Science Friction
258 episodes — Page 5 of 6
When fake facts go viral: Islamic science, Medieval medicine and the history police (repeat)
Jun 21, 202025 min
The mystery of two millionaires and two IVF embryos: The Trouble with Embryos (repeat)
Jun 14, 202030 min
The carnivorous woman – a saga from Charles Darwin to Wheatbelt Western Australia (Part 2)
Jun 7, 202037 min
A wild and whimsical world of flesh-eating plants (Part 1)
May 31, 202025 min
The Gendered Brain - Gina Rippon and myth shattering neuroscience
May 24, 202035 min
The Scientist and the Spy - China, the FBI, espionage, and racism
May 17, 202031 min
The Big PhD Pause - postgraduate students, COVID-19, and the next brain drain? (Science Interrupted Part 3)
May 10, 202033 min
The Ruins of Science - a story of misdirected medical power
May 3, 202026 min
PREVIEW RN Presents — Hot Mess: Why haven’t we fixed climate change?
May 1, 20204 min
The astrophysicist Survivor star and immunologist dropping everything to help save you from COVID19 (Science, Interrupted Part 2)
Apr 26, 202036 min
Science, Interrupted Part 1 - lives, loves, labs upended by COVID19
Apr 19, 202037 min
If we can mobilise around a pandemic, what next? Meet two revolutionaries already flouting the rules
Apr 12, 202035 min
COVID-19, China’s wild wet markets, pangolins, and bats - is it US not THEM?
Apr 5, 202031 min
Rules of contagion - meet a mathematician at the frontline of the COVID-19 fight
Mar 29, 202030 min
Acclaimed Beasts of No Nation author Uzodinma Iweala - on science, power, and race
Mar 22, 202031 min
Your 3D printed body
Mar 15, 202030 min
School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)
Mar 8, 202034 min
How to be Two Ways strong: Dreamtime science and finding yourself (Part 1)
Mar 1, 202029 min
EVACUATE NOW - wildfires and why Will stayed in bed
Feb 23, 202025 min
Wildfires with wild numbers: fact checking a catastrophe
Feb 16, 202025 min
The radical experimenters: a rapper, a poet, and a biological artist
Feb 9, 202039 min
Of Mice and Men: This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it.
Feb 2, 202028 min
The predatory publishers sucking science's blood — Updated audio
Jan 26, 202032 min
Do genetic ancestry tests know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale of race and science (Summer Season)
Jan 19, 202034 min
The Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the road to Tibet (Summer Season)
Jan 12, 202030 min
Faith challenged - 21 and searching for science in the land of Trump (Summer Season)
Jan 5, 202033 min
Lolita and Linda's uterus transplant - an ethical, emotional, and scientific minefield (Summer Season)
Dec 29, 201937 min
The ultimate designer accessory - an artificial womb? (Summer Season)
Dec 22, 201930 min
Science Friction's End of the Year quiz show!
Dec 15, 201928 min
Discover your dark side - the science, psychology, and philosophy of evil
Dec 8, 201941 min
Selfish by nature? Two scientific renegades who looked for kindness and paid a price
Dec 1, 201930 min
A whole lot of POO!
Nov 24, 201935 min
"A perfectly normal girl - although she likes computers" Hidden stories from Australian computing
Nov 17, 201930 min
The Ladies' Log: Who (not what) were the first computers?
Nov 10, 201925 min
Searching for Doggerland: stones, bones and a world submerged by climate change
Nov 3, 201926 min
Matty's Story - donor conception and the cost of secrecy
Oct 27, 201925 min
The conundrum of unused IVF embryos: The Trouble With Embryos Part 2
Oct 20, 201925 min
The mystery of two millionaires and two IVF embryos: The Trouble with Embryos Part 1
Oct 13, 201931 min
Pulsar woman: It's not a bird, it's not a quasar, it's...
Oct 6, 201936 min
Broad Band - the untold story of the women who made the internet
Sep 29, 201959 min
Bioerror to bioterror - does synthetic biology give new tools to terrorists? Part 2
Sep 22, 201929 min
Bioerror to bioterror - what if a human-engineered virus escaped the lab? Part 1
Sep 15, 201928 min
Lovers in the Lab: when your passion for science becomes passion for each other
Sep 8, 201925 min
Tai Asks Why - the seventh grader with a cult science podcast and mind for big ideas
Sep 1, 201929 min
Only technology will save us from ourselves - Science Friction's Beaker Street Great Debate
Aug 25, 201931 min
This famous physicist wants to solve a big mystery – cancer
Aug 18, 201928 min
Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN
Aug 11, 201927 min
A mind on the move - Nobel winner Venki Ramakrishnan on being an outsider, borders and Brexit
Aug 4, 201925 min
Brexit gets personal: borders, brains and science
Jul 28, 201929 min
The Apocalypse Part 3: A supervolcanic winter
Jul 21, 201925 min