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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

This scientist's childhood in a cult was... wild. The light and dark of the path to enlightenment.

No-one thought they would work. This dogged scientist persisted with a difficult idea. Now it's dri

Two teams. Scientists and science journalists. And your quiz mistress with a whip. Let the mischief

Blink and you'll miss it. Eyes wide open and you can't comprehend it. Life beats to all kinds of pu

Is the era of family secrets over? Is love deeper than DNA?

If a controversial river could speak, what would it say? Climb aboard and be prepared to get wet.

Frank, fearless stories of personal reinvention and career resuscitation. Are we giving young scien

The Australian government wants to use technology to keep the fossil fuel dream alive. But will it

Crunch time at the COP26 Climate conference. Is Net Zero by 2050 a distraction? ABC Environment rep

Sex is complicated. Oh yes indeed.

Science is way personal.

Is the key to a battery-powered future lying 4000 metres below the sea surface?

12 rabbits that turned a nation crazy. Cue: a plague, the founder of immunology, a famous actress,

A life and death mission. An extraordinary relationship.

They were pursuing their dreams, now they're running for their lives. Afghan scholars speak. Will t

We've got cosmic vertigo!

2021/9/19

This deadly pair of scientists are smashing ... barriers.

One, two, three ... and then ... more. When humans learnt how to count to more, then came mayhem a

Raymond Schinazi has been fighting viruses his whole career, with some mighty wins against these mo

Two artists making the invisible visible. What does making nanoart reveal about us — gargantuans in

Who will win? Spin and hope or raw, sobering reality?