The Science Show
ABC Australia Visit website › Science · EN · 250 episodes · latest 2026-11-14
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Latest episodes
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* New spins in the nanoworld * Making sense of the chaos * Penguin behaviour hidden, now reassessed * Hop to it! It’s Frog ID week! * The history and challenges for Australian media and arts bodies
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66 years ago, three researchers published a paper in the Journal Science titled Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026. In it, they predicted the end of the world, but a few assumptions they made make the event…
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The Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University is home of the What Matters? Writing Competition, one of Australia's longest-running and largest national writing competitions for young people. We hear from 4 of this…
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We don't know a lot about deep-sea eels, so when 2.8 million of them are found in the same place every year, scientists (and science reporters) get excited. Why are they there? Where are they coming from, and why should…
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Robyn Williams reports from The British Science Festival in Southampton UK.
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Across south-eastern Australia, bogong moths seem to be everywhere. A few years ago, it was a different picture: scientists witnessed a population crash, and habitat threats put the species on the IUCN Red List. Are we…
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Plus a call for accuracy in dinosaur displays.
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Over the past few years, our environment seems to have experienced multiple extreme events in quick succession. With a summer fuelled by what may be the strongest and wettest El Niño ever, can our wildlife withstand…
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And palm oil producers in South-East Asia have changed their ways, considering the environment more than they did. Brendan May is turning his attention now to nickel mines in tropical countries.
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In March 2018, a South African astronomer looking into the distant universe "discovered" a bright red spot in the sky that hadn't been there previously; it felt like an exciting potential discovery. A message was sent…
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- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Oldest episode in feed
- 01/2024 · over 2 years
- Typical length
- 39 min
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