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Podcast Profile: The Science Show

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246 episodes
2021 to 2025
Median: 54 minutes
Collection: Science

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The Science Show podcast provides listeners with a wide-ranging exploration of scientific topics, offering insights into current research, discoveries, and debates across multiple fields. This podcast is designed to enhance understanding of scientific development through diverse episodes that cover a spectrum of sciences, encompassing physical sciences, biology, environmental science, technology, and even intersections with humanities.

A recurring theme in this podcast is the investigation of natural phenomena and ecological systems. Episodes discuss the implications of air quality, the impact of invasive species, and the secrets held by marine and forest life, shedding light on how these elements are interconnected with human activity and global environmental changes. The podcast also delves into the history of scientific practices and figures, showcasing portraits of influential scientists and historical shifts in scientific understanding.

Cutting-edge biomedical and technological advancements feature prominently as well. Episodes explore groundbreaking therapies, artificial intelligence, and the potential of genetic engineering, raising questions about the future of healthcare and the ethical considerations these innovations entail. Additionally, the podcast critically examines the societal impact of scientific progress, such as the implications of pandemics and climate change.

Throughout the series, attention is given to notable events and changes in scientific paradigms, from the origins of cosmic phenomena and early life forms to recent archaeological findings. This eclectic mix of content ensures that listeners gain a comprehensive view of how science shapes and is shaped by historical and contemporary cultural contexts. The Science Show is a portal to the vast and varied universe of science, engaging with the curious and the informed alike.

Episodes:

What does it take to bring back an extinct animal? 2025-Jul-05 40 minutes

Lab Notes: What we can learn from the world’s cleanest air 2025-Jul-01 13 minutes

A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper 2025-Jun-28 54 minutes

Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings 2025-Jun-24 11 minutes

Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph 2025-Jun-21 54 minutes

Lab Notes: The tiny beetle ravaging Perth's trees 2025-Jun-17 14 minutes

Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist 2025-Jun-14 54 minutes

Lab Notes: What makes Sydney's cockies so clever? 2025-Jun-10 14 minutes

Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole! 2025-Jun-07 53 minutes

Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life 2025-Jun-03 13 minutes

Black white and green 2025-May-31 54 minutes

Lab Notes: AI that outperforms humans is coming 2025-May-27 14 minutes

Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds 2025-May-24 54 minutes

Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long 2025-May-20 13 minutes

Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria 2025-May-17 53 minutes

Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales 2025-May-13 13 minutes

Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans? 2025-May-10 53 minutes

Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times 2025-May-06 14 minutes

A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show 2025-May-03 54 minutes

Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine? 2025-Apr-29 14 minutes

The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years 2025-Apr-26 53 minutes

Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy? 2025-Apr-22 13 minutes

The power of palaeontology 2025-Apr-19 52 minutes

Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast 2025-Apr-15 12 minutes

New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity. 2025-Apr-12 54 minutes

Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant 2025-Apr-08 13 minutes

A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have a biome? 2025-Apr-05 54 minutes

Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people? 2025-Apr-01 13 minutes

Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress 2025-Mar-29 53 minutes

Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'? 2025-Mar-25 11 minutes

Landscape and islands 2025-Mar-22 54 minutes

Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race 2025-Mar-18 13 minutes

Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research 2025-Mar-15 52 minutes

Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men 2025-Mar-11 13 minutes

A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again. 2025-Mar-08 54 minutes

Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings 2025-Mar-04

Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes 2025-Mar-01 54 minutes

Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic? 2025-Feb-25 13 minutes

Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives 2025-Feb-22 53 minutes

Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids 2025-Feb-18 13 minutes

Vale Felicia Huppert 2025-Feb-15 54 minutes

Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back 2025-Feb-11 13 minutes

The wonder of Australia’s deserts 2025-Feb-08 54 minutes

Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it 2025-Feb-04 13 minutes

Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today 2025-Feb-01 54 minutes

Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes 2025-Jan-28 13 minutes

Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals 2025-Jan-25 53 minutes

Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again 2025-Jan-21 13 minutes

Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll 2025-Jan-18 54 minutes

Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami 2025-Jan-14 50 minutes

Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer 2025-Jan-11 54 minutes

Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam 2025-Jan-07 50 minutes

Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy 2025-Jan-04 52 minutes

Science Extra: March of the cane toads 2024-Dec-31 50 minutes

Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope 2024-Dec-28 54 minutes

Science Extra: Weight of the world 2024-Dec-24 50 minutes

Science Show Summer - A wire around the world 2024-Dec-21 53 minutes

Science Extra: More auroras in store? 2024-Dec-17 50 minutes

Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes 2024-Dec-14 51 minutes

Mysterious signal and a mysterious place 2024-Dec-07 53 minutes

PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug 2024-Nov-30 53 minutes

Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals 2024-Nov-23 54 minutes

Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste 2024-Nov-16 54 minutes

Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world 2024-Nov-09 52 minutes

Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity 2024-Nov-02 53 minutes

Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind! 2024-Oct-26 53 minutes

Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters 2024-Oct-19 53 minutes

Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson 2024-Oct-12 53 minutes

Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise? 2024-Oct-05 54 minutes

Dark energy – not necessarily constant 2024-Sep-28 54 minutes

The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert. 2024-Sep-21 54 minutes

The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty 2024-Sep-14 54 minutes

Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic 2024-Sep-07 54 minutes

The Science Show celebrates 49 years 2024-Aug-31 51 minutes

New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals 2024-Aug-24 53 minutes

Merlin meets Dr Crispy 2024-Aug-17 54 minutes

Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought. 2024-Aug-10 54 minutes

Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts 2024-Aug-03 54 minutes

One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis 2024-Jul-27 54 minutes

Stanford University: the great university with a dark side 2024-Jul-20 54 minutes

The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss 2024-Jul-13 54 minutes

The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter 2024-Jul-06 55 minutes

The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories 2024-Jun-29 54 minutes

The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles 2024-Jun-22 54 minutes

Molecules with their own fingerprint 2024-Jun-15 54 minutes

Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet 2024-Jun-08 54 minutes

Age of Monotremes including three new genera 2024-Jun-01 54 minutes

Are our tall forests really being saved? 2024-May-25 54 minutes

Big savings possible for the world’s ships 2024-May-18 54 minutes

Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia 2024-May-11 54 minutes

Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage? 2024-May-04 54 minutes

Scientists protest in Adelaide 2024-Apr-27 54 minutes

Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish 2024-Apr-20 54 minutes

The science of friendship 2024-Apr-13 53 minutes

The amazing world of alpine plants 2024-Apr-05 54 minutes

Meet the man who changed the world forever 2024-Mar-29 54 minutes

Big things 2024-Mar-23 54 minutes

US National Center for Atmospheric Research 2024-Mar-16 54 minutes

Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts 2024-Mar-09 54 minutes

Supernova! 2024-Mar-02 54 minutes

The Science Show 2024-Feb-24 54 minutes

How Chinese science was revealed to the world 2024-Feb-17 54 minutes

Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields 2024-Feb-10 54 minutes

Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG 2024-Feb-03 54 minutes

The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists 2024-Jan-27 54 minutes

Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies 2024-Jan-20 22 minutes

H. G. Wells – father of science fiction 2024-Jan-20 54 minutes

Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope 2024-Jan-13 20 minutes

Portrait of Isaac Newton 2024-Jan-13 54 minutes

Science Extra: One semaglutide please 2024-Jan-06 19 minutes

What to do when science doesn’t cut through 2024-Jan-06 54 minutes

Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines 2023-Dec-30 18 minutes

The Anglo-Australian Telescope – approaching 50 years 2023-Dec-30 54 minutes

Science Extra: It's gettin' hot in here 2023-Dec-23 21 minutes

The bigger Australian story - Odyssey down under 2023-Dec-23 54 minutes

Transitions 2023-Dec-16 54 minutes

The Future Is Now 2023-Dec-09 54 minutes

2FC now Radio National celebrates 100 years 2023-Dec-05 28 minutes

The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy 2023-Dec-02 54 minutes

The Science Show 2023-Nov-25 54 minutes

Getting your rocks off 2023-Nov-18 54 minutes

Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science 2023-Nov-11 54 minutes

Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere 2023-Nov-04 54 minutes

Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research 2023-Oct-28 54 minutes

Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction 2023-Oct-21 54 minutes

Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source 2023-Oct-14 54 minutes

Here come the superstars 2023-Oct-07 54 minutes

Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common? 2023-Sep-30 54 minutes

What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet 2023-Sep-23 54 minutes

A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air 2023-Sep-16 54 minutes

Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose 2023-Sep-09 54 minutes

Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience 2023-Sep-02 54 minutes

Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer 2023-Aug-26 54 minutes

Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival 2023-Aug-19 54 minutes

What can we learn from five minutes of silence? 2023-Aug-12 54 minutes

The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres 2023-Aug-05 54 minutes

Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets 2023-Jul-29 54 minutes

There's no age limit to science 2023-Jul-22 54 minutes

Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within 2023-Jul-15 54 minutes

Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite 2023-Jul-08 56 minutes

Where science can lead: An isolated island, the slimy forest floor, and centre stage for stand-up 2023-Jul-01 56 minutes

Communities team up with scientists to tackle flooding 2023-Jun-24 54 minutes

Helping marine life thrive — from Fiji to Goondiwindi 2023-Jun-17 54 minutes

Come inside the vault preserving Pacific plants for future generations 2023-Jun-10 54 minutes

The surprising past — and promising future of women in science 2023-Jun-03 54 minutes

The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds 2023-May-27 54 minutes

Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton 2023-May-20 53 minutes

Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe 2023-May-13 54 minutes

Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday 2023-May-06 54 minutes

A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology 2023-Apr-29 54 minutes

Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart 2023-Apr-22 54 minutes

Beaming energy to Earth from space 2023-Apr-15 54 minutes

Technology helps scientists discover new species 2023-Apr-08 54 minutes

Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water 2023-Apr-01 54 minutes

World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen 2023-Mar-25 60 minutes

Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory. 2023-Mar-18 60 minutes

Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum 2023-Mar-11 60 minutes

Visit the world’s biggest fission reactor under construction in France and discover the wonders of algae 2023-Mar-04 60 minutes

The value of seagrasses, fish with remarkable powers and how parasites threaten aquatic life 2023-Feb-25 60 minutes

Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians 2023-Feb-18 60 minutes

Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil 2023-Feb-11 60 minutes

A tour of the antimatter factory and John Wheeler remembered 2023-Feb-04 60 minutes

Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak 2023-Jan-28 60 minutes

The surprising Huxley family, certainty, and climate prospects for 2023 2023-Jan-21 60 minutes

The evolution of galaxies and chasing the big cosmological questions 2023-Jan-14 60 minutes

Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics 2023-Jan-07 60 minutes

Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph 2022-Dec-31 60 minutes

A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild 2022-Dec-24 60 minutes

Human impact on and response to changing climate 2022-Dec-17 60 minutes

Smart cameras watch for anomalies, Prime Minister’s awards for top science teachers and DNA reveals the history of disease 2022-Dec-10 60 minutes

PM’s Prizes for Science, koalas, COP27 and Catherine the Great 2022-Dec-03 60 minutes

Recovering aluminium from tailings, aluminium formate to absorb carbon dioxide from power station exhausts, and a Neanderthal family like us 2022-Nov-26 60 minutes

Best Australian Science Writing winners and prospects for computing 2022-Nov-19 60 minutes

New technology brings added value to museum collections 2022-Nov-12 60 minutes

How crows use deception, saving freshwater turtles and the history of horses 2022-Nov-05 60 minutes

Storms changing our coasts, plastic in the ocean, and a call for geoengineering 2022-Oct-29 60 minutes

How carbon is our friend and unravelling the mystery of communication in plants 2022-Oct-22 60 minutes

Grid batteries made in Australia and pumped hydro using abandoned underground mines 2022-Oct-15 60 minutes

Nobel Prizes, climate extremes and how science can help save us 2022-Oct-08 60 minutes

Vanillin from plastic, battery trailers for EVs, and UK fossils rewriting the story of life 2022-Oct-01

Cheap solar, materials to capture carbon dioxide and a cancer test based on breath 2022-Sep-24 60 minutes

UN Peacekeepers train with virtual reality, drones for the battlefield and the transformation of Newcastle 2022-Sep-17 60 minutes

Testing Einstein, designing a lunar rover and help for stretched emergency departments 2022-Sep-10 60 minutes

2022 Eureka science awards, new insights in the giant dinos and AI concerns 2022-Sep-03 60 minutes

Australia’s megafauna, new building materials, and dung beetles 2022-Aug-27 60 minutes

The story of mammals, how they coexisted with dinosaurs for 225 million years and survived when dinos couldn’t 2022-Aug-20 54 minutes

Trees – allowing native species to return in Scotland, clearing them away in the Amazon, and seeing how they work in Tasmania 2022-Aug-13 60 minutes

Vale James Lovelock 2022-Aug-06 54 minutes

Best approach for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere 2022-Jul-30 54 minutes

Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph 2022-Jul-23 54 minutes

The physics of music - part 6 2022-Jul-16 54 minutes

The physics of music - part 5 2022-Jul-09 54 minutes

The physics of music - part 4 2022-Jul-02 54 minutes

Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia 2022-Jun-25 54 minutes

Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration 2022-Jun-18 54 minutes

Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind 2022-Jun-11 54 minutes

Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years 2022-Jun-04 54 minutes

Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy 2022-May-28 54 minutes

Where did the Universe come from? 2022-May-21 54 minutes

Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions 2022-May-14 54 minutes

Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world 2022-May-07 54 minutes

Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics 2022-Apr-30 53 minutes

Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga 2022-Apr-23 54 minutes

How our biggest threat is us 2022-Apr-16 54 minutes

Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen 2022-Apr-09 54 minutes

The end of astronauts? 2022-Apr-02 54 minutes

Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls 2022-Mar-26 54 minutes

The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate impacts made years ago. 2022-Mar-19 54 minutes

Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey 2022-Mar-12 54 minutes

We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland 2022-Mar-05 54 minutes

How trees are gold – when alive 2022-Feb-26 53 minutes

How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat 2022-Feb-19 54 minutes

Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space 2022-Feb-12 54 minutes

Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson 2022-Feb-05 54 minutes

HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future 2022-Jan-29 54 minutes

University geology depts becoming smaller or closing 2022-Jan-22 54 minutes

Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain? 2022-Jan-15 49 minutes

Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world 2022-Jan-15 54 minutes

Science Extra: The facts on fake news, 3D printed body parts and will Meta be better? 2022-Jan-08 46 minutes

New fossil site in NSW and the first computer 2022-Jan-08 54 minutes

Science Extra: malaria vax breakthrough, surviving snake bite and, of course, COVID-19 2022-Jan-01 49 minutes

The physics of music - part 3 2022-Jan-01 52 minutes

Science Extra: Cosmic explosions, bits and bobs from the Big Bang and space rocks on Earth 2021-Dec-25 49 minutes

The physics of music - part 2 2021-Dec-25 53 minutes

Science extra: Quantum computing, lucid dreams and bin-flipping cockatoos 2021-Dec-18 49 minutes

The physics of music - part 1 2021-Dec-18 53 minutes

Three scientific gift ideas and prospects for 2030 2021-Dec-11 53 minutes

Stunning capability, variety and beauty in the natural world 2021-Dec-04 54 minutes

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 2021-Nov-27 53 minutes

Always on? Or better sometimes off? The good and bad of smartphone technology 2021-Nov-20 53 minutes

How science has been used to justify horrid acts through history 2021-Nov-13 52 minutes

On a roll - Ceridwen Dovey wins Bragg Prize for Science Writing again 2021-Oct-30 54 minutes

More hopes for Glasgow, more value from waste, and a new ship for Antarctic research 2021-Oct-23 54 minutes

Birds, polar ice and hopes for Glasgow climate talks 2021-Oct-16 54 minutes

Prizes, prizes, prizes! Nobels, Earthshot and Eurekas 2021-Oct-09 54 minutes

New ways to inspire young students about the world of science 2021-Oct-02 54 minutes

As melting ice threatens polar ecosystems hopes emerge that international investment law will help speed transition to clean energy 2021-Sep-25 54 minutes

Acacias a new weapon against climate change 2021-Sep-18 54 minutes

Musical palm cockatoos sing duets and more 2021-Sep-11 54 minutes

Authors combine science with popular characters and gripping story lines 2021-Sep-04 54 minutes

The Science Show celebrates 46 years with Douglas Adams, a pit full of snakes and a memory from the start 2021-Aug-28 54 minutes

Crazy ants, smart birds and an Aussie space mission 2021-Aug-21 54 minutes

Electrification coming for runabouts and vale Roger Short 2021-Aug-14 54 minutes

Slime moulds, soil, Shackleton and snow 2021-Aug-07 54 minutes

The Science Show - Saturday, August 7 2021-Aug-07 54 minutes

Drilling beneath volcanoes, reducing the threat of tsunamis, and why the dodo is no more 2021-Jul-31 54 minutes