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  • Carnivorous Pineapple Controversy
    Ian Woolf reports on vegetables that eat prey, and bats who live inside them.
    Nathan Sinclair explains why most published research is wrong.
    Ian Woolf reports on vitamin D and baldness.
    Oliver Featherston speaks with Catriona Bonfiglioli about Science journalism.
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    29 min
  • Frozen memories and sex tentacles
    In the science news Therese Chen reports on the Tassie Devil Facial Tunour Disease and gobies with a Napolean Complex.
    Ian Woolf interviews Phillip Rhoades about freezing brains to store memories,
    Dr James Gilbert joins Julie-Anne Popple in studio to talk about kinky bush cricket sex.

    28 min
  • Tassie Devil's Dilemma and the Big Chill
    In this week's science news: singing gibbons, (nearly) toothles rats, mars curiousity in space and angry birds!
    Dr Beata Ujvari speaks to Julie-Anne Popple about the plight of the tasmanian devil. Therese Chen reports on the Big Chill theory challenging the Big Bang.
    Produced and presented by Julie-Anne Popple

    29 min
  • Dragons, astronauts and surveillance
    Ian Woolf reports on zombies, quantum computers, and DNA data storage.
    Ian Woolf reports on the life and death of Neil Armstrong,
    Julie-Anne Popple spoke to Dr Beata Ujvarti about the impact of cane toads on goanna and Komodo dragon populations.
    Ian Woolf reports on the new data retention laws making their way around the world.
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
    29 min
  • Wallaby, damaged doubt, rat pilots
    Julie-Anne Popple discusses the foraging behaviour of swamp wallabies with Miguel Bedoya-Perez.
    Ian Woolf finds out how damage to your brain can reduce your ability to doubt your beliefs.
    Julie-Anne Popple reports on dog shaking, cave spiders and denting diamonds.
    Ian Woolf reports on rat brains that fly planes
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
    29 min
  • Belief updating kiwi
    Part 2 of How To Change Your Mind by Nathan Sinclair,
    Lindsey Gray talks about Kiwis with Julie-Anne Popple,
    Therese Chen reports on:
    - Curiosity
    - Attenborough's Goblin
    - dolphin subcluture
    - oldest insect fossil
    James Millar reports on the ITER fusion reactor project
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
    29 min
  • How to change your mind, snakes on a plane
    Nathan Sinclair explains How to change your mind,
    Professor Mike Thompson spoke with Julie-Anne Popple about the time he got a snake on a plane,
    Ian Woolf reports on the lack of Dark Matter,
    James Millar reports on the accelerating Universe,
    Ian Woolf reports on permanent sexual side-effects to a hair loss treatment,
    Julie-Anne reports on suspicions of salty oceans on Titan,
    Ian Woolf reports on rat-jellyfish cyborgs,
    Ian Woolf reports on the attack on Professor Steve Mann's cybernetic visual aide in a Paris McDonalds.
    Presented by James Millar,
    Produced by Ian Woolf
    29 min
  • Frogs, wallabies and troubled turtles
    Julie-Anne delivers the science news: sexy dumpling squid, holy mars and space gopher.

    Julie-Anne Popple interviews Miguel Bedoya-Perez about finding rare frogs and swamp wallabies. Professor Mike Thompson speaks to Julie-Anne about the plight of turtles in the Murray River.

    Presented and produced by Julie-Anne Popple
    27 min
  • Sizzled intelligence retention
    Julie-Anne Popple reports on the global warming comedy Sizzle with a hot issues discussion panel of Randy Olsen, Dr Rod Lamberts, Professor Lesley Hughes, and Professor Tim Flannery.
    Ian Woolf reports on: license to crime, artificial intelligence finds cats on youtube, mind-controlled robot avatars, and milk chasers make you stronger.
    Observations from James Millar, and Nathan Sinclair

    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf
    29 min
  • Higgs tastes dark tendrils
    Victoria Bond and Ian Woolf discuss the discovery by the team at the Large Hadron Collider,
    Victoria Bond reports on Dark Tendrils,
    Ian Woolf reports on how taste affects judgements, the speechjammer, and activating your immune system to save people from fatal flu.
    Presented and produced by Ian Woolf

    29 min

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