The Science Show
The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.
A wire around the world
Science Extra: More auroras in store?
Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste
Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson
Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
Dark energy – not necessarily constant
The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty
Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic
The Science Show celebrates 49 years
New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals
Merlin meets Dr Crispy
Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island suffers drought.
Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts
One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and tennis
Stanford University: the great university with a dark side
The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss
The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter
The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories
The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles
Molecules with their own fingerprint
Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet
Age of Monotremes including three new genera
Are our tall forests really being saved?
Big savings possible for the world’s ships
Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia
Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage?
Scientists protest in Adelaide
Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish
The science of friendship
The amazing world of alpine plants
Meet the man who changed the world forever
Big things
US National Center for Atmospheric Research
Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts
Supernova!
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How Chinese science was revealed to the world
Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields
Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG
The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists
Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to babies
H. G. Wells – father of science fiction
Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that telescope
Portrait of Isaac Newton
Science Extra: One semaglutide please
What to do when science doesn’t cut through
Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines
The Anglo-Australian Telescope – approaching 50 years
Science Extra: It's gettin' hot in here
The bigger Australian story - Odyssey down under
Transitions
The Future Is Now
2FC now Radio National celebrates 100 years
The Bragg Prize for Science Writing, and we remember Sir Clarence Lovejoy
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Getting your rocks off
Ultrasound moves immune cells and triggers their response and more Prime Ministers Prizes for Science
Maths is here, it's there, it’s everywhere
Australia may join world coalition of collaborative research
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and new insights into the benefits of social interaction
Lockdown behaviour, vaccines for new variants, and evidence for coronavirus source
Here come the superstars
Why do textbooks leave out so many scientists with one thing in common?
What counting trees tells us about the health of the planet
A battle between consciousness theories, and harnessing resources from thin air
Sir John Eccles and the invaluable work of his daughter Rose
Sir John Eccles, one of the big brains in neuroscience
Cyber hygiene, deep sea parasites and what weeds can teach us about cancer
Big ideas at Beaker Street Festival
What can we learn from five minutes of silence?
The Oppenheimer who influenced our modern science centres
Pioneering particles, time-travelling molecules and outer space poets
There's no age limit to science
Protecting habitats and the creatures that dwell within
Torres Strait VR, taming CERN's magnets and Fiji's fight against varroa mite
Where science can lead: An isolated island, the slimy forest floor, and centre stage for stand-up
Communities team up with scientists to tackle flooding
Helping marine life thrive — from Fiji to Goondiwindi
Come inside the vault preserving Pacific plants for future generations
The surprising past — and promising future of women in science
The botanist behind Dame Edna's favourite flower, and the virtuous side of weeds
Nearer the Gods: The enduring legacy of Isaac Newton
Unravelling the mysterious workings of the epigenome — and the universe
Celebrating David Attenborough on his 97th birthday
A lab for seas and winds, measuring carbon dioxide and monitoring animal ecology
Astronomers watch as black hole pulls dust cloud apart
Beaming energy to Earth from space
Technology helps scientists discover new species
Bees communicate intricate information with their dance and Moon mission to map water
World’s biggest coal port could become the world’s biggest hydrogen port. And Vale Will Steffen
Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory.
Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum
Visit the world’s biggest fission reactor under construction in France and discover the wonders of algae
The value of seagrasses, fish with remarkable powers and how parasites threaten aquatic life
Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians
Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil
A tour of the antimatter factory and John Wheeler remembered
Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak
The surprising Huxley family, certainty, and climate prospects for 2023
The evolution of galaxies and chasing the big cosmological questions
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
Human impact on and response to changing climate
Smart cameras watch for anomalies, Prime Minister’s awards for top science teachers and DNA reveals the history of disease
PM’s Prizes for Science, koalas, COP27 and Catherine the Great
Recovering aluminium from tailings, aluminium formate to absorb carbon dioxide from power station exhausts, and a Neanderthal family like us
Best Australian Science Writing winners and prospects for computing
New technology brings added value to museum collections
How crows use deception, saving freshwater turtles and the history of horses
Storms changing our coasts, plastic in the ocean, and a call for geoengineering
How carbon is our friend and unravelling the mystery of communication in plants
Grid batteries made in Australia and pumped hydro using abandoned underground mines
Nobel Prizes, climate extremes and how science can help save us
Vanillin from plastic, battery trailers for EVs, and UK fossils rewriting the story of life
Cheap solar, materials to capture carbon dioxide and a cancer test based on breath
UN Peacekeepers train with virtual reality, drones for the battlefield and the transformation of Newcastle
Testing Einstein, designing a lunar rover and help for stretched emergency departments
2022 Eureka science awards, new insights in the giant dinos and AI concerns
Australia’s megafauna, new building materials, and dung beetles
The story of mammals, how they coexisted with dinosaurs for 225 million years and survived when dinos couldn’t
Trees – allowing native species to return in Scotland, clearing them away in the Amazon, and seeing how they work in Tasmania
Vale James Lovelock
Best approach for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
The physics of music - part 6
The physics of music - part 5
The physics of music - part 4
Celebrating 200 years of honeybees in Australia
Environmental laws fail future generations and the history of Antarctic exploration
Cameras used to count feral cats, and how much of pain is in the mind
Goodbye giant kelp – 95% lost in fifty years
Parrots and humans – extreme species with shared behaviours and first image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy
Where did the Universe come from?
Musk promises brain implants for spinal injuries and AI and help for Australian sea lions
Young scientists forced abroad for work and the twelve experiments that helped make the modern world
Celebrating Gregor Mendel the father of genetics
Wollongong transformed, secrets of monotremes revealed, and help for Tonga
How our biggest threat is us
Carbon movie explores the misunderstood element which has allowed life to happen
The end of astronauts?
Electric outboards making a splash and David Stewart celebrates 40 years recording bird calls
The future of scientific collaborations in doubt following Russia's attack on Ukraine, and warnings of dire climate impacts made years ago.
Compelling novels highlight ecosystems under pressure and vale Richard Leakey
We were warned of pandemic in 1994, and hydrogen for far north Queensland
How trees are gold – when alive
How tsunami have impacted Australia’s east coast and a new approach to limit the threat
Advice for scientists confronting doubters and the mysterious pulsing object in space
Genes help us love nature, geothermal on the cusp, and vale E. O. Wilson
HG Wells – father of science fiction with hopes and fears for how science will shape our future
University geology depts becoming smaller or closing
Science Extra: Climate compromise, slime in the city and do fish feel pain?
Hedy Lemarr actress and inventor who helped develop the modern world
Science Extra: The facts on fake news, 3D printed body parts and will Meta be better?
New fossil site in NSW and the first computer
Science Extra: malaria vax breakthrough, surviving snake bite and, of course, COVID-19
The physics of music - part 3
Science Extra: Cosmic explosions, bits and bobs from the Big Bang and space rocks on Earth
The physics of music - part 2
Science extra: Quantum computing, lucid dreams and bin-flipping cockatoos
The physics of music - part 1
Three scientific gift ideas and prospects for 2030
Stunning capability, variety and beauty in the natural world
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
Always on? Or better sometimes off? The good and bad of smartphone technology
How science has been used to justify horrid acts through history
On a roll - Ceridwen Dovey wins Bragg Prize for Science Writing again
More hopes for Glasgow, more value from waste, and a new ship for Antarctic research
Birds, polar ice and hopes for Glasgow climate talks
Prizes, prizes, prizes! Nobels, Earthshot and Eurekas
New ways to inspire young students about the world of science
As melting ice threatens polar ecosystems hopes emerge that international investment law will help speed transition to clean energy
Acacias a new weapon against climate change
Musical palm cockatoos sing duets and more
Authors combine science with popular characters and gripping story lines
The Science Show celebrates 46 years with Douglas Adams, a pit full of snakes and a memory from the start
Crazy ants, smart birds and an Aussie space mission
Electrification coming for runabouts and vale Roger Short
Slime moulds, soil, Shackleton and snow
The Science Show - Saturday, August 7
Drilling beneath volcanoes, reducing the threat of tsunamis, and why the dodo is no more
Mining minerals with plants and time to supercharge recycling
Solutions here now for the climate disaster
Deadly heat hits North America, better steel, and solutions to climate change feature in Australian Museum exhibition
The simple solution to two big problems — trees
Spinifex, ticks and the important role of fathers in wild animals
Biased botanists, a new blue kangaroo paw and playing birds have bigger brains and longer lives
New ideas about plant conservation, the immense diversity of Ashmore Reef, and how ocean noise could threaten whales and dolphins
Fears environmental laws to be weakened, burning practices threaten ecosystems and learning from Indigenous knowledge
Methane 120 times worse than carbon dioxide, plus the changing world for frogs, bees and human relationships
Alan Turing – thinker ahead of his time
Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
Botanical tales, tariffs for renewable energy and extracting fossils
Full-on assault against natural ecosystems
Suzuki on racism, Darwin on psychology and saving the pines on Norfolk Island.
Seaweed a hope to capture carbon and help cool the planet
Adelaide car plant closes and becomes an innovation hub employing more people than before
Restoring shellfish reefs and a helping hand for the green parrots of Norfolk Island
Ecological repair for Australian islands east and west
$2.4 billion proposal to commercialise science and the importance of infant gut bacteria
Fossil fish site in central NSW now in safe hands and Manly festival celebrates beauty and importance of seaweed
How Rosalind Franklin aided our pandemic response and attracting the world’s top researchers, despite COVID
Changing climate questions where and how we build close to forested areas, and investigating the top speed of sound
Fish moving polewards and 3D printing of body parts
We’ve removed 90% of all large fish from the oceans. Just 10% to go.
Consciousness amongst animals and the story of the dire wolf
As mining causes roads to crack and houses to collapse, a Swedish city is moved
Science Extra: The Moon is more fun than Venus
Howard Florey - the Australian researcher who developed penicillin
Science Extra: What happened to the COVIDSafe app?
A portrait of Sir John Eccles - Australian pioneer of neuroscience
Science Extra: When your flatmate is Homo erectus
A book for children about environmental change, and the discovery of mauve
Science Extra: A mountain in the deep
Writing science
Science Extra: Inside a frantic year in health news
Two scientists, a man and a woman, who changed the course of history
A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
Would you take a ray gun to ringworm?
After the AM, here comes the WAM
Australian Museum reopens, a new monkey named and an emu tries to fly
The 21st century so far
The profound versus the preposterous - Life vs loony.
Three Prime Minister’s Science Prize winners
The Prime Minister’s Science Prize
Hope in Hell?
No more fish?
The North Pole, gentle robots and the future of AI
Three exceptional women
Venus - another prompt for the regeneration of science?
How to eliminate CO2 emissions from agriculture? The answer lies in the soil!
Pipsqueak dinosaurs – How did they become top monsters?
Can you have a BBQ 40,000 years before people land?
Lithium potential for Australia and time running out climate change action
New ideas about our food choices and how taste and pleasure have helped drive evolution
Shall we join the quantum revolution?
Dr Dolittle turns 100 and the complex behaviour of birds
The seaweed revolution and keeping brains fit
The history of Boeing and the future of passenger flight
The Pilbara - used by ancient people and NASA, blown up by Rio Tinto