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
Machines identify images and sounds
Professor Pietro Perona describes his work on machine recognition of plants, animals and birdsong.
00:09:12 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Palaeontology – revealing the past, helping predict the future
Mike Archer explains how palaeontology helps us form a picture of the past, of what happened when, and so helps us see more clearly the path we are on and what is likely to happen.
00:22:15 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Feeding coral and how spawning is coordinated
While the outlook for coral is poor, feeding them vital nutrients might buy time on a warming planet.
00:07:47 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Science in Australia’s federal election campaign
Euan Ritchie says science is barely visible in campaigning for Australia’s federal election.
00:12:04 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast
Gout Gout is fast becoming the face of Australian athletics, regularly clocking blisteringly quick times over 100- and 200-metre sprints.
And he's only 17. Many think the best is yet to come.
So wh…
00:12:49 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Jared Diamond - CEOs respond to environmental challenge
Jared Diamond responds to critics and tells of a CEO’s response to his children’s environmental concerns.
00:06:30 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
A new massive fossil deposit – underground?
Satellite imagery may be suggesting a new large underground fossil deposit in Queensland.
00:14:39 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
The history of money
Tom Levenson shows how a nation’s dosh differs from coin that appears from other sources, and why you should care.
00:19:07 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Insights into how immunity can vary within populations
Cynthia Turnbull has tracked the ways in which immunity to disease can vary between people, even within a family and has revealed some of the basis for this variation.
00:08:53 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant
We've been hearing a lot about a certain proposal to get nuclear power up and running in Australia, but little's been said about what happens when plants reach the end of their life.
Decommissioning…
00:13:47 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
The Microbe by Hilaire Belloc
The Microbe by Hilaire Belloc is read by Sophie Newby.
00:01:30 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Caring for soil brings great benefit to produce and human health
Alexandra De Blas takes us from Tasmania’s Huon Valley to farms in Western Australia to explore what’s possible in a ‘grounded’ way of living with the land.
00:29:58 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
How the Golden-fronted Bowerbird was rediscovered
In the 1800s, it was hunted for its beautiful feathers and thought to be extinct. Jared Diamond describes how he rediscovered the Golden-fronted Bowerbird on a survey trip in the Foja Mountains of Ne…
00:07:27 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Tracing the history of invisible dead stars
David Sweeney is investigating how massive stars end their lives in fiery supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars and black holes.
00:08:06 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Greed has failed us so how about compassion
Len Fisher argues that compassion is a high value yet undervalued aspect of human interaction. It can foster trust and cooperation and lead us to solutions benefiting society.
00:07:27 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?
Hearts, kidneys and now livers — over the past couple of years, surgeons have taken all these from gene-edited pigs and put them in people.
00:13:27 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
California’s legacy to Albert Einstein
The world’s greatest physicist was also passionate about human rights, education, and disarmament.
00:20:54 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Better to mine the ocean floor than destroy the land?
Jared Diamond says nodules of concentrated metals found on the ocean floor should be mined and replace terrestrial mining.
00:15:06 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Changing climate – a review of progress and the challenge ahead
Nick Rowley reviews how we are sitting on the road to net zero by 2050, what is possible given the politics, and what is necessary given the science.
00:15:08 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?
As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn. A huge golden ball encircled by gigantic rings. But those distinctive rings — the very things that give Saturn its pizzazz — have s…
00:11:48 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
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