The Science Show

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Subscribers: 1511
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 245


 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.

Episode Date
Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research
Mar 15, 2025
Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men
Mar 11, 2025
A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again.
Mar 08, 2025
Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
Mar 04, 2025
Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes
Mar 01, 2025
Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic?
Feb 25, 2025
Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives
Feb 22, 2025
Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids
Feb 18, 2025
Vale Felicia Huppert
Feb 15, 2025
Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back
Feb 11, 2025
The wonder of Australia’s deserts
Feb 08, 2025
Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it
Feb 04, 2025
Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today
Feb 01, 2025
Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes
Jan 28, 2025
Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Jan 25, 2025
Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again
Jan 21, 2025
Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll
Jan 18, 2025
Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami
Jan 14, 2025
Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer
Jan 11, 2025
Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam
Jan 07, 2025
Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy
Jan 04, 2025
Science Extra: March of the cane toads
Dec 31, 2024
Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope
Dec 28, 2024
Science Extra: Weight of the world
Dec 24, 2024
Science Show Summer - A wire around the world
Dec 21, 2024
Science Extra: More auroras in store?
Dec 17, 2024
Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
Dec 14, 2024
Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
Dec 07, 2024
PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
Nov 30, 2024
Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Nov 23, 2024
Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste
Nov 16, 2024
Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
Nov 09, 2024
Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
Nov 02, 2024
Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
Oct 26, 2024
Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
Oct 19, 2024
Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson
Oct 12, 2024
Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
Oct 05, 2024
Dark energy – not necessarily constant
Sep 28, 2024
The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Sep 21, 2024
The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty
Sep 14, 2024
Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic
Sep 07, 2024
The Science Show celebrates 49 years
Aug 31, 2024
New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals
Aug 24, 2024
Merlin meets Dr Crispy
Aug 17, 2024
Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.
Aug 10, 2024
Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts
Aug 03, 2024
One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis
Jul 27, 2024
Stanford University: the great university with a dark side
Jul 20, 2024
The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss
Jul 13, 2024
The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter
Jul 06, 2024
The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories
Jun 29, 2024
The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles
Jun 22, 2024
Molecules with their own fingerprint
Jun 15, 2024
Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet
Jun 08, 2024
Age of Monotremes including three new genera
Jun 01, 2024
Are our tall forests really being saved?
May 25, 2024
Big savings possible for the world’s ships
May 18, 2024
Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia
May 11, 2024
Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage?
May 04, 2024
Scientists protest in Adelaide
Apr 27, 2024
Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish
Apr 20, 2024
The science of friendship
Apr 13, 2024
The amazing world of alpine plants
Apr 05, 2024
Meet the man who changed the world forever
Mar 29, 2024
Big things
Mar 23, 2024
US National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mar 16, 2024
Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts
Mar 09, 2024
Supernova!
Mar 02, 2024
The Science Show
Feb 24, 2024
How Chinese science was revealed to the world
Feb 17, 2024
Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields
Feb 10, 2024
Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG
Feb 03, 2024
The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists
Jan 27, 2024
Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies
Jan 20, 2024
H. G. Wells – father of science fiction
Jan 20, 2024
Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope
Jan 13, 2024
Portrait of Isaac Newton
Jan 13, 2024
Science Extra: One semaglutide please 
Jan 06, 2024
What to do when science doesn’t cut through
Jan 06, 2024
Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines
Dec 30, 2023
The Anglo-Australian Telescope – approaching 50 years
Dec 30, 2023
Science Extra: It's gettin' hot in here
Dec 23, 2023
The bigger Australian story - Odyssey down under
Dec 23, 2023
Transitions
Dec 16, 2023
The Future Is Now
Dec 09, 2023
2FC now Radio National celebrates 100 years
Dec 05, 2023
The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy
Dec 02, 2023
The Science Show
Nov 25, 2023
Getting your rocks off
Nov 18, 2023
Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science
Nov 11, 2023
Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere
Nov 04, 2023
Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research
Oct 28, 2023
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction
Oct 21, 2023
Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source
Oct 14, 2023
Here come the superstars
Oct 07, 2023
Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common?
Sep 30, 2023
What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet
Sep 23, 2023
A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air
Sep 16, 2023
Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose
Sep 09, 2023
Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience
Sep 02, 2023
Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer
Aug 26, 2023
Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival
Aug 19, 2023
What can we learn from five minutes of silence?
Aug 12, 2023
The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres
Aug 05, 2023
Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets
Jul 29, 2023
There's no age limit to science
Jul 22, 2023
Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within
Jul 15, 2023
Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite
Jul 08, 2023
Where science can lead: An isolated island, the slimy forest floor, and centre stage for stand-up
Jul 01, 2023
Communities team up with scientists to tackle flooding
Jun 24, 2023
Helping marine life thrive — from Fiji to Goondiwindi
Jun 17, 2023
Come inside the vault preserving Pacific plants for future generations
Jun 10, 2023
The surprising past — and promising future of women in science
Jun 03, 2023
The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds
May 27, 2023
Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton
May 20, 2023
Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe
May 13, 2023
Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday
May 06, 2023
A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology
Apr 29, 2023
Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart
Apr 22, 2023
Beaming energy to Earth from space
Apr 15, 2023
Technology helps scientists discover new species
Apr 08, 2023
Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water
Apr 01, 2023
World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen
Mar 25, 2023
Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory.
Mar 18, 2023
Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum
Mar 11, 2023
Visit the world’s biggest fission reactor under construction in France and discover the wonders of algae
Mar 04, 2023
The value of seagrasses, fish with remarkable powers and how parasites threaten aquatic life
Feb 25, 2023
Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians
Feb 18, 2023
Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil
Feb 11, 2023
A tour of the antimatter factory and John Wheeler remembered
Feb 04, 2023
Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak
Jan 28, 2023
The surprising Huxley family, certainty, and climate prospects for 2023
Jan 21, 2023
The evolution of galaxies and chasing the big cosmological questions
Jan 14, 2023
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
Jan 07, 2023
Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
Dec 31, 2022
A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
Dec 24, 2022
Human impact on and response to changing climate
Dec 17, 2022
Smart cameras watch for anomalies, Prime Minister’s awards for top science teachers and DNA reveals the history of disease
Dec 10, 2022
PM’s Prizes for Science, koalas, COP27 and Catherine the Great
Dec 03, 2022
Recovering aluminium from tailings, aluminium formate to absorb carbon dioxide from power station exhausts, and a Neanderthal family like us
Nov 26, 2022
Best Australian Science Writing winners and prospects for computing
Nov 19, 2022
New technology brings added value to museum collections
Nov 12, 2022
How crows use deception, saving freshwater turtles and the history of horses
Nov 05, 2022
Storms changing our coasts, plastic in the ocean, and a call for geoengineering
Oct 29, 2022
How carbon is our friend and unravelling the mystery of communication in plants
Oct 22, 2022
Grid batteries made in Australia and pumped hydro using abandoned underground mines
Oct 15, 2022
Nobel Prizes, climate extremes and how science can help save us
Oct 08, 2022
Vanillin from plastic, battery trailers for EVs, and UK fossils rewriting the story of life
Oct 01, 2022
Cheap solar, materials to capture carbon dioxide and a cancer test based on breath
Sep 24, 2022
UN Peacekeepers train with virtual reality, drones for the battlefield and the transformation of Newcastle
Sep 17, 2022
Testing Einstein, designing a lunar rover and help for stretched emergency departments
Sep 10, 2022
2022 Eureka science awards, new insights in the giant dinos and AI concerns
Sep 03, 2022
Australia’s megafauna, new building materials, and dung beetles
Aug 27, 2022
The story of mammals, how they coexisted with dinosaurs for 225 million years and survived when dinos couldn’t
Aug 20, 2022
Trees – allowing native species to return in Scotland, clearing them away in the Amazon, and seeing how they work in Tasmania
Aug 13, 2022
Vale James Lovelock
Aug 06, 2022
Best approach for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Jul 30, 2022
Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
Jul 23, 2022
The physics of music - part 6
Jul 16, 2022
The physics of music - part 5
Jul 09, 2022
The physics of music - part 4
Jul 02, 2022
Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia
Jun 25, 2022
Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration
Jun 18, 2022
Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind
Jun 11, 2022
Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years
Jun 04, 2022
Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy
May 28, 2022
Where did the Universe come from?
May 21, 2022
Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions
May 14, 2022
Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world
May 07, 2022
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
Apr 30, 2022
Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga
Apr 23, 2022
How our biggest threat is us
Apr 16, 2022
Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen
Apr 09, 2022
The end of astronauts?
Apr 02, 2022
Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls
Mar 26, 2022
The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate impacts made years ago.
Mar 19, 2022
Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey
Mar 12, 2022
We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland
Mar 05, 2022
How trees are gold – when alive
Feb 26, 2022
How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat
Feb 19, 2022
Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space
Feb 12, 2022
Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson
Feb 05, 2022
HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future
Jan 29, 2022
University geology depts becoming smaller or closing
Jan 22, 2022
Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain?
Jan 15, 2022
Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world
Jan 15, 2022
Science Extra: The facts on fake news, 3D printed body parts and will Meta be better?
Jan 08, 2022
New fossil site in NSW and the first computer
Jan 08, 2022
Science Extra: malaria vax breakthrough, surviving snake bite and, of course, COVID-19
Jan 01, 2022
The physics of music - part 3
Jan 01, 2022
Science Extra: Cosmic explosions, bits and bobs from the Big Bang and space rocks on Earth
Dec 25, 2021
The physics of music - part 2
Dec 25, 2021
Science extra: Quantum computing, lucid dreams and bin-flipping cockatoos
Dec 18, 2021
The physics of music - part 1
Dec 18, 2021
Three scientific gift ideas and prospects for 2030
Dec 11, 2021
Stunning capability, variety and beauty in the natural world
Dec 04, 2021
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
Nov 27, 2021
Always on? Or better sometimes off? The good and bad of smartphone technology
Nov 20, 2021
How science has been used to justify horrid acts through history
Nov 13, 2021
On a roll - Ceridwen Dovey wins Bragg Prize for Science Writing again
Oct 30, 2021
More hopes for Glasgow, more value from waste, and a new ship for Antarctic research
Oct 23, 2021
Birds, polar ice and hopes for Glasgow climate talks
Oct 16, 2021
Prizes, prizes, prizes! Nobels, Earthshot and Eurekas
Oct 09, 2021
New ways to inspire young students about the world of science
Oct 02, 2021
As melting ice threatens polar ecosystems hopes emerge that international investment law will help speed transition to clean energy
Sep 25, 2021
Acacias a new weapon against climate change
Sep 18, 2021
Musical palm cockatoos sing duets and more
Sep 11, 2021
Authors combine science with popular characters and gripping story lines
Sep 04, 2021
The Science Show celebrates 46 years with Douglas Adams, a pit full of snakes and a memory from the start
Aug 28, 2021
Crazy ants, smart birds and an Aussie space mission
Aug 21, 2021
Electrification coming for runabouts and vale Roger Short
Aug 14, 2021
Slime moulds, soil, Shackleton and snow
Aug 07, 2021
The Science Show - Saturday, August 7
Aug 07, 2021
Drilling beneath volcanoes, reducing the threat of tsunamis, and why the dodo is no more
Jul 31, 2021
Mining minerals with plants and time to supercharge recycling
Jul 24, 2021
Solutions here now for the climate disaster
Jul 17, 2021
Deadly heat hits North America, better steel, and solutions to climate change feature in Australian Museum exhibition
Jul 10, 2021
The simple solution to two big problems — trees
Jul 03, 2021
Spinifex, ticks and the important role of fathers in wild animals
Jun 26, 2021
Biased botanists, a new blue kangaroo paw and playing birds have bigger brains and longer lives
Jun 19, 2021
New ideas about plant conservation, the immense diversity of Ashmore Reef, and how ocean noise could threaten whales and dolphins
Jun 12, 2021
Fears environmental laws to be weakened, burning practices threaten ecosystems and learning from Indigenous knowledge
Jun 05, 2021
Methane 120 times worse than carbon dioxide, plus the changing world for frogs, bees and human relationships
May 29, 2021
Alan Turing – thinker ahead of his time
May 22, 2021
Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
May 15, 2021
Botanical tales, tariffs for renewable energy and extracting fossils
May 08, 2021
Full-on assault against natural ecosystems
May 01, 2021
Suzuki on racism, Darwin on psychology and saving the pines on Norfolk Island.
Apr 24, 2021
Seaweed a hope to capture carbon and help cool the planet
Apr 17, 2021
Adelaide car plant closes and becomes an innovation hub employing more people than before
Apr 10, 2021
Restoring shellfish reefs and a helping hand for the green parrots of Norfolk Island
Apr 03, 2021
Ecological repair for Australian islands east and west
Mar 27, 2021
$2.4 billion proposal to commercialise science and the importance of infant gut bacteria
Mar 20, 2021
Fossil fish site in central NSW now in safe hands and Manly festival celebrates beauty and importance of seaweed
Mar 13, 2021
How Rosalind Franklin aided our pandemic response and attracting the world’s top researchers, despite COVID
Mar 06, 2021
Changing climate questions where and how we build close to forested areas, and investigating the top speed of sound
Feb 27, 2021
Fish moving polewards and 3D printing of body parts
Feb 20, 2021
We’ve removed 90% of all large fish from the oceans. Just 10% to go.
Feb 13, 2021
Consciousness amongst animals and the story of the dire wolf
Feb 06, 2021
As mining causes roads to crack and houses to collapse, a Swedish city is moved
Jan 30, 2021
Science Extra: The Moon is more fun than Venus
Jan 26, 2021
Howard Florey - the Australian researcher who developed penicillin
Jan 23, 2021
Science Extra: What happened to the COVIDSafe app?
Jan 19, 2021
A portrait of Sir John Eccles - Australian pioneer of neuroscience
Jan 16, 2021
Science Extra: When your flatmate is Homo erectus
Jan 12, 2021