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Science Friction

Artificial Intelligence has suddenly gone from the fringes of science to being everywhere. So how di

Episodes

Total: 250

Chemist Kim Kwan didn’t realise how much they needed to find their queer crew in science until they

Australia is hosting the 2023 World Pride festival and queer botanists are celebrating by bringing

From the nomadic world of the Sahara Desert to a fantasy wonderland inside a Melbourne industrial w

A rock celebrity with a wild biography.  Saharan nomads, a weight-loss doctor feeding an unusual ad

Scientists Jonathan Napier and Cathie Martin remember when they needed armed guards and high fences

Twinning! (REPEAT)

2023/1/22

A pair of twin girls is born in the late 1980s and their mother, Chris, is told a series of ‘facts’

Science journalist, biologist, podcaster, teacher and activist Dr Ilya Kolmanovsky is a superstar s

Leading computer scientist and co-founder of Black in A.I, Dr Timnit Gebru, was hired by Google to

What does it take to reimagine your life?In this occasional Science Friction series, scientists who

It started with an idea.Then came the university car park full of tonnes of fish heads.Now this ext

Two teams. Scientists and science journalists. Brains vs brains. Boys vs Girls. From the small (bed

The long prison sentence given to Sydney climate protester Deanna 'Violet' Coco for blocking traffi

We make machines, but do our machines make us? And who's in control really? Superstar anthropologis

If the universe began with a big bang, how will it end? This question has suddenly got very persona

Should solving climate change be left to politicians? What if YOU could drive policy without ever r

Saul Griffith has an ambitious plan to save the planet. It all begins at home and it's completely e

Science and culture ... with extra spice. All species welcome.

When intrepid botanist Tim Collins went sleuthing in the wilds of Australia in pursuit of a papery

Too much. Not enough. Too weird. Not weird enough. Sex is enjoyed, explored, exploited, and policed

2022 Hugo Award winning science fiction author, Becky Chambers, is loved by fans for her brilliantl