Episodes

Two views of a styrofoam coffee cup that was carried on the RV Investigator in 2017 and crushed by water pressure in a 4000 m deep abyss (Photo by Chris Lassig)

National Science Week! Fish at the museum, disposables at the gallery, and events around Australia

8 Aug 2019
Dianne Bray and Tilly Boleyn
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Magnetised liquid droplets spinning in unison (Image by Xubo Liu et al./Berkeley Lab)

Asteroid armageddon, apple bacteria, and liquid magnets

1 Aug 2019
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Meteorites may not look like you expect

Brain implants to read minds, the search for alien life and the value of meteorites

25 Jul 2019
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Jacinta Bowles
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Buzz Aldrin with some of Apollo 11's scientific equipment. In the foreground is the Passive Seismic Experiment Package, and behind it is the Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector (Photo taken by Neil Armstrong, NASA)

Full moon feature: Apollo 11 science, Soviet moon missions, and moon trees

18 Jul 2019
Jacinta Bowler
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Ancient Indigenous aquaculture, the Spanish flu and very old fungi!

11 Jul 2019
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Boiling mud in Rotorua

Mud volcanos, demon eyed animals and algorithms in Magic: the gathering

4 Jul 2019
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Jacinta Bowles
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Endometriosis examined and cold fusion reheated

27 Jun 2019
Eliza Colgrave
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Tech wars: The good, the bad, and the misused

20 Jun 2019
Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Macadamia nut clones and quarks

13 Jun 2019
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Ovulo siendo fecundado por espermatozoide. Esquema 3D. No respeta las proporciones. No se muestra corona radiada (Image by ScienceGenetics [CC BY-SA 3.0])

Australia's spider-woman, and how fertility changes with age

6 Jun 2019
Kiri Beilby
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