The Science Show - Full Program Podcast

All the science underway to protect our health, our environment... and our smartphones?

Some of the science on display at this year's Hobart-wide celebration of the big, small and occasionally glowy.

Sometimes we all need to sit in silence ... but is there ever really silence? Take a seat and let your ears provide the answer.

The Exploratorium in San Francisco opened in 1969, and went on to inspire our own science centres in Australia.

Scientists are harnessing the very small to explore very big things — from faults in massive structures to time reversal at the molecular level.

From a teenage enthusiast to a 100-year-old Nobel Prize winner, The Science Show explores the agelessness of wonder.

Climate change is already having far-reaching consequences, for our forests, our oceans and ourselves.

Testing magnets for CERN'S Large Hadron Collider is a high-stakes job, with serious consequences.

Come along for a midnight hunt at a secluded resort, and a dawn boat trip to the speck of land where Hollywood Blockbuster Castaway was filmed.

Meet two groups — one in Scotland, the other in the US state of Georgia — using science against floodwaters.

Tag along for a trip out to sea to meet a woman from the Solomon Islands who is tracking this looming danger in the Pacific Ocean.

Carl Smith takes a trip to the Pacific to catch up with scientists working to conserve the region's biodiversity.

A woman was among Australia's first three science graduates. But it's still far from a level playing field.

There's a scientific story behind Dame Edna's famous Gladioli, and it involves one of Australia's top botanists.

He's one of the most famous scientists ever. But who was Isaac Newton, really? Sharon Carleton presents a portrait like no other about the myths surrounding the genius.

Dark matter is assumed to be responsible for holding the universe together. So where is it?

Reflecting on Sir David Attenborough's decades-long contribution to our understanding of the natural world.

Dave Keeling started measuring carbon dioxide in 1958, Dave’s son Ralph continues his father’s work today.

And bee venom shows promise treating a range of cancers.

And one hundred years ago, a scientific expedition in Australia showed Einstein was right.

As pressure on the natural world increases, new technology is bringing fast results as scientists monitor fauna and flora and identify new species.

By performing their waggle dance, bees communicate information about direction, distance and quality of a food source.

And soft tissues can be fossilised. They help piece together the history of life on Earth.

The Australian Academy of Science has called for a review of science funding in Australia.

In this episode of Strange Frontiers, Carl Smith takes us into the vault at one of the world’s greatest archives of natural history.

If successful, ITER promises to provide abundant clean energy.

Small unremarkable fish use light to detect and avoid predators.

Carl Smith takes us to the Estonian capital Tallinn to ride an autonomous minibus.

Murdoch University's Harry Butler Institute honours the well-known warrior for the environment.

Carl Smith takes us to the Antimatter factory.

Hope from COP27 and atmospheric research from Germany’s highest peak

From T. H. Huxley - ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’ – to author Aldous Huxley to Nobel Prize winner Andrew Huxley, a new book tells the tale of this remarkable scientific family.

A cosmological Science Show and competition emerging for Haydn’s Creation!

Following experiments with peas and other plants, Gregor Mendel proposed a theory of inheritance which became the basis of modern biology.

The overland telegraph connecting Australia to the world was completed 150 years ago. It was built due to the dedication of a public servant, Charles Todd.

She was a world expert on fleas. Despite being self-taught, she was awarded doctorates from Cambridge and Oxford.