Podcast Episodes

Fossil graveyards an archive of past climate and ecology

* Gillard tribute to Ogilvie* The future of sleep* Fossil graveyards an archive of climate and ecology* How bacteria behave in the body* White possum…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Lab Notes: What's it like to be in a clinical trial?

Before any new therapy or medicine is placed on the shelves of a pharmacy, it needs to be tested in humans first.

What does that process look like? An…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Monitoring Antarctic glaciers and the science of gluten-free baking

A team from Caltech is using ultrasound to reveal processes at work one kilometre under Antarctic ice. 

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Lab Notes: Is AI taking over mathematics?

AI chatbots are helping to crack long-standing mathematical problems, including some of the famous Paul Erdős conjectures that have remained unsolved…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

As bird flu arrives in Australia, an endangered species is being quarantined

We visit a wildlife sanctuary north of Canberra where enclosures are being built to quarantine the eastern quoll, a species already endangered. Will …

4 months ago

Lab Notes: Is space junk destroying the ozone layer?

Old satellites and bits of space junk regularly fall back to Earth, burning up as they pass through the atmosphere.

All this burning metal causes a ch…

4 months ago

How bird brains help us understand human brains, and how eugenics had as much hand in the birth control movement as did feminism

We also celebrate mathematician Terence Tao’s King’s birthday honour, and go in search of subatomic particles, 2Km underground.

4 months, 1 week ago

Lab Notes: The bird flu risk for Aussie wildlife

A deadly variant of H5N1 avian influenza has finally reached mainland Australia: the last continent without it. Although the risk to human health rem…

4 months, 1 week ago

Insects and pain and The Selfish Gene turns 50

If insects feel pain, do they deserve animal rights as apply to mammals?

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Lab Notes: What happens when a whale dies?

The largest, deepest and oldest whale graveyard has been found off the coast of Western Australia: teeming with life. 

Jonathan Webb takes a deep dive…

4 months, 2 weeks ago