The Cosmos Podcast

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

Big dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex have been extinct for 66 million years, but it’s still fun to think about how they might interact with humans.

So, which dinosaur would make a good pet? Honestly, there are many decent options, but how can you look past the king, T. rex?

Cosmos journalist Evrim Yazgin recently spoke to world-famous palaeontologist Jack Horner – the inspiration behind Dr Alan Grant in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic film Jurassic Park. As a researcher from the University of Montana, Horner has spent a lot of time studying some of North America’s most famous dinosaurs like T. rex.

Horner says that certain biases in how we imagine dinosaurs lived and behaved aren’t quite up to date when it comes to the science. Rex, for example, probably wasn’t as much a hunter as we might like to believe.

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

After 31 years of planning, radio telescopes called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have finally begun construction. The Australian site in the Murchison region of WA – known as SKA-Low – will eventually comprise  over 130,000 Christmas tree-like antennae.

Today Cosmos journalist Jacinta Bowler talks to Professor Cathryn Trott, astronomer and Chief Operations Scientist at SKA-Low about her work at SKA-Low and what the array will achieve.

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

In mid-January this year, a Titan Arum (or corpse flower), nearly 10 years old, showed off its first ever bloom at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

The foul-smelling corpse flower only blooms for a couple of days every few years, so it's a cool thing to see.

But this corpse flower is particularly exciting because it’s the first “second generation” corpse flower at the Gardens to do it.

Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian visited the corpse flower while it was blooming, and I chatted to Matt Coulter, Botanic Garden and State Herbarium curator, about it.

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Your favourite Cosmos journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny, and odd questions that arose in science this year.

Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Centre for compiling the questions and hosting "Quizmas."

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Your favourite Cosmos journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny, and odd questions that arose in science this year.

Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Centre for compiling the questions and hosting "Quizmas."

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Your favourite Cosmos Science journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny and odd questions that arose in science this year.

Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Exchange for compiling the questioning and hosting "Quizmas."

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Your favourite Cosmos Science journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny and odd questions that arose in science this year.

Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Exchange for compiling the questioning and hosting "Quizmas."

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Your favourite Cosmos Science journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny and odd questions that arose in science this year.

Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Exchange for compiling the questioning and hosting "Quizmas."

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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, Cosmos journalists Petra Stock and Evrim Yazgin debate whether an ice age or a very warm interglacial would be a better place to be.

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

This year’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Science has gone to a mathematician who wondered how much heat is contained in a kilogram of seawater, while he was swimming in freshwater in Boston.

Trevor McDougall AC, Scientia Professor of Ocean Physics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales, has received the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, recognising “his transformative impact in the study of oceanography and ocean thermodynamics. “

Today Cosmos journalist Imma Perfetto talks to Scientia Professor McDougall about his work. 

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