Einstein A Go-Go

The team provides an update on a wide array of topics including, a highly radioactive puck lost somewhere in Western Australia, meat-eating mushrooms, and shape shifting robots. Then, Associate Professor Jane Bourke from Monash University joins the team to discuss silicosis - what it is and what is being explored to prevent it? And Professor Lauren Rickards, currently from RMIT but soon to be Latrobe University, provides an update on the subtle changes and challenges we can expect from climate change, and how adaptation will occur. With presenters Dr. Shane, Dr. Laura, and Dr. Ailie.

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Australia has seen a tidal wave of cheap and highly addictive e-cigarettes cross our borders and flood our communities, and Dr Sandro Demaio, CEO of VicHealth, explains why he believes the Government should do more to protect the next generation vulnerable to nicotine; Georgia Watson from Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF) talks about her trip to Antarctica in 2022 and the long term study she's conducting to measure the stressors from climate change affecting Antarctica's ecosystem; and Gail Hall, Co-Founder of the Australasian Green Infrastructure Network, discusses Australia’s growing green infrastructure sector and its necessity for improving urban liveability and resilience. She cites the need for an industry association that represents the interests of its members across academia, government and industry and advocates for the design, construction and maintenance of green infrastructure. With presenters Dr Shane, Dr Lauren and Chris KP.

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An influx of La Nińa; Dr Robert Steadmen’s work on the famous “Feels Like” aspect of temperature; the possible resurrection of the Thylacine; Humans cohabiting with dextrous cockatoos; favourite smells and musical harmony of civilisations; the effects of music on aging Emmental cheese; the first images of the James Webb Space Telescope; using leeches to map animal movement; the language of fungi; the living planet index; the human genome sequencing finally completed; new U.S. legislation reducing greenhouse gas emissions; new octopus behaviours discovered; using the environment (sharks) to study the environment (seagrass beds); and the Artemis Launch. With presenters Dr Shane, Chris KP, Dr Linden, Gracey, Dr. Euan, Dr Jen, Stacey and Dr. Ray.
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Dr Rachel Nelligan, Physiotherapist, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Health Exercise and Sports Medicine, Department of Physiotherapy, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, talks about her award-winning free digital educational program for osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a chronic joint condition ranked the 12th highest contributor to global disability, and evidence shows that many people with osteoarthritis are not receiving high-value care, such as appropriate education and exercise therapies. And in weekly science news, the team discuss potatoes, NASA's Artemis mission, reproducibility segment part 2, and the big benefit silence has in relaxing us. With presenters Dr. Shane, Dr. Jen, and Graci.
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Do we drive trucks through nature reserves? Presenters Dr Shane, Dr Ray, Dr Ailie and Dr Graci discover the answer is… sort of! Also: Wildlife scientist Dr Vanessa Pirotta has found that over 18% of Australia’s marine parks had shipping exposure in excess of 365 vessels per year for the last few years, which is particularly troublesome for our ocean megafauna (big things like whales and sharks) who are impacted by both the water and sound pollution. And Clinical haematologist Dr Ashley Ng talks about her specialist work with stem cells, which has won him one of the 2022 National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia’s Metcalf Prizes, and he shares a little about how blood stem cells are controlled, and how they sometimes go rogue, leading to blood cancers.

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Zahrah Azman, Perinatal PhD Student at The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, talks about her research on foetal growth restriction (FGR), which is a common pregnancy complication affecting up to 10% of pregnancies in Australia and is defined as the failure of a baby to reach its biological growth potential; Professor Patrick Humbert, Director of the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS), and Dr Jens Hauslage from the German Aerospace Centre, talk about recent experiments they conducted 250km above the Earth on a tiny animal, the Trichoplax, whose ancient biological mechanisms could be used to develop therapeutic or preventative measures for human cancer; and Stefanie Bader, a PhD Candidate at the Pellegrini Laboratory (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) explains her research into better understanding how SARS-CoV-2 is causing severe disease and death, and why the immune system is sometimes ‘overreacting’ to an infection, leading to a more severe illness. With presenters Dr Shane and Dr Laura.

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Dr Felice Jacka OAM, Professor of Nutritional Psychiatry, and Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, and founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research, explains the history of developing a "whole system" approach to psychiatry - especially the link of nutrition and food to brain health. Felice and the team explore poo transplants as a new treatment for people with depression, and also her experiences at NASA advising on nutrition in space and how to preserve gut diversity and keeping astronauts healthy on a long voyage to Mars.

In science news, Dr Lauren chats about the lifespan of bees, and Dr Gemma Sharp talks about how breathing impacts how we think. And Dr Shane brings his enthusiasm for rocket launches in discussing NASA's recent attempts to launch the Artemis I rocket. With presenters Dr. Shane and Dr. Lauren.

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Presenter Dr Shane is joined by co-hosts Euan, Graci and Chris KP. In science news they explore octopodes throwing things; treatments for nightmares; and trees causing extinction events. Then, Nicola Jorgensen, archeology Masters student at the University of Sydney, talks about recent Norfolk Island archaeological finds, and Dina Pogrebnoy, PhD Candidate, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, explains the latest research about strokes; and Graci talks about science reproducibility.

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The team provides an update on the latest COVID variants, and explore the latest science news such as camera wielding tiger sharks, microscopy, King Tut's tomb, and Gracey provides insight into a range of extinct (and quite scary!) animals. Then, Dr Joseph Tucci, Associate Professor in Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacy Discipline Lead, Department of Rural Clinical Sciences, La Trobe Rural Health School, tells the team about the difference between and future of antibiotics and bacteriophages. With presenters Dr. Shane, Dr. Stacey, Dr. Ray, and Gracey.

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Writer Anna Spargo Ryan talks about her new book  'A Kind of Magic: A memoir about Anxiety, Our Minds, and Optimism in Spite of it All'; Emma Harding from the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the UNSW Sydney, who used the UNSW supercomputer Katana to comb through petabytes of amphibian and reptile RNA data in search of new viruses, explains how there are millions of undiscovered viruses globally and her search has found roughly one new virus per ten samples. And Dr Lincon Stamp and Marlene Hao from the Department of Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Melbourne, talk about how there are more bacteria in your gut than there are cells in your body! These bugs can have a big impact on your health and your mood, and they are sensitive to what we eat. With presenters Dr. Shane, Dr. Ray, and Stacey.

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