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A 30 second promotional trailer on why you should listen to Diffusion Science Radio
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Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology won the 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. I spoke with her in 2021 about how we can improve indoor air quality to reduce the transmission of COVID19, and other airborne diseases.
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From 2009: Listen to Marc West ask Dr Chris Pettigrew how Mystique's disguise super-powers might really work,
Charles Willock reports on the distribution of sin in the USA,
Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie discuss lesser known side effects of the contraceptive pill
News by Victoria Bond:
- protons re-introduced to the LHC
- Swine flu is nothing to sneeze at
- rebuilding glaciers
- electric field therapy kills cancer
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Charles Willock reports on the distribution of sin in the USA,
Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie discuss lesser known side effects of the contraceptive pill
News by Victoria Bond:
- protons re-introduced to the LHC
- Swine flu is nothing to sneeze at
- rebuilding glaciers
- electric field therapy kills cancer
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From 2010: Listen to part 2 of Wolverine science from Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew,
Ant martyrs by Victoria Bond
Hot stuff at the RHIC with Olli Barrand
King Tut's diagnosis by Catherine Beehag
CSIRO's fleck nano tags your stuff by Catherine Beehag,
Bees dance to bee dopamine in lab raves by Ollie Barrand,
Lunar reserve created to protect the Tranquility lunar landing site by Ollie Barrand
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Ant martyrs by Victoria Bond
Hot stuff at the RHIC with Olli Barrand
King Tut's diagnosis by Catherine Beehag
CSIRO's fleck nano tags your stuff by Catherine Beehag,
Bees dance to bee dopamine in lab raves by Ollie Barrand,
Lunar reserve created to protect the Tranquility lunar landing site by Ollie Barrand
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Listen to the 2025 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for the discovery of regulatory T-cells calming the immune system and stopping it from attacking the body. News of YouTube and GitHub banned for kids, and perhaps Wikipedia.
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The 2025 Nobel prizes were won for quantum tunneling and quantisation in a macroscopic circuit, and for the discovery of metal organic framework molecules to create new materials with novel properties. Lets find out what they achieved!
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From 2010:Listen to the science of Wolverine with Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew,
Marc West, Aaron Cooke and Ian Woolf discuss the science of superheroes.
News by Aaron Cooke;
- solar disinfectant
- Snails of Steel
- sticky cookware
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Marc West, Aaron Cooke and Ian Woolf discuss the science of superheroes.
News by Aaron Cooke;
- solar disinfectant
- Snails of Steel
- sticky cookware
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Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the biology, anthropology and beauty of knots. News of automated democracy!
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Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about how knitting and neural networks are just complicated knots, and how imagining a donut shaped world gives us applications in the real world. All the age verification news!
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Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the mathematics and science of knots, weaving, networks and neural networks - part 1
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From 2007:
2007 Science News by Ian Woolf,
Human evolution by Marc West,
Retrocausality by Tim Baynes,
Sperm wars by Darren Osbourne,
Science predictions for 2007 by Jacqui Hayes,Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag, Ian Woolf and Marc West. Produced and presented by Tilly Boleyn
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2007 Science News by Ian Woolf,
Human evolution by Marc West,
Retrocausality by Tim Baynes,
Sperm wars by Darren Osbourne,
Science predictions for 2007 by Jacqui Hayes,Lachlan Whatmore, Catherine Beehag, Ian Woolf and Marc West. Produced and presented by Tilly Boleyn
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Listen to James Vandeleur talk about Quantum Computer programming, particle physics, and the Casimir effect, in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 4,
Deep dive into the Casimir effect and quantum levitation.
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Deep dive into the Casimir effect and quantum levitation.
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Listen to James Vandeleau talk about Quantum Computers, in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 3.
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Listen to James Vandeleau talk about the history of Quantum physics, what it means and a demonstration with polarised sunglasses. News of scientists sacked, and eSafety failed.
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Listen to James Vandeleau talk about the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 1.
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