Synopsis
Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.
Episodes
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Rats to the rescue (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 2)
10/07/2022 Duration: 26minYou just never know when you'll need a rat will save your life.
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The mighty fly army (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 1)
03/07/2022 Duration: 26minSome people dream of changing the world. Others do. Thank the flies.
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Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author[REPEAT]
26/06/2022 Duration: 26minThere is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about! [REPEAT]
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Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed?
19/06/2022 Duration: 30minOnce fences and armed guards protected genetically modified (GM) crops. But the rules are rapidly changing. From Vitamin D-boosted tomatoes to low GI potato chips, what say should citizens have?
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Move over Mills and Boon, the HOT SCIENTISTS are here
12/06/2022 Duration: 25minMeet the neuroscientist turned bestselling rom-com novelist who's exposing the underbelly of science, the passion, and the power games.
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The STEAM Room science experiment - I wannabe a stand-up comic!
05/06/2022 Duration: 25minWould you be game? Hear what happened when scientists make themselves vulnerable AND hilarious.
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How two short words triggered a racism reckoning for plant scientists
29/05/2022 Duration: 25minTwo words. Tweeted then deleted. A meeting meltdown. Has #BlackLivesMatter put international science on notice?
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The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure (REPEAT)
22/05/2022 Duration: 25minLace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.
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The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind (REPEAT)
15/05/2022 Duration: 25minNature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.
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Should Big Pharma profit from secret COVID-19 vaccine deals? Moderna responds
08/05/2022 Duration: 26minBig Pharma has helped get life-saving COVID-19 vaccines into billions of arms. The profits are pouring in, but at what cost?
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Feeling a bit hopeless? Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is here for YOU
01/05/2022 Duration: 28minJane Goodall wants you to gird your loins. What does that mean? Well ... for hope, push PLAY.
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Scratch that itch! She of flamenco flair and molecular dances
24/04/2022 Duration: 26minBy day, she's making molecules dance. By night, this vintage fashionista has a different dance on her mind.
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AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her
17/04/2022 Duration: 30minTimnit Gebru was fired by Google in a cloud of controversy, now she's making waves beyond Big Tech's pervasive influence
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World-first pig to human heart transplant. What happened?
10/04/2022 Duration: 25minYou need a new organ. But there aren't enough to go around. Would you accept one from a pig? Hearts, kidneys, corneas ... xenotransplantation is here.
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Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist
03/04/2022 Duration: 25minIndian-born engineer Nishant Jain flew in the face of expectations to radically reinvent himself as the Sneaky Artist
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Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain - superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky
27/03/2022 Duration: 30minIlya Kolmanovsky is a popular science superstar in Russia. Like so many anti-Putin activists, he’s just made the most wrenching decision of his life.
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Foodies, why you should give a f*** about farming!
20/03/2022 Duration: 25minWhy are we so weirdly paradoxical about food? Food, farms, revolution with two women closer to it all than most.
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The gun dealer’s defence — on nukes, fossil fuels, and Australia
13/03/2022 Duration: 33minIf you sell the gun but don’t pull the trigger ... are you to blame?
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Breaking Buruli, part two
06/03/2022 Duration: 26minAfter 25 years of painstaking research, could scientists be getting close to unlocking the mysteries of Buruli ulcer?
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Breaking Buruli, Part One
27/02/2022 Duration: 25minWhen people from a small beach town on Phillip Island started developing severe skin lesions, scientists were left scratching their heads as to what was causing them.