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AI has a human alignment problem
download MP3 Listen to part 3 of Ian Woolf's chat with Transhumanist Brendan Clarke on how AI is being abused by people who's values are not aligned with society. The Ignobel Prize 24/7 lectures where a researcher is given 24...
After AI takes jobs
download MP3 Listen to part 2 of Ian Woolf's chat with Transhumanist Brendan Clarke on how AI gets smarter, and how to change society to help people who lose their jobs as a result. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
Face transplant and spice for life
download MP3 Successful face transplant including eyeball, News of Cinnamon for longer life and better memory by Ian Woolf, Face recognition by Gina Sartore Presented and produced by Ian Woolf https://nyulangone.org/news/nyu-langone-health-performs-worlds-first-whole-eye-partial-face-transplant NYU Langone Health Performs World’s First Whole-Eye & Partial-Face...
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...
Levitating worms, 2023 Nobel Prizes
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Worms hitch rides on bumblebees with electric fields, Nobel Prizes for attosecond lasers, Quantum dots and mRNA vaccines. hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Caenorhabditis elegans transfers across a gap under an electric...
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...
Gravity Maverick - part 2
MP3 download Listen to Dr Viv Robinson boldly explain why the Universe isn't expanding and the Big bang never happened. News of new kind of renewable energy, and preventing long COVID. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Archive of www.universephysics.com...
The Long-Term Threat
MP3 The Long-Term Threat - the open letter to pause AI research, and who wrote it, News of plagiarising anti-plagiarism anti-Ai AI by Ian Woolf Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf The Problems With UChicago's Glaze Glaze Glaze is violating...
Analysing chemicals and Synthesizing text
MP3 David Bishop explains how labs identify poisons diseases and minerals with mass spectrometers. Ian Woolf explains how ChatGPT works, and how to put it to work. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Associate Professor David Bishop Frontiers of Science...
Stable Diffusion Litigation
MP3 The AI Art controversy and lawsuits. Can you sue for what someone might be able to do in the future? Can images be compressed to half a byte and reproduced at will? Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf In...
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...
The Talking Dead
MP3 A deep dive into the Digital Afterlife Industry - companies offering to let you have a conversation with dead people who speak back, and offering you a chance to live on as a digital avatar. Produced and hosted by...
SETI and Alien archaeology
MP3 Water world discovered, The Drake Equation, The Silurian Hypothesis, Produced and presented by Ian Woolf TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS Reveal a Super-Earth in a Temperate Orbit Transiting an M4 Dwarf Scientists discover colossal ocean may completely cover this...
How safe is your seafood from Ciguatera?
MP3 Protesters hit with bail conditions that ban them from modern technology for not protesting, Professor Shauna Murray finds how marine micro-organisms move around Australia's coast, to keep seafood safe from Ciguatera poison. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf Professor...
Trustworthy fakes and edited hamsters
download MP3 Amplified spiders, edited hamsters Trustworthy fakes, Monkeypox is airborne by Ian Woolf Ancient machines by Lachlan Whatmore Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf New study shows spiders use webs to extend their hearing Outsourced hearing in an orb-weaving...
Goats, studs and smart beds
download MP3 This episode first broadcast in 2008: Goat sacrifices of the military by Ian Woolf, Wired Beds by Tilly Boleyn and Evan Shapiro, Junk DNA points the way by Patrick Rubie, Female rats prefer males with recent sexual experience...
Variants, printed livers and woven TVs
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') 3D printed livers, Animated t-shirts by Ian Woolf BA.2 - time for a new letter? by Ian Woolf From 2010: Victoria Bond spoke to Robert Booy about the importance of vaccine compliance, and...
Census and Privacy 2021 - part 1
MP3 download COVID19 causes cognitive deficits by Ian Woolf, Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch discusses privacy concerns with the Australian 2021 Census - part 1 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Tom Sulston, Deputy Chair of Digital Rights Watch...
Spread by aerosol - part 2
MP3 download Professor Jose-Luis Jimenez explains how COVID19 is air-borne, and how that changes what we need to do - part 2 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Professor Jose-Luis Jimenez...
Spread by aerosol - part 1
MP3 download Professor Jose-Luis Jimenez explains how COVID19 is air-borne, and how that changes what we need to do - part 1 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Professor Jose-Luis Jimenez The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill...
Glow worm quiz immunity
MP3 download Vaccines can protect against more than their targets, Wind farms dispatched by Ian Woolf, From 2006: Lindsey Gray illuminates Glow worms, From 2009: Celine Steinfeld hosts a science quiz with Jacqui Hayes and Sarah Wood, Produced and hosted...
To the Moon with fireworks and geckos
MP3 download From 2007: Mining the Moon by Ian Woolf, Fireworks frenzy by Patrick Rubie Fireworks discussion by Charles Willock, Ian Woolf, Joanne Chang, Lara Davis and Patrick Rubie Gecko-inspired cleaning cloths by Celine Steinfeld hosted and produced by Ian...
Electric cars, TB, and mutated whooping cough
MP3 download David Sinclair cures blind mice and makes them young again, Seyedfoad Taghizadeh from Maquarie University designed a intelligent car charger, Elinor Hortle from the Centenary Institute fights Tuberculosis with aspirin, Laurence Luu from University of New South Wales,...
Trauma, pain, and fish
MP3 download Dump deception - nuclear waste dump sneakiness by Ian Woolf, Joel Hoffman reduces trauma for refugees, Lindsay Parker measures chronic pain, Laura Michie sees dams making fish too cold. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Joel Hoffman Lindsay...
Ignoble Artilect War
This episode was first broadcast on 2010-10-11: MP3 download Ian Woolf reports the 2010 Ig Nobel prizes, Ian Woolf concludes his interview with Hugo De Garis about his vision of the impending war between those who would build massively intelligent...
Superlative hydrogen
MP3 download Hydrogen hijinks, by Ian Woolf, Matthew Laplante talks about his book Superlative: The biology of extremes, Part 2 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Matthew Laplante CSIRO Hydrogen Roadmap Hydrogen gas trial in western Sydney could unlock $1.7bn...
The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect
MP3 download From 24th January 2011: Whistling caterpillars, bug zappers powered by the bugs they zap, fluoridated water can hurt children's teeth, Gotham partners announce they will profile EVERYBODY, Peer Review by the Peer Review Players, Paying attention can lose...
Twenty years and Biblical genes
MP3 download Teen boy puts religion in his genes by Ian Woolf, Twenty years of Diffusion, a walk down memory lane by Ian Woolf Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. The first injection...
Transhumanism engineering Cat-girls
MP3 download CRISPR babies update by Ian Woolf, Transhumanism and emerging technologies by Peter Xing, Engineering Cat-girls by Meow Ludo Meow Meow. Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. The researcher who created CRISPR...
Space Force and Llamas
MP3 download Llamas fight flu by Ian Woolf, Steven Freeland talks about the US Space Force, Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Steven Freeland The US plan for a Space Force risks escalating...
Brain hacking and chocolate
MP3 Addictive apps by Ian Woolf, Galit Segev explains the science of chocolate. Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Galit Segev Connect your app to our Persuasive AI Meet the tech company that...
NAD+ and ageing
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Two compounds rejuvenate mice - are humans next? by Ian Woolf, Nady Braidy talks about NAD+ , ageing, Alzheimer's and treating dementia, Interview with a marching Diffusion listener, Interview with Taylor Szyzka about...
Environmental toxins and civil society
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Smart burgers, salt, juice, and diapers by Ian Woolf Nady Braidy talks about envrionmental neurotoxins, Eva Cox speaks about science and civil society, Friends of CSIRO interview, Angela Maharaj interview, Production checked by...
More colours and March for Science part 2
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') See more colours by Ian Woolf, John Hewson talks about science and politicians, Angela Maharaj talks about climate science politics, Ian Woolf speaks with CSIRO scientists marching. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced...
Identity cards for Australia again?
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') (This show was first broadcast on the 1st of March 2007) ID Card news by Ian Woolf, Synthetic interview with Anna Johnston of the Australian Privacy Foundation about privacy concerns, by Anonymous Voice,...
Biohacking longevity and driver-less heroics
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Should automated car owners get a free ride? by Ian Woolf Meow Ludo Meow-Meow talks about biohacking longevity. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Meow Ludo Meow-Meow Biofoundry...
Solar racing and women's ageing part 2
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Australian science has become a political playground by Ian Woolf, Part 2 of Judy Ford talking about slowing women's ageing, Will Green talks about the Sunswift solar racer. Production checked by Charles Willock,...
STEAM through space bubbles
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Its raining innovation by Ian Woolf, Solange Cunin talks about launching QuebRider's STEAM projects, John Barrow talks about the Eternal Bubble Multiverse, Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf...
AI, smart watches and augmented reality
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') New physics may have been seen at LHC by Ian Woolf, PatCat talks about Artificial Intelligence, Smart watches and Augmented Reality. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Patrick...
Antarctic astronomy biofuel catalyst
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Murderous meat by Ian Woolf, Michael Burton talks about astronomy in Antarctica, Jessica Stanley talks about her catalyst for converting plant waste into biofuel. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by...
Gene repair, eggs and entropy
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') LHC tests Rainbow Gravity, Daraprim for a dollar by Ian Woolf, Elizabeth Hinde describes how to see genes repaired for Fresh Science, John August talks about the Egg and Entropy, part 2. Production...
Inclusion soothes your genes
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Daraprim: Profiteering in Big Pharma, and memorable Ape TV by Ian Woolf, Professor Steve Cole explains what to do about the effects of isolation and insecurity on the regulation of gene expression, Steve...
Solar powered racing cars
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ciguatera disrupts genes by Ian Woolf, Rob Ireland talks about the Sunswift solar racing car, ready for commuters? Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Sunswift World Record Attempt...
Bionic eyes traffic and Do-arama
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Spies stole all the mobile phone keys, and Spies hacked all the hard drives by Ian Woolf At the NICTA Techfest: David Gambril talks about Intelligent traffic, Nick Barnes talks about the Bionic...
Woomera blasts off, Asteroid moons Earth
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') 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 That Flew...
Vaping Freematics
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') NASA's Orion goes up and down, Nature pretends to open access by Ian Woolf. Stanley Huang connects analytics from your car to your phone, Is Vaping really safe? by Ian Woolf. 3 Minute...
Cancer, Alzheimers, hearing and oxygen
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') The 2014 Nobel prizes for Medicine, Chemistry and Physics by Ian Woolf, From the 2013 Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis Competition: Thomas Fin: Oxygen - a double edged sword for lifeforms, Demi Gow -...
Re-using carbon and Biohack Syd
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Sydney Mini Maker Faire returns, and NASA's mission to Charon by Ian Woolf, Mouse vampire retractions by Ian Woolf, Matt speaks with Ian Woolf about Biohack Syd, Ken Richards talks about his Consensus...
Mapping Robots and printed houses
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') China, the Netherlands and the US print houses by Ian Woolf, Josh Harle speaks to Ian Woolf about mapping robots and graffiti for art. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Josh Harle Tactical...
Time, Mars and chocolate
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Australia and India go to Mars, How dark chocolate saves your heart, Job cuts to the CSIRO staff who earned half a billion dollars, and uncanny robots, by Ian Woolf, About Time by...
Valves, rockets and Doctor Who
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') From the Sydney Mini Maker Faire: Steve Price talks about making Valve amplifiers, Lester talks about popup 3D printer workshops, George talks about launching your own rockets Ian Woolf revisits the science of...
Shadow profiles and eating babies
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Why you want to eat babies by Ian Woolf, Facebook shadow profiles by Ian Woolf The Singularity by Paul Rhodes, The Placebo effect and faith by Ian Woolf, Presented and produced by Ian...
Thorium Trans-Tasman 3MT competition
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Poverty uses up more brain power by Ian Woolf Thorium SkeptiCamp presentation by Ian Woolf, Ian Woolf attended the Trans-Tasman 3 minute thesis competition and spoke to" Kelsey Kennedy about winning the Trans-Tasman...
4D printing and Caring for carers
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') World Suicide Prevention day news by Ian Woolf, Interview with Stuart Grover about the future of 3D printing by Ian Woolf. Ty Lees presents his 3 Minute Thesis: "Who Cares for our Carers?"...
Microfactories and synthetic food
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Angus Deveson spoke with Ian Woolf about Microfactories and 3D printing Ian Woolf explores synthetic food, from lab grown hamburgers, to food printers, and the man who is just a social eater. Presented...
Sonic Screwdrivers and ingenuity awards
download MP3 Ed Pollit reports on Dental Anxiety, Heart modelling and the Chinese moon mission. Ian Woolf investigates the Science of Doctor Who, The Rolex Awards for Enterprize by Ed Pollitt, Presented and produced by Ian Woolf The Fourth Dimension...
Fecal transplants and Darwin part 5
download MP3 Ian Woolf reports on Fecal microbiota transplantation and in 1999 interviewed Professor Thomas Borody who pioneered the field. Part 5 of Natural Selection, the life and discoveries of Charles Darwin, a radio-play by Lachlan Whatmore. Presented and produced...
Reindeer and Mistletoe science
download MP3 Marc West tells the tale of reindeer science and spreading the joy of Diffusion. Patrick Rubie explores mistletoe science and why Santa needs to shape up to save lives. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Learn more about...
Misleading science and carnivorous pineapples
download MP3 Ian Woolf reports on vegetables that eat prey, and bats who live inside them. Nathan Sinclair explains why most published research is wrong. Ian Woolf reports on vitamin D and baldness. Oliver Featherston speaks with Catriona Bonfiglioli about...
I love that word, Meltdown
download MP3 Ian Woolf tells us about the latest and greatest in stem cell organ transplant. Victoria Bond, Ian Woolf, and Martin Faccini speak to to Matt Dawson, the amateur astronomer who named the recently discovered planetoid "255073: victoriabond". Martin...
Phone cancer and giant cuttlefish
MP3 Ian Woolf, Julianne Popple, and Victoria Bond discuss mobile phones' upgrade in carcinogenicity category by the WHO. Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie talk about all the threats against giant cuttlefish. Panelled, hosted, and produced by Victoria Bond...
Ig Nobels 2010 and Artilects 3
MP3 download This is the pre-recorded version of Diffusion that was broadcast on the Community Radio Network. There is a second live subscriber drive edition for this date. Ian Woolf and Marc West discuss the Ig Nobels awarded by the...
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...
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...
Karaoke science, stock superstitions
MP3 Australian uranium, the weapons makers who own it, and the new weapons in our region by Ian Woolf, Karaoke therapy to help sufferers of mild aphasia regain their voice by Ian Woolf, Superstition and the stock market by Marc...
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,...
Future Fab Labs and Fish and Chip cars
play now In this special edition from the Live Futures 2020 Festival, Brian Lennon speaks to Ian Woolf about the Fab Lab that could make anything with 3D printers and cars that run on used vegetable oil left over...
Tasmanian Tiger bosses spy syphilis
play nowTasmanian Tigers on the mainland by Chris Rehberg,Syphilis dose 2 by John August,Policing at work and school by Ian Woolf,News by Victoria Bond - mineral deficiency delayed evolution, - fertilisation fighting malaria,Presented and Produced by Ian Woolf...
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...
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...
Evolution, retrocausality, sperm wars
Play Now Produced and presented by Tilly Boleyn. Science News by Ian Woolf. Human evolution by Marc West. Retrocausality by Tim Baynes. Sperm wars by Darren Osbourne. Science in 2007 predictions. Tantalising tidbits from Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag and...
Toads, Flying cars and Monkey Mating
Play Now This week was a bit of a lazy one for Team Diffusion. We lAughed at convention and just talked about what ever we wanted to. Science News? Who needs it? Scripts? I think not. Science Radio by...
Parrot Environment, Rutherford part 2
Play Now Part 2 of the life of the amazing Kiwi scientist Ernest Rutherford, who made possible nuclear "fussion" and silican "chups". The two latest media love birds are the Environment Minister Ian Campbell and the orange-bellied parrot -...
Dr Tim Baynes
Ahhh, the man with the velvet tonsils. Poor Scouser Tim is a Magnetic Physicist and Everton FC fan. A man who is proud of his Morris Minor and unhealthy love of Geoffrey Boycott and Max Planck, he is most...
Dr Tim Baynes
Ahhh, the man with the velvet tonsils. Poor Scouser Tim is a Magnetic Physicist and Everton FC fan. A man who is proud of his Morris Minor and unhealthy love of Geoffrey Boycott and Max Planck, he is most...
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...
25th November 2002
Presented by Ian Woolf. News by David Leung. Chris Stewart completes his conversation with herpetologist Professor Rick Shine. Lachlan Whatmore talks about addiction. Produced by Lachlan, who also pushed the buttons....
4th November 2002
Presented by Lachlan Whatmore. News by Ian Woolf. Chris Stewart explores the dual worlds of Matter and Anti-Matter. Lachlan explains how spiders spin their webs. Produced by Lachlan Whatmore who also pushed the buttons....
21st October 2002
Presented by Amanda Hamilton. News by Chris Stewart. Amanda interviews Professor Jenny Grace from ANU who is sequencing the genome of the kangaroo. Lachlan Whatmore explains anthropomorphism. Produced by Lock, with technical support from Adam Mark....
21st October 2002
Presented by Amanda Hamilton. News by Chris Stewart. Amanda interviews Professor Jenny Grace from ANU who is sequencing the genome of the kangaroo. Lachlan Whatmore explains anthropomorphism. Produced by Lock, with technical support from Adam Mark....
16th September 2002
Presented by Adam Mark. News by Chris Stewart. Adam reports on the latest in ejaculation research. Chris presents part 1 of What's Up With Gravity. Produced by Lachlan Whatmore who also pushed the buttons....
Diffusion 9th October 2001
Play Now Presented by Gina Sartore. News by Ian Woolf. Chris Stewart investigates the 2001 Noble and Ig-noble Awards. Gina Sartore reviews Kim Stelrony: Dawkins versus Gould - survival of the fittest, about the big debatesin evolutionary science. Produced...
14 August 2001
Radiothon show with panel discussion about Privacy in the 21st Century with Gina Sartore, Tim Baynes, Lachlan Whatmore, Chris Stewart and Ian Woolf. Produced by Lachlan Whatmore who also punched the buttons....
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