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The Quantum Age - part 2

MP3 download Listen to James Vandeleur talk about the history of Quantum physics, what it means and a demonstration with polarised sunglasses. News of scientists sacked, and eSafety failed. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf James Vandeleur Excerpts From a...

Posted by Ian Woolf on August 18, 2025 7:13 PM

Robots of the 12th Century

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Listen to al-Jazari's Ingenious Devices and Medieval robots. News of probiotics supplements improving thinking. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Al Jazari's Elephant Clock Cognitive and Emotional Effect of a Multi-species Probiotic Containing...

Posted by Ian Woolf on July 29, 2024 12:09 AM

Steve Mann, qBits, and goodbye 2SER

download MP3 (right-click and select 'save as') Ian Woolf showcases the wearable computers of Steve Mann. Ed Pollitt reports on the invention of silicon quantum bits. Ian Woolf delves into the history of Diffusion as told by our theme music...

Posted by Ian Woolf on April 22, 2013 4:41 PM

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...

Posted by Ian Woolf on December 21, 2009 6:39 PM

'Popular and polarising science'

play now'Rock radar and solar cells' (The ATSE Clunies Ross Awards: part 1) - Amy Bullen interviews two award-winning scientists, David Noon and Stuart Wenham on their inventions'A tribute to David Attenborough' by Victoria Bond and Martin FaciniDiscussion forum...

Posted by Diffusion on May 22, 2008 12:09 AM

Da Vinci, Climate-Fried Fish, the Pope

play now Discover Da Vinci's workshop full of flying machines, theatrical contraptions and submarines. Take a splash with the frenzied fish that are migrating across our warming ocean. But where does the Pope fit into all this? Find out...

Posted by Diffusion on April 19, 2007 9:00 AM

UnDiscovered 26th January 2006

Play Now Science in Summer Mode, celebrating Australia Day with Australian science and inventions. Produced and presented by Chris Stewart, with Jacqui Pfeffer, Jacqui Hayes and Matt Clarke....

Posted by Ian Woolf on January 26, 2006 9:00 AM