The Science Show
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 271
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Nobel Prizes, climate extremes and how science can help save us
The Science Show presents unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.
01:00:00 |
Sat 08 Oct 2022
Vanillin from plastic, battery trailers for EVs, and UK fossils rewriting the story of life
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.
Sat 01 Oct 2022
Cheap solar, materials to capture carbon dioxide and a cancer test based on breath
Unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to pr...
01:00:00 |
Sat 24 Sep 2022
UN Peacekeepers train with virtual reality, drones for the battlefield and the transformation of Newcastle
Unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to pr...
01:00:00 |
Sat 17 Sep 2022
Testing Einstein, designing a lunar rover and help for stretched emergency departments
Unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to pr...
01:00:00 |
Sat 10 Sep 2022
2022 Eureka science awards, new insights in the giant dinos and AI concerns
Unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to pr...
01:00:00 |
Sat 03 Sep 2022
Australia’s megafauna, new building materials, and dung beetles
Unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to pr...
01:00:00 |
Sat 27 Aug 2022
The story of mammals, how they coexisted with dinosaurs for 225 million years and survived when dinos couldn’t
00:54:00 |
Sat 20 Aug 2022
Trees – allowing native species to return in Scotland, clearing them away in the Amazon, and seeing how they work in Tasmania
01:00:00 |
Sat 13 Aug 2022
Vale James Lovelock
We celebrate the life of James Lovelock, father of the Gaia hypothesis which describes how the Earth keeps things in balance favourable for life.
00:54:05 |
Sat 06 Aug 2022
Best approach for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Climate change to bring mass migration
Adrian Smith leads the Royal Society
Exhibition shows the role of microbes in chocolate production
Aussie Stem Stars - Emma Johnston
Prosthetic device offers he…
00:54:27 |
Sat 30 Jul 2022
Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
The Australian overland telegraph was a 3,200 km line connecting Port Augusta in South Australia to Darwin. It was completed in 1872 and allowed communication between Australia and the rest of the wo…
00:54:04 |
Sat 23 Jul 2022
The physics of music - part 6
In the final part of his series on the connections between developments in physic and music, the late Ian Johnston, physicist from The University of Sydney, explores developments in the twentieth cen…
00:54:06 |
Sat 16 Jul 2022
The physics of music - part 5
In the nineteenth century western music moved from classicism to romanticism, and our knowledge of physics progressed in electricity, electromagnetism and the wave properties of sound. We also began …
00:54:06 |
Sat 09 Jul 2022
The physics of music - part 4
We continue our series of programs about the connections between physics and music presented by the late Ian Johnston from The University of Sydney.
00:54:05 |
Sat 02 Jul 2022
Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia
The first European honey bees arrived in Australia on 20th May 1822. Four bee experts recount the effects on Australia's native bees, on honey production, on ecology and farming. And a new $2 coin is…
00:54:07 |
Sat 25 Jun 2022
Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration
* Environmental laws for today, not tomorrow
00:54:03 |
Sat 18 Jun 2022
Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind
* Hobart - Australian city of science
* New ways of thinking about pain
* Getting the cameras right to count feral cats
* Boab nuts used to reflect on archaeology
00:54:04 |
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years
* Primary students present E=mc2 The Musical
* Giant strides in energy storage and plastic recycling
* Seaweeds – thousands of species many with untapped potential
* Giant kelp in massive drastic dec…
00:54:07 |
Sat 04 Jun 2022
Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy
* Black hole images allow theories to be tested
* Journals slow to act despite evidence of scientific fraud or misconduct
* Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours
* New technolog…
00:54:06 |
Sat 28 May 2022
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