Synopsis
Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.
Episodes
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The Leadership film - Do Women Scientists Lead Differently?
16/08/2020 Duration: 37minSeventy-six women and a boatload of spin and soul-searching on the way to Antarctica. What happened next?
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Was Einstein's wife the hidden contributor on his most famous works? Part 2 (Repeat)
09/08/2020 Duration: 33minHow much did Einstein’s first wife contribute to his work? Mileva's supporters and skeptics go head to head over the evidence in Part 2 of this Science Friction series.
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Who was Einstein’s first wife? Part 1 - Debate heats up over Mileva's role in Albert’s science (Repeat)
02/08/2020 Duration: 26minWho was Einstein’s first wife? Muse or collaborator? The plot thickens. The battlelines are drawn.
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Medical misinformation, COVID-19, Big Data and Black Lives Matter
26/07/2020 Duration: 37minCOVID-19 is a pandemic of medical misinformation. But could it also provoke a revolt in ivory tower culture? Two scientists talk big data, big visions and Black Lives Matter.
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Climate in the Courtroom Part 3: Big Energy, big typhoons and a big fight for justice
19/07/2020 Duration: 25minArtist A.G. survived. Now the fossil fuel industry is in the cross-hairs. Correction: The President of the Philippines in 2013 was Benigno Aquino III.
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Climate in the Courtroom Part 2: A fossil fuel company is sued. Now it speaks.
12/07/2020 Duration: 38minA giant energy company is being sued. Now it speaks. So does the scientist who's become a thorn in their side over fossil fuels. Is the courtroom the new frontier for climate action?
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Climate in the Courtroom Part 1: Why is this Peruvian farmer suing Germany's largest power company RWE?
05/07/2020 Duration: 30minIn this playground of adventurers and mountain home to Peruvians, they don't know if or when it will happen. But they want fossil fuel companies to pay.
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The Animals: Laura Jean McKay, James Bradley, Chris Flynn's wild re-imaginings of other species
30/06/2020 Duration: 51minA Neanderthal girl lives amongst us. A mammoth narrates history. The animals speak to us. 3 novelists with surreally timed stories.
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From chaos to calm...and a whole universe in between
28/06/2020 Duration: 25minA sonic adventure into the minds of scientists
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When fake facts go viral: Islamic science, Medieval medicine and the history police
21/06/2020 Duration: 25minDon't believe everything you see. Art, science and the curious making of fake news.
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The mystery of two millionaires and two IVF embryos: The Trouble with Embryos
14/06/2020 Duration: 30minA mystery about two Californian millionaires and two "orphan" embryos at the very beginning of the IVF revolution.
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The carnivorous woman – a saga from Charles Darwin to Wheatbelt Western Australia (Part 2)
07/06/2020 Duration: 37minA flesh-eating botanical saga. Outside the hallowed halls of science, revolutions are made.
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A wild and whimsical world of flesh-eating plants (Part 1)
31/05/2020 Duration: 25minFrom Day of the Triffids to Little Shop of Horrors, meet a most sagacious animal. What the hell is a plant doing eating flesh?
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The Gendered Brain - Gina Rippon and myth shattering neuroscience
24/05/2020 Duration: 35minGirls. Boys. Brains. Biology. Society. The game of Whac-A-Mole that is the science of sex differences.
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The Scientist and the Spy - China, the FBI, espionage, and racism
17/05/2020 Duration: 31minA shady story about seeds, China, the FBI, and industrial espionage. Mara Hvistendahl delves into America's pursuit of ethnic Chinese scientists.
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The Big PhD Pause - postgraduate students, COVID-19, and the next brain drain? (Science Interrupted Part 3)
10/05/2020 Duration: 33minDoing is a PhD can screw with your mind at the best of times. Isolating and exciting all at once. What’s happening to PhD students locked out labs worldwide right now? What will their options be as the clock ticks towards D(eadline) Day?
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The Ruins of Science - a story of misdirected medical power
03/05/2020 Duration: 26minIn the 1960s, when gay sex was still treated as a crime in Australia, science intervened in shocking ways.
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PREVIEW RN Presents — Hot Mess: Why haven’t we fixed climate change?
01/05/2020 Duration: 04minWhat do we know, what will it take, and why have we struggled to effectively act on climate change? Don't miss the compelling new series, Hot Mess.
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The astrophysicist and immunologist dropping everything to help save you from COVID19 - Science Interrupted Part 2
26/04/2020 Duration: 36minExploding stars and killer cells. Then comes a pandemic. Drop everything. Head into the battle-zone. It's Survivor but not as you know it.
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Science, Interrupted - lives, loves, labs upended by COVID19
19/04/2020 Duration: 37minExtraordinary scientists doing extraordinary things. Then came the pandemic.