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The Science Show - Full Program Podcast

The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.

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0:13:03

Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long

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2025/05/20

The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank the Treaty of the Metre for the metric system that underpins daily life.The treaty was signed exactly 150 years ago, when delegates from 17 countries gathered on a Parisian spring day to establish a new and standardised way of measuring the world around us.But the metre's inception predates the treaty that bears its name by nearly 100 years. So how did it come about, and how

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0:53:03

Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria

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2025/05/17

Amateur fossil hunters make a major discovery. And Marilyn Renfree describes the sophisticated reproduction of marsupials.

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0:14:05

Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200...

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2025/05/06

Cobras, taipans, black mambas — Tim Friede's been intentionally bitten more than 200 times by some of the most venomous snakes on Earth.And he survived, mostly because years of self-injecting venom let him develop immunity to them.(Please do not try this yourself!)Now his blood's been used to make a broad-spectrum antivenom that researchers say may protect against nearly 20 deadly snakes.But this is not how antivenom is usually made. So how are snake antivenoms produced, and where

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0:54:05

A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show

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2025/05/03

Mansi Kasliwal describes how she detects supernovae – the massive stellar explosions where elements are formed. We learn how dung beetles saved the Australian environment from the big problem, and David Attenborough shares his love for Birds-of-paradise.

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0:13:27

Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?

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2025/04/01

Hearts, kidneys and now livers — over the past couple of years, surgeons have taken all these from gene-edited pigs and put them in people.

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0:53:17

Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress

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2025/03/29

Nick Rowley reviews out progress towards net zero carbon emissions, Jared Diamond proposes mining the sea floor, and California’s legacy of Albert Einstein.

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0:11:48

Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?

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2025/03/25

As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn. A huge golden ball encircled by gigantic rings. But those distinctive rings — the very things that give Saturn its pizzazz — have seemingly disappeared. So what’s going on, and when will they be back?

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0:13:33

Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in...

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2025/03/18

They might be the epitome of cool, but Formula 1 race car drivers can get hot — really hot.An F1 cockpit can heat up to 60 degrees Celsius, and this affects cognition — the last thing you want when you're fanging around a track at 300kph.This year, a new rule was introduced to give F1 drivers a bit of relief from that heat … which is just one of the risks of F1 racing.Because we often hear about the performance of the cars in the race, but what about the humans behind the wheel?

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0:52:12

Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research

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2025/03/15

80% of diseases are impacted by environment or lifestyle described as your exposome. Thomas Hartung expects information from studying the exposome will bring benefits on par with those brought by studying the human genome.

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0:13:05

Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure...

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2025/03/11

For women who get bacterial vaginosis or BV, a common condition that can cause a fishy-smelling discharge, many will get it again (and again).Why some people were prone to recurrent BV was a mystery … until now. Australian researchers have shown that BV-related bugs can be sexually transmitted, and treating male partners significantly cuts recurrence rates.

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Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings

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2025/03/04

A weekly injection that stops that hankering for hot chips and donuts?Many people on Ozempic and similar medications report this phenomenon, saying they no longer have incessant thoughts about sweets and fried food.So how do these drugs, known as GLP-1 agonists, work in the brain to dial down "food noise" and help people lose weight?

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0:54:05

Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the...

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2025/03/01

Naomi Oreskes talks about Donald Trump and her latest book The Big Myth ahead of her visit to Australia in early March.

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0:54:04

Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today

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2025/02/01

Opals, ancient humans and sharks dating back 465 million years. This week we see how today’s world has been shaped from the distant past.

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0:13:19

Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate...

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2025/01/28

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) do much more than fill whales' bellies. These tiny crustaceans also play a huge role in Earth's carbon cycle.They sequester around 40 million tonnes of carbon each year, mostly in their poo — that's the equivalent of taking 35 million cars off the road.Yet there's plenty we don't know about these thumb-sized critters.Now a new study has revealed what they get up to under the Antarctic winter sea ice, and how this behaviour affects carbon

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0:53:50

Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and...

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2025/01/25

Opalised fossils previously overlooked at the Australian Museum have overturned our understanding of the origin of mammals with the emergence of a whole new age of mammals: The Age of Monotremes.

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0:54:08

Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer

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2025/01/11

Hollywood promoted her as the most beautiful woman in the world. But Hedy Lamarr was more than good looks. She invented and patented a new form of communication which is used widely today and even allows mobile phones to work.

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0:54:04

Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals

The Science Show - Full Program Podcast ·

2024/11/23

Opalised fossils previously overlooked at the Australian Museum have overturned our understanding of the origin of mammals with the emergence of a whole new age of mammals: The Age of Monotremes.

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0:53:50

Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!

The Science Show - Full Program Podcast ·

2024/10/26

Tim Mendham tells us about Alfred Russel Wallace who worked with Darwin establishing theories of evolution and natural selection but who is barely known.

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0:54:06

Dark energy – not necessarily constant

The Science Show - Full Program Podcast ·

2024/09/28

After more than twenty years of observations, Tamara Davis has revealed that dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the universe may not be constant.

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0:54:06

The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in...

The Science Show - Full Program Podcast ·

2024/09/21

It might be the largest telescope humans will ever build. We visit the site in Chile’s high dry Atacama Desert.

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