Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUnboiling an Egg with Colin Raston
Season 2 Episode 33
How do you un-boil an egg? A Professor of Chemistry showed what was possible and won an Ig-Nobel Prize. It's all about the structure of proteins and…
6 years, 8 months ago
Fire Tornados - How Jason Sharples uses Maths to predict fire behaviour
Season 2 Episode 32
Firestorms attacked Australia's Capital City in 2003. Four people died. Dr Karl meets Prof Jason Sharples. His analysis has altered the world's under…
6 years, 8 months ago
What and where is Life?
Season 2 Episode 31
The discovery of a planet beyond our solar system was rewarded with a share of the 2019 Nobel Physics Prize. Thousands more exoplanets have since bee…
6 years, 9 months ago
Life Out There - the new science of AstroBiology with Dr Rachel Brachman and Dr Michel Malaska
Season 2 Episode 30
2019's Nobel Physics prize was shared by three Astrophysicists: Jim Peebles for his Big Bang cosmology plus Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their …
6 years, 9 months ago
Vaccination Saves us with Dr David Isaacs
Season 2 Episode 29
Polio, smallpox, measles, whooping cough - the list goes on. Vaccination has saved more human lives than other treatments. Dr David gives Dr Karl t…
6 years, 9 months ago
Sand Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta
Season 2 Episode 28
Dr Karl embraces Sand Talk. The first Australians have been exchanging complex concepts this way for 60,000 years. Climate Change and the nature of T…
6 years, 9 months ago
NASA Flight Director Matt Abbott
Season 2 Episode 26
July 2019 marked 50 years since the Apollo moon landing. Days later, Chris Kraft, a visionary behind Mission Control and Nasa's first flight director…
6 years, 10 months ago
Kate Cole on protecting yourself from Silicosis
Season 2 Episode 25
Silicosis is a deadly lung condition. It is an occupational disease traditionally associated with stone masons and miners. Today new generations are …
6 years, 10 months ago
Kate Cole Silicosis Science and History with Dr Karl
Season 2 Episode 24
Digging big holes is dangerous work. Silicosis is a cumulative and sometimes fatal disease resulting from breathing in certain types of dust from bro…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Rust that Kills Breakfast
Season 2 Episode 23
Romans used Red Dog sacrifices but could not stop it. Decades ago Science slowed the red fungi with new strains of cereal crops. Food security is bac…
6 years, 10 months ago