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Sleep learning and smell-o-vision - part 3
MP3 download From 2020: Synthetic smells and Sleep smelling memories by Ian Woolf James Hayes talks about the science of odour, part 3, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Dr James Hayes UNSW Odour Laboratory Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors reveals...
Apps for Brain-Computer-Interfaces - part 2
MP3 Listen to Sam Hosovsky, CEO of uCat, talking about the implications of brain-computer-interfaces. News of ear based brain-computer-interfaces. - part 2 Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Sam Hosovsky, CEO of uCat uCat: Transcend the Limits of Body, Time...
Apps for Brain-Computer-Interfaces - part 1
MP3 Listen to Sam Hosovsky explain to Ian Woolf how uCat is building apps to help paralysed people with Brain-Computer-Interfaces learn to speak using virtual reality and artificial intelligence - part 1 Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Sam Hosovsky,...
Brain spindle dating tips
MP3 From 2009: What are the seven secrets of successful online dating? Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf unravel the mysteries; 'Brain spindles that minds are made of' Nija Dalal talks to Charles Siebert about our brains; And Patrick Rubie reveals...
Humans almost extinct and Rat Matrix
download MP3 Listen to the tale of how humans almost became extinct several times in history. News of rats using their imaginations to move objects and themselves through virtual reality. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Rats have an imagination,...
Brain Writing
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Aussie Space Mail
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Neurofeedback virtual learning
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Listen to Luke Turner talk about his project to use Neurofeedback and virtual reality to help people learn more things, more easily. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Luke Turner (right) Luke Turner's...
Non-coding RNA Puppets
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') From 2014: Turn another human into your hand puppet by Ian Woolf Leonard Lipovich explains non-coding RNA, ENCODE and CHARGE, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Leonard Lipovich Genome database and browser ENCODE...
Brain Fog Therapy
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Augment your memory
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Robot guide dogs and Killer AI
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Public Trust in Science part 1
MP3 Listen to the first part of Professor Nick Dirks talk about Science, policy and trust with Ian Woolf, with news of AI helping people speak their mind. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Nicholas Dirks New York Academy...
Parasites, penicillin and protein
MP3 From the 2011 archives: 2011 Ignobel prizes reported by Ian Woolf, discussion from Therese Chen and Julie-Anne Popple. Victoria Bond talks 2011 penicillin shortages with Professor Robert Bhoy, Julie-Anne Popple interviews Professor Steve Simpson and Dr Alison Gosby about...
Stable Diffusion?
MP3 How does AI art software work? Ian Woolf attempts a clear explanation in plain English. News of AI software showing what your brain saw. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Reconstructed movie showing animal view of world proves scientists...
Dishbrain puppeting drones in VR
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Women in Science and Gender-bending
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Superworm and fake human meat
MP3 Sound implants prevent cancer, Sun made me hungry, Superworms, sub-millimetre robots Fake cannibalism Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf An implantable ultrasound-powered device for the treatment of brain cancer using electromagnetic fields Food-seeking behavior is triggered by skin ultraviolet...
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis what's changed?
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New year new behaviour
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Precognition Revolution
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Gut bugs!
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Talking ducks and extra limbs
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The Five Forces That Change Everything - part 2
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The Five Forces That Change Everything - part 1
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Horizontal Memory Transfer
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The Right To Repair - part 1
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Census and Privacy 2021 - part 2
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Pick-up lines radio reward
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20 years of Bug-bots
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Dr Rachie vs the antivaxxers
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Dave Sings Sight Scan Science
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Cyber-pig and Eye-cow
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Developing brains
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Solar explosions and insect minds
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Smell-o-vision and explosive bees
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FameLab Australia 2020
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Brainwave generation
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Brain wave discoveries
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COVIDSafe Brainwaves
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Pasteurised waste water power
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Climate change health
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Birds and the bees and the bots
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Haiku and Limericks
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Neuromorphic social impact
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Future of Human Needs past
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Social effects of Algorithmic bias
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Tesla suit field brain scanner
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Changing behaviour
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Baby thoughts, forget to learn
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Investigating Sight
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Bio-engineering Innovation Challenge 2019
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Brain Stimulation
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Birds, bees and bots
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The Future of Human Needs
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The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect
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Funding ME and CFS research
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Brain upgrades
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Poked plant physics Ant venom
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Honey therapy and emotional helmets
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Why You're Not Dead Yet
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Powerless cameras by Ian Woolf, Dr David Farmer and comedian Jackson Vaarhoor explain Why You're Not Dead Yet, Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Towards Battery-Free...
March for Science and Prawn plastic
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Milking spiders and interfacing brains
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Brain hacking and chocolate
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The Forgetting Machine - part 2
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The Forgetting Machine - part 1
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Head transplant HEAVEN?
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Bright Sparks 2017 - part 1
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Head transplant HEAVEN
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Space students and Mars jars
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Crooke's radiometer mystery
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Equal Reality for social intelligence
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NAD+ and Ciguatera Fish Poison
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NAD+ and ageing
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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...
The origin of life - inevitable?
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Freeze, wait, reanimate?
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Addictive epigenetics
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Digging dinosaurs
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Sleep, Lasers and Sauce revisted
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Savannasaurus and teenage blood
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Biomimicry and coral bones
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Photobiomodulation and bees
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Music inspired by Space
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Heat shock for longer life and Physics poetry
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Pursuing pulsars, part 1
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Sly Moulds
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Space Psychology Array
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Visual illusions for computer vision
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Virtual Observatory defeating salt
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Future work, farmbot and Chiptunes
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Mind controlled brain art and artificial IQ
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Hyperspectral fleet and Giant robots
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Brain nets and Broccoli
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Brainwaves and Photonics
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Paper engineering city spiders
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Good cop/Bad cop: Cholesterol
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TV spying and Biohacker stimulation
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Aussie Rockets Worm Lego
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Non-coding RNA and hand puppets
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3D Printing for Everyone
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Singing frogs and spliced mice
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Cancer, Alzheimers, hearing and oxygen
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Koalas, robots, and brains
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Makers of every generation
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Neural Knitworks
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Re-using carbon and Biohack Syd
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Aging brains and Ciguatera
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Plasticised brains, tea, and pain
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Stem cells fight HIV and Biohacking
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Healing corneas and building robots
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BrainChips and artificial intelligence
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Shadow profiles and eating babies
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Thorium Trans-Tasman 3MT competition
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Sydney Maker Culture
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Nuclear power for Australia? part 2
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Head, heart and galaxy
download MP3 Heartened Mummies by Therese Chen, Facebook Science by Ed Pollitt, Get Into Your Head Space interviews with Thomas Fath, Christine Froud, and Bridget Murphy by Ian Woolf, Discussion of Galaxy Zoo by Ed Pollitt and Ian Woolf, Presented...
Pond scum and ALS
download MP3 In a Brain Awareness week special, Dr Rachel Dunlop explains her research exploring the connection between blue-green algae and motor neurone disease, and how Gulf War veterans are coming down with ALS. Therese Chen reports on glue that...
Cognitive Reserve and Solar max
download MP3 (right-click and choose 'save as") Penguins, planetary engineering, and introverted charges by Deanna Coleman, Cognitive Reserve by Ian Woolf, Craniometry by Lachlan Whatmore, Tim Baynes looks into the Sun. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Education and Dementia...
Plutonium credit and IQ
download MP3 Ian Woolf reports on wired rats, Therese Chen reports on electric bees, Ian Woolf reports on publicly available research. From 1999, Carol Oliver reports on credit and nuclear physics, and Lachlan Whatmore reports on the history of the...
Frozen memories and sex tentacles!
download MP3 In the science news Therese Chen reports on the Tassie Devil Facial Tunour Disease and gobies with a Napolean Complex. Ian Woolf interviews Phillip Rhoades about freezing brains to store memories, Dr James Gilbert joins Julie-Anne Popple in...
Wallaby, damaged doubt, rat pilots
download MP3 Julie-Anne Popple discusses the foraging behaviour of swamp wallabies with Miguel Bedoya-Perez. Ian Woolf finds out how damage to your brain can reduce your ability to doubt your beliefs. Julie-Anne Popple reports on dog shaking, cave spiders and...
Brain magnets, junk DNA and nymphomania
download MP3 Tim Baynes speaks to Eva Feredoes about using brain magnets to switch off HIS brain functions, during the interview, Amanda Hamilton interviews Dr Malcolm Simons about patenting junk DNA, Adam Mark investigates what happens when people become addicted...
People puppets and molecular synthesis
download MP3 Ian Woolf asks Dr Andrew McDonagh about making molecules, Ian Woolf reports on the latest presentation of people doing strange things with electricity, Therese Chen describes abusive boobies, Ian Woolf reports on hacking your brain with light. Presented...
Sexy Smells and parasite overlords
download MP3 Martin Faccini reports on the dopamine brain control mechanisms of our parasite overlords, Patrick Rubie reports on the science of sexy perfumes, News by Ian Woolf: - test tube artificial brain passes quiz - Airdrop brings water from...
Disgusting politics and drought resistance
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Malaria vaccine and photosynthesis
download MP3 Dr Victoria Bond reports on the new Malaria vaccine, Dr Julie-Anne Popple speaks with Dr Min Chen about photosynthesis, News by Dr Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf - parrot's names - IQ changes in adolescence - Your brain...
Protein, penicillin and parasites
download MP3 The Ignobel prizes reported by Ian Woolf, discussion from Therese Chen and Julie-Anne Popple. Victoria Bond talks penicillin shortages with Professor Robert Bhoy, Julie-Anne Popple interviews Professor Steve Simpson and Dr Alsion Gosby about the protein hypothesis for...
Stelarc and Artificial Brains
download MP3 Therese Chen reports on Faster Than Light Neutrinos, and cats that shine in nightclubs. From the Singularity Summit Australia, Ian Woolf speaks to Artifical Brain builder Colin Hales, and the amazing transhuman performance artist Stelarc. Presented and produced...
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...
Fear pathways and vampire allergies
MP3 download Mic Cavazzini interviews Dr Tim Bredy from the Queensland Brain Institute about post traumatic stress disorder, Patrick Rubie reports: - Peanuts eaten by donors can hurt blood transfusion recipients, - Planets without stars observed by gravitational micro-lensing, -...
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...
Beauty and the Geek, and Homeopathy
MP3 download Victoria Bond and Lachlan Whatmore speak to the Australian Beauty and the Geek reality TV show, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the UK de-funding of Homeopathic hospitals, News By Victoria Bond - bird brains are like ours...
Australian Pirate Party, and LHC restarted
MP3 download The Australian Pirate Party's Simon Frew explains how the party is for online civil liberties to Ian Woolf. Victoria Bond reports that the Large Hadron Collider didn't destroy the world, the brain has a moral centre that can...
Dr Rachie vs anti-vax, and DSM psycho
MP3 download Dr Rachael Dunlop tells Ian Woolf about her battle with the Australian Vaccination Network. Victoria Bond explains the new DSM descriptions of mental illness. News by Victoria Bond - Coma patients may be conscious and communicate by brain...
Drinking with Aliens
MP3 download The Ordinary Guy (from the Brains Matter podcast) talks to Dr Ali Ford from Monash University , Australia about life in space, Patrick Rubie talks to Joe Duncan, co-owner of the Bowral Brewing Company and Pigs Fly Beer,...
The ghost of Diffusion past - Xmas 2000
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Dating science, brains and bacterial art
MP3 What are the seven secrets of successful online dating? Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf unravel the mysteries; 'Brain spindles that minds are made of' Nija Dalal talks to Charles Siebert about our brains; And Patrick Rubie reveals bacterial artists...
Music and Viruses
MP3 Fighting HIV' Patrick Rubie interviews Andrew Low from the Centre for Excellence in Medical Research, the University of British Columbia about the newest weapons to fight HIV. Lachlan Whatmore presents Part 2 of his tribute to Les Paul, honouring...
Newly possible futures
MP3 Futurist Janine Cahill interviewed by Ian Woolf about how we are living in an era where the impossible is becoming possible, News by Ian Woolf - Photographic memory pills, - Caffeine may reverse Alzheimers - zapping brains - Urine...
Gender, Curie, Franklin, and Carson
MP3 International Women's Day 2009 with Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf, Gender bending stories: - phthalates feminise boys - half boy half girl bird brain - sixth sense switches mice gender - gender gene identified - Gender and sex identity...
Brains, Space and medical tattoos
MP3 Patrick Rubie sees a green comet, meningitis in disguise, and beta blocks memories. Ian Woolf looks at medical tattoos, with commentary from Drew Shobbrook. Marc West interviews Bianca Nogrady about the mysteries of our solar system. Presented by Patrick...
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...
Reading brains, Dave sings science
MP3 Ian Woolf looks inside the minds eye to see what you see, with a scanner, commentary by Charles Willock, Patrick Rubie zaps cheap wine into the good stuff, Kalvin Ng shows the world was warmer than you thought, Dave...
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,...
Nanotech, doctoral dancing and pubs
MP3 Ian Woolf interviews UTS Head of Physics Michael Ford about how to make matter do whatever you wish by controlling the size and shape of nano-particles, Marc West goes on a pub crawl of science-related pubs in London, News...
Radio rewards pick-up lines
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Bionic soldiers and unlimited power
MP3 Jacqui Hayes brings the week in review: - Landmine tobacco - Tree-man - Cow compasses - cognitive magic Muhsin Karim explores the bionic soldier and Brain Computer Interfaces, Ian Woolf has the last word with Brian Lennon from...
Growing fat and shrinking brains
play nowCannabis: shrinking brains or fighting fear? by Patrick Rubie Epigenetics by Tilly Boleyn and Jacqui Hayes (taken from 2SERâs Friday Daily 06/06/08)Less money, more fat by Patrick RubieNews prepared by Ian Woolf and read by Patrick Rubie- Fruits...
Brain cells and water wells
play nowInside your brain with Muhsin Karim,Watching the Water: Interview by Amy Bullen with Clunies Ross Award winner Iven Mareels,News by Jacqui Hayes, - Panda's survive the Chinese Earthquake, - Interplanetary locust robots, - Bubonic plague's secret weaknessPresented and...
Echinoderms, illusions and your brain
MP3 Lachlan Whatmore explores the mysterious world of echinoderms, Ian Woolf reveals the illusion of scarcity, and the panel discusses the latest brain research: gaming gadgets, memory goggles, brain entrainers, happy genes, and why puberty is so difficult. Presented...
Zombie Sex Change Lizard Medical Myth
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Brain music and Smelly science
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Icelandic Science, Heart Brain, Robots
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Synchrotron and phone spam
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Donate your brain to science!
Would you like to be on radio? Do you have a passion about science that you want to share with the world? Do you like the idea of being able to go up to interesting scientists and ask them anything...
Travel bugs, Language and Speed dating
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Brain Fingerprinting and Electric Cars
Play Now Reading Minds and Catching Criminals with Catherine Beehag, "Fast, green and cheap to run - Cruising the electric hotrod" by Ian Woolf, Presented by Lachlan Whatmore, News by Marc West, Produced by Jacqui Hayes with technical support...
Slippery Ice, Misdirected Science
Play Now Presenter Jacqui Pfeffer, News by Tilly Boleyn, Ice science - why is ice slippery? by Adam Richardson, Deception and misdirection in science reporting by Ian Woolf, Produced by Tilly Boleyn Prolonged Illness after Infectious Mononucleosis Is Associated...
Diffusion 2nd March 2006
Play Now Cat parasites control your brain, and science conspiracy theories. Producer and Presenter Matt Clarke, News by Adam Richardson, Science conspiracy theories by Matt Francis, Parasites may change the way you think by Ian Woolf, Drugs to stay...
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...
18 November 2002
Presented by Chris Stewart. News by Nik Yannoulatos. Gina Sartore reports how what happens in our brains when we forget . Chris Stewart asks Professor Rick Shine to describe a day in the life of a field Herpetologist. Produced by...
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