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