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
The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy
Nicky Phillips has won this year’s Bragg Prize for Science Writing.
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Sat 02 Dec 2023
The Science Show
They were close to extinction. Now seashorses in Sydney Harbour may have survived.
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Sat 25 Nov 2023
Getting your rocks off
Landscape may be an important unrecognised contributor to climate change.
00:54:21 |
Sat 18 Nov 2023
Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.
00:54:06 |
Sat 11 Nov 2023
Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere
Mathematics is a key tool in every scientific discipline
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Sat 04 Nov 2023
Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research
Life Scientist award for work on microbes and their role in regulating climate plus Varroa mites – a positive for native bees?
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Sat 28 Oct 2023
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction
Michelle Simmons had received The Prime Minister's Science Prize for her work on quantum electronics.
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Sat 21 Oct 2023
Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.
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Sat 14 Oct 2023
Here come the superstars
Nobel Prizes, Covid good luck and Mars Rover's link to QUT
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Sat 07 Oct 2023
Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common?
Researchers have found school curriculums are missing the contributions of female scientists. Why is it so important we know the people behind the discoveries?
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Sat 30 Sep 2023
What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet
Mathematicians and their models might just be the world's most inconspicuous climate heroes.
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Sat 23 Sep 2023
A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air
What happens when two theories are pitted against one another? Are we any closer to knowing where consciousness arises?
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Sat 16 Sep 2023
Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose
This Australian father-daughter duo played a huge part in the science and philosophy instrumental in the mind-brain problem.
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Sat 09 Sep 2023
Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience
Sharon Carleton takes a look at his decades of work in this 2003 feature, coinciding with this year's Eccles Institute seminar at ANU.
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Sat 02 Sep 2023
Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer
All the science underway to protect our health, our environment... and our smartphones?
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Sat 26 Aug 2023
Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival
Some of the science on display at this year's Hobart-wide celebration of the big, small and occasionally glowy.
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Sat 19 Aug 2023
What can we learn from five minutes of silence?
Sometimes we all need to sit in silence ... but is there ever really silence? Take a seat and let your ears provide the answer.
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Sat 12 Aug 2023
The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres
The Exploratorium in San Francisco opened in 1969, and went on to inspire our own science centres in Australia.
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Sat 05 Aug 2023
Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets
Scientists are harnessing the very small to explore very big things — from faults in massive structures to time reversal at the molecular level.
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Sat 29 Jul 2023
There's no age limit to science
From a teenage enthusiast to a 100-year-old Nobel Prize winner, The Science Show explores the agelessness of wonder.
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Sat 22 Jul 2023
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