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• Lab Notes: The fall of the food pyramid (Tue, Aug 19, 2025)
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• Gene editing brings promise for genetic blood disorders (Sat, Aug 16, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: The native ants that take down cane toads (Tue, Aug 12, 2025)
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• Back to the dark ages for American research? (Sat, Aug 09, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: How do I avoid eating and breathing microplastics? (Tue, Aug 05, 2025)
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• Climatic changes everywhere as the world’s oceans become hotter (Sat, Aug 02, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: What's quantum mechanics ever done for me? (Tue, Jul 29, 2025)
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• Tracing the 100-year history of quantum mechanics (Sat, Jul 26, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Why some mums have all boys or all girls (Tue, Jul 22, 2025)
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• Australia's forgotten inventor brothers (Sat, Jul 19, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Can bottom trawling be a sustainable way to fish? (Tue, Jul 15, 2025)
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• The trees that harness lightning to kill their rivals (Sat, Jul 12, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: The telescope redefining the Universe (Tue, Jul 08, 2025)
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• What does it take to bring back an extinct animal? (Sat, Jul 05, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: What we can learn from the world’s cleanest air (Tue, Jul 01, 2025)
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• A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper (Sat, Jun 28, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings (Tue, Jun 24, 2025)
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• Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph (Sat, Jun 21, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: The tiny beetle ravaging Perth's trees (Tue, Jun 17, 2025)
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• Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist (Sat, Jun 14, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: What makes Sydney's cockies so clever? (Tue, Jun 10, 2025)
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• Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole! (Sat, Jun 07, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life (Tue, Jun 03, 2025)
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• Black white and green (Sat, May 31, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: AI that outperforms humans is coming (Tue, May 27, 2025)
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• Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds (Sat, May 24, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long (Tue, May 20, 2025)
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• Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria (Sat, May 17, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales (Tue, May 13, 2025)
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• Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans? (Sat, May 10, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times (Tue, May 06, 2025)
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• A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show (Sat, May 03, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine? (Tue, Apr 29, 2025)
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• The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years (Sat, Apr 26, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy? (Tue, Apr 22, 2025)
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• The power of palaeontology (Sat, Apr 19, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast (Tue, Apr 15, 2025)
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• New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity. (Sat, Apr 12, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant (Tue, Apr 08, 2025)
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• A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have a biome? (Sat, Apr 05, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people? (Tue, Apr 01, 2025)
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• Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress (Sat, Mar 29, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'? (Tue, Mar 25, 2025)
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• Landscape and islands (Sat, Mar 22, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race (Tue, Mar 18, 2025)
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• Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research (Sat, Mar 15, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men (Tue, Mar 11, 2025)
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• A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again. (Sat, Mar 08, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings (Tue, Mar 04, 2025)
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• Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes (Sat, Mar 01, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic? (Tue, Feb 25, 2025)
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• Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives (Sat, Feb 22, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)
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• Vale Felicia Huppert (Sat, Feb 15, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back (Tue, Feb 11, 2025)
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• The wonder of Australia’s deserts (Sat, Feb 08, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it (Tue, Feb 04, 2025)
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• Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today (Sat, Feb 01, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)
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• Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals (Sat, Jan 25, 2025)
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• Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again (Tue, Jan 21, 2025)(0 , )
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• Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll (Sat, Jan 18, 2025)
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• Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami (Wed, Jan 15, 2025)
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• Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer (Sat, Jan 11, 2025)
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• Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam (Wed, Jan 08, 2025)
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• Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy (Sat, Jan 04, 2025)
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• Science Extra: March of the cane toads (Wed, Jan 01, 2025)
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• Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope (Sat, Dec 28, 2024)
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• Science Extra: Weight of the world (Wed, Dec 25, 2024)
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• Science Show Summer - A wire around the world (Sat, Dec 21, 2024)
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• Science Extra: More auroras in store? (Wed, Dec 18, 2024)
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• Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes (Sat, Dec 14, 2024)
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• Mysterious signal and a mysterious place (Sat, Dec 07, 2024)
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• PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug (Sat, Nov 30, 2024)
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• Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals (Sat, Nov 23, 2024)
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• Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste (Sat, Nov 16, 2024)
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• Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world (Sat, Nov 09, 2024)
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• Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity (Sat, Nov 02, 2024)
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• Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind! (Sat, Oct 26, 2024)
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• Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters (Sat, Oct 19, 2024)
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• Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson (Sat, Oct 12, 2024)
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• Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise? (Sat, Oct 05, 2024)
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• Dark energy – not necessarily constant (Sat, Sep 28, 2024)
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• The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert. (Sat, Sep 21, 2024)
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• The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty (Sat, Sep 14, 2024)
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• Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic (Sat, Sep 07, 2024)
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• The Science Show celebrates 49 years (Sat, Aug 31, 2024)
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• New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals (Sat, Aug 24, 2024)
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• Merlin meets Dr Crispy (Sat, Aug 17, 2024)
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• Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought. (Sat, Aug 10, 2024)
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• Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts (Sat, Aug 03, 2024)
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• One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis (Sat, Jul 27, 2024)
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• Stanford University: the great university with a dark side (Sat, Jul 20, 2024)
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• The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss (Sat, Jul 13, 2024)
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• The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter (Sat, Jul 06, 2024)
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• The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories (Sat, Jun 29, 2024)
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• The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles (Sat, Jun 22, 2024)
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• Molecules with their own fingerprint (Sat, Jun 15, 2024)
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• Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet (Sat, Jun 08, 2024)
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• Age of Monotremes including three new genera (Sat, Jun 01, 2024)
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• Are our tall forests really being saved? (Sat, May 25, 2024)
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• Big savings possible for the world’s ships (Sat, May 18, 2024)
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• Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia (Sat, May 11, 2024)
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• Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage? (Sat, May 04, 2024)
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• Scientists protest in Adelaide (Sat, Apr 27, 2024)
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• Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish (Sat, Apr 20, 2024)
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• The science of friendship (Sat, Apr 13, 2024)
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• The amazing world of alpine plants (Sat, Apr 06, 2024)
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• Meet the man who changed the world forever (Sat, Mar 30, 2024)
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• Big things (Sat, Mar 23, 2024)
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• US National Center for Atmospheric Research (Sat, Mar 16, 2024)
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• Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts (Sat, Mar 09, 2024)
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• Supernova! (Sat, Mar 02, 2024)
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• The Science Show (Sat, Feb 24, 2024)
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• How Chinese science was revealed to the world (Sat, Feb 17, 2024)
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• Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields (Sat, Feb 10, 2024)
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• Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG (Sat, Feb 03, 2024)
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• The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists (Sat, Jan 27, 2024)
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• Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies (Sun, Jan 21, 2024)
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• H. G. Wells – father of science fiction (Sat, Jan 20, 2024)
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• Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope (Sun, Jan 14, 2024)
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• Portrait of Isaac Newton (Sat, Jan 13, 2024)
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• Science Extra: One semaglutide please  (Sun, Jan 07, 2024)
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• What to do when science doesn’t cut through (Sat, Jan 06, 2024)
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• Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines (Sun, Dec 31, 2023)
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• The Anglo-Australian Telescope – approaching 50 years (Sat, Dec 30, 2023)
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• Science Extra: It's gettin' hot in here (Sun, Dec 24, 2023)
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• The bigger Australian story - Odyssey down under (Sat, Dec 23, 2023)
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• Transitions (Sat, Dec 16, 2023)
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• The Future Is Now (Sat, Dec 09, 2023)
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• 2FC now Radio National celebrates 100 years (Tue, Dec 05, 2023)
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• The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy (Sat, Dec 02, 2023)
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• The Science Show (Sat, Nov 25, 2023)
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• Getting your rocks off (Sat, Nov 18, 2023)
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• Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science (Sat, Nov 11, 2023)
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• Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere (Sat, Nov 04, 2023)
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• Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research (Sat, Oct 28, 2023)
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• Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction (Sat, Oct 21, 2023)
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• Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source (Sat, Oct 14, 2023)
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• Here come the superstars (Sat, Oct 07, 2023)
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• Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common? (Sat, Sep 30, 2023)
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• What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet (Sat, Sep 23, 2023)
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• A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air (Sat, Sep 16, 2023)
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• Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose (Sat, Sep 09, 2023)
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• Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience (Sat, Sep 02, 2023)
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• Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer (Sat, Aug 26, 2023)
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• Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival (Sat, Aug 19, 2023)
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• What can we learn from five minutes of silence? (Sat, Aug 12, 2023)
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• The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres (Sat, Aug 05, 2023)
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• Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets (Sat, Jul 29, 2023)
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• There's no age limit to science (Sat, Jul 22, 2023)
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• Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within (Sat, Jul 15, 2023)
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• Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite (Sat, Jul 08, 2023)
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• Where science can lead: An isolated island, the slimy forest floor, and centre stage for stand-up (Sat, Jul 01, 2023)
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• Communities team up with scientists to tackle flooding (Sat, Jun 24, 2023)
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• Helping marine life thrive — from Fiji to Goondiwindi (Sat, Jun 17, 2023)
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• Come inside the vault preserving Pacific plants for future generations (Sat, Jun 10, 2023)
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• The surprising past — and promising future of women in science (Sat, Jun 03, 2023)
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• The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds (Sat, May 27, 2023)
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• Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton (Sat, May 20, 2023)
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• Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe (Sat, May 13, 2023)
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• Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday (Sat, May 06, 2023)
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• A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology (Sat, Apr 29, 2023)
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• Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart (Sat, Apr 22, 2023)
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• Beaming energy to Earth from space (Sat, Apr 15, 2023)
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• Technology helps scientists discover new species (Sat, Apr 08, 2023)
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• Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water (Sat, Apr 01, 2023)
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• World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen (Sat, Mar 25, 2023)
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• Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory. (Sat, Mar 18, 2023)
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• Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum (Sat, Mar 11, 2023)
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• Visit the world’s biggest fission reactor under construction in France and discover the wonders of algae (Sat, Mar 04, 2023)
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• The value of seagrasses, fish with remarkable powers and how parasites threaten aquatic life (Sat, Feb 25, 2023)
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• Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians (Sat, Feb 18, 2023)
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• Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil (Sat, Feb 11, 2023)
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• A tour of the antimatter factory and John Wheeler remembered (Sat, Feb 04, 2023)
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• Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak (Sat, Jan 28, 2023)
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• The surprising Huxley family, certainty, and climate prospects for 2023 (Sat, Jan 21, 2023)
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• The evolution of galaxies and chasing the big cosmological questions (Sat, Jan 14, 2023)
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• Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics (Sat, Jan 07, 2023)
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• Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph (Sat, Dec 31, 2022)
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• A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild (Sat, Dec 24, 2022)
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• Human impact on and response to changing climate (Sat, Dec 17, 2022)
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• Smart cameras watch for anomalies, Prime Minister’s awards for top science teachers and DNA reveals the history of disease (Sat, Dec 10, 2022)
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• PM’s Prizes for Science, koalas, COP27 and Catherine the Great (Sat, Dec 03, 2022)
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• Recovering aluminium from tailings, aluminium formate to absorb carbon dioxide from power station exhausts, and a Neanderthal family like us (Sat, Nov 26, 2022)
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• Best Australian Science Writing winners and prospects for computing (Sat, Nov 19, 2022)
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• New technology brings added value to museum collections (Sat, Nov 12, 2022)
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• How crows use deception, saving freshwater turtles and the history of horses (Sat, Nov 05, 2022)
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• Storms changing our coasts, plastic in the ocean, and a call for geoengineering (Sat, Oct 29, 2022)
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• How carbon is our friend and unravelling the mystery of communication in plants (Sat, Oct 22, 2022)
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• Grid batteries made in Australia and pumped hydro using abandoned underground mines (Sat, Oct 15, 2022)
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• Nobel Prizes, climate extremes and how science can help save us (Sat, Oct 08, 2022)
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• Vanillin from plastic, battery trailers for EVs, and UK fossils rewriting the story of life (Sat, Oct 01, 2022)
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• Cheap solar, materials to capture carbon dioxide and a cancer test based on breath (Sat, Sep 24, 2022)
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• UN Peacekeepers train with virtual reality, drones for the battlefield and the transformation of Newcastle (Sat, Sep 17, 2022)
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• Testing Einstein, designing a lunar rover and help for stretched emergency departments (Sat, Sep 10, 2022)
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• 2022 Eureka science awards, new insights in the giant dinos and AI concerns (Sat, Sep 03, 2022)
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• Australia’s megafauna, new building materials, and dung beetles (Sat, Aug 27, 2022)
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• The story of mammals, how they coexisted with dinosaurs for 225 million years and survived when dinos couldn’t (Sat, Aug 20, 2022)
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• Trees – allowing native species to return in Scotland, clearing them away in the Amazon, and seeing how they work in Tasmania (Sat, Aug 13, 2022)
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• Vale James Lovelock (Sat, Aug 06, 2022)
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• Best approach for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (Sat, Jul 30, 2022)
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• Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph (Sat, Jul 23, 2022)
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• Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia (Sat, Jun 25, 2022)
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• Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration (Sat, Jun 18, 2022)
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• Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind (Sat, Jun 11, 2022)
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• Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years (Sat, Jun 04, 2022)
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• Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy (Sat, May 28, 2022)
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• Where did the Universe come from? (Sat, May 21, 2022)
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• Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions (Sat, May 14, 2022)
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• Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world (Sat, May 07, 2022)
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• Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics (Sat, Apr 30, 2022)
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• Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga (Sat, Apr 23, 2022)
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• How our biggest threat is us (Sat, Apr 16, 2022)
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• Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen (Sat, Apr 09, 2022)
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• The end of astronauts? (Sat, Apr 02, 2022)
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• Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls (Sat, Mar 26, 2022)
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• The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate impacts made years ago. (Sat, Mar 19, 2022)
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• Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey (Sat, Mar 12, 2022)
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• We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland (Sat, Mar 05, 2022)
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• How trees are gold – when alive (Sat, Feb 26, 2022)
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• How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat (Sat, Feb 19, 2022)
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• Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space (Sat, Feb 12, 2022)
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• Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson (Sat, Feb 05, 2022)
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• HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future (Sat, Jan 29, 2022)
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• University geology depts becoming smaller or closing (Sat, Jan 22, 2022)
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• Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain? (Sun, Jan 16, 2022)
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• Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world (Sat, Jan 15, 2022)
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• Science Extra: The facts on fake news, 3D printed body parts and will Meta be better? (Sun, Jan 09, 2022)
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• New fossil site in NSW and the first computer (Sat, Jan 08, 2022)
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• Science Extra: malaria vax breakthrough, surviving snake bite and, of course, COVID-19 (Sun, Jan 02, 2022)
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• Science Extra: Cosmic explosions, bits and bobs from the Big Bang and space rocks on Earth (Sun, Dec 26, 2021)
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• Science extra: Quantum computing, lucid dreams and bin-flipping cockatoos (Sun, Dec 19, 2021)
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• Three scientific gift ideas and prospects for 2030 (Sat, Dec 11, 2021)
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• Stunning capability, variety and beauty in the natural world (Sat, Dec 04, 2021)
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• Books for children about the origin of life and Einsteinian physics and L’Oréal awards for rechargeable batteries and balancing fish stocks with needs of human nutrition (Sat, Nov 27, 2021)
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• Always on? Or better sometimes off? The good and bad of smartphone technology (Sat, Nov 20, 2021)
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• How science has been used to justify horrid acts through history (Sat, Nov 13, 2021)
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• On a roll - Ceridwen Dovey wins Bragg Prize for Science Writing again (Sat, Oct 30, 2021)
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• More hopes for Glasgow, more value from waste, and a new ship for Antarctic research (Sat, Oct 23, 2021)
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• Birds, polar ice and hopes for Glasgow climate talks (Sat, Oct 16, 2021)
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• Prizes, prizes, prizes! Nobels, Earthshot and Eurekas (Sat, Oct 09, 2021)
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• New ways to inspire young students about the world of science (Sat, Oct 02, 2021)
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• As melting ice threatens polar ecosystems hopes emerge that international investment law will help speed transition to clean energy (Sat, Sep 25, 2021)
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• Acacias a new weapon against climate change (Sat, Sep 18, 2021)
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• Musical palm cockatoos sing duets and more (Sat, Sep 11, 2021)
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• Authors combine science with popular characters and gripping story lines (Sat, Sep 04, 2021)
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• The Science Show celebrates 46 years with Douglas Adams, a pit full of snakes and a memory from the start (Sat, Aug 28, 2021)
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• Crazy ants, smart birds and an Aussie space mission (Sat, Aug 21, 2021)
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