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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

Lace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.

Nature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.

Big Pharma has helped get life-saving COVID-19 vaccines into billions of arms. The profits are pour

Jane Goodall wants you to gird your loins. What does that mean? Well ... for hope, push PLAY.

By day, she's making molecules dance. By night, this vintage fashionista has a different dance on h

Timnit Gebru was fired by Google in a cloud of controversy, now she's making waves beyond Big Tech'

You need a new organ. But there aren't enough to go around. Would you accept one from a pig? Hearts

Indian-born engineer Nishant Jain flew in the face of expectations to radically reinvent himself as

Ilya Kolmanovsky is a popular science superstar in Russia. Like so many anti-Putin activists, he’s

Why are we so weirdly paradoxical about food? Food, farms, revolution with two women closer to it a

If you sell the gun but don’t pull the trigger ... are you to blame?  

After 25 years of painstaking research, could scientists be getting close to unlocking the mysterie

Breaking Buruli, part one

2022/2/27

When people from a small beach town on Phillip Island started developing severe skin lesions, scien

Masha and Dasha

2022/2/20

Despite being very different people, sisters Masha and Dasha spent their entire lives conjoined.

Twinning!

2022/2/13

A pair of twin girls is born in the late 1980s and their mother is told a series of ‘facts’ about t

Covid-zero was once a dream pursued by many countries, but the arrival of highly transmissible vari

A sliding door moment. A test of character. A career on the line. What would you do?

Few scientists can say they saved the planet. Paul Crutzen did. Legit. (RN Summer highlight)

Dark Matter sleuth. #BlackinSTEM pioneer. Particles for Justice co-founder. This incredible physici

Pass the scalpel - taxidermy is on the menu. (RN Summer highlight)