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
Water supply becoming a challenge in Samoa
Shelby Traynor takes us to Samoa where unreliable rainfall and aging infrastructure mean the supply of fresh water cannot be guaranteed. She joins students from Samoa University testing water quality…
00:10:39 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
Lord Howe island cockroach hangs on
It was thought to be extinct until a small population was found under one banyan tree.
00:06:30 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
Lord Howe Island – repairing a landscape under pressure
Local people lead efforts to rid Lord Howe Island of invasive species.
00:22:43 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
Noisy fungi?!
An art installation by Keg da Silva illustrates mycelial threads, the often hidden parts of fungi.
00:09:59 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race
They might be the epitome of cool, but Formula 1 race car drivers can get hot — really hot.
An F1 cockpit can heat up to 60 degrees Celsius, and this affects cognition — the last thing you want when…
00:13:33 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Science succeeds where politics fails
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society are uniting scientists from nations where political links have sometimes failed.
00:04:13 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
The Improbable Research Show - part 2
More highlights from the Improbable Research Show held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston.
00:17:19 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award 2024 – Kate Evans
Kate Evans of New Zealand Geographic won the Kavli Gold award in the magazine section for her piece on the red-billed gull, once considered a pest it has become a threatened species.
00:08:54 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award 2024 – Sarah Gottlieb
Sarah Gottlieb’s Gold Kavli award in the Children’s Science News section was for her coverage of the surprising ways primates use plants and insects for medicinal purposes in a piece aimed at younger…
00:06:28 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
Your genome is important, so too is your exposome!
80% of diseases are impacted by environment or lifestyle described as your exposome. Thomas Hartung expects information from studying the exposome will bring benefits on par with those brought by st…
00:10:08 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men
For women who get bacterial vaginosis or BV, a common condition that can cause a fishy-smelling discharge, many will get it again (and again).
Why some people were prone to recurrent BV was a myster…
00:13:05 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Why the big cuts in US science and research?
Neal Baer speaks about the intense hostility from Washington DC to certain research and gender related therapy. His answers are startling.
00:13:43 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
The Improbable Research Show - part 1
Highlights from the Improbable Research Show held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston.
00:08:23 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
The Island of Dr. Moreau
It is a book, a film and now a play, complete with blood packs.
00:09:50 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
High alert as deep cuts expected for US scientific research
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore receives $3.2 billion in grant money. Its fellowship programs and research are under threat.
00:11:02 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
A photo of a black hole?
Professor Lia Medeiros from the Event Horizon Telescope Team who took the pictures in 2019 describes the team’s reaction and the response from around the world as the stunning image, the first of a b…
00:10:05 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
A weekly injection that stops that hankering for hot chips and donuts?
Many people on Ozempic and similar medications report this phenomenon, saying they no longer have incessant thoughts about swee…
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Eye popping applications of applied mathematics
Applied mathematician Mason Porter says applied maths is extremely cool.
00:05:06 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
New theory on the origin of black holes
Astrophysicists at UCLA suggest decaying dark matter may drive processes leading to the formation supermassive black holes.
00:10:17 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
Engineering inspired by nature
John Dabiri’s team at the California Institute of Technology is working on engineering based on solutions found in nature.
00:16:31 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
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