247 episodes
The Science Show ABC Radio
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4.5 • 708 Ratings
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The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.
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Academy calls for increased science funding, DNA used to nab wildlife smugglers, and worms reveal secrets of brains and memory.
The Australian Academy of Science has called for a review of science funding in Australia.
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Helping young children after burn injury, inside the minds of teens, and behind the scenes at London’s Natural History Museum
In the final Strange Frontiers, Carl Smith takes us into the vault at one of the world’s greatest archives of natural history.
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Autonomous minibus and predicting the behaviour of pedestrians
Carl Smith takes us to the Estonian capital Tallinn to ride an autonomous minibus.
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Harry Butler honoured and how a scientist fell in love with a fossil
Murdoch University's Harry Butler Institute honours the well-known warrior for the environment.
Customer Reviews
Best Science Show
Have listened to Robbin for many many years and find this show informative and topical. It’s helped me keep abreast of global trends as well highlighting science in Australia. A magnificent show of cultural significance to Australia
Outstanding pedigree, refocus overdue
Having listened to the science show since a child, first on Radio National and more recently via podcast. I am unsubscribing in the hope that it re-focuses. What has great potential and still delivers occasionally (e.g. the summer series) as a forum for new science reporting from overseas and especially Australia is weighed down by bloated off-topic interviews that would be better in a separate podcast, and a presenter who is a avowedly anti-technology, anti-youth, and the possessor of a paperthin commitment to climate change, as evidenced by his insistence on travelling around the world for meetings instead of conducting them for online like the rest of us. All of this must be alienating to a large potential listener base. I will keep checking in in the hope that it returns to its core focus on such an important topic.
Encouraging curiosity
I find the science show encourages my curiosity in history, the sciences and music. It is a pleasure to listen.