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Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.

Every year, the European Academy of Science awards the Blaise Pascal medal to outstanding scientists. This year, Distinguished Professor Susan Scott has become the first Australian to receive the medal, “in recognition for her contributions to the advances of physics”.

According to the Academy, “Distinguished Professor Susan Scott is an internationally recognised mathematical physicist who has made ground-breaking discoveries in general relativity, cosmology and gravitational wave science spanning more than three decades.

“She played a leading role in Australia’s participation in the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, and the development of the field of gravitational wave science in Australia following on from that discovery.”

So, what exactly does that work entail? Cosmos sat down with Susan to find out.

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Welcome to 'Would You Rather' a podcast where Cosmos science journalists debate a topic and only one comes out the victor.

Today, Imma Perfetto and Matt Agius debate whether you would rather be bitten by a funnel-web spider or brown snake.  

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Welcome to 'Would You Rather' a podcast where Cosmos science journalists debate a topic and only one comes out the victor.

Today, Ellen Phiddian and Jacinta Bowler debate whether you would rather be on the International Space Station or an Antarctic research station - for the next 12 months.  

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Welcome to Behind The Scenes, where a Cosmos journalist pulls back the curtain to explore the exciting science in institutions around Australia. Today, Jacinta Bowler visits the palaeontology lab at Flinders University to talk with Professor Gavin Prideaux about his latest exciting discovery: a prehistoric mega-kangaroo.

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Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work. In this episode we're talking birdsong: Why do they sing? How do they learn? What happens if they can't hear each other? 

Cosmos science journalist Imma Perfetto talks to Dr Dominique Potvin, a behavioural ecologist, evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, and senior lecturer in Animal Ecology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, to find out what we know about chirps, chortles and the science of song.

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Today we are talking about the academic scientific peer review process, which ordinarily involves a journal sending a submitted paper out to other experts for assessment before they decide to publish the article, something which has become part of the normal process for and sign of a quality academic scientific journal.

This subject is increasingly important as more and more high-profile and impactful research articles are being retracted or placed under editorial “notices of concern” both in Australia and overseas. 

To learn more, Cosmos journalist Clare Kenyon talks to Dr Ivan Oransky, an acclaimed journalist and one of the creators of Retraction Watch, a site and database which collates, lists and discusses retractions and editorial notes of concern placed on peer-review journal article publications, and also Dr Elisabeth Bik, a Dutch-US microbiologist and image consultant especially renowned for her ability to detect image duplication and manipulation.”

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It's a big week for Cosmos Science Daily as it moves to its new home on the LiSTNR app under the name The Science Briefing – same host, same Cosmos newsroom; bigger and better. Today you get a sneak preview of just what The Science Briefing will be like – so make sure to download the LiSTNR app today.

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Big week for Cosmos Science Daily as it moves to its new home on the LiSTNR app under the name The Science Briefing – same host, same Cosmos newsroom; bigger and better. Your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto and for the last episode of Cosmos Science Daily on this channel, I’m joined by Cosmos editors Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum along with the newsroom to talk about what we learned, what we loved and what’s next.  

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Welcome to Cosmos Science Daily, where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom report on the latest research and discoveries and explain the science behind the headline news. Today’s newsroom journalist and chemistry whiz, Ellen Phiddian, is talking about disposable batteries made of paper, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who once made an origami penguin but never a battery.

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Welcome to Cosmos Science Daily, where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom report on the latest research and discoveries and explain the science behind the headline news. Today’s newsroom journalist, Matt Agius, is talking about brine pools at the bottom of the ocean, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, whose only relationship with brine also involves olives.

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