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Innovative Nanotechnology for Cancer Detection with Dr. Renee Goreham (450)
Season 8
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Renee Goreham, a physicist and nanotechnologist at the University of Newcastle, and passionate science communicator. Renee is an experimental physicist exploring how…
Published on 21 hours ago
Gene Therapy & Rare Diseases with Assoc. Prof Leszek Lisowski (449)
Season 8
In this episode, we speak with Associate Professor Leszek Lisowski, Head of the Translational Vectorology Unit at the Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI), about the cutting-edge world of gen…
Published on 1 week ago
The Brain's Energy Bill: From Childhood to Old Age with Assoc. Prof Sharna Jamadar (448)
Season 8
In this episode, we're joined by Associate Professor Sharna Jamadar, a cognitive neuroscientist at Monash University, to explore how the brain uses energy, and how that changes across the lifespan. D…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Onionlike Layers of Exploding Stars with Prof. Geraint Lewis (447)
Season 8
My go-to guy for all cosmic things Prof. Geraint Lewis, astrophysicist at the University of Sydney, returns to unpack a fascinating New York Times article on a newly observed "onionlike" space explos…
Published on 3 weeks ago
The Aftermath of Cosmic Collisions with Prof. Geraint Lewis (446)
Season 8
In this episode, friend of the show Geriant Lewis, Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy within the University of Sydney, joins us to unpack a fascinating New Scientist arti…
Published on 4 weeks ago
The Human Side of Misinformation Part 2 with Assoc. Prof. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu (445)
Season 8
In part two, Associate Professor Marian-Andrei Rizoiu from the University of Technology Sydney explains how misinformation and toxic online cultures spread. We dive into the "manosphere pipeline" tar…
Published on 1 month ago
The Human Side of Misinformation Part 1 with Assoc. Prof. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu (444)
Season 8
In this episode, I sit down with Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Associate Professor and head of the Behavioral Data Science Lab at the University of Technology Sydney. Drawing on a three-year research project…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Science Under Siege with Prof. Michael Mann & Prof. Peter Hotez (443)
Season 8
In this episode, we sit down with two of today's most prominent defenders of science: Professor Michael Mann, world-renowned climate scientist, and Professor Peter Hotez, vaccine researcher and advoc…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
From DNA to Policy: Protecting Threatened Species with Prof. Carolyn Hogg (442)
Season 8
In part two of our conversation with Professor Carolyn Hogg, Research Manager of the Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group at the University of Sydney, we dive deeper into the science and strategy beh…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Whales, Wildlife, and Conserving Threatened Species with Prof. Carolyn Hogg (441)
Season 8
From collecting urine samples in Antarctica to sampling whale snot to study reproduction, Dr. Carolyn Hogg's career is anything but ordinary. In this episode, she shares how her passion for protectin…
Published on 2 months ago