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Radio National's science flagship: your essential source of what's making news in the complex world of scientific research, scandal and discovery.


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Science Show - 2009-06-27

Music and the cosmos This week The Science Show presents a special event celebrating the International Year of Astronomy. The University of Sydney gathered its forces from physics and music for this journey around our galaxy and beyond. Hear how violent, chaotic and dangerous the universe is away from the comforts of planet Earth. When stars like our Sun some to the end of their lives, they explode in a catastrophic event known as a super nova. The last one happened in our galaxy 400 years ago. ...

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[ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-06-20

Making or influencing a million from science What do we dream from science? To make a million dollars? Or perhaps to influence a million people... or more! The Science Show this week presents a forum where successful science researchers and entrepreneurs describe how their work has changed the world, how the products that have come from their research have influenced a million people, and quite often, made a million... or more! This forum was presented as part of the Australian Science Festival ...

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[ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-06-13

Heaven + Earth - review by David Karoly David Karoly reviews Ian Plimer´s book, Heaven + Earth. James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia John Gribbin discusses his book James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia, with Michele Field. The World Without Us Alan Weisman discusses his book The World Without Us with David Fisher. ...

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[ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-06-06

Heaven + Earth: review by Malcolm Walter Geologist and planetary scientist Malcolm Walter reviews Ian Plimer´s book, Heaven + Earth. New Zealand houses: draughty and deadly Houses in New Zealand don´t protect their occupants from the temperate climate of high rainfall and strong westerly winds. The houses´ designs are based on those from other parts of the world. And now adverse health effects have been measured. More people die in winter than summer, a higher proportion than in other countr...

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[ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-05-30

Gravity Discovery Centre Gingin Western Australia David Blair and Chief Scientist Penny Sackett join Robyn Williams 13 storeys up on Gingin´s leaning tower and reproduce, as far as possible, the gravity experiments of Galileo by letting balloons filled with water fall to the ground. David Blair demonstrates displays in the Gingin Gravity Discovery Centre. The Centre combines being a place for scientific research, a gallery, an observatory and an activity centre for visitors. Lunar dust Prior t...

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[ Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-05-23

Cars - the crunch! Part 3 Listeners' responses to our series, Cars - the crunch! including some drivers´ thoughts on the distractions experienced whilst driving in our cities and towns; constantly changing speed limits, speed cameras, warning signs and billboards. Nicky Phillips reports. If you´d like to contribute to our online discussion, click here. Kew Gardens herbarium Alan Paton describes some of the specimens in the Kew Gardens herbarium originally collected by the missionary David Li...

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[ Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-05-16

Swine flu: possible escapee from vaccine laboratory The outbreak of swine flu in humans could be the result of careless laboratory practices, released via a vaccine for pigs that was prepared without being fully inactivated. Adrian Gibbs studied the evolutionary trees of the gene sequences of the new swine flu and found something strange. Parts of the gene sequence came from viruses that already existed in North America, and other parts came from Eurasia. So how did these gene fragments get tog...

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[ Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-05-09

Cars - the crunch! Driving cars in cities has become like living a nightmare in a mad computer game: distractions all around and within the vehicle. The average driver needs to process 1,340 pieces of information per minute. No wonder car crashes will soon be the third largest cause of death globally. And traffic in cities is set to double. How is the average driver to cope on modern roads? Cameras, speed limits changing rapidly, and a car that cuts you off from reality? Hydrogen sulphide Hydro...

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[ Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-05-02

Diabetes type 2 cured by surgery Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90-95% of diabetes. Despite 20 years of research, the problem has not been solved. There are medicines to take, but when onset is early, patients will die early despite the many treatments. People think of diabetes as a chronic, progressive incurable disease. Richard Stubbs says this is wrong. He performs gastric bypass surgery for severely obese people. These people certainly lose weight. But in addition, if diabetic, their diabetes ...

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[ Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-04-25

Barry Marshall or Kylie Minogue? When asked to choose between Australia's latest Nobel Prize winner and our favourite pop star, Asian students can surprise. So who's better known? This will be revealed, together with an assessment of our prospects when faced with the immense resources being provided for science in China. Meanwhile, are we giving full support to Australian-based innovation? One leading economist thinks not. Generic drug exports Over the next 10 years hundreds of drug patents wil...

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[ Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-04-18

Biofuels They may be among the oldest forms of life on Earth, but they offer great hope for the future. Blue green algae, pond scum, are also a form of bacteria and may be harnessed in ponds to produce oil. But can they make enough? 'Yes they can!' say scientists in California, and are already doing so. Other microalgae are also promising. Soon they may replace fossil fuels. Out of body experience Almost 20 per cent of people who are resuscitated after a cardiac arrest can remember details ab...

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[ Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-04-11

Western Australia´s Zadko telescope opens - peers into the distant past David Coward describes the capabilities of the Zadko telescope, recently opened north or Perth, Western Australia. Zadco is designed to look at flashes of light from the far edge of the universe. These are gamma ray bursts. Some are the result of the collapse of distant massive stars. Zadko has been the only telescope to observe these flashes, some of which are from a distance of 11 billion light years. These flashes were p...

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[ Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-03-28

Plumage determines sex of offspring in Gouldian Finches Over eighty per cent of Gouldian finch chicks will be male if their mother sees that the father has a different coloured head. These colourful Australian native birds have three possible head colours-red, yellow and black. Daughters produced from mixed matings-where parents differ in head colour - suffer from genetic incompatibilities between their parents that cause about 84 per cent to die young. Magellanic penguins swim further for food...

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[ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-03-21

Imaging Mars and beyond Hi-rise is a camera. Longhand: High resolution imaging science experiment. It´s the biggest camera to go to another planet. The camera is in orbit around Mars and produces very high resolution images of the surface. Each pixel represents 25cm of the surface. Samples are on Google. The oldest rocks on Mars are 3.9 billion years old and are from a time of heavy bombardment. Now there´s a plan to go to one Io, one of the 63 moons of Jupiter. Caterpillars get the royal ...

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[ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-03-14

Air pollution reduces rainfall Kimberly Prather measures soot and determines its origins. New instruments can be taken in aircraft which analyse particles in the air in real time, giving an instant readout. Kimberly Prather says soot from fires pumps billions of extra particles into the sky which collect water vapour. This goes some way to explaining why clouds which are expected to produce rain often don´t. Rather than large drops which fall as rain, the clouds contain a larger number of sma...

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[ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-02-28

DNA from Neanderthals Sites in Croatia and Spain have revealed DNA sequences of Neanderthals. They are 38,000 years old. Other sites are in Germany and southern Russia. These date back 70,000 years. New techniques allow sequences to be prepared from less than one gram of material. Random fragments are sequenced and mapped to the human genome. Some known genetic variants are in common with people of today. These reveal features such as lactose tolerance. Neanderthals were not tolerant to lactose....

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[ Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-02-21

Climate concern in the US and science in the new Obama administration The US has about 1,000 mayors and governors who have taken it upon themselves to reduce carbon emissions in their local areas, moving ahead of federal government policy and action. Cities such as Seattle and Chicago and New York are contesting to better each other. People are noticing changes in their environment and looking for an explanation. Science is likely to be taken more seriously by the new Obama administ...

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[ Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-02-14

Interpreting Darwin´s theory Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould debate their differing interpretations of Darwin´s famous theory of evolution. Recorded in Oxford in 1987. Darwin´s descendants Two of Charles Darwin´s great-great-grandsons talk about their famous ancestor and how the link affects their lives today. They also reflect on the achievements of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, which has become the basis of our understanding of t...

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[ Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-02-07

Darwin and show business Excerpts from Jane Goodall´s series, Science and Show Business, broadcast on The Science Show in January 2004. Jane Goodall looks at the history of tension between science and show business, the contradiction between promoting a sceptical attitude and a respect for evidence, while accepting the magic of show business and conjuring. Scientific principles have been promoted over time and this compares to the rise of magic and razzle dazzle in side shows, circ...

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[ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-31

President Obama's new science team Introducing two of Barack Obama's science advisers: Transporting chimps Australian veterinary nurse Debby Cox was awarded an Order of Australia this Australia Day for her work saving chimpanzees as part of the Jane Goodall Institute. Here she talks about her adventure transporting 10 chimps out of politically unstable Uganda to safety. Early development of babies' brains Until they learn to t...

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[ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-31

Obama´s new science team Introducing two of Barack Obama's science advisers: Transporting chimps Australian veterinary nurse Debby Cox was awarded an Order of Australia this Australia Day for her work saving chimpanzees as part of the Jane Goodall Institute. Here she talks about her adventure transporting 10 chimps out of politically unstable Uganda to safety. Early childhood development Until they learn to talk, babies have ...

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[ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-24

One laptop per child It was the ambition of Kevin Rudd during the last election and it is the plan being realised by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. The only way Professor Negroponte can realise his dream is by having cheap laptops, costing $100, or eventually less. How is this done? And what difference do these computers make in the villages of Africa, South America and Asia? Professor Negroponte, founder of the Media Lab at MIT and author of the bestseller Being Digital, talks to an a...

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[ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-24

One laptop per child It was the ambition of Kevin Rudd during the last election and it is the plan being realised by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. The only way Professor Negroponte can realise his dream is by having cheap laptops, costing $100, or eventually less. How is this done? And what difference do these computers make in the villages of Africa, South America and Asia? Professor Negroponte, founder of the Media Lab at MIT and author of the bestseller Being Digital, talks to an a...

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[ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-17

The astonishing Dr Joseph Needham - Part 3 of 3 Joseph Needham died in 1995. His contributions to the understanding of Chinese history and innovation are now recognised as one of the great achievements of the 20th century. Is the spectacular industrial growth in China in part due to Needham's revelations? The recordings we hear this week of the man himself are unique and broadcast one more with a new appreciation of his work. ...

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[ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-17

The astonishing Dr Joseph Needham - Part 3 of 3 Joseph Needham died in 1995. His contributions to the understanding of Chinese history and innovation are now recognised as one of the great achievements of the 20th century. Is the spectacular industrial growth in China in part due to Needham's revelations? The recordings we hear this week of the man himself are unique and broadcast once more with a new appreciation of his work. ...

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[ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-10

The astonishing Dr Joseph Needham - Part 2 of 3 Last week in part 1 of this series the focus was on Chinese philosophy and culture. We saw how that it was the bureaucrat and mandarin who ruled in his Confucian way. Today's program features the yin and yang opposites that governed the nature of the scientific technology produced. ...

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[ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-10

The astonishing Dr Joseph Needham - Part 2 of 3 Last week in part 1 of this series the focus was on Chinese philosophy and culture. We saw how that it was the bureaucrat and mandarin who ruled in his Confucian way. Today's program features the yin and yang opposites that governed the nature of the scientific technology produced. ...

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[ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2009-01-03

The astonishing Dr Joseph Needham - Part 1 of 3 These days everybody knows that the Chinese invented practically everything hundreds of years ago. What people don't realise is that this understanding is so new; in the early 1950s, nobody, not even those in China were aware of this amazing fact. Then Dr Joseph Needham of Cambridge embarked on an exploration of China and the beginning of his massive work Science and Civilisation in China and in 2008 Simon Winchester's book Bomb, Book and Compass r...

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[ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2008-12-27

Murray Darling water forum In 2008 Catalyst ran a moving special on the rare flooding that reached the outback this year. Flocks of birds numbering over 20,000 sprung up, as if from nowhere. The Catalyst team presented their research and feelings in a forum recorded at the ABC Ultimo Centre on our Open Day in August and this features today on The Science Show. ...

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[ Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]


Science Show - 2008-12-20

Steven Chu energy secretary for Obama Steven Chu, Nobel Prize winner in 1997, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been chosen as President elect Obama´s energy secretary. He spoke with Robyn Williams in 2007 on implications of the growing climate problem. Disabling stolen credit cards A small spark applied to silicon causes oxidation and the release of energy. The silicon oxygen bond is very strong. The conversion of weak bonds to strong bonds releases energy. The releas...

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[ Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000 ]

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