Scientists can now 'engineer' biological organisms never before found in Nature. What if they make a mistake, and a synthetic virus escapes the lab? Or a rogue mind turns to synthetic biology to wage bioterror? Is anyone watching?

Meet three couples who have taken their romances way further than most. Frank, passionate, hilarious stories of making it work.

Meet a 12 year old scientist who's got a whole lot of questions...enough to take you to the moon and back.

The battlelines are drawn, brains tuned, arguments sharpened and teeth gnashing as two teams go head to head at the BeakerStreet@TMAG festival at Hobart's Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery for National Science Week. Your fearless adjudicator, Science Friction host Natasha Mitchell, cannot and will not be bribed*. (*Except with wombats).

Why is a famous physicist and cosmologist usually interested in Big Questions about the Universe now diving into the deep history of cancer?