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Episode 44: Climate Change and Bushfire Risk
Season 2 Episode 1
The first episode of 2020 covers the topic on everyone’s lips this summer – the Australian bushfires. We chat with Dr Grant Williamson and Dr Bec Har…
6 years, 7 months ago
Episode 43: Seed Banks - security for our future
Season 1 Episode 43
This week we caught up with budding botanist, Fiona Walsh from Utas School of Natural Science. Listen in as Kelsey and Niamh explore what seed banks …
6 years, 8 months ago
Episode 42: Goodbye MS - The team tackling a devastating disease
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that is complex and can be debilitating. Here in Hobart, we have a comprehensive approach to MS rese…
6 years, 8 months ago
Episode 41: Hay Fever - there's an app for that!
Season 1 Episode 41
The summer season is here (or is it in Tassie?!), with it that typically means higher pollen that will trigger allergic reactions in many people.
Hay…
6 years, 8 months ago
Episode 40: STEM Awards
This week we interviewed the winners of the Tasmanian STEM excellence awards. These awards highlight and acknowledge our local science community and …
6 years, 8 months ago
Episode 39: Going off grid
Season 1 Episode 38
This week we bring you an engineering special as the isolated power systems workshop brought engineering leaders from around the world to Hobart, Tas…
6 years, 9 months ago
Episode 38: Tech For Good
Season 1 Episode 38
Off the back of the Facebook Community Boost events held across Tasmania between October 29th and November 1st 2019, we gathered together the event p…
6 years, 9 months ago
Episode 37: Diabetes, causes, complications and prevention.
Season 1 Episode 37
280 Australians develop diabetes every day, that’s one person every 5 minutes! World Diabetes Day falls on November 14th 2019 so we caught up with so…
6 years, 9 months ago
Episode 36: Let's vent, the wonder of volcanoes!
Season 1 Episode 36
This week's show is a preview of the upcoming Science in the Pub event! We interviewed two volcanologists, Dr Karin Orth and Dr Martin, from the Univ…
6 years, 9 months ago
Episode 35: Printing organs or using samples, how do we protect people in research?
Season 1 Episode 35
Research pushes the boundaries of medicine and biology.
Bioethics safeguards the participants that take part in experiments to test new technologies o…
6 years, 10 months ago