The Science Show Podcast
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RN's science flagship: your essential source of what's making news in the complex world of scientific research, scandal and discovery. The Science Show with Robyn Williams is one of the longest running programs on Australian radio.
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Saturday 11 February 2012
Sat, Feb 11, 2012
New materials slow light, Fiddler crabs wave for mates, Primitive fish used to develop treatments for human ailments, Fossil find adds to the story of early humans
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Saturday 04 February 2012
Sat, Feb 04, 2012
Stimulating the brain enhances mathematical ability, Compound eyes show origin of acute vision, Stresses on ecological communities, Atlas of Living Australia Persistent organic pollutants found on New Zealand glaciers, Rewriting the history of photography
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Saturday 28 January 2012
Sat, Jan 28, 2012
Evidence of humans in PNG 50,000 years ago, DNA markers for facial features, Effects of alcohol and racial stereotypes on behaviour, More planets than ever expected, The golden age of discovering planets, Theory of dark matter challenged, The genetic explanation for addiction.
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Saturday 21 January 2012
Sat, Jan 21, 2012
New telescope for Tasmania, Astronomy 2012 – the year ahead, Benefits of national broadband – first results to come from Tasmania, Nano particles detect and treat eye disease, The Pantheon’s mysterious architecture, The Art of the First Fleet.
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Saturday 14 January 2012
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
That is the amount Dame Bridget Ogilvie invested in scientific research in Britain. Actually, £600 million, worth around A$1800 million at that time. How did a girl from rural NSW rise to such powers? How did an expert in stock parasites become one of the most respected women in the scientific world
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Saturday 07 January 2012
Sat, Jan 07, 2012
What do you give a well-born South Australian for his 21st birthday? Why not a Rolls Royce? Oliver Mayo got just that – and says it was fully justified! He went on to become one of this nation’s most influential agricultural researchers – and helped pioneer a means for sheep to shear themselves.
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Saturday 31 December 2011
Sat, Dec 31, 2011
John Lovering became famous in 1969 on ABC TV covering the live broadcasts of the first men on the moon. He is a geologist and did much to further the cause of rocks in Australia, despite watching our university departments of geology being closed across the nation. Strange for a mining country! He became Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University in Adelaide.
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Saturday 24 December 2011
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
Robert May has achieved the pinnacle of scientific success: President Of The Royal Society, Chief Scientist in the UK, Order of Merit, the equivalent of three Nobel Prizes – yet he could have been a lawyer in Sydney like his dad, instead of Member of the House of Lords. This is the first of a series of interviews with top Australian scientists.
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Saturday 17 December 2011
Sat, Dec 17, 2011
Student debt. World records in sport a result of performance or technology? A better test for prostate cancer. What killed the Tasmanian tiger? New specimens for Armidale herbarium. Denial Tango. Professor Stick’s American Jesus. Population Song.
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Saturday 10 December 2011
Sat, Dec 10, 2011
Exosomes – a means to deliver treatment for degenerative diseases? Exercise a key to age related memory ability. Neurons key to memory. Facial mimicry signals empathy, key to socialisation. The psychology of paranoia – an emerging field. Fossils help piece together the story of evolution. Fossilised fish support extinction theory for dinosaurs.
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Saturday 03 December 2011
Sat, Dec 03, 2011
The changing chemistry of ocean water. Observing effects of a changing climate. Missions to Mars. Methane result of life on Mars? Slowing capturing and controlling individual atoms. Increasing security with quantum cryptography. New materials for bone repair become nutrients, not poison. Exosomes: crucial in development, health and therapy.
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Saturday 26 November 2011
Sat, Nov 26, 2011
Neutrinos unlikely to have travelled faster than light. Quasars and the evolution of the universe. Using science on the stage. Interpreting the language of parrots. Cognition in birds. Cave painting helps date Australia's extinct megafauna.
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Saturday 19 November 2011
Sat, Nov 19, 2011
Life expectancy has increased as a result of increased prosperity, and medical research. But why was more money spent tackling bird flu which killed few, rather than say on the parasitic disease Kala Azar which kills 60,000 each year? Today's Science Show is a forum on global health and considers population, medical research and where the dollars go. It was recorded on the island of Mainau on Lake Constance in southern Germany, and concluded the 2011 Meeting of Nobel Laureates.
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Saturday 12 November 2011
Sat, Nov 12, 2011
Return on science investment seen in 2 years. Britain aims at 80% carbon reduction by 2050. Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe stuck in orbit. Tsunami research aids building, infrastructure. Facebook: so uv got 5,000 friends! Scientific progress during war.
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Saturday 05 November 2011
Sat, Nov 05, 2011
Modern polar bears traced to Ireland. Pilot plant for carbon capture. New approach to producing hydrogen. How we make decisions. Michael Brooks - Radicals in science 2. Child psychology inspires dance.
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2002
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