The Science Show

The hottest tech story in 2023 has been the rise of artificial intelligence. ChatGPT burst onto the scene and became the fastest-growing internet app of all time, reaching more than 100 million users in only a few months. So what has been the result of ChatGPT and other generative AI?

Robyn Williams visited the telescope site prior to its completion in 1974. In 2014 he returned as astronomers celebrated 40 years.

It’s been a big year for environment news: records broken, a new El Nino, and dire forecasts for a hot summer.In this bonus episode, we’re diving deep into what happened in environment news in 2023, including ... the next frontiers of mining and potential environmental outcomes, possible good news about Amazon deforestation, and very worrying news about black swans.

Historian Tom Griffiths says a new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. He wrote his essay Odyssey down under for Inside Story.

At the age of 87, award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki has stepped down as host of CBC TV’s The Nature of Things. In May, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto hosted an evening with David Suzuki - Reflections of an Elder.

Carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise. Antarctic ice shelves melt and the Amazon burns. Bob McDonald says the future is now.

We revisit a bold new Sunday night program in 1975, and coverage of the Apollo missions.

Nicky Phillips has won this year’s Bragg Prize for Science Writing.

They were close to extinction. Now seashorses in Sydney Harbour may have survived.

Landscape may be an important unrecognised contributor to climate change.

The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.

Mathematics is a key tool in every scientific discipline

Life Scientist award for work on microbes and their role in regulating climate plus Varroa mites – a positive for native bees?

Michelle Simmons had received The Prime Minister's Science Prize for her work on quantum electronics.

The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.

Nobel Prizes, Covid good luck and Mars Rover's link to QUT

Researchers have found school curriculums are missing the contributions of female scientists. Why is it so important we know the people behind the discoveries?

Mathematicians and their models might just be the world's most inconspicuous climate heroes.

What happens when two theories are pitted against one another? Are we any closer to knowing where consciousness arises?

This Australian father-daughter duo played a huge part in the science and philosophy instrumental in the mind-brain problem.

Sharon Carleton takes a look at his decades of work in this 2003 feature, coinciding with this year's Eccles Institute seminar at ANU.

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.