The Cosmos Podcast

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 is Ellen Phiddian, and she is talking to us about space rock hunting in the desert using AI. Your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and AI skeptic, and someone who finds drones very suspicious.

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This is the first episode of 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 biology graduate specialising in the human micro biome is Matilda Handsley-Davis. She’s unpacking Japanese encephalitis with your Cosmos Science Daily host Sophie Calabretto, herself a mathematician specialising in fluid mechanics, and the Honorary Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and Honorary Associate Professor, at the ACE Research Group, University of Leicester. And special thanks to Ali Zaid (Griffith University), Nigel Beebe (University of Queensland), Tom Schmidt and Perran Ross (both University of Melbourne) for their assistance with this story. 

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Today, Cosmos journalist Matilda Handsley-Davis talks to Luke Williams. Luke is a proud descendant of the Gumbaynggirr people of northern NSW. He is currently completing his PhD project at RMIT University, and this project involves assessing the dietary safety of a range of native Australian foods, including traditional Aboriginal foods. He is also exploring how food regulatory frameworks can better accommodate the traditional knowledge held by First Nations people into the overall risk assessment of traditional food products that are being developed for commercial markets.

As part of his PhD research, Luke is actively bringing together the research sector and the national food regulatory body, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) with a range of First Nations stakeholders. The ultimate goal of Luke’s research is to facilitate First Nations food sovereignty through an Indigenous-led native foods industry.

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Big problems call for solutions driven by bold vision, and Minderoo’s Fire Shield project is just that. Using existing and developing space-based technologies, Fire Shield’s ambition is to create a system that can detect bushfires and extinguish them before they become a problem – and to have this capability within five years.

Today Professor Alan Duffy, Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University, and former lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia, talks to Adrian Turner, CEO of Mindaroo Foundation's fire and flood resilience Initiative, a program changing the way we deal with systemic fire and flood risk, helping to shift our national focus from response and recovery to disaster preparedness and resilience. 

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Today, for International Women’s Day, Cosmos journalist Matilda Handsley-Davis talks to Lauren Hanson from CSIRO. Lauren is a mechanical engineer in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group at CSIRO’s Data 61 and her major work interest is mechanical design of robots. She was a member of the CSIRO Data61 team who competed at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge – AKA the robot Olympics – last year as covered in issue 93 of Cosmos magazine.  

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In this episode of our weekly series where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom bring you their highlights from the week in science, we hear that not all carbon capture is as good as it sounds, why your kitchen sponge is a bacterial wonderland, and how a genetic risk variant for severe COVID-19 actually protects against HIV. Our journalists today are Amalyah Hart, Imma Perfetto and Ellen Phiddian.  

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Today we look at nanotechnology. What is it? What's interesting in nanotechnology at the moment? And what it’s like to test a new technology on animals, and then humans? To get some insights, Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to Professor Benjamin Eggleton, the Director of The University of Sydney Nano Institute, and co-Director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN).

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In this episode of our weekly series where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom bring you their highlights from the week in science, we hear about how dinosaurs may have caught colds and got goosebumps, talk about some of our favourite scientists to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and reveal some of the interesting science stories behind this year’s Winter Olympics. Our journalists today are Jamie Priest, Imma Perfetto and Ellen Phiddian.  

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Today, Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian reads a story that she wrote for the Cosmos website, and you can find the link to the story in the description. In it she examines whether Australia should revive its once flourishing vehicle manufacturing industry, however this time it would be different – electric vehicles.

You can find the original article at https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/energy/onshore-ev-manufacturing-australia-electric-vehicles/

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In this episode of our weekly series where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom bring you their highlights from the week in science, we hear about the crows being put to work – and the ethics of it, 300-year-old Arctic sponges, and a self-cleaning bioplastic modelled on the lotus plant. Our journalists today are Lauren Fuge, Amalyah Hart and Ellen Phiddian.  

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