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  • 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine, learning online banned
    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.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    29 min
  • 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
    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!
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    29 min
  • Wolverine snails
    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
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    30 min
  • Knots and Networks - part 3
    Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the biology, anthropology and beauty of knots. News of automated democracy!
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    32 min
  • Knots and Networks - part 2
    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!
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    30 min
  • Knots and Networks - part 1
    Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the mathematics and science of knots, weaving, networks and neural networks - part 1
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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  • Retrocausality Again
    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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    28 min
  • The Quantum Age - part 4
    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.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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  • The Quantum Age - part 3
    Listen to James Vandeleau talk about Quantum Computers, in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 3.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    30 min
  • The Quantum Age - part 2
    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.
    Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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    29 min

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