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Nanoparticle breath on analogue Mars
download MP3 Listen to Dr Renee Goreham talk about her research into applying nanoparticle detection to health, and news of missions to analogue Mars in Armenia. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Dr Renee Goreham Amadee-24 mission: Austrian Space Forum...
Comedy, housework and sex
download MP3 From 2010: Listen to Marc West explain the correlation between sex and housework. Victoria Bond walks into a bar with science comedian Brian Malow. Aaron Cooke reports on starquakes, stroking rats, mosquito attraction, - and how green tea...
Face transplant and spice for life
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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...
X marks the Auto-immune disease
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Listen to Lachlan Gray talk about how auto-immune diseases affect many more females than males, and his research into how the X chromosome may be the cause. Presented and produced by Ian Woolf...
WorldCoin and Rejuventation by dilution
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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...
Robert Booy - Infectious Diseases
MP3 Professor Robert Booy talks about infectious diseases, vaccines, epidemics and pandemics. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf \ Professor Robert Booy Infectious diseases doctor’s message as ATAGI changes COVID-19 vaccine advice Infectious diseases expert weighs in on school mask...
Modelling to Mars!
MP3 Susanna Guatelli uses models to shield astronauts from radiation on their way to Mars, and during their stay on the Moon. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Associate Professor Susanna Guatelli Dr Susanna Guatelli Frontiers of Science Forum 2023...
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...
Fly Singularity
MP3 From 2010, Ian Woolf explains how Gregory Benford uses flies and artificial intelligence for a healthy old age. News of Gummi hacking, chatbots argue on Twitter and weeds evolve. News by Ian Woolf Presented by Marc West, Discussion from...
SETI switch
MP3 From 2010, why the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has been doing it wrong! The discovery of an Earth-like planet 20 light years away, and high resolution tapes of the Moon landing recovered. Marc West, Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf....
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...
Dementia and Artificial Intelligence
MP3 Memory prosthesis for dementia by Ian Woolf, Tanya Petrovich from Dementia Australia, and Andrew Vouliotis from Deakin University's Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute talks about their AI training system for carers of people with dementia - Talk with Ted! Produced...
Spinal Fusion
MP3 Dr Ashish Diwan, Professor Ganga Prusty and Dr Xiaopeng Li talk about coming together to make spinal fusion surgery work for patients with new materials, and new techniques in their new company Sentonix. Hosted and Produced by Ian Woolf...
Fuctional Super Food
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Robot birthdays, and Dentists
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Balancing Medical Censorship
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Plants to eat, and plants that eat
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What Science Policy?
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Variants, printed livers and woven TVs
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When viruses collude
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Desiderosmia
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Precognition Revolution
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Gut bugs!
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Quick Tests and Cognitive Biases
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Ventilation stops the spread
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Vaccines and surveillance
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Spread by aerosol - part 1
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Vaccination announceable
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Earworm throat singing regeneration
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Synthetic chemical adventures
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Cyber-pig and Eye-cow
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COVIDFree without COVIDSafe
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Face recognition antagonism
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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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Kinder gentler transhumanism
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Quantum dots
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Fat viruses and CRISPR kits
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The Woolf-Pulfrich Effect
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Opt out of My Health Record
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My Health Record Opt Out
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Absinthe chemistry and Beer froth maths
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Anti-Encryption
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Vitamania, woken worms and DNA repair
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Funding ME and CFS research
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Diagnosing ME, and CFS
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Grinding your face
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Wound honey and rhythmotron
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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...
Bright Sparks 2017 - part 3 poetry
MP3 Meltdown, Spectre and Nuclear detonation news by Ian Woolf, For the final Bright Sparks challenge, the Fresh scientists perform their haiku and limericks, and share the insights they've gained: Mohamed Tashani on vaccines from The University of Sydney, Xufeng...
Terminal decline and Zero emissions
MP3 This show was originally broadcast in 2011: Victoria Bond spoke to Prof. Mohammed Khadra about his latest book, Terminal Decline. They also spoke about end of life care, and the strained Australian health budget. Ian Woolf and Julianne Popple...
The story of Ruby Payne-Scott part 2
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The story of Ruby Payne-Scott part 1
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Rockets and Rejuvenation
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Crooke's radiometer mystery
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Virus cures diabetes, Butterfly power, Batteries banned, Cannabis helps aged memories, Drugs for better hearing, Oz Govt hacks phones for welfare money. The mystery of Crooke's radiometer. Everyday physics - keeping your cool....
Equal Reality for social intelligence
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Skeleton finger print unlocks phones by Ian Woolf, Annie Harper and Brennan Hatton talk use virtual reality to raise social intelligence, Nady Braidy treats alcohol addiction with NAD+, Lael Lim builds robohand. Production...
NAD+ and Ciguatera Fish Poison
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Rosmarinic acid for your spinal injury, and aged brain by Ian Woolf, Nady Braidy talks about Ciguatera, Chronic Faqtigue Syndrome and NAD+, Ian Woolf reports the latest from the Louis Mallard Institute's research...
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
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More colours and March for Science part 2
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March for Science part 1
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ian Woolf speaks with John Hewson, Simon Chapman talks about public health and politics, Ian Woolf speaks with Mike Hall, Jonica Newby talks about appreciating science, Ian Woolf speaks with Angie. Production checked...
Freeze, wait, reanimate?
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Southern Cryonics starts building a facility to freeze people for eventual revival by Ian Woolf. Matt Fisher talks about why you want to be frozen when you die. Production checked by Charles Willock,...
Sleep, Lasers and Sauce revisted
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') This show was first broadcast in 2007 Robot fleas, brain chips, and viral confections by Ian Woolf, Sarah Blunden gives Darren Osborne. tips on how to get a good nights sleep, Harald Giessen...
Biomimicry and coral bones
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Weird pets, possums and blood vessels
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Frog leg steak art Innovation
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My Health Records -private?
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Grow your own rocket fuel, by Ian Woolf Dr Bernard Robertson-Dunn talks about privacy problems with Australia's national electronic health records. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Dr...
Fine tuning for Life
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Rat robot stingrays have heart by Ian Woolf, Luke Barnes discusses how finely tuned the Universe is for life, Callisto by the Ephemera Ensemble. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by...
Heat shock for longer life and Physics poetry
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Autism treated with good guts by Ian Woolf, Mark Febbraio talks about heat shock proteins and longer life, Heather Catchpole recites physics poems in the pub. Production checked by Charles Willock. Produced and...
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...
More Carbs for longer life
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Solar panels reach world record high efficiency, but funding will be cut, Universe expanding faster than predicted by Ian Woolf, David LeCouteur talks about healthier ageing through a high carbohydrate diet. Production checked...
Pulsar glitches and biological ageing
download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Pulsar glitching and Biological Ageing A round-up of the Australian Biological Ageing Conference by Ian Woolf - part 1, Jim Palfreyman talks about glitching pulsar discoveries, part 2. Checked by Charles Willock, Produced...
Plasma rocket science
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Dark matter anyon computing
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Antarctic astronomy biofuel catalyst
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Warp drive and Antigravity
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Falling cats and Stem cell tourism
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Urthecast and space lasers
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Photonics and quadcopters
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Kidneys, Hearts and Coal
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Famelab: Bacteria, Labeckia and Wellness
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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...
Vaping Freematics
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Fact or Fiction Implants
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Neural Knitworks
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Space law and Bee decisions
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Time, Mars and chocolate
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Skyrmions and Eternal September
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Rat Park and Chromatic Composer
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Stem cells fight HIV and Biohacking
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Stem Cell Revolutions and HIV protein
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Shadow profiles and eating babies
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Thorium Trans-Tasman 3MT competition
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4D printing and Caring for carers
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Hypercolour vision and soap
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Pond scum and ALS
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Cognitive Reserve and Solar max
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Kind meat, ant war and Techfest2012
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Protein, penicillin and parasites
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Terminal Decline and Zero Emissions
MP3 Victoria Bond spoke to Prof. Mohammed Khadra about his latest book, Terminal Decline. They also spoke about end of life care, and the strained Australian health budget. Ian Woolf and Julianne Popple discuss their thoughts on end of life...
Fukushima special!
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Genescient Healthy old age
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Of madness, love, and melted space ships
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Cognitive Load and Vision Revolution
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Walking tree, smart mobile, bad chickens
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Unhealthy Santa and Roo for You
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Blood and Space Volcanoes
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Cloned and Dressed for Success
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No Petrol, Nose Picking and Asteroids
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Diffusion 20th Apr 2006
Play Now Substance use and mental health, Tim Baynes interviews Amanda George from the Centre for Mental Health Research, March of the Penguins, a review by Phil Dooley A substitute for alcohol? Hunting animals over the internet? by Matt...
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...
Diffusion 11th June 2002
Play Now Presented by Tim Baynes. News by Tim. Gina Sartore reports from the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine, and how life events affect health. Lachlan Whatmore gives a guided tour of the insides and outsides of sea sponges. Produced...
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