The Science Show
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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.
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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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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 |
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The evolution of galaxies and chasing the big cosmological questions
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Human impact on and response to changing climate
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Smart cameras watch for anomalies, Prime Minister’s awards for top science teachers and DNA reveals the history of disease
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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PM’s Prizes for Science, koalas, COP27 and Catherine the Great
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Recovering aluminium from tailings, aluminium formate to absorb carbon dioxide from power station exhausts, and a Neanderthal family like us
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Best Australian Science Writing winners and prospects for computing
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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New technology brings added value to museum collections
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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How crows use deception, saving freshwater turtles and the history of horses
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Storms changing our coasts, plastic in the ocean, and a call for geoengineering
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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How carbon is our friend and unravelling the mystery of communication in plants
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Grid batteries made in Australia and pumped hydro using abandoned underground mines
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Nobel Prizes, climate extremes and how science can help save us
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Vanillin from plastic, battery trailers for EVs, and UK fossils rewriting the story of life
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Cheap solar, materials to capture carbon dioxide and a cancer test based on breath
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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UN Peacekeepers train with virtual reality, drones for the battlefield and the transformation of Newcastle
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Testing Einstein, designing a lunar rover and help for stretched emergency departments
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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2022 Eureka science awards, new insights in the giant dinos and AI concerns
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Australia’s megafauna, new building materials, and dung beetles
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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The story of mammals, how they coexisted with dinosaurs for 225 million years and survived when dinos couldn’t
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Trees – allowing native species to return in Scotland, clearing them away in the Amazon, and seeing how they work in Tasmania
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Vale James Lovelock
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Best approach for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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The physics of music - part 6
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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The physics of music - part 5
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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The physics of music - part 4
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy
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May 28, 2022 |
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Where did the Universe come from?
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May 21, 2022 |
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Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions
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May 14, 2022 |
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Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world
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May 07, 2022 |
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Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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How our biggest threat is us
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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The end of astronauts?
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate impacts made years ago.
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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How trees are gold – when alive
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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University geology depts becoming smaller or closing
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain?
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Science Extra: The facts on fake news, 3D printed body parts and will Meta be better?
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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New fossil site in NSW and the first computer
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Science Extra: malaria vax breakthrough, surviving snake bite and, of course, COVID-19
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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The physics of music - part 3
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Science Extra: Cosmic explosions, bits and bobs from the Big Bang and space rocks on Earth
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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The physics of music - part 2
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Science extra: Quantum computing, lucid dreams and bin-flipping cockatoos
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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The physics of music - part 1
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Three scientific gift ideas and prospects for 2030
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Stunning capability, variety and beauty in the natural world
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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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
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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Always on? Or better sometimes off? The good and bad of smartphone technology
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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How science has been used to justify horrid acts through history
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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On a roll - Ceridwen Dovey wins Bragg Prize for Science Writing again
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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More hopes for Glasgow, more value from waste, and a new ship for Antarctic research
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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Birds, polar ice and hopes for Glasgow climate talks
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Prizes, prizes, prizes! Nobels, Earthshot and Eurekas
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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New ways to inspire young students about the world of science
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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As melting ice threatens polar ecosystems hopes emerge that international investment law will help speed transition to clean energy
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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Acacias a new weapon against climate change
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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Musical palm cockatoos sing duets and more
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Authors combine science with popular characters and gripping story lines
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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The Science Show celebrates 46 years with Douglas Adams, a pit full of snakes and a memory from the start
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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Crazy ants, smart birds and an Aussie space mission
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Electrification coming for runabouts and vale Roger Short
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Slime moulds, soil, Shackleton and snow
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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The Science Show - Saturday, August 7
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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Drilling beneath volcanoes, reducing the threat of tsunamis, and why the dodo is no more
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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Mining minerals with plants and time to supercharge recycling
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Solutions here now for the climate disaster
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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Deadly heat hits North America, better steel, and solutions to climate change feature in Australian Museum exhibition
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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The simple solution to two big problems — trees
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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Spinifex, ticks and the important role of fathers in wild animals
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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Biased botanists, a new blue kangaroo paw and playing birds have bigger brains and longer lives
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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New ideas about plant conservation, the immense diversity of Ashmore Reef, and how ocean noise could threaten whales and dolphins
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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Fears environmental laws to be weakened, burning practices threaten ecosystems and learning from Indigenous knowledge
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Methane 120 times worse than carbon dioxide, plus the changing world for frogs, bees and human relationships
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May 29, 2021 |
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Alan Turing – thinker ahead of his time
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May 22, 2021 |
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Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
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May 15, 2021 |
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Botanical tales, tariffs for renewable energy and extracting fossils
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May 08, 2021 |
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Full-on assault against natural ecosystems
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May 01, 2021 |
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Suzuki on racism, Darwin on psychology and saving the pines on Norfolk Island.
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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Seaweed a hope to capture carbon and help cool the planet
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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Adelaide car plant closes and becomes an innovation hub employing more people than before
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Restoring shellfish reefs and a helping hand for the green parrots of Norfolk Island
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Ecological repair for Australian islands east and west
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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$2.4 billion proposal to commercialise science and the importance of infant gut bacteria
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Fossil fish site in central NSW now in safe hands and Manly festival celebrates beauty and importance of seaweed
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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How Rosalind Franklin aided our pandemic response and attracting the world’s top researchers, despite COVID
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Changing climate questions where and how we build close to forested areas, and investigating the top speed of sound
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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Fish moving polewards and 3D printing of body parts
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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We’ve removed 90% of all large fish from the oceans. Just 10% to go.
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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Consciousness amongst animals and the story of the dire wolf
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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As mining causes roads to crack and houses to collapse, a Swedish city is moved
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Science Extra: The Moon is more fun than Venus
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Howard Florey - the Australian researcher who developed penicillin
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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Science Extra: What happened to the COVIDSafe app?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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A portrait of Sir John Eccles - Australian pioneer of neuroscience
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Science Extra: When your flatmate is Homo erectus
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Jan 12, 2021 |