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Episode 337: Adaptations in the Dark
Episode 337
What happens when animals spend thousands of years adapting to life in complete darkness?
This week on That's What I Call Science, Dr Olly Dove and Dr…
2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 336: Creating Galaxies from Scratch
Season 1 Episode 336
What happens when a black hole launches a jet travelling close to the speed of light? And how can scientists study events happening millions of light…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 335: Lightning, crystals, action!
Episode 335
Have we got an explosive episode for you today, listeners!
If you live in Hobart, you may have seen a man walking around with a briefcase full of eno…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 334: Protecting Potatoes
Episode 334
We sit down with Thomas Verne, a Masters researcher at the Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture, to talk about his work developing probiotics that pro…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 333: Reef Recovery and Marine Conservation
Episode 333
We kick off our Young Tassie Scientists series with marine ecologist Paula Ruiz, a PhD candidate at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (I…
3 months ago
Episode 332: Hot leaves and heatwaves
Dr Margaux Didion-Gency grew up playing in the forest, building tree houses and as an adult she hangs out in forests, shrublands and very hot climate…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 331: The National Museum of Computing
Episode 331
During her final week in the UK, Olly had the pleasure of visiting The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley. There, she chatted with four volunt…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 330: Ecological adventures around the world
Season 1 Episode 330
A long, long time ago in a university far away, TWICS host Olly studied Zoology alongside adventurer Kate Lacey. Kate’s career would take her across …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
4 months 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…
4 months, 1 week ago