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Episode 329: Getting to the Root of Climate History
How much can a tree tell us about the climate? Quite a lot, it turns out.
This week, we chat with Dr Kathryn Allen from the University of Tasmania, on…
2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 328: The Geology Behind Copper
Episode 328
Copper is all around us, from the wires in our homes to the technologies powering the transition to renewable energy. But where does it actually come…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 327: Digging into the groundwater beneath our feet
Season 1 Episode 327
What is a hydrogeologist, why is groundwater important, and how can mine sites both contribute to and impact our hidden water sources? In this episod…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 326: A Foray into Forensic Anthropology
Episode 326
Welcome back to another episode in sunny Oxford!
While Olly was in the UK, she visited St John’s College at the University of Oxford. There, she sat …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 325: Avian influenza in Antarctica
Season 1 Episode 325
This week, Dr Jane Younger returns to the TWICS mic to tell Olly about her recent adventures down south to Antarctica.
Unfortunately, the trip involve…
3 months ago
Episode 324: Saving lives, one donor at a time
Episode 324
In this episode of That's What I Call Science, Dr. Elise Tuuri sits down with Dr. Andrew Turner, Medical Director of DonateLife Tasmania, to explore …
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 323: Pint of Science
Episode 323
With Pint of Science just around the corner, we’re joined by three of the presenters from Hobart’s 2026 event, “From Inner Workings to Icy Worlds” at…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 322: Fungi of the Forest
Henna Tyyskä is a PhD student in Catalonia, Spain studying how historical land-use affects fungi under the forest floor.
Inspired to be a scientist a…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 321: Electrics, Leaves and Outer-Space
Episode 321
From Catalonia, PhD student Marc Busuldu grew up fascinated by the stars. Internships across Spain led him to a position at CREAF and to his current …
4 months ago
Episode 320: Oceans, climate, and the weather
Episode 320
From the posters at the 2026 AMOS conference, we bring you a podcast episode with the latest science on oceans, the climate and weather! We hear from…
4 months, 1 week ago