The Science Show - Full Program Podcast
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Lab Notes: When is it time to throw in the towel?
Oct 7, 202610 min
Paul Nurse and assessing the health of Australian trees
Oct 2, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Why you shouldn't leave your phone charging
Sep 30, 202610 min
Deep sea nodules, ideas in ecology, and three brilliant scientists not always on the money
Sep 26, 202655 min
Lab Notes: Have we found dark matter?
Sep 23, 202610 min
The big cats that stalked early humans and why ancient concrete outlasts the modern stuff
Sep 18, 202654 min
Lab Notes: The AI maths wars
Sep 15, 202612 min
AI boost for people with dyslexia and how algorithms shape what we read
Sep 11, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Where could bird flu go next?
Sep 9, 202610 min
As fire ravages the Northern Hemisphere, is Australia ready for a record-breaking El Niño? And why optimists live longer than pessimists
Sep 4, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Why are we ticklish?
Sep 2, 202610 min
A moon beyond our Solar System, dust storms on Mars and questioning of reality
Aug 28, 202654 min
Lab Notes: The redback sex-death somersault
Aug 26, 202610 min
The debate over who should be in the genus Homo, and the trailblazing botanical illustrators, Harriet and Helena Scott
Aug 21, 202654 min
Lab Notes: The 'Hail Mary' effort to rescue a telescope
Aug 19, 202610 min
How nematodes love smelly feet, plants that trap insects, Australians at CERN and vale Peter Raven
Aug 14, 202654 min
Lab Notes: How do flowers know when to bloom?
Aug 12, 202610 min
Dark Matter search from inner Melbourne, Gelion update, Bach and maths and vale Bill Oddie
Aug 7, 202654 min
Lab Notes: In an era of AI hacking, how safe is the census?
Aug 5, 202610 min
Looking inside cells, and how seals hear so well underwater
Jul 31, 202654 min
Lab Notes: What will we see in a 10-year movie of the universe?
Jul 29, 202610 min
Pioneers past and present, and fiddling with life brings a heavy caution
Jul 24, 202654 min
Lab Notes: How do we predict the snow season?
Jul 22, 202610 min
Fossil graveyards an archive of past climate and ecology
Jul 17, 202652 min
Lab Notes: What's it like to be in a clinical trial?
Jul 15, 202610 min
Monitoring Antarctic glaciers and the science of gluten-free baking
Jul 10, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Is AI taking over mathematics?
Jul 8, 202610 min
As bird flu arrives in Australia, an endangered species is being quarantined
Jul 3, 202653 min
Lab Notes: Is space junk destroying the ozone layer?
Jul 1, 202610 min
How bird brains help us understand human brains, and how eugenics had as much hand in the birth control movement as did feminism.
Jun 26, 202654 min
Lab Notes: The bird flu risk for Aussie wildlife
Jun 24, 202613 min
Insects and pain and The Selfish Gene turns 50
Jun 19, 202654 min
Lab Notes: What happens when a whale dies?
Jun 17, 202610 min
Kris sword with an intriguing history, echidnas, tropical forests and Australia’s energy potential
Jun 12, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Tallest tree in East Asia
Jun 10, 202610 min
The First Inventors
Jun 5, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Plants can hear you
Jun 3, 202610 min
AI tools in ocean research and a tribute to Dame Bridget Ogilvie
May 29, 202653 min
Lab Notes: Lead may be hiding in your clothing
May 28, 202610 min
Sex testing at the Olympics: beware the exceptions
May 22, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Giant dino discovery fulfils a childhood dream
May 21, 202610 min
Science and the budget, bird flu closer to Australia and a guide to pollination
May 15, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Can AI chatbots make you delusional?
May 14, 202610 min
Celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday and a new way of making vaccines
May 8, 202653 min
Lab Notes: What happens if a major ocean current … stops?
May 7, 202610 min
Australian science under strain
May 1, 202654 min
Lab Notes: AI data centres are coming to remote Australia
Apr 30, 202610 min
Response to Australia’s ESO rejection
Apr 24, 202654 min
Lab Notes: Aussies loved Artemis II — and they want more
Apr 23, 2026
Getting more from fertiliser, viral DNA's vital role and help from hookworms!
Apr 17, 202654 min