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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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Platypuses in NSW are carrying PFAS chemicals many times over accepted levels indicate widespread contamination
Gay behaviour has been observed amongst at least 1,500 animal species.
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.
Tim Mendham tells us about Alfred Russel Wallace who worked with Darwin establishing theories of evolution and natural selection but who is barely known.
Bryde’s whale seen year-round in Australian east coast waters and reports from the British Science Festival.
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.
This week we look at some brilliant figures in science who after being allowed to fade from memory are now at last being recognised.
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.
It might be the largest telescope humans will ever build. We visit the site in Chile’s high dry Atacama Desert.
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.
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.
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.
A new chemical reaction eliminates 6 steps in the manufacture of some drugs promising big savings of time and money.
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.
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.
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.
As temperatures rise, it is estimated one billion people will be displaced from their land.
The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are to be combined as one in 2026. 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.
The ocean depths may be out of sight, but they play an important role in climate and the cycling of nutrients.
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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