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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...

Posted by Ian Woolf on October 2, 2023 11:37 AM

Graphene power

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 4, 2023 3:08 PM

Assange, Music and the law

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 14, 2023 2:47 PM

Tardigrades to the Moon!

MP3 A deep dive into the science of tardigrades - the tiny water bears or moss piglets that can withstand extremes of cold, heat, dryness, pressure, and vacuum, by going into suspended animation and then revitalising when its safe again...

Posted by Ian Woolf on November 21, 2022 12:29 PM

Fuctional Super Food

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 3, 2022 9:02 PM

Print spies dolphin terrorists

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 21, 2020 10:50 AM

Food microbiology

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 7, 2020 6:12 PM

Editing genetic disease and sports injuries

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 17, 2020 10:36 AM

Trauma, pain, and fish

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 3, 2020 9:22 PM

Quantum dots

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 1, 2019 8:28 PM

We reveal crimes and secret squirrels

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 3, 2019 1:02 PM

Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy again

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') (This show was first broadcast on the 8th of July 2013) In Pitt St Mall, Ian Woolf talks to David W Campbell, Pirate Party Senate candidate about the PRISMbreak privacy protest. At Nerd...

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 9, 2017 10:58 PM

Exo-planets - another Earth?

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 15, 2016 3:44 PM

Photonics and quadcopters

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 1, 2015 12:24 PM

Kidneys, Hearts and Coal

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 25, 2015 11:33 PM

Synthetic Biology De-extinction

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 27, 2015 1:06 PM

Bionic eyes traffic and Do-arama

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 23, 2015 3:20 PM

Vaping Freematics

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 8, 2014 1:51 PM

Geo-engineering Art

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 5, 2014 4:08 PM

Mechanical stem cells and Origin catalysts

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 18, 2013 11:00 AM

2013 Ig Nobels and Willpower

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 30, 2013 6:43 PM

Trolling science and throat singing

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 15, 2013 12:24 AM

Sexual ecology and Pirate privacy

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 8, 2013 10:13 PM

We Reveal Crimes and squirrels

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 24, 2013 4:19 PM

Young blood RoboWars

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 20, 2013 12:12 PM

Genescient Healthy old age

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 15, 2010 5:16 PM

Bird Pollution

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 6, 2004 8:41 PM