Diffusion Science Radio

Ian Woolf

Diffusion Science Radio is broadcast each week from Sydney, Australia.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science

    Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology won the 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. I spoke with her in 2021 about how we can improve indoor air quality to reduce the transmission of COVID19, and other airborne diseases. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

  2. 2 NOV

    Sin science, Mystique, and pill problems

    From 2009: Listen to Marc West ask Dr Chris Pettigrew how Mystique's disguise super-powers might really work, Charles Willock reports on the distribution of sin in the USA, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie discuss lesser known side effects of the contraceptive pill News by Victoria Bond: - protons re-introduced to the LHC - Swine flu is nothing to sneeze at - rebuilding glaciers - electric field therapy kills cancer Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

  3. 26 OCT

    Luna Park, and Wolverine part 2

    From 2010: Listen to part 2 of Wolverine science from Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew, Ant martyrs by Victoria Bond Hot stuff at the RHIC with Olli Barrand King Tut's diagnosis by Catherine Beehag CSIRO's fleck nano tags your stuff by Catherine Beehag, Bees dance to bee dopamine in lab raves by Ollie Barrand, Lunar reserve created to protect the Tranquility lunar landing site by Ollie Barrand Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

  4. 19 OCT

    2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine, learning online banned

    Listen to the 2025 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for the discovery of regulatory T-cells calming the immune system and stopping it from attacking the body. News of YouTube and GitHub banned for kids, and perhaps Wikipedia. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap Merchandise

  5. 12 OCT

    2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry

    The 2025 Nobel prizes were won for quantum tunneling and quantisation in a macroscopic circuit, and for the discovery of metal organic framework molecules to create new materials with novel properties. Lets find out what they achieved! Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution > Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap Merchandise

  6. 28 SEPT

    Knots and Networks - part 3

    Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the biology, anthropology and beauty of knots. News of automated democracy! Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap Merchandise

  7. 21 SEPT

    Knots and Networks - part 2

    Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about how knitting and neural networks are just complicated knots, and how imagining a donut shaped world gives us applications in the real world. All the age verification news! Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap Merchandise

  8. 14 SEPT

    Knots and Networks - part 1

    Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the mathematics and science of knots, weaving, networks and neural networks - part 1 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap Merchandise

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