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Chocolate fuel, steroids and roomba sumo

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 29, 2024 2:13 PM

The Talking Dead

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 7, 2022 11:04 PM

Superworm and fake human meat

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 25, 2022 6:11 PM

Plants to eat, and plants that eat

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 27, 2022 9:11 PM

Trustworthy fakes and edited hamsters

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 23, 2022 11:43 PM

20 years of Bug-bots

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 5, 2021 3:20 PM

Venus Flytrap Science

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 29, 2021 5:30 PM

Plant genetics and vampires

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 5, 2020 10:32 AM

Coeliac genes and zombies

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 15, 2018 8:19 PM

Meow on Mars

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 1, 2018 4:47 PM

Poked plant physics Ant venom

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 7, 2018 1:46 PM

March for Science and Prawn plastic

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 16, 2018 10:13 PM

The Forgetting Machine - part 2

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 29, 2018 4:18 PM

Head transplant HEAVEN?

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 11, 2017 8:40 PM

Bright Sparks 2017 - part 1

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Posted by Ian Woolf on November 20, 2017 8:37 PM

Head transplant HEAVEN

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 23, 2017 7:03 PM

Create UNSW, MakerSpace and Repair Cafe - DIY Day part 2

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 28, 2017 2:51 PM

NAD+ and Ciguatera Fish Poison

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 22, 2017 9:53 PM

Weird pets, possums and blood vessels

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 8, 2016 10:52 AM

Save the carnivorous plants

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 26, 2016 9:28 PM

Rhino horn, mitochondria and GenSpace

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 19, 2016 10:20 PM

Life, the Universe & Carnivorous plants

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 8, 2016 10:48 PM

Physics of Music revisited

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Posted by Ian Woolf on February 29, 2016 8:43 PM

Blockchain Citizen Science

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 25, 2016 10:34 AM

What are you looking at?

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 13, 2015 9:56 PM

Brain nets and Broccoli

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 15, 2015 9:33 PM

Transition waves rideable multicopters

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 12, 2015 12:42 PM

Vaping Freematics

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 8, 2014 1:51 PM

Fact or Fiction Implants

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 21, 2014 1:45 PM

Galactic Haloes light walls

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 11, 2014 3:03 PM

Healing corneas and building robots

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 9, 2013 3:22 PM

Physics of Music special

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Posted by Ian Woolf on July 1, 2013 3:02 PM

Fecal transplants and Darwin part 5

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Posted by Ian Woolf on January 28, 2013 7:03 PM

Hybrids, Healing Fat, Snap tentacles

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Posted by Ian Woolf on October 8, 2012 1:41 PM

Starfish and talking corn

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 9, 2012 7:51 PM

Super Vaccines, Meat Ice-cream & Bees!

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 2, 2012 1:09 PM

Axis of eating and Secrets of Chocolate

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 26, 2011 7:23 PM

Synthetic organisms and cloud-busting

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Posted by Ian Woolf on September 12, 2011 6:33 PM

Trigeneration and Sports networks

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Posted by Ian Woolf on June 7, 2010 9:51 PM

Power, art and cocktails

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 31, 2009 4:22 PM

Earth Hour and Carnivorous plants

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Posted by Ian Woolf on April 6, 2009 6:32 PM

Space, babies and pregnant fish

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Posted by Ian Woolf on March 2, 2009 6:32 PM

The Sciencegasm, Ice Skating, Vegemite

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Posted by Diffusion on June 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Undiscovered 15th December 2005

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 15, 2005 9:00 AM

Throat singing, plants and clones

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Posted by Ian Woolf on December 1, 2005 9:00 AM

NEWS: dodgy space suits from NASA; dangerous neckties in the hospital ward & spiders with garbage in their webs.

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Posted by Ian Woolf on May 28, 2004 3:08 PM

12th August 2002

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Posted by Ian Woolf on August 12, 2002 12:51 AM