Science Friction - Abc Rn

Despite being very different people, sisters Masha and Dasha spent their entire lives conjoined.

A pair of twin girls is born in the late 1980s and their mother is told a series of ‘facts’ about them. But just how much of what she was told is true?

Covid-zero was once a dream pursued by many countries, but the arrival of highly transmissible variants has brought an end to such aspirations for most. However there is one place where the Covid-zero dream is still alive: China.

A sliding door moment. A test of character. A career on the line. What would you do?

Few scientists can say they saved the planet. Paul Crutzen did. Legit. (RN Summer highlight)

Dark Matter sleuth. #BlackinSTEM pioneer. Particles for Justice co-founder. This incredible physicist will change your sense of the universe and your role in it. (RN Summer highlight)

Pass the scalpel - taxidermy is on the menu. (RN Summer highlight)

This scientist's childhood in a cult was... wild. The light and dark of the path to enlightenment. (RN Summer highlight)

No-one thought they would work. This dogged scientist persisted with a difficult idea. Now it's driving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. (RN Summer highlight)

Two teams. Scientists and science journalists. And your quiz mistress with a whip. Let the mischief begin.

Blink and you'll miss it. Eyes wide open and you can't comprehend it. Life beats to all kinds of pulses.

Is the era of family secrets over? Is love deeper than DNA?

If a controversial river could speak, what would it say? Climb aboard and be prepared to get wet.

Frank, fearless stories of personal reinvention and career resuscitation. Are we giving young scientists false hope?

The Australian government wants to use technology to keep the fossil fuel dream alive. But will it work?

Crunch time at the COP26 Climate conference. Is Net Zero by 2050 a distraction? ABC Environment reporter Nick Kilvert joins Natasha and guests.

Sex is complicated. Oh yes indeed.

Science is way personal.

Is the key to a battery-powered future lying 4000 metres below the sea surface?

12 rabbits that turned a nation crazy. Cue: a plague, the founder of immunology, a famous actress, and ten million dollars.