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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

A Neanderthal girl lives amongst us. A mammoth narrates history. The animals speak to us. 3 novelis

A sonic adventure into the minds of scientists

Don't believe everything you see. Art, science and the curious making of fake news.

A mystery about two Californian millionaires and two "orphan" embryos at the very beginning of the

A flesh-eating botanical saga. Outside the hallowed halls of science, revolutions are made.

From Day of the Triffids to Little Shop of Horrors, meet a most sagacious animal. What the hell is

Girls. Boys. Brains. Biology. Society. The game of Whac-A-Mole that is the science of sex differenc

A shady story about seeds, China, the FBI, and industrial espionage. Mara Hvistendahl delves into A

Doing is a PhD can screw with your mind at the best of times. Isolating and exciting all at once. W

In the 1960s, when gay sex was still treated as a crime in Australia, science intervened in shockin

What do we know, what will it take, and why have we struggled to effectively act on climate change?

Exploding stars and killer cells. Then comes a pandemic. Drop everything. Head into the battle-zone

Extraordinary scientists doing extraordinary things. Then came the pandemic.

After the pandemic, what else can we make work better? Here are some dumb things to start with. We

Why do deadly viruses love bats so much, why don’t bats get crook, and what’s with China’s wild wet

At the frontline of the COVID-19 fight right now, Adam Kucharski is author of The Rules of Contagio

The stories we construct about biology, viruses, and beyond can reshape the course of our lives. Wh

Your 3D printed body

2020/3/15

If you could 3D print a new body part, what would it be? For marine scientist Pia Winberg that ques

Three generations with powerful, personal stories of family lost and found, racism, and the right t

Pack your pyjamas, we’re heading to camp! From Arnhem Land to Adelaide, Caboolture to Coffs – let's