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Saturday 11 February 2012 Updated: 2012-02-11 01:05:00 Description: New materials slow light, Fiddler crabs wave for mates, Primitive fish used to develop treatments for human ailments, Fossil find adds to the story of early humans...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 04 February 2012 Updated: 2012-02-04 01:05:00 Description: Stimulating the brain enhances mathematical ability, Compound eyes show origin of acute vision, Stresses on ecological communities, Atlas of Living Australia Persistent organic pollutants found on New Zealand glaciers, Rewriting the history of phot...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 28 January 2012 Updated: 2012-01-28 01:05:00 Description: Evidence of humans in PNG 50,000 years ago, DNA markers for facial features, Effects of alcohol and racial stereotypes on behaviour, More planets than ever expected, The golden age of discovering planets, Theory of dark matter challenged, The genetic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 21 January 2012 Updated: 2012-01-21 01:05:00 Description: New telescope for Tasmania, Astronomy 2012 – the year ahead, Benefits of national broadband – first results to come from Tasmania, Nano particles detect and treat eye disease, The Pantheon’s mysterious architecture, The Art of the First Fleet...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 14 January 2012 Updated: 2012-01-14 01:05:00 Description: That is the amount Dame Bridget Ogilvie invested in scientific research in Britain. Actually, £600 million, worth around A$1800 million at that time. How did a girl from rural NSW rise to such powers? How did an expert in stock parasites become one ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 07 January 2012 Updated: 2012-01-07 01:05:00 Description: What do you give a well-born South Australian for his 21st birthday? Why not a Rolls Royce? Oliver Mayo got just that – and says it was fully justified! He went on to become one of this nation’s most influential agricultural researchers – and h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 31 December 2011 Updated: 2011-12-31 01:05:00 Description: John Lovering became famous in 1969 on ABC TV covering the live broadcasts of the first men on the moon. He is a geologist and did much to further the cause of rocks in Australia, despite watching our university departments of geology being closed ac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 24 December 2011 Updated: 2011-12-24 01:05:00 Description: Robert May has achieved the pinnacle of scientific success: President Of The Royal Society, Chief Scientist in the UK, Order of Merit, the equivalent of three Nobel Prizes – yet he could have been a lawyer in Sydney like his dad, instead of Member ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 17/12/2011 Updated: 2011-12-17 01:05:00 Description: Student debt. World records in sport a result of performance or technology? A better test for prostate cancer. What killed the Tasmanian tiger? New specimens for Armidale herbarium. Denial Tango. Professor Stick’s American Jesus. Population Song....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saturday 10 December 2011 Updated: 2011-12-10 01:05:00 Description: Exosomes – a means to deliver treatment for degenerative diseases?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show 03 December 2011 Updated: 2011-12-03 01:05:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Apology for duplicate podcasts Updated: 2011-11-29 23:32:22 Description: We have just upgraded to a new website, and the move has caused some podcast subscribers to download duplicate mp3s. We apologise for this issue and hope you continue to listen to Radio National podcasts in the future....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-11-26 Updated: 2011-11-25 14:00:00 Description: Neutrinos unlikely to have travelled faster than light It was recently reported that neutrinos had been observed travelling faster than the speed of light. Was this actually the case, or was there a relativity effect or some other reason to account f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-11-19 Updated: 2011-11-18 14:00:00 Description: Turning dollars into better health Life expectancy has increased as a result of increased prosperity, and medical research. But why was more money spent tackling bird flu which killed few, rather than say on the parasitic disease Kala Azar which kill...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-11-12 Updated: 2011-11-11 14:00:00 Description: Return on science investment seen in 2 years Investment in science can be justified as it is a public good. Jonathan Haskel has studied return on science investment in Britain and concludes a return can be seen in two years. He warns against mixing s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-11-05 Updated: 2011-11-04 14:00:00 Description: Modern polar bears traced to Ireland DNA studies have revealed that all modern polar bears are linked to the remains of a polar bear found in Ireland. During the last ice age, the whole island of Ireland was covered in ice. Ceiridwen Edwards has stud...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-10-29 Updated: 2011-10-28 14:00:00 Description: We are 7 billion Paul Ehrlich published his book The Population Bomb in 1968. And slowly, the bomb has gone off. This weekend marks the world population reaching 7 billion, the latest billion having been added in just 12 years. Paul Ehrlich reflects ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-10-22 Updated: 2011-10-21 14:00:00 Description: Neutrinos - faster than the speed of light? Researchers have recently reported news of subatomic particles, neutrinos, moving faster than the speed of light, something Einstein said was impossible. This questions the basic laws of physics. So was Ein...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-10-15 Updated: 2011-10-14 14:00:00 Description: 2011 Prime Minister´s Science Prize for new methods of polymer production The 2011 Prime Minister´s Science Prize has been awarded to David Solomon and Ezio Rizzardo who have developed new techniques to allow the controlled production of polymers i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-10-08 Updated: 2011-10-07 14:00:00 Description: Nobel Prizes 2011 Wendy Barnaby reports on the 2011 Nobel Prizes for physics, chemistry and medicine or physiology. And we hear an excerpt of a conversation between 2011 Nobel laureate for physics Brian Schmidt and Robyn Williams on The Science Show ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-10-01 Updated: 2011-09-30 14:00:00 Description: Attacking binge drinking Martin Hagger says minimum pricing should be considered as a policy weapon in the fight to control excessive alcohol consumption. Binge drinking is on the increase in many European and Scandinavian countries and treating peo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-09-24 Updated: 2011-09-23 14:00:00 Description: Lying eyes Hassan Ugail describes technology which detects whether people are lying. A camera measures the thermal patterns on the face, especially around the eyes. The thin skin allows blood flow to be detected by the camera. Facial expressions also...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-09-17 Updated: 2011-09-16 14:00:00 Description: Nobel Laureates inspire next gen scientists This week we visit Germany where a yearly gathering puts Nobel laureates in science in touch with young researchers from around the world. The aim is to educate, inspire and connect. We´ll see how the Lind...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-09-10 Updated: 2011-09-09 14:00:00 Description: Eureka Prizes 2011 The Australian Museum Eureka prizes have just been announced for 2011. We hear from winners Menna Jones, John Cook and Paul McGreevy. Click on the link below for the complete list of prizewinners. Italian scientists on trial follo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-09-03 Updated: 2011-09-02 14:00:00 Description: The woolly rhino´s Tibetan past John Long describes a new theory developed by his colleague Xiaoming Wang at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, that the woolly rhino evolved in the Tibetan high peaks, coming down and increasing its ra...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-08-27 Updated: 2011-08-26 14:00:00 Description: Plastics found in sea birds and filter feeders Migrating seabirds often skim across the water looking for food. They can´t distinguish plastic from fish and eat it. Jennifer Lavers has found large quantities of plastic in the stomachs of seabirds. 1...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-08-20 Updated: 2011-08-19 14:00:00 Description: Homo sapiens - time for a new name? Journalist Julian Cribb has written to Nature concerning the name of the human species. He makes the case that under the international rules for naming species, Homo sapiens is incorrectly named and should be chang...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-08-13 Updated: 2011-08-12 14:00:00 Description: The evolution of copulation in the natural world John Long describes a Placoderm, a fossil fish from Western Australia that has been dated to 365 million years. The fish contained an embryo. This signalled the fish reproduced by copulation and is the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-08-06 Updated: 2011-08-05 14:00:00 Description: Monash student helps explain a mystery of the universe Third year undergraduate student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, took on a project to use X-rays to follow up an optical observation. The X-rays would reveal physical properties. It was concerned with fi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-07-30 Updated: 2011-07-29 14:00:00 Description: Botanists say goodbye to Latin and Acacias stay in Australia The International Botanical Congress meeting in Melbourne has decided to do away with Latin descriptions for new plants which until now have been a requirement. The Latin remains for plant ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-07-23 Updated: 2011-07-22 14:00:00 Description: The Space Shuttle flies for the last time Jonathan Nally looks at the Space shuttle program, the triumphs, the tragedy, and what the future holds for US space exploration as the Space Shuttle flies for the last time. Kangaroos as human food, and pre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-07-16 Updated: 2011-07-15 14:00:00 Description: Where's the beef? Or is this the end of meat? Can we afford all the land, energy, water and carbon release cattle and sheep require? Is farming meat now just too hard? Should roos be used as substitutes? Could we manufacture meat in vats in factories...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Science Show - 2011-07-09 Updated: 2011-07-08 14:00:00 Description: What is life? Today we hear excerpts from a panel discussion of distinguished scientists including two Nobel laureates who addressed the question, What is life? It was organised by the Origins Project at the Arizona State University and took place on...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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