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Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
23 november 2024 · 54 min
Opalised fossils previously overlooked at the Australian Museum have overturned our understanding of the origin of mammals with the emergence of a whole new age of mammals: The Age of Monotremes.
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Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste
16 november 2024 · 54 min
Platypuses in NSW are carrying PFAS chemicals many times over accepted levels indicate widespread contamination
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Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
9 november 2024 · 52 min
Gay behaviour has been observed amongst at least 1,500 animal species.
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Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
2 november 2024 · 53 min
Tianyi Ma at RMIT Melbourne has won the Prime Minister’s Physical Science Prize for his work producing cheaper hydrogen and using captured carbon dioxide for the green production of basic chemicals.
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Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
26 oktober 2024 · 54 min
Tim Mendham tells us about Alfred Russel Wallace who worked with Darwin establishing theories of evolution and natural selection but who is barely known.
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Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
19 oktober 2024 · 54 min
Bryde’s whale seen year-round in Australian east coast waters and reports from the British Science Festival.
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Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson
12 oktober 2024 · 53 min
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.
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Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
5 oktober 2024 · 54 min
This week we look at some brilliant figures in science who after being allowed to fade from memory are now at last being recognised.
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Dark energy – not necessarily constant
28 september 2024 · 54 min
After more than twenty years of observations, Tamara Davis has revealed that dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the universe may not be constant.
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The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
21 september 2024 · 54 min
It might be the largest telescope humans will ever build. We visit the site in Chile’s high dry Atacama Desert.
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The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty
14 september 2024 · 54 min
Richard Fidler speaks to author Alison Bashford who has written about a hundred years of modern science and culture, told through a one family history.
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Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic
7 september 2024 · 54 min
Plastic is being eaten by seabirds. Some migratory birds can no longer fly. And micro amounts are entering the cells of other creatures. Including us.
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The Science Show celebrates 49 years
31 augustus 2024 · 52 min
The first Science Show was broadcast on 30th August 1975. This week’s program takes a suitably cosmic view of Australia, its origins and its future.
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New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals
24 augustus 2024 · 53 min
A new chemical reaction eliminates 6 steps in the manufacture of some drugs promising big savings of time and money.
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Merlin meets Dr Crispy
17 augustus 2024 · 54 min
CRISPR is the most powerful means of gene editing ever developed. It led to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier being awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2020. Jennifer Doudna speaks with Merlin Crossley about CRISPR, its capability, and the ethical questions which arise. Lees meer
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Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.
10 augustus 2024 · 54 min
Drought in the Amazon has left the forest tinder dry and now burning out of control. Wilderness areas and national parks across north America are on fire. The effects of climate change are hitting hard with threats of major shifts to world weather patterns as shown by the tropical island of Yap in the western Pacific coming perilously close to running out of fresh water. Lees meer
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Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts
3 augustus 2024 · 54 min
We go to the Scottish Highlands where biodiversity is being reintroduced to cleared fields, and a comic book explores biodiversity in our guts where bacteria perform essential services.
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One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis
27 juli 2024 · 54 min
As temperatures rise, it is estimated one billion people will be displaced from their land.
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Stanford University: the great university with a dark side
20 juli 2024 · 54 min
The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are to be combined as one in 2026. Lees meer
So how do you start a new university?
You could look at the most successful universities and see what makes them great.
Stanford University, just south of San Francisco amid Silicon Valley in one of the great universities.
Its graduates have created the high-tech companies which we all now rely on.
But Stanford has a dark history with a veil of silence drawn over anyone speaking about the university’s past, or present operations.
Sharon Carleton reports.
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The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss
13 juli 2024 · 54 min
The ocean depths may be out of sight, but they play an important role in climate and the cycling of nutrients.
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The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter
6 juli 2024 · 55 min
From deep within a mountain in Italy, scientists hope increasingly sophisticated experiments are closing in on the hidden matter of the universe.
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The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories
29 juni 2024 · 54 min
For the next big steps in physics many believe it's time for a shake-up of the field's core theories - including those proposed by Einstein himself.
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The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles
22 juni 2024 · 54 min
Deep in an abandoned silver mine in Germany, seismometres monitor the song of the Earth - including its most mysterious rumbles.
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Molecules with their own fingerprint
15 juni 2024 · 54 min
Just as DNA is unique, it turns out other molecules may also be unique.
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Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet
8 juni 2024 · 54 min
Paul Ehrlich has released a memoir. It covers his decades of science and activism. There have been some improvements. But mostly his concerns are even stronger.
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Age of Monotremes including three new genera
1 juni 2024 · 54 min
I00 million years ago, there were more species of monotreme, the egg-laying mammals such as today’s platypus and echidna at Lightning Ridge in northern NSW than anywhere else on earth, past or present.
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Are our tall forests really being saved?
25 mei 2024 · 54 min
David Lindenmayer reveals the ugly truth and what’s really happening in our magnificent tall forests.
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Big savings possible for the world’s ships
18 mei 2024 · 54 min
Ships which hitch a ride on small ocean currents could make big savings on fuel and reduce emissions.
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Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia
11 mei 2024 · 54 min
There are no bone fragments or similar clues. But the structure of cells of ancient plants captured in charcoal is revealing the diet and lifestyle of the first Australians.
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Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage?
4 mei 2024 · 54 min
Large scale energy storage will allow users to rely on renewable energy alone. The US Department of Energy is funding research to make it a happen.
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Scientists protest in Adelaide
27 april 2024 · 54 min
Scientists fear research will be hit in proposed changes at the South Australian Museum
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Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish
20 april 2024 · 54 min
Two inspirational books for younger readers show an intruiging world and the thrill of chasing a dream.
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The science of friendship
13 april 2024 · 54 min
Friendship led ancient humans to cooperate and gain an edge over predators. Compassion is seen among 25 primates and other animals. Today we explore these qualities and meet scientists investigating the role of friendship in our evolution and our lives in the modern world. Lees meer
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The amazing world of alpine plants
5 april 2024 · 54 min
Today we meet the people at the forefront of studying alpine plants - including how trees and plants survive in deep snow and ferocious winds. We visit the mushroom lab to discovery why fungi are essential to life on earth and find out what seed collection in the Colorado mountains is teaching us how to adapt in a changing climate. And while we're talking plants - Professor Peter Bernhardt of Missouri describes the thrill when the seventh millionth species was revealed and listed at his own formidable herbarium. All that, plus meeting the winner of the 2023 Jak Kelly Award for his fascinating research on how stars are tearing apart planets - could this have been the history of our own planet Earth? Lees meer
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Meet the man who changed the world forever
29 maart 2024 · 54 min
Sir Mark Oliphant of Adelaide was the main person missing from the film Oppenheimer. Lees meer
It was Sir Mark who carried the letter from European scientists to New York to convince the American President that Hitler was trying to make an atomic bomb and needed to be beaten to the chilling quest. It led to the Manhattan Project.
Mark also gave us microwave power, initially to equip planes, later to give us microwave ovens; he helped establish the ANU; was the first President of the Australian Academy of Science and became governor of South Australia.
He was the 'right hand man' of Sir Ernest Rutherford of NZ who revealed the atomic nucleus and won the Nobel Prize in 1916.
It is often reported that they "split the atom" and so enabled the incredible power therein to be released.
It was this, as well as the Manhattan Project, that made Sir Mark Oliphant such a voice for peace and tolerance, as this Science Show from 1986 remembers.
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Big things
23 maart 2024 · 54 min
The Iter Tokamak nuclear fusion reactor is due for completion next year. In the US, a smaller cheaper reactor is also gearing up.
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US National Center for Atmospheric Research
16 maart 2024 · 54 min
Join Robyn Williams and meet scientists at one of the world’s centres for the study of climate and weather.
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Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts
9 maart 2024 · 54 min
Microplastics are everywhere and impacting ecosystems.
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Supernova!
2 maart 2024 · 54 min
A supernova has been observed in great detail just 3.5 light years from Earth… and that’s close!
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The Science Show
24 februari 2024 · 54 min
They’ve lived since the time of the dinosaurs. But the outlook is grim for Tasmania’s Maugean skate.
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How Chinese science was revealed to the world
17 februari 2024 · 54 min
A great range of scientific and technical achievements were made in China hundreds of years earlier than in Europe.
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Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields
10 februari 2024 · 54 min
More efficient molecules inside plants could bring a big increase in crop yields.
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Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG
3 februari 2024 · 54 min
Failing crops and dwindling water supply are forcing change to the traditional lifestyles of PNG highlanders.
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The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists
27 januari 2024 · 54 min
People know their sports stars, and their rock stars. Why don’t they know the stars of science who have helped shape our world? The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists hopes to generate discussion and raise the profile of Australia’s world class scientists. Lees meer
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Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies
20 januari 2024 · 23 min
Aspects of mental health and psychology. Lees meer
Diagnoses of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) doubled over the past year, and the cost of doing that increased substantially too.
And why do parents take so readily to singing to their babies—especially when it's time to change the nappy?
With Presenter of All in the Mind Sana Qadar
and Investigative Journalist Ange Lavoipierre
Hosted by Science Editor Jonathan Webb
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H. G. Wells – father of science fiction
20 januari 2024 · 54 min
He imagined the atomic bomb, believed in a world government, wrote books about science and science fiction and was the first popular communicator of scientific ideas. Today we commemorate the life and achievements of Herbert George Wells.
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Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope
13 januari 2024 · 20 min
Clearly, there's no such thing as too much AI, you can't escape it; and we can't ignore avian 'flu, or 2023 being the hottest year on record; But, meanwhile ... CERN measured the dynamics of falling antimatter; primatologists measured menopause in chimps; Jupiter got new moons, Beethoven's hair gave up genetic intel, and the James Webb telescope filled in some knowledge gaps. Lees meer
We're with Science Journalist Genelle Weule and Science Reporter Belinda Smith
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Portrait of Isaac Newton
13 januari 2024 · 54 min
He developed laws of motion, gravitation and mathematical calculus. But with his genius came myths and legends. Sharon Carleton presents a portrait of Isaac Newton.
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Science Extra: One semaglutide please
6 januari 2024 · 19 min
If there’s one medication that’s got everyone talking it’s the antidiabetic medication semaglutide. The drug is often better known by one of its brand names, Ozempic, and it’s exploded in popularity mainly because of its weight loss effects. So what’s happened due to the popularity and what could be coming next? Lees meer
Also, while COVID has become less relevant in everyday discussions it certainly hasn’t gone away. We haven’t seen the rise of a major new variant, but SARS-CoV-2 hasn’t been sitting still.
This week we’re joined by health reporters Tegan Taylor and Paige Cockburn.
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What to do when science doesn’t cut through
6 januari 2024 · 54 min
Tim Flannery and Robyn Williams discuss how to communicate in a world of denialism, disinformation, and deep fakes.