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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

What came before time as we know it began? A time before. Can we ever really know?

Four big minds on the next steps for our species.

Sex is complicated. Oh yes indeed.

 Three rising stars in science on why they can’t come back.  

An explosive love triangle with a difference.

They hold their secrets close. But these scientists are getting Tasmania's "living fossil" trees to

There's a wild tale inside every trunk. The trees join us alongwith Peter Wohlleben (The Hidden Lif

Comedian Craig Reucassel (The Chaser, The War on Waste), mathematician Barbara Holland and their te

The wattle war (repeat)

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Flower power, and a botanical battle that divided nations.

What’s violent nationalism got to do with Nature?

It's out there somewhere... they just have to find it

Follow the silvery trail and enter the world inside a shell. To be or not to be.

You just never know when you'll need a rat will save your life.

Some people dream of changing the world. Others do. Thank the flies.

There is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about! [REPEAT]

Once fences and armed guards protected genetically modified (GM) crops. But the rules are rapidly c

Meet the neuroscientist turned bestselling rom-com novelist who's exposing the underbelly of scienc

Would you be game? Hear what happened when scientists make themselves vulnerable AND hilarious.

Two words. Tweeted then deleted. A meeting meltdown. Has #BlackLivesMatter put international scienc