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
Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives
San Antonio Texas has restored the San Antonio River encouraging plants and animals back to the city.
00:53:03 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids
An asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 is causing a stir among the space community and a frenzy in the media. It currently has a 2.3 per cent chance of crashing into Earth three days before Christmas in 2032. B…
00:13:11 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back
Varroa is the parasite responsible for destroying bee colonies all around the world and is regarded as "the greatest biological threat to Australia's honey bee population."
The good news is that som…
00:13:30 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
The wonder of Australia’s deserts
Unlike other deserts, Australian deserts experience occasional high rainfall. It supports a unique ecology.
00:54:04 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it
Australia's summer UV levels are high enough to cause sunburn in as little as 11 minutes.
Yet the summer sun in the Northern Hemisphere rarely feels that full on.
So why does our sunlight have that…
00:13:33 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today
Opals, ancient humans and sharks dating back 465 million years. This week we see how today’s world has been shaped from the distant past.
00:54:04 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) do much more than fill whales' bellies. These tiny crustaceans also play a huge role in Earth's carbon cycle.
They sequester around 40 million tonnes of carbon ea…
00:13:19 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Opalised fossils previously overlooked at the Australian Museum have overturned our understanding of the origin of mammals with the emergence of a whole new age of mammals: The Age of Monotremes.
00:53:50 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again
Robert F Kennedy Jr is tipped to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services. Over the years, RFK Jr has repeatedly pushed the claim that childhood vaccines cause autism spectrum disorder — a…
00:13:15 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll
A remote community in the western Pacific is working with scientists to battle the effects of invasive species, a leaking WW2 oil tanker and climate change.
00:54:03 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami
Strewn throughout the sands of an island in the Great Barrier Reef, shards of pottery lay for thousands of years before an archaeologist quite literally stumbled across them 20 years ago.
As more pi…
00:50:06 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer
Hollywood promoted her as the most beautiful woman in the world. But Hedy Lamarr was more than good looks. She invented and patented a new form of communication which is used widely today and even al…
00:54:08 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam
Do you get texts telling you there’s an unclaimed parcel waiting for you at the post office?
Turns out scammers can find out if we’re expecting something in the post and time a scam text to coincide…
00:50:06 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy
CRISPR is the most powerful means of gene editing ever developed. It led to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier being awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2020. Jennifer Doudna speaks with…
00:52:42 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Science Extra: March of the cane toads
Up with the sparrows or hanging with the night owls: we humans like to put ourselves into one of two camps.
But when it comes to native animals, this idea of either being awake during the day or at …
00:50:06 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope
It might be the largest telescope humans will ever build. Jonathan Webb visits the site in Chile’s high dry Atacama Desert.
00:54:06 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Science Extra: Weight of the world
Once considered a problem for high-income countries, being overweight is now on the rise in low- and middle-income parts of the world. At least 2.5 billion adults are now overweight or obese.
What’…
00:50:05 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
Science Show Summer - A wire around the world
Paul Davies retraces one of the great engineering achievements of the 19th century – the construction of a telegraph wire from the UK to Australia.
00:53:39 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
Science Extra: More auroras in store?
More than 30 years ago, astronomers came up with the bold idea to build the world’s biggest radio telescopes.
One is now taking shape in the Western Australian outback, where scientists and engineer…
00:50:05 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
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