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
Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
Bianca Nogrady traces the scientific journey of astronomer and Prime Minister’s Science Prize winner Matthew Bailes.
00:51:51 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
A signal that stumped seismologists for a year has finally been identified. And an author takes us to a distant location.
00:53:23 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
Momelotinib, a drug to help treat myelofibrosis has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, a rare achievement for an all-Australian team.
00:53:58 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
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.
00:54:04 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste
Platypuses in NSW are carrying PFAS chemicals many times over accepted levels indicate widespread contamination
00:54:06 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
Gay behaviour has been observed amongst at least 1,500 animal species.
00:52:20 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
Tianyi Ma at RMIT Melbourne has won the Prime Minister’s Physical Science Prize for his work producing cheaper hydrogen and using captured carbon dioxide for the green production of basic chemicals.
00:53:12 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
Tim Mendham tells us about Alfred Russel Wallace who worked with Darwin establishing theories of evolution and natural selection but who is barely known.
00:53:50 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
Bryde’s whale seen year-round in Australian east coast waters and reports from the British Science Festival.
00:53:33 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.
00:53:24 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
This week we look at some brilliant figures in science who after being allowed to fade from memory are now at last being recognised.
00:54:06 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
Dark energy – not necessarily constant
After more than twenty years of observations, Tamara Davis has revealed that dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the universe may not be constant.
00:54:06 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
It might be the largest telescope humans will ever build. We visit the site in Chile’s high dry Atacama Desert.
00:54:06 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty
Richard Fidler speaks to author Alison Bashford who has written about a hundred years of modern science and culture, told through a one family history.
00:54:05 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic
Plastic is being eaten by seabirds. Some migratory birds can no longer fly. And micro amounts are entering the cells of other creatures. Including us.
00:54:05 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
The Science Show celebrates 49 years
The first Science Show was broadcast on 30th August 1975. This week’s program takes a suitably cosmic view of Australia, its origins and its future.
00:51:43 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals
A new chemical reaction eliminates 6 steps in the manufacture of some drugs promising big savings of time and money.
00:53:28 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
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…
00:54:06 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.
Drought in the Amazon has left the forest tinder dry and now burning out of control. Wilderness areas and national parks across north America are on fire. The effects of climate change are hitting ha…
00:54:05 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts
We go to the Scottish Highlands where biodiversity is being reintroduced to cleared fields, and a comic book explores biodiversity in our guts where bacteria perform essential services.
00:54:02 |
Sat 03 Aug 2024
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