sep 09, 2022
Fire of Love – the radical passion of Katia and Maurice Krafft
Sep 02, 2022
If trees could talk (Part 2) - Living fossils on the edge
Aug 26, 2022
If trees could talk … what could they tell you? (Part 1)
Aug 19, 2022
YOU can save the planet. Con or not? National Science Week debate
Aug 12, 2022
The wattle war (repeat)
Aug 05, 2022
Ecofascism – are far-right extremists the new environmentalists?
Jul 29, 2022
Holy great desert fireballs! The meteorite chasers
Jul 22, 2022
His snailyness (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 3)
Jul 17, 2022
 Rats to the rescue (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 2)
Jul 10, 2022
The mighty fly army (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 1)
Jul 03, 2022
Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author[REPEAT]
Jun 26, 2022
Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed?
Jun 19, 2022
Move over Mills and Boon, the HOT SCIENTISTS are here
Jun 12, 2022
The STEAM Room science experiment — I wannabe a stand-up comic!
Jun 05, 2022
How two short words triggered a racism reckoning for plant scientists
May 29, 2022
The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure (REPEAT)
May 22, 2022
The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind (REPEAT)
May 15, 2022
Should Big Pharma profit from secret COVID-19 vaccine deals? Moderna responds
May 08, 2022
Feeling a bit hopeless? Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is here for YOU
May 01, 2022
Scratch that itch! She of flamenco flair and molecular dances
Apr 24, 2022
AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her
Apr 17, 2022
World-first pig to human heart transplant. What happened?
Apr 10, 2022
Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist
Apr 03, 2022
Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain - superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky
Mar 27, 2022
Foodies, why you should give a f*** about farming!
Mar 20, 2022
The gun dealer’s defence — on nukes, fossil fuels, and Australia
Mar 13, 2022
Breaking Buruli, part two
Mar 06, 2022
Breaking Buruli, part one
Feb 27, 2022
Masha and Dasha
Feb 20, 2022
Twinning!
Feb 13, 2022
Does Omicron spell the end of Covid-zero in China?
Feb 06, 2022
Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do (REPEAT)
Jan 30, 2022
The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world (REPEAT)
Jan 23, 2022
Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice (REPEAT)
Jan 16, 2022
Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers (REPEAT)
Jan 09, 2022
I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood (REPEAT)
Jan 02, 2022
From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel (REPEAT)
Dec 26, 2021
Science meets high vaudeville - who will win our 2021 quiz?
Dec 19, 2021
Nature Fast, Nature Slow - ballistic mushrooms, moss piglets and more!
Dec 12, 2021
The Lost Family - how DNA testing is upending our lives
Dec 05, 2021
Two guys. Two kayaks. And 2500km to make the Murray River sing
Nov 28, 2021
Get me out of here! My life in medical research is on life support
Nov 21, 2021
Carbon capture and storage – climate saviour or fantasy?
Nov 14, 2021
Net Zero by 2050 - is the Earth at the negotiating table at COP26?
Nov 07, 2021
Sex cells! Are there just two biological sexes? [Part 2 of 2]
Oct 31, 2021
Simón(e) Sun - I knew I was trans because of science [Part 1]
Oct 24, 2021
In deep: why mining is heading to the seafloor
Oct 17, 2021
What's up Doc? Elmer Fudd meets biological warfare
Oct 10, 2021
My Afghanistan escape - just a body, not a soul, or a heart (Part 2)
Oct 03, 2021
What happens when your students join the Taliban? Afghan scientists in hiding (Part 1)
Sep 26, 2021
We've got cosmic vertigo!
Sep 19, 2021
The art of more - did maths create civilisation?
Sep 12, 2021
The virus busters: how do you kill something that's not really alive?
Sep 05, 2021
What if Picasso's canvas was smaller than a human hair? (REPEAT)
Aug 29, 2021
Science Week debate: You can't handle the (scientific) truth!
Aug 22, 2021
Hunting the ghosts of pandemics past
Aug 15, 2021
When fish are kin: Max Liboiron's anti-colonial science
Aug 08, 2021
The long COVID doctors (Part 2 of 2)
Aug 01, 2021
The long COVID doctors (Part 1 of 2)
Jul 25, 2021
The art and science of Deep Time travel
Jul 18, 2021
Pain-free meat — is it possible?
Jul 11, 2021
Medicine listen up! Birthing on country makes the land shake
Jul 04, 2021
The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure
Jun 27, 2021
The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind
Jun 20, 2021
14-day rule on human embryo research – why do scientists want it lifted?
Jun 13, 2021
The wattle war
Jun 06, 2021
The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing! [REPEAT]
May 30, 2021
Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird [REPEAT]
May 23, 2021
Troublemakers for truth — death threats for calling out bad COVID science
May 16, 2021
The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world
May 09, 2021
Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice
May 02, 2021
I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood
Apr 25, 2021
Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers
Apr 18, 2021
The mystery of the flute boy bones: a child lost in time
Apr 11, 2021
Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN (REPEAT)
Apr 04, 2021
Trust after genocide: this African COVID success is a big wake-up call for the West
Mar 28, 2021
Laurence Vincent Lapointe's 'Pee of Gold': Has anti-doping science gone too far?
Mar 21, 2021
How to Be Animal - go on, embrace your inner beast!
Mar 14, 2021
Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author
Mar 07, 2021
Meaning in mayhem: COVID death counts and a Black Lives Matter reckoning
Feb 28, 2021
Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do
Feb 21, 2021
DEMONS: be scared, very scared*
Feb 14, 2021
From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel
Feb 07, 2021
Of Mice and Men: This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it.
Jan 31, 2021
COVID-19, China’s wild wet markets, pangolins, and bats - is it US not THEM?
Jan 24, 2021
School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)
Jan 17, 2021
How to be Two Ways strong: Dreamtime science and finding yourself (Part 1)
Jan 10, 2021
The carnivorous woman – a saga from Charles Darwin to Wheatbelt Western Australia (Part 2)
Jan 03, 2021
A wild and whimsical world of flesh-eating plants (Part 1)
Dec 27, 2020
Mike's Miracle at Lightning Ridge
Dec 20, 2020
Two thousand flamingos & a war-torn island: controversy over Australian mine proposal
Dec 13, 2020
Phallacy! Life lessons from the animal penis
Dec 06, 2020
The BIG 20 Science Friction quiz! Wow or what!? moments in 21C science
Nov 29, 2020
How do you solve a problem like Dark Matter? With poet Alicia Sometimes
Nov 22, 2020
Machines as kin or the new colonisers? Indigenous tech revolutionaries rethinking A.I
Nov 15, 2020
Hacks turned quacks!
Nov 08, 2020
Arson, evil and getting inside humanity's dark side: Dr Julia Shaw and Chloe Hooper
Nov 01, 2020
Censorship, political interference, and COVID-19 chaos - should scientists take a position in USA Election?
Oct 25, 2020
These doctors got COVID-19, now they're suffering the serious, mysterious symptoms of 'long COVID'
Oct 18, 2020
The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing!
Oct 11, 2020
Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird
Oct 04, 2020
Click-Sick: Part 3 Can 'wellness' make you...sick?
Sep 27, 2020
Click-Sick: Part 2 The hidden political forces pushing pandemic conspiracies
Sep 20, 2020
Click-Sick: Part 1 Why sharing isn't always caring. On the trail of COVID-19 misinformation
Sep 13, 2020
The rise of vaccine nationalism – should we be worried?
Sep 06, 2020
Introducing... Patient Zero
Sep 01, 2020
This river is a Person – Maori knowing meets Western science
Aug 30, 2020
The In/justices of A.I
Aug 23, 2020
The Leadership film - Do Women Scientists Lead Differently?
Aug 16, 2020
Was Einstein's wife the hidden contributor on his most famous works? Part 2 (Repeat)
Aug 09, 2020
Who was Einstein’s first wife? Part 1 - Debate heats up over Mileva's role in Albert’s science (Repeat)
Aug 02, 2020
Medical misinformation, COVID-19, Big Data and Black Lives Matter
Jul 26, 2020
Climate in the Courtroom Part 3: Big Energy, big typhoons and a big fight for justice
Jul 19, 2020
Climate in the Courtroom Part 2: A fossil fuel company is sued. Now it speaks.
Jul 12, 2020
Climate in the Courtroom Part 1: Why is this Peruvian farmer suing Germany's largest power company RWE?
Jul 05, 2020
The Animals: Laura Jean McKay, James Bradley, Chris Flynn's wild re-imaginings of other species
Jun 30, 2020
From chaos to calm...and a whole universe in between
Jun 28, 2020
When fake facts go viral: Islamic science, Medieval medicine and the history police (repeat)
Jun 21, 2020
The mystery of two millionaires and two IVF embryos: The Trouble with Embryos (repeat)
Jun 14, 2020
The carnivorous woman – a saga from Charles Darwin to Wheatbelt Western Australia (Part 2)
Jun 07, 2020
A wild and whimsical world of flesh-eating plants (Part 1)
May 31, 2020
The Gendered Brain - Gina Rippon and myth shattering neuroscience
May 24, 2020
The Scientist and the Spy - China, the FBI, espionage, and racism
May 17, 2020
The Big PhD Pause - postgraduate students, COVID-19, and the next brain drain? (Science Interrupted Part 3)
May 10, 2020
The Ruins of Science - a story of misdirected medical power
May 03, 2020
PREVIEW RN Presents — Hot Mess: Why haven’t we fixed climate change?
May 01, 2020
The astrophysicist Survivor star and immunologist dropping everything to help save you from COVID19 (Science, Interrupted Part 2)
Apr 26, 2020
Science, Interrupted Part 1 - lives, loves, labs upended by COVID19
Apr 19, 2020
If we can mobilise around a pandemic, what next? Meet two revolutionaries already flouting the rules
Apr 12, 2020
COVID-19, China’s wild wet markets, pangolins, and bats - is it US not THEM?
Apr 05, 2020
Rules of contagion - meet a mathematician at the frontline of the COVID-19 fight
Mar 29, 2020
Acclaimed Beasts of No Nation author Uzodinma Iweala - on science, power, and race
Mar 22, 2020
Your 3D printed body
Mar 15, 2020
School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)
Mar 08, 2020
How to be Two Ways strong: Dreamtime science and finding yourself (Part 1)
Mar 01, 2020
EVACUATE NOW - wildfires and why Will stayed in bed
Feb 23, 2020
Wildfires with wild numbers: fact checking a catastrophe
Feb 16, 2020
The radical experimenters: a rapper, a poet, and a biological artist
Feb 09, 2020
Of Mice and Men: This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it.
Feb 02, 2020
The predatory publishers sucking science's blood — Updated audio
Jan 26, 2020
Do genetic ancestry tests know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale of race and science (Summer Season)
Jan 19, 2020
The Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the road to Tibet (Summer Season)
Jan 12, 2020
Faith challenged - 21 and searching for science in the land of Trump (Summer Season)
Jan 05, 2020
Lolita and Linda's uterus transplant - an ethical, emotional, and scientific minefield (Summer Season)
Dec 29, 2019
The ultimate designer accessory - an artificial womb? (Summer Season)
Dec 22, 2019
Science Friction's End of the Year quiz show!
Dec 15, 2019
Discover your dark side - the science, psychology, and philosophy of evil
Dec 08, 2019
Selfish by nature? Two scientific renegades who looked for kindness and paid a price
Dec 01, 2019
A whole lot of POO!
Nov 24, 2019
"A perfectly normal girl - although she likes computers" Hidden stories from Australian computing
Nov 17, 2019
The Ladies' Log: Who (not what) were the first computers?
Nov 10, 2019
Searching for Doggerland: stones, bones and a world submerged by climate change
Nov 03, 2019
Matty's Story - donor conception and the cost of secrecy
Oct 27, 2019
The conundrum of unused IVF embryos: The Trouble With Embryos Part 2
Oct 20, 2019
The mystery of two millionaires and two IVF embryos: The Trouble with Embryos Part 1
Oct 13, 2019
Pulsar woman: It's not a bird, it's not a quasar, it's...
Oct 06, 2019
Broad Band - the untold story of the women who made the internet
Sep 29, 2019
Bioerror to bioterror - does synthetic biology give new tools to terrorists? Part 2
Sep 22, 2019
Bioerror to bioterror - what if a human-engineered virus escaped the lab? Part 1
Sep 15, 2019
Lovers in the Lab: when your passion for science becomes passion for each other
Sep 08, 2019
Tai Asks Why - the seventh grader with a cult science podcast and mind for big ideas
Sep 01, 2019
Only technology will save us from ourselves - Science Friction's Beaker Street Great Debate
Aug 25, 2019
This famous physicist wants to solve a big mystery – cancer
Aug 18, 2019
Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN
Aug 11, 2019
A mind on the move - Nobel winner Venki Ramakrishnan on being an outsider, borders and Brexit
Aug 04, 2019
Brexit gets personal: borders, brains and science 
Jul 28, 2019
The Apocalypse Part 3: A supervolcanic winter
Jul 21, 2019
The Apocalypse Part 2: The next almighty asteroid
Jul 14, 2019
The Apocalypse Part 1: A supercharged Sun storm
Jul 07, 2019
China, freedom, science: The personal is political for this particle physicist
Jun 30, 2019
Sum of All Parts - The sound of seizure
Jun 23, 2019
Sum of All Parts - The Infinite God
Jun 16, 2019
Sharks, devils, wombats: three homosapiens saving what we've got
Jun 09, 2019
The CRISPR gene-edited babies and the doctor who made them - what really happened?
Jun 02, 2019
Does genomics know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale about genetic databases and ancestry testing
May 26, 2019
Let there be ROCK: science in the moshpit
May 19, 2019
Are scientists scared of politics? Science Friction Election Special
May 12, 2019
The crisis of predatory publishers sucking the blood of science
May 05, 2019
Lise Meitner and the bittersweet story of a nuclear genius
Apr 28, 2019
Was Einstein's wife the hidden contributor on his most famous works? Part 2
Apr 21, 2019
Who was Einstein’s first wife? Part 1 -Debate heats up over Mileva's role in Albert’s science
Apr 14, 2019
Who owns your DNA? Ancestry services, solving crimes and your privacy
Apr 07, 2019
The ups and downs of 'Chemsex'
Mar 31, 2019
Will sex robots have no taboos?
Mar 24, 2019
The Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the road to Tibet
Mar 17, 2019
The wild science of artificial wombs and 3D printed ovaries. Future Uterus Part 3
Mar 10, 2019
The extraordinary story of Lolita and Linda's uterus transplant. Future Uterus Part 2
Mar 03, 2019
Could this designer baby pouch allow men to have babies too? Future Uterus Part 1
Feb 24, 2019
The drug trial that went wrong...very, very wrong
Feb 17, 2019
Faith challenged - finding science in Trumplandia
Feb 10, 2019
Extreme art adventures: will this be first artist-in-residence in space?
Feb 03, 2019
The biggest butterfly of all
Jan 27, 2019
The father of climate science, my Foote!? A mystery revealed
Jan 20, 2019
The Long Now: what will life be like in 10,000 years?
Jan 13, 2019
The Lost Boys
Jan 06, 2019
Robbie and the DNA detectives
Dec 30, 2018
Insect Armageddon!!?
Dec 23, 2018
Ancient Ink: Unearthing the secrets of the ancient flesh
Dec 16, 2018
Back from the Dead - will extinct animals ever walk, swim, fly again?
Dec 09, 2018
World's first CRISPR gene edited babies born - are we ready?
Dec 02, 2018
Frankenstein’s Monster: writers on scientific hubris
Nov 25, 2018
When fake facts go viral: Islamic science, Medieval medicine and the history police
Nov 18, 2018
The future of sex: bots, bonking, biology and beyond
Nov 11, 2018
The man in a dress: who were the real luddites?
Nov 04, 2018
The jet stream daredevil
Oct 28, 2018