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Season 1 Episode 50
From 2009 to 2013, the Kepler Space telescope looked for exoplanets – planets outside our solar system. It stared unblinkingly at a patch of sky whic…
8 years, 3 months ago
SOFIA Studying the Birth of Stars from a Flying Telescope
SOFIA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Some German astronomers have made a one hundred inch telescope that picks up infrared.…
8 years, 3 months ago
How We Got Into Science
Team Shirtload confesses all when they chat about how they got into science. Was it the nifty lab coats? Being able to use big words with authority? …
8 years, 4 months ago
The Fiery Death Plunge of Spacecraft Cassini
On the 15 September, 2017, after a long and happy life, the spacecraft Cassini will do (or did, depending on when you listen to this) a suicide plung…
8 years, 4 months ago
How good is Coffee ? Prof Clare Collins & Dr Karl (46)
Of all hot beverages, Coffee may be the healthiest. It is loaded with antioxidants and beneficial nutrients and it may even lower the risk of some na…
8 years, 4 months ago
Life on Titan, Space Agencies and Hangry
Dr Alice has a look at possible life but not as we know it on Titan. Close to but not quite, Dr Jessica on Australia's place the future shape of Spac…
8 years, 4 months ago
Dr Lucie & Dr Karl at 15 million degrees (44)
Dr Lucie Green is a Solar Researcher. She studies our natural power source – that Great Nuclear Reactor in the Sky, the Sun.
Come along for the ride…
8 years, 4 months ago
Science + Quiz = Comedy National Science Week 2017
Episode 43
To celebrate National Science Week in Australia, we all got together under the umbrella of the Sydney Science Festival to have a fun night called Squ…
8 years, 5 months ago
Why Great physics is Messy with Dr Helen Czerski (42)
Dr Karl and Dr Helen - talking about ..World's longest echo, how to photograph the molecules inside an explosion, Oceans, Coffee rings and climate ch…
8 years, 5 months ago
Spider Webs, The Shape of Eggs & On The Road with Bertha Benz (41)
In this episode - just about, almost on-the-verge of becoming Doctor Jessica on the physics of chemical bonding in spider's silk and how it might hel…
8 years, 5 months ago