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Comedy in his DNA
MP3 Sam Dyer talks about doing science stand-up comedy about DNA sequencing at the Adelaide Fringe Festival Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf >...
The Big Misunderstanding
download MP3 Listen to John Mattick explain why Junk DNA is the big misunderstanding of molecular biology. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor John Mattick Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare Telegony and guitars...
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...
Public Trust in Science part 2
MP3 Listen to the second part of Professor Nick Dirks talking about Science, policy and trust with Ian Woolf, with news of AI clone wars. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Nicholas Dirks New York Academy of Sciences ‘I’ve...
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...
Expressly Human - part 1
MP3 Pleading the fourth - suing the CIA by Ian Woolf, Dr Mark Chanizi talks about what we said before language was invented - part 1. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf Mark Changizi Expressly Human interview part 2 The...
Summon Pompeo - banish EBV
download MP3 My Pictures matter, Pompeo summoned, Monkeypox sequenced, Epstein-Barr Vaccine by Ian Woolf, Steam hero by Lachlan Whatmore, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf My Pictures Matter The AFP Wants Pics of Younger You to Help Train Its Child...
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...
Hydrogen greenwash
MP3 download US Justice Department caught lying, cheating, stealing, and killing by Ian Woolf Hydrogen greenwash by Ian Woolf, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Yahoo News Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against...
Molecular machines magnified
MP3 download Professor Antoine van Oijen builds microscopes to watch DNA replicate. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Professor Antoine van Oijen Molecular Horizons Wollongong Antimicrobial Resistance Research Alliance Bachelor of Bionanotechnology (Honours)...
Cuddling animal DNA data
MP3 download DNA data storage by Ian Woolf, Dr Amy Edwards talks about zoology and cuddling animals, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Dr Amy Edwards - Young Tassie Scientists DNA as a digital information storage device: hope or hype?...
Nano-tech train sets
MP3 download This show first broadcast in February 2019: Cyber attack on Australia, Weird technology from the US Navy, by Ian Woolf, Nano-engineering molecular motors by Dr Shelley Wickham, Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Hosted and produced by...
Solar Race Suicide Model Virtual Pain
MP3 download Over a billion animals dead in fires by Ian Woolf, Georgi Georgieff talks about the solar car race, Mark Heffernan talks about preventing suicide with modelling, Anton Bogdanovych uses virtual reality to train people in chronic pain management....
Junk DNA extreme weather aphasia
MP3 download Baby teeth worth more by Chris Stewart, Baby teeth update by Ian Woolf, Amanda Hamilton spoke with Professor Malcom Simons about his patent of the "junk" DNA that makes up ninety-five percent of our genetic inheritence, The impact...
Tales from feathers and quills
MP3 download Big radioactive explosion in Russia by Ian Woolf, Kate Brandis talk how wetland bird feathers tell tales, Gina Sartore's The Daughter of Time about Grace Hopper, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Scientists in the Bookshop: Tales from...
DNA origami kills cancer
MP3 download Kids without religion are more altruistic, Election poll mathematics by Ian Woolf, Jasleen Singh designs nanotech devices to kill cancer. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Jasleen Singh The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the...
Nano 3D Printing
MP3 download Feeling hands, incriminating handshakes by Ian Woolf, Professor Martin Wegener talks about nano 3D Printing, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Professor Martin Wegener Nano-scale printing promises lab-grown retinas, custom-made bones The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis...
Nano Molecular train sets
MP3 download Cyber attack on Australia, Weird technology from the US Navy, by Ian Woolf, Nano-engineering molecular motors by Dr Shelley Wickham, Sound and facts checked by Charles Willock, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Dr Shelley Wickham A DNA-based...
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...
Asteroid deflection and CRISPR babies
MP3 download CRISPR baby by Ian Woolf, Nikola Schmidt and Petr Bohacek talk about Planetary Defense - part 2. Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. ESA Planetary Defense NASA Planetary Defense United Nations...
Vitamania, woken worms and DNA repair
MP3 download Woken worms and crowd-funding against cancer by Ian Woolf, Derek Muller talks about making Vitamania. Fact and sound checking by Charles Willock Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Derek Muller Veritasium Veritasium on Youtube Vitamania The Movie Viable...
The Forgetting Machine - part 1
MP3 Slow ice cream, drone rescue and shocking work conditions by Ian Woolf, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga talks about our brain as The Forgetting Machine - part 1 Professor Aleksandra Przegalinska's 24/7 lecture on the topic: Bots. Sound checked by Charles...
Pupils Pulse at Parkes
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') SETI signals and Encoded E. coli by Ian Woolf, Rob Hollow talks about Pulse at Parkes for pupils at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by...
Run your own Space business
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Virus in your virus? by Ian Woolf, Troy McCann from MoonshotX explains how to make money in Space. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Rynos Theme by MacLeod...
Bioethics and the Narcissome
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Gut bacteria for longer life by Ian Woolf, Dr Ainsley Newson talks about bioethics and personal genomics. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Rynos Theme by Kevin MacLeod...
Robonomics, Hyperloop and Autonomous cars
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Cow-free dairy products from GM yeast follow-up by Ian Woolf, Arjan Rensen talks about the Australian Driverless vehicle Initiative at CeBIT, Anjelo Fernando talks about VicHyper at CeBIT, Samir Sinha talks about RobonomicsAI...
Rhino horn, mitochondria and GenSpace
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Carnivorous plants fluoresce blue by Ian Woolf, Fresh Science Bright Sparks Challenge: Kyle Ewart identifies rhino horn, Minal Menezes detects mitochondrial diseases, Dr Ellen Jorgenson talks about GenSpace. Production checked by Charles Willock,...
Cellf - making a musician
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') The science policies of seven parties competing in the Australian Federal Election by Ian Woolf, Guy Ben-Ary talks about Cellf - a dish of living neurons that jams with human musicians. Celff in...
DNA bitcoin Virtual Astronomy
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Bitcoin encoded DNA by Ian Woolf, Kai Polsterer and Andre Schaaff talk about astronomical visualisation with Google cardboard at the Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems conference - ADASS, Better by Jonathan Coulton....
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...
Synthetic Biology De-extinction
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Genetically engineered humans by Ian Woolf, Michael Molitor talks about innovating with synthetic biology, De-extinction of Thylacines, Mammoths and Neanderthals by Ian Woolf Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian...
Maker's Place Think Differently
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') 3D printed high rises, Synthetic milk, and medical tattoos by Ian Woolf, Mel Fuller talks about Maker's Place, Bronwyn Milkins from UWA asks Can retraining your thinking improve your sleep? Production checked by...
Bitcoin rules soliton waves
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Medical nanobots treat cancer by Ian Woolf Jason Williams tells us why Bitcoins rule, John August explores the history of Solitons. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Jason...
Singing frogs and spliced mice
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Spliced mice and oral HIV vaccines by Ian Woolf, Dr Jodi Rowley from the Australian Museum Research Institute talks about her search for rare amphibians at Inspiring Science, Gemma Sharp's Three Minute thesis:...
Giant echidnas drive air conditioned thorium cars
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Giant echidnas may still live in WA by Ian Woolf, Vahid Vkiloroaya talks abut solar absorber air conditioning, Thorium cars run on rainbows by Ian Woolf. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf This...
Biohacking Citizen Science
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Epidermal electronics and Lego Atomic Force Microscopes by Ian Woolf, Andreas Siagian talk about his Indonesian Citizen Science Initiative and Hackteria, Andrew Tuckwell talks about hacking synthetic biology competitions, IGEM and BIOMOD. Hosted...
Mission to Earth
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Wild animals love exercise wheels, New dwarf planet discovered, and Venus Express takes a dive by Ian Woolf George Dyke speaks with Ian Woolf about Earth Observation satellites and drones at OrbitOz. Wheel...
Infinity and Money part 3
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Fixing broken hearts and adding new letters to the DNA alphabet by Ian Woolf, Marcus Schappi talks to Ian Woolf about building the Internet of things with Microview micro-controllers at Dorkbot, Infinity -...
Baby talk, Naughties, and the web
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ian Woolf gives a brief history of the world wide web, and reports on faces sculpted from DNA data. Gina Sartore tells us about 19th Century astronomer Maria Mitchell. Dr Uté Vollmer-Conna from...
Singing mice, Ig Nobles, MooresCloud
download MP3 Live special edition of Diffusion! Julie-Anne Popple reports on DNA half-life with expert comments from Dr Simon Ho from the University of Sydney, and on singing mice. Arwen Cross, Oliver Featherstone, Therese Chen and Julie-Anne Popple discuss the...
Dragons, astronauts and surveillance
download MP3 Ian Woolf reports on zombies, quantum computers, and DNA data storage. Ian Woolf reports on the life and death of Neil Armstrong, Julie-Anne Popple spoke to Dr Beata Ujvarti about the impact of cane toads on goanna and...
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...
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...
Circadian rhythms and sperm teasing
MP3 download Victoria Bond interviews Professor Ian Hickie about circadian rhythms and depression, Patrick Rubie reports on: - Sperm teasing - big tobacco cures starvation - asteroid dust and the origins of life Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
Unfair reporting and DNA Poetry
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Death by Chocolate!
MP3 download What is the lethal dose of chocolate? Prayer and the neurology of scepticism, Seduction while you sleep, Caffeine makes you suggestible, DNA altered by the mind, Elderly made young by accident, Does a duck's quack echo? Presented and...
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,...
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...
Bats and sharks, correlated?
MP3 Nick Evershed interviews Dr. Lindy Lumsden about Pipistrelle bats near extinction, Ian Woolf gives his view of the New Scientist interview assertion that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is "almost all in the mind" because you "think yourself sick", Marc West...
War goats, rat studs, and smart beds
MP3 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 by Patrick Rubie, Jacqui Hayes interviews Chris...
'Plug into your Prius, replicate with RepRap'
MP3 'Self-replicating 3-D printers' by Ian Woolf 'Plug-in batteries for hybrid cars' by Brigid Mullane 'DNA taxis' by Patrick Rubie, Lachlan Whatmore and Ian Woolf News by Patrick Rubie - Black Strings - Stem cells give birth to a...
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...
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