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Are earthquakes affected by climate change?
download MP3 Australian SpIRIT nano-satellite to be launched, How climate change may cause more volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and make them more severe. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf SpIRIT counting down to launch in the US How do you...
Graphene power
download MP3 Graphene antenna for more efficient solar power, Flanders and Swan, First and Second Law Controversial graphene circuit claims to extract energy from random heat fluctuations. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Doctoral student Ferdinand Harerimana and Professor Paul...
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...
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...
Fuctional Super Food
MP3 Rain-water is poisoned with PFAS everywhere, even in the Arctic circle by Ian Woolf, Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot talks about nutrition, super-foods and functional foods. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot Outside the Safe Operating...
GFC - what did we learn?
MP3 From 2009: 'Bad Economic Science' Marc West talks to Nick Davis from the World Economics Forum about what went wrong in the current Global Economic Crisis, Panel Discussion: Lithium in drinking water, man-made swine flu and exciting electronics by...
Dorkbot, Putin, Sneezing and Sunlight
download MP3 President Putin's views on the science of whaling and climate change by Lachlan Whatmore How Grapefruit could make you pregnant by Ian Woolf Ian Woolf speaks to Leigh Russell at Dorkbot. Leigh explodes a hydrogen filled condom to...
Plants to eat, and plants that eat
download MP3 Beetroot for heart health. Soluble fibre for healthy weight loss, Carnivorous plants go underground by Ian Woolf Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf. Daily beetroot juice could help people with common heart condition The 10 Best Foods to...
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...
Plagued - part 2 revisited
MP3 download Ingenuity flies on Mars by Ian Woolf, Dr John Froude talks about how plagues have shaped human evolution. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Dr John Froude NASA's Mars helicopter succeeds in historic first flight Ingenuity deployment NASA...
Plagued - part 1 revisited
MP3 download From 2021-04-12: Dr John Froude talks about plagues past, present and future - part 1, Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Dr John Froude...
Precognition Revolution
MP3 download Julian Assange had a stroke and still lost his extradition trial by Ian Woolf, UFos and precognition for better science, the story of how Daryl Bem broke the scientific method. by Ian Woolf Hosted and produced by Ian...
Vaccination explanation
MP3 download Vaccines against aging, Vaccines against asthma by Ian Woolf from 2009: Dr Victoria Bond explains how vaccines work and how they are made to Marc West and Ian Woolf, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Julie-Anne Popple, Marc...
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...
Plagued - part 1
MP3 download Dr John Froude talks about plagues past, present and future - part 1, Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Dr John Froude...
Gifts, Glows and Gold
MP3 download Platypuses and tardigrades glow by Ian Woolf, Gifts to avoid by Ian Woolf, Marc West, Chris Stewart, Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag and Sacha Stelzer, Michael Cortie zaps mind-control parasites with lasers, Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf...
Cyber-pig and Eye-cow
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Climate change health
MP3 download Elderberry retraction, Brain reading, Furry faces, and viral music by Ian Woolf, Melanie Zeppel talks about climate change and the health of humans and forests. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Melanie Zeppel SCOPUS Awards Flu vaccines yes,...
Little Ice Ages and future housing
MP3 download This show was originally broadcast 2019-02-11: Will the Sun cool the Earth? by Ian Woolf, Nathan Waters looks to the future of work and housing needs- part 2, Sound checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian...
Solar cooling, work and housing
MP3 download Will the Sun cool the Earth? by Ian Woolf, Nathan Waters looks to the future of work and housing needs- part 2, Sound checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Frost fairs, sunspots and the...
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...
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...
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,...
Retro trivia special
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ian has the flu this week, so here's the trivia special from 2009: Join Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf as we tackle questions in mathematics, biology, popular science and chemistry. Can...
Music inspired by Space
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Brains scan bugs by Ian Woolf, Keyna Wilkins talks about creating music inspired by Astronomy, Paul Francis has transcoded radio astronomy signals into haunting sounds. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted...
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...
Lateral, entropy, and the egg
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Anomalies speed around nearby star, Anomalies block too much light around a distant star by Ian Woolf. Jack Scanlon talks about Lateral magazine, John August talks about Entropy and the Egg, part 1....
Change your genes
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Self-control or memory? by Ian Woolf Professor Steve Cole explains the influence of personal experience on the regulation of your genes (part 1), Chris from Create UNSW talks about live Pac man. Put...
Diet, bacteria, and health
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Sounding out Alzheimer's symptoms by Ian Woolf, Mark Read explains how diet affects the bacteria that influence your health. Bacteria by Jonathan Coulton. Production checked by Charles Willock, Hosted and produced by Ian...
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 -...
Megaphones and Microfluidics
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Sound reconstructed from video vibrations by Ian Woolf, Microfluidics by Meow Ludo Meow Meow, Jenny "Kit" Alaca uses her Listening Voice to tell Ian Woolf about her artful megaphones. Hosted and produced by...
Galactic Haloes light walls
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Vibrating plants defend themselves, and reflux medicine can cause vitamin B12 deficiency by Ian Woolf, Vanessa Moss explains the halo around the Milky Way Galaxy, Rory McKay talks about projecting light art. Produced...
Stem cells for ailing hearts
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Flying snakes by Ian Woolf Dr Alexis Bosman speaks with Ian Woolf about creating stem cells to understand inherited heart disease. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Dr Alexis Bosman Cell Reprogramming Australia...
Plasticised brains, tea, and pain
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') News of Black tea blocks herpes, and fermentable fibre helps asthma, by Ian Woolf. Brains restored to the speed learning of childhood with a pill, by Ian Woolf, Dr Patrick Rubie and Ian...
Higgs tastes dark tendrils
download MP3 Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the discovery by the team at the large hadron Collider, Victoria Bond reports on Dark Tendrils, Ian Woolf reports on how taste affects judgements, the speechjammer, and activating your immune system to...
Full attention and half-sunglasses
MP3 download 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 you weight and make...
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...
DIY EMP, Putin and Sunlight
MP3 download Ian Woolf speaks to Leigh Russell at Dorkbot. Leigh explodes a hydrogen filled condom to cause an Electromagnetic pulse that reboots a computer. He moves beads with sound and brings non-Newtonian fluids to life. Listener question: Is sunlight...
Glowing sperm and syphilis handshakes
MP3 download Aaron Cook talks glow in the dark sperm with Scott Pitnick Marc West and Victoria Bond demonstrate how to check for syphilis Iam Woolf discusses Man Flu Presented and produced by Victoria Bond, with technical help from Ian...
Lung flutes, leg growing and Science circuses
MP3 download Pahia Cooper picks her favourite inventions of 2009: the Lung flute, greensulate mushroom packaging, and the Mindflex; Aaron Cook interviews Pahia Cooper about her experiences travelling in the Questacon Science Circus; News by Aaron Cook - how to...
Mystique, pill ills, sin distribution
MP3 Marc West asks Dr Chris Pettigrew how X-men character Mystique's super-powers might really work, Charles Willock reports on the distribution of sin in the USA, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie discuss the lesser known side effects of the contraceptive...
Old dust, biometrics and can you really recycle condoms?
MP3 Darren Osborne talks to Dr Henner Busemann from the University of Manchester about dust older than the solar system. Marc West talks to Associate Professor Stephanie Schuckers from Clarkson University talks to Marc West about identifying people through their...
Economics and lithium in our water
MP3 'Bad Economic Science' Marc West talks to Nick Davis from the World Economics Forum about what went wrong in the current Global Economic Crisis, Panel Discussion: Lithium in drinking water, man-made swine flu and exciting electronics by Ian Woolf,...
Vaccination consternation, alien genes
MP3 Martin Faccinni talks about why you should vaccinate, and how to protect yourself against all flu infections with Marc West and Ian Woolf, Marc West interviews Dr Katerina Mickac about the invasion of alien species, Presented and produced by...
Forest water, PhD dances, bird flu
MP3 Associate Professor Kendal McGuffie from the Physics department at UTS, tells Ian Woolf about tracking the movement of water by weight to find out how forests use water and effect the climate. Marc West phones Dr Christopher Pettigrew from...
Common colds, and chimps
Play Now The Common Cold -- not so cold, and not so common -- could save us all from bird flu; what makes us so different from chimps?; and all the latest science news. Presented by Jacqui Hayes, News...
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...
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,...
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 16th July 2002
Play Now Presented by Chris Stewart. Tim Baynes reports on the Flu. Lachlan Whatmore reports on Animal weaponry. News by Branwen Morgan and Chris Stewart. Produced by Tim Baynes, with technical assistance from Gina Sartore....
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