The Cosmos Podcast

The Cosmos Podcast

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The Cosmos Podcast episodes

  • Science Daily: Medicinal microrobots

    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 science graduate specialising in genetics, immunology and citizen science, Imma Perfetto, is talking about turning white blood cells into medicinal microrobots. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who really hopes that these medicinal microrobots look like tiny versions of Rosey from the Jetsons.

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    8 min
  • Science Daily: Remote area electric vehicles

    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 electric vehicles in remote Australia, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who recently learnt that apparently the human body, at rest, can produce around 100 watts of power on average, which is enough electricity to power a light bulb ... but not an electric vehicle.

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    8 min
  • Science Daily: Electron whirlpools

    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 Master of Physics graduate, Evrim Yazgin, is unpacking electron whirlpools. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who loves a whirlpool but didn’t know that electrons do too.

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    6 min
  • What is the potential for psychedelics in mental healthcare?

    Psychedelics have a lot of potential in mental healthcare - but how do we take them from experimental to the clinic? To get some answers Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to Josh Ismin, CEO and co-founder of Psylo, and Dr Sam Banister, Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Psylo.

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    10 min
  • Science Daily: Tick bites and mammalian meat allergies

    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 tick bites and mammalian meat allergies, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who has never been bitten by a tick, but also has no intention of doing so in the future.

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    8 min
  • Science Daily: Gene therapy for sickle cell disease

    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 science graduate specialising in genetics, immunology and citizen science, Imma Perfetto, is updating us on gene therapy for sickle cell disease. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who is grateful for the scientist tackling horrible diseases like this one.

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    8 min
  • Science Daily: A new species of extinct kangaroo

    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 Master of Physics graduate, Evrim Yazgin, is unpacking a new species of extinct kangaroo found in Papua New Guinea. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist whose favourite macropod is the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby.

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    6 min
  • Science Daily: A new approach to feral cats

    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 gene drives and feral cats, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who, appropriately, thinks feral cats are bad.

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    9 min
  • Science Daily: Huge bacteria!

    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 evolutionary biologist, Qamariya Nasrullah, is talking to us about bacteria so big, you can see it with the naked eye, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who can’t work out if the idea of macroscopic bacteria is more troubling than nipple mites.

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    6 min
  • Science Daily: Concentrating sunlight for solar panels

    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 science graduate specialising in genetics, immunology and citizen science, Imma Perfetto, is updating us on a prototype device for solar panels that concentrates sunlight. And your host Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and grateful exploiter of light waves.

    Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website

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    9 min

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