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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors AGAIN
MP3 From 2022: Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors the answer? The Liberal-National Party want you to think so. News of a vaccine for hair loss, and a reminder from the original Moon landing. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Can...
Music for moral equations
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Humans almost extinct and Rat Matrix
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Are earthquakes affected by climate change?
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Aussie Space Mail
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Don't ignore your symptoms
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Graphene power
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WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution
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Unsimulated mint longevity
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The Long-Term Threat
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Waluigi Alignment
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Stable Diffusion Litigation
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Tardigrades to the Moon!
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2022 Nobel Prizes
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Small Modular Reactors
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Expressly Human - part 1
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Superworm and fake human meat
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Dorkbot, Putin, Sneezing and Sunlight
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Plants to eat, and plants that eat
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Core asthma steam spies
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Nuclear waste storage
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Plagued - part 2 revisited
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Precognition Revolution
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Sarcastic Multi-dimensional Octopus
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Hydrogen greenwash
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Vaccines and surveillance
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20 years of Bug-bots
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Glow worm quiz immunity
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Plagued - part 2
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Strange Geometry in Antiquity - part 2
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The Pais Effect
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Vaccination announceable
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Insect passion and extradition
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Cuddling animal DNA data
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Nano-tech train sets
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Editing genetic disease and sports injuries
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Solar Race Suicide Model Virtual Pain
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Spins and valleys
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Baby thoughts, forget to learn
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Kinder gentler transhumanism
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Tales from feathers and quills
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Scientific journalism and extreme biology
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Autism and oxytocin
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Nano Molecular train sets
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Opt out of My Health Record
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My Health Record Opt Out
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Absinthe chemistry and Beer froth maths
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Tickets and power in NSW
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Funding ME and CFS research
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Wound honey and rhythmotron
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The Forgetting Machine - part 1
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The story of Ruby Payne-Scott part 2
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Environmental toxins and civil society
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Smart grids and Musk's wager
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The origin of life - inevitable?
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Identity cards for Australia again?
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2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Open Source Science Accelerates
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Exo-planets - another Earth?
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Retro trivia special
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles again
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Fate of the Universe
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Innovation Engineering
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Gene repair, eggs and entropy
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Mind controlled brain art and artificial IQ
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Falling cats and Stem cell tourism
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Hyperspectral fleet and Giant robots
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Canada in Space & Google listens
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Photonics and quadcopters
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Solar powered racing cars
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Asteroid mining and radioactive waste dumps
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Bionic eyes traffic and Do-arama
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Breakfast robots and TECHmyway
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Aussie Rockets Worm Lego
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Vaping Freematics
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Carotenoids - why vegetables are good for you
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Primate RNA and pocket communicators
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Cancer, Alzheimers, hearing and oxygen
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Koalas, robots, and brains
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Social context and Electric cars
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Fact or Fiction Implants
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Mapping Robots and printed houses
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Spiderman 2 and Money
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Wearable Experiments
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Embryonic stem cells and crocodiles
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Reshaped eyes and TPP Copyright week
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Shadow profiles and eating babies
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Sydney Maker Culture
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Nuclear power for Australia? part 2
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Nuclear power for Australia? part 1
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Future silkmoth tricycle games
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Steve Mann, qBits, and goodbye 2SER
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Fukushima stresses Europe, Petrol from air
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Misleading science and carnivorous pineapples
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Frogs, wallabies and troubled turtles
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Sizzled intelligence retention
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Smart Sand, Video Glasses, Electric Universe
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Labile languages and remembering Steve Jobs
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Synthetic organisms and cloud-busting
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Hormoned beef and fracked farming
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I love that word, Meltdown
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Let's talk about X... and exits
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Phone cancer and giant cuttlefish
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Fukushima special!
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Herpes, Dengue fever and Marijuana
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Amniotic eggs and Surpizing technologies
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Of madness, love, and melted space ships
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Oxytocin, love and sex
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SETI Live Subscriber Drive
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Wave energy and the Coming Famine
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DIY EMP, Putin and Sunlight
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Photic sneezing and a naked scientist
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Brown science, Solar cells, horse tale
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Rare Earth, Horses, Nano-wires
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Female physicists and belly button dynamics
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Beauty and the Geek, and Homeopathy
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Sexual selection and the bionic eye
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Sex Evolution and Technological Art
MP3 download Marc West interviews Professor Rob Brook about sexual selection in evolution. Ian Woolf participates in a technological art workshop to build an interactive sculpture with artist Ian Burns, and talks with participants Neil McGann, Bharti Patel, Liz O'Reilly...
Quolls, laser planes, anosmic flies
MP3 download Jon Bale discusses glow in the dark sperm (because who doesn't love glow in the dark sperm?), Victoria Bond talks geriatric dieting fruit flies, and Ian Woolf gets excited about laser-propelled paper planes. Marc West gets to the...
The ghost of Diffusion past - Xmas 2000
MP3 download The ghost of Diffusion past - the Xmas show from 2000 sampled at 20kbps: Myths and facts of the great Aussie Beer Gut by Nick Perkins Anthropomorphisation by Lachlan Whatmore Weird science by Gina Sartore - GM Potato...
ET, choice mathematics and farts on Mars
MP3 download 'ET won't go home' by Marc West and Darren Osborne, 'the beer drinking scientists' 'Science of Choice' Ian Woolf interviews Dr Stephen Bush of the Centre for the Study of Choice, the University of Technology, Sydney. News by...
Mars, Myopia, Mesoglea, Mildred Cohn
MP3 achlan Whatmore gets squishy on ya with immortal jellyfish. Victoria Bond eulogises the Mars rovers, Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf discuss new understandings about short-sightedness, Ian Woolf and Pat Rubie collide with bread and hadrons Lachlan Whatmore eulogises mighty...
Deadly worms and pig orgasms
MP3 "Worms worms worms" by Lachlan Whatmore "Science Trivia" hosted by Victoria Bond. Contributors are Lachlan Whatmore, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie "The number 30" by Patrick Rubie News by Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf -Evolutionary Leap -Hadron Collider -Placebo...
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...
The Diffusion Science Show Trivia Special!
MP3 Join Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf as we tackle questions in mathematics, biology, popular science and chemistry. Can you do better than the team? Produced and Panelled by Marc West Also starring Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf...
Designer Genes, Musical Intelligence and Tornadoes
MP3 Marc West joins Dr Luke Hunter for a beer and a chat about designing organic molecules, John August gets swept away by tornadoes, Marc West asks, is there really a link between music preference and intelligence? Produced by Marc...
Space, babies and pregnant fish
MP3 Marc West talks to Bianca Nogrady from New Scientist Magazine about the last 3 unknown facts of our solar system. Lachlan Whatmore pays a tribute to a special lady called Ruby and explains why babies are so warm. Patrick...
Cassowary are you?
MP3 Tilly Boleyn, Chris Stewart and Jacqui Hayes have the latest news about fetal alcohol syndrome, the FAST telescope in China, spray-on solar panels and they ask, "Cassowary are you?" Produced by Jacqui Hayes, panelled by Tilly Boleyn....
Green contraception, Fifth grade science
MP3 When getting cosy with your partner of choice, have you ever wondered what form of contraception is better for the environment? Sarah Wood has, and the answer will surprise you. Plus, Caitlin Howlett has a brain-busting quiz covering your...
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...
Parasite Wisdom, warming, space sugar
MP3 Marc West extends last week's report on global warming and the next ice age, explains how wine's bubbles can track the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, about dating glaciers by atomic bomb residue, how wind farms may create weather,...
Writing News items
News on Diffusion is usually several short science news items. The script for each item should only take about a minute to read. If the story needs a longer amount of time, then it would sound better if it was...
Zombie Sex Change Lizard Medical Myth
play now Free will or zombie-hood explored by Amy Bullen, Medical myths dispelled by Michelle Kovacevic, Hot sex changing lizards get cool with Jacqui Hayes, Michelle Kovacevic, Amy Bullen, and Patrick Rubie. News by Patrick Rubie: - Virgin Galactic...
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...
Nuclear Waste: Safe for 240,000 years?
play now A Diffusion Science Nuclear Special. We look at the breakdown of nuclear waste storage materials with time, and the problems associated with cleanup of the Maralinga nuclear test site. Dr Ian Farnan, University of Cambridge, talks to...
Diffusion Animal Special: Spooky Worms, Dr Pet and Medicine Farms
play now 'Spooky Worms' by Lachlan Whatmore 'Dr Pet and Medicine Farms' by Patrick Rubie News by Patrick Rubie Presented by Lachlan Whatmore Panelled/Produced by Patrick Rubie...
'Science, Politics and the Nuclear Meltdown'
play now 'Science in Poltics' and 'Nuclear Meltdown' by Charles Willock, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie News by Ed Politt Presented by Ian Woolf Panelled and Produced by Patrick Rubie...
'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...
Diffusion Medical Special
play nowNews by Ed Pollitt - toys recalled for lead and magnets - sexy slug pheromone orgies - immune system recognizes fats The Evolution of Medicine by Emily Fearn Presented by Erin Passmore, Produced by Ian Woolf...
Cloned and Dressed for Success
play now This week's Diffusion casts aside vanity and looks at how healthy those belts, braces and bras really are when we try to dress up. The beer drinking scientists ask your opinion on cloning, life in general and...
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...
Rock Power, Sci teamwork and Blackness
Play Now Hosted by Sasha Steltzer Hot Rock Power by Darren Osborne Science Cooperation with Europe by Tilly Boleyn Carbon Credits for your wedding by Marc West, Charles Willock, Tilly Boleyn and Sasha Steltzer. Produced and Panelled by Marc...
Hall of Mirror Neurons, and Tiger Moths
Play Now Reading minds and self-knowledge by Ian Woolf, History of the Tiger Moth by Lachlan Whatmore, Presented by Marc West, Science news by Vanessa Gardos, Produced by Tilly Boleyn. Music this week - A Minha Menina - The...
Coriolis and the Flu
Play Now Presented by Jacqui Pfeffer, News by Sam McOnie, Hurricanes, bathtubs and the Coriolis effect by Chris Stewart; Cure the flu! by Ian Woolf, Pannel discussion with Matt Francis, Chris Stewart and Ian Woolf, Produced and panelled by...
Diffusion 7th July 2005
Play Now Presented by Marian Curruthers, News by Ian Woolf, Jacqui Hayes reports how psychedelic Ibogaine may help treat drug addiction, Keir Smith explores the world of snow flakes, Sixty second science, Produced and panelled by Marian Curruthers...
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...
4th August 2005
Play Now Presented by Phil DooleyNews by Jacqui PfefferPhysics of Tennis interview with Professor Rod Cross by Phil DooleyTaylor Bildstein interviews Dr Jane Sargassen about the fluid dynamic engineeringScience chat about eating Kangaroo and Possum meat, with Matt, Phil,...
Bleeping cow robot reproduction
Play Now Produced and panelled by David Huang, News by Helen Sim, Movie review of What The Bleep Do We Know? by Ian Woolf, David Huang with computer software tackling cow diseases, Robot reproduction with Chris Stewart...
Using the Panel
The LED Meters In the middle of the vertical part of the consul you will see that there are three LED (Light Emitting Diode) Meters. The Meter on the left corresponds with Channel 1, the channel that you use when...
Diffusion 12th May 2005
Play Now Produced, panelled and presented by Chris Stewart, News by Brigid Mullane, Australian Innovator haikus and limericks supplied by David Huang, Catherine Beehag reveals Stanley Millgram proved 60% of people are nasty, Helen Sims reads Clone poetry, Phil...
Diffusion 28th April 2005
Play Now Presented by Ian WoolfNews by Matt ClarkeDavid Huang reports on the science of smellChris Stewart talks about atom smashing at the Relativistic Heavy Ion ColliderKeir Smith explains digital watermarkingProduced and panelled by Chris...
Chris Stewart
Kipper is the straight man of the team. A self confessed thespian trapped in the body of an astrophysicist, Chris is currently on assignment with the Laotian government looking at space travel using recycled waste products....
16th August 2004
Presented by Matt Clarke News by Danielle Quinn Eureka Prizes by Beck Scouler Christine Baker interviews our Dr Time Baynes about fridge magnets Ian Woolf reports his research into the Ciguatera Menace Produced and panelled by David Huang...
NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs.
NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs. NASA crew at the International Space Station are finding problems with their space suits, or so reports New Scientist magazine this...
Laterality and Left Handedness - By Adam Mark
Pop Quiz: What do Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, have in common? Apart from having the same superannuation policies, all three ex-presidents are left handed. In fact they join the 13% of the population that prefers to...
Diffusion 2nd July 2002
Play Now Presented by Chris Stewart. Tim Baynes interviews Dr Virgina Shepherd about Fungi. Gina Sartore reports on research on methamphetamines and the immune system of cats, and the effect on the researcher, and then opens the microphone to...
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