Ockham's Razor - Program Podcast

It might be the ultimate dream for preppers and Trekkies: life in a Dyson sphere. Astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker takes us to a possible distant future via the physics of continuous economic growth.

Collaborating with an artist to bring Tassie wildlife science to a broader audience has created a dilemma for saltmarsh researcher Vishnu Prahalad.

Sheila Pham always thought it would be great to have kids; but one thing that worried her was what you had to go through beforehand.

It all starts with tubes of warm, thick, gooey fat delivered fresh to the lab.

Only a fraction of health research makes its way into clinical practice. And it takes years to make the journey.

Move over gut: it's time to meet the vaginal microbiome.

Crystals aren't just beautiful - they tell stories that can help answer some of the big questions of our planet's past - and our own.

It's one thing to big note yourself. But the founder of the Church of Scientology is guilty of scientific fraud, explains author and investigative journalist Steve Cannane.

Geophysicists might expect to face earthquakes or volcanoes in their work. But Kate Selway has to factor hungry Polar bears into her research.

Archimedes had the original Eureka moment in the bath. Mathematician Geordie Williamson had a geometry-shattering insight in the shower. Where do our ideas come from?

Dr Jim Leavesley on the other John Snow, cholera and the birth of epidemiology. (First broadcast September 5, 2004).

Robyn Arianrhod with the story of an Elizabethan mathematician you've never heard of.

Trashy mags are full of stories about love among the stars. But astrophysicist Devika Kamath has discovered what happens when real stars hook-up -- and is rewriting the astronomy textbooks as a result!

Maritime archaeology doesn’t sound super-sexy, but Emily Jateff's work has taken her to some extraordinary places – like to the Titanic. Four times!

Medical research is full of in vitro and in vivo experiments, but mathematicians are tackling tumors with in silico studies.

When a young Gold Coast stonemason died from silicosis in March, it was branded 'the new asbestosis'. But the media couldn't have been more wrong.

An unlikely group of women played an important role in the early days of fertility treatments.

The robots are coming, but - phew! - they're only stealing some of our jobs.

There's nothing criminals love more than finding a branch of crime that pays, but is poorly enforced - like wildlife trafficking. Can science fight back? Lydia Tong thinks so.

Fungi are behind everything from blue cheese and truffles to zombi-making head spikes. And that's just the ones we know about it.