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
Where did the Universe come from?
* Science needs to develop trust for links to grow
* Kids space adventure combines human fight for survival with planetary science
* Where did the universe come from?
* There’s more to geoscience tha…
00:54:06 |
Sat 21 May 2022
Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions
* A call for more controls over possible brain manipulation and monitoring
* Global risks require new approach to governance
* Consumption linked to biodiversity and extinction risk
* Missouri Botani…
00:54:07 |
Sat 14 May 2022
Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world
* Thankyou Australia and goodbye
* Lyrebird song a possible indication of population health
* Twelve experiments that changed our world – the story of how we came to understand the universe
* Science…
00:54:07 |
Sat 07 May 2022
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
00:53:57 |
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga
* University plays a key role as Wollongong transforms
* New ideas about evolution and spread of monotremes
* Space missions excite school students for STEM
* High anxiety remains after Tongan tsunam…
00:54:03 |
Sat 23 Apr 2022
How our biggest threat is us
* New idea explains the enormous heat of the Sun’s corona
* All environmental problems traced to immense human impact
* This teenager loves science
* Centre for the Digital Child studies impact of te…
00:54:06 |
Sat 16 Apr 2022
Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen
* Election hopes for science
* Carbon – the element with a nice voice
* Secondary science – more analysis, less rote learning, not so much time for history
* Catastrophe – higher risk than most peopl…
00:54:05 |
Sat 09 Apr 2022
The end of astronauts?
* The end of astronauts?
* The First Astronomers
* Kiama students' hopes for International Youth Science Forum
* Derek Denton – working and publishing science at age 97
00:54:07 |
Sat 02 Apr 2022
Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls
* Soviet scientists locked up or killed for accepting Mendelian genetics
* E-boats bigger and stronger
* Birds – today’s link to dinosaurs
* David Stewart – 40 years recording bird calls
00:54:06 |
Sat 26 Mar 2022
The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate impacts made years ago.
* Scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine
* Warnings on climate and flooding seen in today’s massive property losses
* Parkinson's Disease – it’s like walking through …
00:54:04 |
Sat 19 Mar 2022
Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey
Horridus to help answer questions about Triceratops and other dinos
Charlotte McConaghy’s compelling novels built on complex characters in a fast-changing natural world
Vale Richard Leakey
00:54:05 |
Sat 12 Mar 2022
We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland
Artificial intelligence – promises and threats
Drone helps control invasive species on Norfolk Island
Triceratops comes to Melbourne
Hydrogen coming for Cape York communities
Pandemic – how we were w…
00:54:07 |
Sat 05 Mar 2022
How trees are gold – when alive
Human population the driver of greenhouse emissions and all environmental wows
Meg Lowman - a voice for trees
Flying foxes crashing
00:53:57 |
Sat 26 Feb 2022
How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat
Politicians unfairly maligned – Robin Batterham
Risk of tsunami on east Australian coast
Submerged mats could dissipate energy of tsunami
Despite all we know, biodiversity loss is at an all-time high…
00:54:06 |
Sat 19 Feb 2022
Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space
Scientists: don’t feed the doubt machine
Mysterious object in our galaxy sends pulses every 18 minutes
Fred Watson – celebrating 25 years on ABC radio
IQ tests, genes and environment - views from 198…
00:54:09 |
Sat 12 Feb 2022
Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson
Connection with nature linked to genes
Vale E. O. Wilson
Geothermal on the cusp in Australia?
Ancient Serbian settlement changes the view of early human society in Europe
00:54:05 |
Sat 05 Feb 2022
HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future
He imagined the atomic bomb, he believed in a world government, he wrote books about science and science fiction and was the first popular communicator of scientific ideas. Today we commemorate the l…
00:54:23 |
Sat 29 Jan 2022
University geology depts becoming smaller or closing
Geology departments becoming smaller or closing
Whitley Awards celebrate 50 years
Norfolk Island – food bowl for Australia’s first European settlers
00:54:24 |
Sat 22 Jan 2022
Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain?
Do fish and crabs feel pain, what went down at COP26, and how might climate change dampen the spirits of homeowners in low-lying areas? Plus and environmental scientist explains his theory that the e…
00:49:07 |
Sat 15 Jan 2022
Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world
Time to take kids more seriously
Norfolk Island once a convict hellhole
Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, amateur engineer
00:54:06 |
Sat 15 Jan 2022
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