Ockham's Razor - Program Podcast

We need to encourage creativity and playfulness in Australia's young students ... if they're to solve the world's future problems.

You're a kilometre into an intricate network of caves and the water is rising fast … what next?

The future of our oceans depends on it.

We often call them 'natural disasters' — things like cyclones, bushfires and floods. But how 'natural' are they?

Science communicator Dr Chloe Warren sleuths for a study — widely reported in the media — that "bras make breasts sag faster."

Amid constant marketing calls for bacteria to be stopped, killed, wiped out — is there another way?

Men and women are increasingly reporting dissatisfaction with their genital appearance — so what do we do about it?

ABC News Breakfast weather presenter Nate Byrne loves the weather — and he wants you to love it too.

The classic Wonder Woman comics are credited to a Charles Moulton. But that's a pseudonym.

The dream — and the promise of endless science fiction novels — is a personalised flying car that can go wherever you please.

Concussion is not a simple condition played out in a matter of days or weeks following the initial trauma, argues Emeritus Professor Roger Rees.

Beyond the realm of research, there is a growing commercial 'stem cell' industry founded not on evidence but on the promise of success.

What's your shopping habit? And could computing power help tweak it?

Taste starts in the womb … and you can train it.

It's been said we know more about the back side of the moon than we do about parts of the Earth's oceans.

Are we experiencing a nationwide bout of semantic satiation when it comes to the phrase innovation?

Dr Fiona Simpson has spent her life working to create drugs that can treat deadly cancers.

Truly clean coal technology is not a myth, argues University of Newcastle chemical engineering researcher Dr Jessica Allen.

You can use virtual reality to stand next to a dinosaur or wander into Van Gogh's kitchen and inspect his famous chair. But what about seeing inside your own body?

Neuroscience PhD student Samuel Mills reflects — and shares a few stories about the brilliant neurologist and author — at Melbourne's Laborastory.