Science Friction
264 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsScience, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.
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Episodes
Rats to the rescue (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 2)
July 10, 2022 07:05 - 26 minutes - 36 MBYou just never know when you'll need a rat will save your life.
The mighty fly army (Little Beasts, Big Jobs Part 1)
July 03, 2022 07:05 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBSome people dream of changing the world. Others do. Thank the flies.
Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author[REPEAT]
June 26, 2022 07:05 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThere is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about! [REPEAT]
Gene edited foods back on the menu - what are they and what's changed?
June 19, 2022 07:05 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBOnce fences and armed guards protected genetically modified (GM) crops. But the rules are rapidly changing. From Vitamin D-boosted tomatoes to low GI potato chips, what say should citizens have?
Move over Mills and Boon, the HOT SCIENTISTS are here
June 12, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBMeet the neuroscientist turned bestselling rom-com novelist who's exposing the underbelly of science, the passion, and the power games.
The STEAM Room science experiment — I wannabe a stand-up comic!
June 05, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBWould you be game? Hear what happened when scientists make themselves vulnerable AND hilarious.
The STEAM Room science experiment - I wannabe a stand-up comic!
June 05, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBWould you be game? Hear what happened when scientists make themselves vulnerable AND hilarious.
How two short words triggered a racism reckoning for plant scientists
May 29, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35 MBTwo words. Tweeted then deleted. A meeting meltdown. Has #BlackLivesMatter put international science on notice?
The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure (REPEAT)
May 22, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBLace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.
The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind (REPEAT)
May 15, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBNature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.
Should Big Pharma profit from secret COVID-19 vaccine deals? Moderna responds
May 08, 2022 07:05 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBBig Pharma has helped get life-saving COVID-19 vaccines into billions of arms. The profits are pouring in, but at what cost?
Feeling a bit hopeless? Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall is here for YOU
May 01, 2022 07:05 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBJane Goodall wants you to gird your loins. What does that mean? Well ... for hope, push PLAY.
Scratch that itch! She of flamenco flair and molecular dances
April 24, 2022 07:05 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBBy day, she's making molecules dance. By night, this vintage fashionista has a different dance on her mind.
AI ethics leader Timnit Gebru is changing it up after Google fired her
April 17, 2022 07:05 - 30 minutes - 42 MBTimnit Gebru was fired by Google in a cloud of controversy, now she's making waves beyond Big Tech's pervasive influence
World-first pig to human heart transplant. What happened?
April 10, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBYou need a new organ. But there aren't enough to go around. Would you accept one from a pig? Hearts, kidneys, corneas ... xenotransplantation is here.
Scratch that itch! Meet the Sneaky Artist
April 03, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBIndian-born engineer Nishant Jain flew in the face of expectations to radically reinvent himself as the Sneaky Artist
Escaping Russia's new Iron Curtain - superstar science podcaster Ilya Kolmanovsky
March 27, 2022 06:05 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBIlya Kolmanovsky is a popular science superstar in Russia. Like so many anti-Putin activists, he’s just made the most wrenching decision of his life.
Foodies, why you should give a f*** about farming!
March 20, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBWhy are we so weirdly paradoxical about food? Food, farms, revolution with two women closer to it all than most.
The gun dealer’s defence — on nukes, fossil fuels, and Australia
March 13, 2022 06:05 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBIf you sell the gun but don’t pull the trigger ... are you to blame?
Breaking Buruli, part two
March 06, 2022 06:05 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBAfter 25 years of painstaking research, could scientists be getting close to unlocking the mysteries of Buruli ulcer?
Breaking Buruli, Part One
February 27, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBWhen people from a small beach town on Phillip Island started developing severe skin lesions, scientists were left scratching their heads as to what was causing them.
Breaking Buruli, part one
February 27, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBWhen people from a small beach town on Phillip Island started developing severe skin lesions, scientists were left scratching their heads as to what was causing them.
Masha and Dasha
February 20, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBDespite being very different people, sisters Masha and Dasha spent their entire lives conjoined.
Twinning!
February 13, 2022 06:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MBA pair of twin girls is born in the late 1980s and their mother is told a series of ‘facts’ about them. But just how much of what she was told is true?
Does Omicron spell the end of Covid-zero in China?
February 06, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBCovid-zero was once a dream pursued by many countries, but the arrival of highly transmissible variants has brought an end to such aspirations for most. However there is one place where the Covid-zero dream is still alive: China.
Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do (REPEAT)
January 30, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBA sliding door moment. A test of character. A career on the line. What would you do?
The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world (REPEAT)
January 23, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBFew scientists can say they saved the planet. Paul Crutzen did. Legit. (RN Summer highlight)
Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice (REPEAT)
January 16, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBDark Matter sleuth. #BlackinSTEM pioneer. Particles for Justice co-founder. This incredible physicist will change your sense of the universe and your role in it. (RN Summer highlight)
Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers (REPEAT)
January 09, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBPass the scalpel - taxidermy is on the menu. (RN Summer highlight)
I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood (REPEAT)
January 02, 2022 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBThis scientist's childhood in a cult was... wild. The light and dark of the path to enlightenment. (RN Summer highlight)
From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel (REPEAT)
December 26, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBNo-one thought they would work. This dogged scientist persisted with a difficult idea. Now it's driving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. (RN Summer highlight)
Science meets high vaudeville - who will win our 2021 quiz?
December 19, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBTwo teams. Scientists and science journalists. And your quiz mistress with a whip. Let the mischief begin.
Nature Fast, Nature Slow - ballistic mushrooms, moss piglets and more!
December 12, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBBlink and you'll miss it. Eyes wide open and you can't comprehend it. Life beats to all kinds of pulses.
The Lost Family - how DNA testing is upending our lives
December 05, 2021 06:05 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBIs the era of family secrets over? Is love deeper than DNA?
Two guys. Two kayaks. And 2500km to make the Murray River sing
November 28, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBIf a controversial river could speak, what would it say? Climb aboard and be prepared to get wet.
Get me out of here! My life in medical research is on life support
November 21, 2021 06:05 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBFrank, fearless stories of personal reinvention and career resuscitation. Are we giving young scientists false hope?
Carbon capture and storage – climate saviour or fantasy?
November 14, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBThe Australian government wants to use technology to keep the fossil fuel dream alive. But will it work?
Net Zero by 2050 - is the Earth at the negotiating table at COP26?
November 07, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBCrunch time at the COP26 Climate conference. Is Net Zero by 2050 a distraction? ABC Environment reporter Nick Kilvert joins Natasha and guests.
Sex cells! Are there just two biological sexes? [Part 2 of 2]
October 31, 2021 06:05 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBSex is complicated. Oh yes indeed.
Simón(e) Sun - I knew I was trans because of science [Part 1]
October 24, 2021 06:05 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBScience is way personal.
In deep: Why mining is heading to the seafloor
October 17, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBIs the key to a battery-powered future lying 4000 metres below the sea surface?
In deep: why mining is heading to the seafloor
October 17, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBIs the key to a battery-powered future lying 4000 metres below the sea surface?
What's up Doc? Elmer Fudd meets biological warfare
October 10, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MB12 rabbits that turned a nation crazy. Cue: a plague, the founder of immunology, a famous actress, and ten million dollars.
My Afghanistan escape - just a body, not a soul, or a heart (Part 2)
October 03, 2021 06:05 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBA life and death mission. An extraordinary relationship.
What happens when your students join the Taliban? Afghan scientists in hiding (Part 1)
September 26, 2021 07:05 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBThey were pursuing their dreams, now they're running for their lives. Afghan scholars speak. Will the world listen?
Afghan scientists in hiding - what happens when your students join the Taliban?
September 26, 2021 07:05 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBThey were pursuing their dreams, now they are running for their lives. Afghan scholars speak. Will the world listen?
What happens when your students join the Taliban? Afghan scientists in hiding
September 26, 2021 07:05 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBThey were pursuing their dreams, now they're running for their lives. Afghan scholars speak. Will the world listen?
We've got cosmic vertigo!
September 19, 2021 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBThis deadly pair of scientists are smashing ... barriers.
The art of more - did maths create civilisation?
September 12, 2021 07:05 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBOne, two, three ... and then ... more. When humans learnt how to count to more, then came mayhem and marvels. Bestselling science writer Dr Michael Brooks on The Art of More.
The virus busters: how do you kill something that's not really alive?
September 05, 2021 07:05 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBRaymond Schinazi has been fighting viruses his whole career, with some mighty wins against these molecular mischief makers. Can we learn from the past to treat this coronavirus?