The Science Show - Separate stories podcast
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 day
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 298
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
How our brains store and process memories
How do our brains decide what to keep and what to forget as we are swamped with information and facts?
00:15:01 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Two uni students share their love of insects in a new podcast
Thoughts That Bug Me is a podcast where you too can learn to love insects.
00:15:14 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Adventure and hope for young readers on the future of energy
How to Save the Whole Blinkin' Planet is a resource for teachers bringing fun to a serious topic.
00:08:28 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Atmospheric chemistry helps explain impact of pollution, wildfires and climate change
Smoke from forest fires can produce a spike in ozone levels.
00:10:31 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Record fires in North and South America
Reese Halter describes precarious fire conditions across two continents which point to an ominous future.
00:04:24 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Getting serious about energy storage
Sarah Tolbert’s lab at UCLA is looking at increasing the capacity and lowering the cost of energy storage using batteries and new materials which will increase the viability of renewable energy.
00:10:38 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Science Gallery Melbourne – a new way of presenting science through art
The Science Gallery Melbourne hopes to appeal to 15-25-year-olds by presenting challenging scientific ideas through art.
00:07:26 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Australian team prize winners at UN Datathon
The Australian team came away with prizes including top team in Oceania and second prize worldwide.
00:05:51 |
Sat 04 May 2024
New materials for a more connected world
Today we have a range of accessories such as phones, glasses and various aids. In ten years, Chiara says these devices will be built into our clothing.
00:10:45 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Protest over plans for South Australian Museum
Proposed changes have seen scientists protest in Adelaide.
00:12:39 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Tasmanian devils survive facial tumour disease with hope for human cancers
Peter Hadfield joins scientists in northern Tasmania studying devils and their tumours, trying to understand the genetics that allows some devils to survive.
00:07:45 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Dark Matter installation at Science Gallery Melbourne
Chrom V is Yunchul Kim’s installation based on dark matter. It featured in Science Gallery’s DARK MATTERS exhibition and continues as part of NOT NATURAL.
00:03:37 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Dark Matter search at UCL
Queenslander Grace Lawrence is using supercomputer simulations of the formation of galaxies hoping to track dark matter. Her hope is for dark matter to be detected from Earth.
00:07:15 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
New approach for quantum computing
Eric Hudson’s lab is using a trapped ion system where an electric field in a vacuum traps and holds an ion in space.
00:08:55 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Changing fire regime impacting plant communities in southwest United States
There is insufficient time for many species to recover as fires in southwest US become more frequent.
00:13:05 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Humanities strengthened at Caltech
The Center for Science, Society, and Public Policy will look at areas including climate and sustainability, bio and medical ethics and ethics of artificial intelligence.
00:09:03 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Tree – the living world in and around a single Mountain Ash
Claire Saxby and illustrator Jess Racklyeft take readers young and old into the hidden world amongst a giant tree’s roots, trunk, branches and upper leaves where all sorts of animals and other plants…
00:08:57 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
Denver herbarium tops 100,000 specimens
The herbarium houses plants from the wide range of environments found in Colorado from the mountains, canyons, plateaux, grasslands and high alpine.
00:09:02 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
The Bee Babette tours Australia
As The Bee Babette Kit Prendergast presents a show delving into the anatomy and behaviour of our many species of wild bees.
00:09:42 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
New receiver for Parkes dish
Anita Hafner at CSIRO Marsfield in Sydney is working on the science commissioning of a new receiver for the 64m radio telescope at Parkes in NSW.
00:07:14 |
Sat 20 Apr 2024
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