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

The Science Show

Join us for highlights from fifty years of The Science Show including Fred Dagg, who helps us with the big questions: what is it all about and why are we here?

The Science Show celebrates 50 years

Every now and again, dozens or even hundreds of perfectly healthy looking whales strand themselves on a beach. Scientists have a few theories on why they do this.

Lab Notes: Why do whales beach themselves?

Samples from asteroids have helped build a theory of the origin of complex molecules and how they made it to Earth.

Complex molecules in space – how they formed and how they got here

Fresh Australian dietary guidelines are due next year, and they’ll likely focus on the health of the planet as well as people.

Lab Notes: The fall of the food pyramid

Small chemical groups inserted or removed from around DNA may affect gene expression and so be a way to control genetic blood disorders such as sickle cell anaemia and beta thalassemia.

Gene editing brings promise for genetic blood disorders

Is the US shooting itself in the foot, or shooting itself in the head? As Donald Trump removes funding for medical research, climate research and more, Matthew England reflects on how science will help us cope with a changing world.

Back to the dark ages for American research?

Meat ants don't sound like the most endearing Australian animals. These purple-red insects are super territorial, swarming and biting anything that threatens their nest. 

But it turns out they're not just aggressive, flesh-tearing fighters. They're also farmers, architects, and — best of all — cane toad exterminators.

Lab Notes: The native ants that take down cane toads

It's impossible to escape microplastics. They're in our food and water, and the air around us is teeming with them.

So considering they're all around us, how can we minimise our exposure to tiny plastic fragments without resorting to living in a cave?

Lab Notes: How do I avoid eating and breathing microplastics?

A 100-yr flood is now a more regular occurrence in the German town of Passau, bringing widespread destruction, another local impact of a planet getting hotter.

Climatic changes everywhere as the world’s oceans become hotter

It feels like you can't go a week without hearing about some new quantum technology which promises to change our lives for the better. 

But quantum mechanics is already well and truly present in our daily life — and you don't even have to be a physicist to be using it.

Lab Notes: What's quantum mechanics ever done for me?

Roger Short (1930-2021) discusses influences in his early life, and some of his research achievements including melatonin as a controller of circadian rhythms, and aspects of reproductive biology across the animal world.

Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist

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