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The Science Show - Full Program Podcast

The Science Show - Full Program Podcast

259 Episodes • By ABC Radio • www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro...
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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The Science Show - Full Program Podcast
The Science Show - Full Program Podcast
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Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia
The first European honeybees arrived in Australia on... more
Jun 25 2022 54m
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Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration
* Environmental laws for today, not tomorrow
Jun 18 2022 54m
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Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind
* Hobart - Australian city of science * New ways of ... more
Jun 11 2022 54m
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Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years
* Primary students present E=mc2 The Musical * Giant... more
Jun 4 2022 54m
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Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our ...
* Black hole images allow theories to be tested * Jo... more
May 28 2022 54m
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Where did the Universe come from?
* Science needs to develop trust for links to grow *... more
May 21 2022 54m
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Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions
* A call for more controls over possible brain manip... more
May 14 2022 54m
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Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world
* Thankyou Australia and goodbye * Lyrebird song a p... more
May 7 2022 54m
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Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
Apr 30 2022 53m
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Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga
* University plays a key role as Wollongong transfor... more
Apr 23 2022 54m
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How our biggest threat is us
* New idea explains the enormous heat of the Sun’s c... more
Apr 16 2022 54m
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Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen
* Election hopes for science * Carbon – the element ... more
Apr 9 2022 54m
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The end of astronauts?
* The end of astronauts? * The First Astronomers * K... more
Apr 2 2022 54m
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Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls
* Soviet scientists locked up or killed for acceptin... more
Mar 26 2022 54m
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The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate...
* Scientific collaborations in doubt following Russi... more
Mar 19 2022 54m
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Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey
Horridus to help answer questions about Triceratops ... more
Mar 12 2022 54m
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We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland
Artificial intelligence – promises and threats Drone... more
Mar 5 2022 54m
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How trees are gold – when alive
Human population the driver of greenhouse emissions ... more
Feb 26 2022 53m
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How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat
Politicians unfairly maligned – Robin Batterham Risk... more
Feb 19 2022 54m
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Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space
Scientists: don’t feed the doubt machine Mysterious ... more
Feb 12 2022 54m
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Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson
Connection with nature linked to genes Vale E. O. Wi... more
Feb 5 2022 54m
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HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future
He imagined the atomic bomb, he believed in a world ... more
Jan 29 2022 54m
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University geology depts becoming smaller or closing
Geology departments becoming smaller or closing Whit... more
Jan 22 2022 54m
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Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world
Time to take kids more seriously Norfolk Island once... more
Jan 15 2022 54m
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Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain?
Crustacean brain chemistry has been found to change ... more
Jan 15 2022 49m
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