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Nanoparticle breath on analogue Mars
download MP3 Listen to Dr Renee Goreham talk about her research into applying nanoparticle detection to health, and news of missions to analogue Mars in Armenia. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Dr Renee Goreham Amadee-24 mission: Austrian Space Forum...
Are earthquakes affected by climate change?
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Woomera blasts off
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') From 2015: Asteroid moons Earth, Invisible planets sought by Ian Woolf Kerrie Dougherty describes the beginnings of the Woomera Rocket Range. Production checked by Charles Willlock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Asteroid...
Don't ignore your symptoms
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') New protein causing post-exertional malaise hints at new diagnostic tests and drugs for ME/CFS, Flaws found by critics in the PACE Trials and Cochrane Review recommending graded exercise therapy and Cognitive behavioural therapy...
Assange, Music and the law
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WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution
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Gravity Maverick - part 2
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Public Trust in Science part 1
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The Long-Term Threat
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Sydney Space suits - part 2
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Dark Matter Astronaut Training
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Balancing Medical Censorship
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Trustworthy fakes and edited hamsters
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Myalgic Encephalomyelitis what's changed?
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What Science Policy?
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Questioning Science Frontiers - part 2
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Variants, printed livers and woven TVs
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When viruses collude
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Desiderosmia
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Plagued - part 2 revisited
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Precognition Revolution
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Ventilation stops the spread
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Census and Privacy 2021 - part 1
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Vaccines and surveillance
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20 years of Bug-bots
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Plagued - part 2
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The Pais Effect
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To the Moon with fireworks and geckos
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2020 Ig Nobel Prize Awards
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Print spies dolphin terrorists
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Food microbiology
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Life on Mars
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Cystic fibrosis advocacy wins
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COVIDFree without COVIDSafe
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Face recognition pandemic
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COVIDSafe Brainwaves
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Neuromorphic social impact
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Future of Human Needs past
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Junk DNA extreme weather aphasia
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Launching Arlula
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Tales from feathers and quills
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Nuclear dump Australia
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Scientific journalism and extreme biology
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We reveal crimes and secret squirrels
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Bio-engineering Innovation Challenge 2019
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The Future of Human Needs
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Opt out of My Health Record
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Discovery - Women, MindSwitch and Quantum computers
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Transhumanism engineering Cat-girls
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My Health Record Opt Out
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Coeliac genes and zombies
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Meow on Mars
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Diagnosing ME, and CFS
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Nobels and Ig nobels
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Poked plant physics Ant venom
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Sneaky SpaceBees
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Insulin DISCO crypto-jacking
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Terminal decline and Zero emissions
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Sound is the next wave
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The story of Ruby Payne-Scott part 2
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The story of Ruby Payne-Scott part 1
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Rockets and Rejuvenation
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Cuberider, CubeSat and MathWorks - DIY Day part 1
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Bioethics and the Narcissome
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Robonomics, Hyperloop and Autonomous cars
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NAD+ and Ciguatera Fish Poison
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Zap your genes into space
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Identity cards for Australia again?
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2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Space Law and blood money
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Savannasaurus and teenage blood
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Seagrasses, Art, and maggots revisted
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Biohacking longevity and driver-less heroics
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Oz nuclear dump and virtual biohacking
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Diamonds and milk
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Photobiomodulation and bees
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Weird pets, possums and blood vessels
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Exo-planets - another Earth?
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Life, the Universe & Carnivorous plants
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Fine tuning for Life
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Swarm intelligence
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Seahorse sex and smart looms
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STEAM through space bubbles
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles again
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Fate of the Universe
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Star-seeking robots touch language
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Ig Nobel Prizes 2015 special edition
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Falling cats and Stem cell tourism
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Urthecast and space lasers
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Canada in Space & Google listens
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Brainwaves and Photonics
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DIY Space Exploration
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Woomera blasts off, Asteroid moons Earth
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Invisibility donuts and Mars Direct
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Fact or Fiction Implants
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Galactic Haloes light walls
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Re-using carbon and Biohack Syd
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Mission to Earth
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles
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Stem cells fight HIV and Biohacking
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Mechanical stem cells and Origin catalysts
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Shadow profiles and eating babies
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Sydney Maker Culture
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Trolling science and throat singing
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We Reveal Crimes and squirrels
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Magnetic bacteria and chilli
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Chocolate robots
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Microfactories and synthetic food
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Sonic Screwdrivers and ingenuity awards
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Privacy, burning cold and cosmic rays
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Voyager 1 and the Multiverses
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Sizzled intelligence retention
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Sick prawns and sleep rehearsal
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From 2007: ID Card special
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Hot locusts and digital contact lenses
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Smart Sand, Video Glasses, Electric Universe
download MP3 Larissa Savvas reports on Smart sand and breast cancer detection. Julie-Anne Popple reports on the Royal Society's Science and the Media Forum. Ian Woolf reports on the emergence of wearable cameras and computers from science fiction to reality,...
Phone fears, eco-kids and DNA nanopores
download MP3 Larissa Savvas reports on nerve regeneration, Ian Woolf speaks with Dr Maia Sauren about mobile phone safety, Julie-Anne Popple asks Melissa Slarp about teaching kindergarten science, Ian Woolf spoke with Geoff MacIntyre about DNA reading chips at the...
Kind meat, ant war and Techfest2012
download MP3 Julie-Anne Popple talks about when ants go to war, Larissa Savass vtalks about kindly cultured burgers, Ian Woolf reports on the NICTA Techfest 2012, interviewing: James Laird about electronic pain management, Leif Hamlen about health data mining, Leonid...
Freeze, wait, reanimate!
download MP3 In this Cryonics special edition Ian Woolf speaks with immortalist Matt Fisher about freezing people after death for future resuscitation, and the state of Cryonics in Australia. "Our Cryonic World" written and sung by Charlie Kam. Presented and...
E-Cat, bionic bugs and 3 parents
download MP3 Larissa Savvas reports on the prospect of having 3 parents, Therese Chen reports on the suggestion of introducing megafauna to Australia, Julie-Anne Popple reports on Cybernetics in the service of insect spies and augmenting people, Ian Woolf interviews...
Boycotts, Tricorders and Everything
download MP3 Larrissa Savas reports on Rett's Sydnrome, Ian Woolf reports on the Tricorder X Prize, Victoria Bond and Marc West discuss the History of Nearly Everything, and the scientific boycott of Elsevier publications. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
Cricket balls and Climate Fix Flicks
download MP3 Julie-Anne Popple speaks with Dr James Gilbert about cricket testicles, Ian Woolf speaks with Professor Ann Henderson-Sellers about the Climate Fix Flicks competition, News by Larissa Savvas and Julie-Anne Popple: - Solar paint - Wasp to know Presented...
Corpse power and blood pressure genes
download MP3 Brigid Mullane interviews Professor Brian Morris about the genes for Hypertension, Larissa Savvas explores human corpses as renewable energy, Julie-Anne Popple talks timed turtles, Ian Woolf reports on printed bones and wireless sperm. Produced and presented by Ian...
Cockroaches, crabs and kindness
download MP3 Larissa Savvas reports on how we detect people with the kindness gene, and how crabs sense danger despite being only able to see blobs, Patrick Rubie reports on how promiscuous sparrows have less fit chicks, Julie-Anne Popple reports...
Bones, Devils and Mind Control
download MP3 Ian Woolf talks to Professor Bruce Milthorpe about tissue engineering using coral, Mic Cavazzini chats with Dr Janine Deakin about immunity in Tasmanian devils, and James Bourne takes a look at the latest news on the mind controlling...
Terminal Decline and Zero Emissions
MP3 Victoria Bond spoke to Prof. Mohammed Khadra about his latest book, Terminal Decline. They also spoke about end of life care, and the strained Australian health budget. Ian Woolf and Julianne Popple discuss their thoughts on end of life...
Science of Romance special
MP3 download Matthew Hall and Melinda Hall King discuss the psychology of human courtship, Ian Woolf reports how women can unconsciously read an attractive man's face, Matthew and Melinda discuss the psychology of the first kiss and compliments. Presented and...
Younger mice and spider invasions
MP3 download Marc West speaks to Dr Cor Vink about the invasion of foreign spiders to New Zealand Ian Woolf reports on the reversal of aging in Harvard lab mice, News from MX read by Ian Woolf: - private company...
Rising seas and the oil crises
MP3 download Ian Woolf interviews Melissa Neighbour about Project Survival Pacific and disappearing landmass in the Pacific islands Aaron Cook talks about the link between singing and cricket balls Jon Bale breathes new life in the science of sighs Victoria...
Coffee and Guitar science
MP3 We get you up with the science of coffee, take you on a journey of musical genius with guitarist Les Paul, and generally squeeze so much science out of your stomach that you'll need a gastric bi-pass. Lachlan Whatmore...
Power, art and cocktails
MP3 Marc West talks with Jon Lomberg about sending art to aliens on the Voyager space probe, Ian Woolf speaks with Brian Lennon about smal, cheap and locally owned Geothermal Power plants and the Emissions Trading Scheme, Marc West drinks...
Spiders save lives and going to Mars
MP3 Ian Woolf interviews Associate Professor Graham Nicholson about his research into how poisons from spiders can stop insects spreading disease and eating our food, and talks with Dr Pascal Lee about the NASA mission to send humans to Mars....
Mad cows, stem cells and Dark aliens
MP3 Muhsin Karim explains the big issues of tiny stem cells, Ian Woolf looks for Dark aliens, News by Ian Woolf Twin paradox in DNA profiling Mad cows come unstuck Diabetic sugar Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
2008 Kisses, tantrums and infections
MP3 It’s the last show of 2008 so there’s plenty of love, tears and infection spreading! Patrick Rubie looks at the nice and the nasty side of mistletoe. Victoria Bond and Jaime Leclerc quiz you on infectious diseases. Ian Woolf...
Bleaching coral and androids
MP3 Ian Woolf speaks with Peter Ralph about global warming modelling, from coral bleaching to Antarctic algae, Patrick Rubie examines the issue, are robots better than androids - R2D2 or CP30? News by Victoria Bond, read by Dean Procter:...
Vaccination and Autism?
play nowMartin Faccini investigates the controversy over whether the Mumps Measles and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination causes austism in children,Panel discussion of vaccination as a civil liberty issue by Martin Faccini and Ian Woolf,News by Ian Woolf, - Viagra for...
Robot Love, Nuclear Power, Safe?
play now A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special (Part II). Instead of looking only at CO2, we look at the other important issues surrounding nuclear power generation. This week: the risks of proliferation. Special Guests Dr Sue Wareham OAM of...
'Loneliness, Hair and Red Blood Cells'
play now 'Loneliness and Hair' by Tilly Boleyn and Evan Shapiro 'Riding the Red' by Patrick Rubie News by Patrick Rubie Presented by Charles Willock Panelled and Produced by Patrick Rubie Music: Lenny Kravitz - 'Are you gonna go...
Zero Point Energy, Sex/Sport, Toy Boys
play nowFocussing zero point energy by Ian Woolf Sex before sport by Marc West Toy-boys and Trophy wives by Kachina Allen News by Patrick Rubie - Swiss Cheese universe - Atomic-size computers - Long-lived bacteria - Relationship maths Presented...
International Womens Day Special
Medicating Mr Faithful, Green Senator Kerry Nettle and the Women behind Science Let's celebrate all those XX chromosomes out there! On Diffusion this week, we will have a chat with the Greens Senator and environmental scientist, Kerry Nettle. We...
ID Card - Is Big Brother Stalking You?
This is a special edition of the Diffusion Science Radio show looking at a controversial application of science and technology: the proposed card to identify everyone accessing Australian government services. Go directly to Podcasts: --> Download/listen, 64kbs MP3 (13.4...
Adopting Microbes Missing Reptile link
Play Now Link between Dinosaurs and Birds - Lachlan Whatmore Adopt a Microbe - Daz Chandler News - Marc West Presenter - Jacqui Pfeffer Producer - Matt Clarke...
Invisibility and Whale Hunting
Play Now This week the Diffusion Team investigate the facts and future of research into invisibility and dive into the controversy surrounding the recent decision by the International Whaling Commission. Presented by Tilly Boleyn, Science news by Jacqui Pfeffer,...
Discovery 30th June 2005
Play Now Produced by David Huang, Presented by Marian Carruthers, News by Marian Carruthers, Matt Clarke talks about spacecraft propelled by the solar wind, Helen Sim revisits the Deep Impact comet mission...
18th August 2005
Play Now Presented and produced by Matt ClarkeNews by Jacqui PfefferHi-tech Snow Gear by Keir SmithLachlan Whatmore presents the life of scientist Fanny MacleayOpen mike chat about vitamin-enriched GM "super rice", and the trouble-free space shuttle mission and Sydney...
Sibling Saviours
Move over designer babies, five saviour siblings have been born in the United States, in a special IVF program/. The babies were carefully chosen so they would provide stem cells to treat older siblings with diseases such as leukaemia. Using...
Faster Than Light, Japanese Encephalitus
Play now Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozarts 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert and...
Diffusion 30th January 2001
Play Now Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozarts 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert...
Diffusion 20th March 2001
Play Now Professor Jack Carmody interview by Nick Perkins. Lachlan Whatmore presents Louis Pasteur, Repressed memories by Gina Sartore. News by Angelique Hutchison. Presented by Adam Mark. Produced by Melissa Hulbert and Chris Brown with technical assistance by Lachlan...
20 March 2001
Discovery 20th March 2001 (mp3) Feature by Melissa Hulbert. Feature by Nick Perkins. Feature by Gina Sartore. News by Angelique Hutchison. Presented by Adam Mark. Produced by Melissa Hulbert and Chris Brown with technical assistance by Lachlan Whatmore....
30th January 2001
Presented by Melissa Hulbert. News by Angelique Hutchison. Communicating Mozart's 40th Symphony Faster Than Light by Ian Woolf. Tony Curtis of CSIRO talks with Dr Williams about a test for Japanese Encephalitis. Late news by Melissa Hulbert and Angelique...
7 November 2000
Features on Darwinian Economics by Louise Preston, Pliades shower by Melissa Hulbert, Presented by Ian Woolf, technical support from Matt Whitfort and Produced by David Blank....
Quantum Computer, Women, MindSwitch
Play Now Matt Whitfort asks Dr Michelle Smyth about the issues facing women in science. Ian Woolf interviews Professor Ashley Craig about his research into the UTS Mindswitch. Ian Woolf talks with Dr Andrew Djurak about Quantum Computers. Presented...
16 November 1999
Discovery 16th November 1999 (mp3) Presented by Carol Oliver. News by David Blank. Matt Whitfort asks Dr Michelle Smyth about the issues facing women in science. Ian Woolf interviews Professor Ashley Craig about his research into the UTS Mindswitch. Ian...
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