Up and Atom

Dr. Alice Williamson is taking the week off, so Ruby was joined by Tom Gordon, who talked Pi Day, the speed of galaxy’s rotations, and batteries that run on water.

Dr. Alice Williamson joined Ruby to talk (potentially) Alzheimers curing light, and how polar bear fur can make bunnies invisible.

Dr. Alice Williamson is joined by Chemistry PhD candidate Kate Leslie for this International Women's Day special to talk fluorescent dye in cells and the end of cervical cancer.

Dr Alice Williamson is making science cool again with this chilly Winter Olympics Special. She talks plastic ice and quintuple spins on Up For It with Ruby Miles.

Dr Alice Williamson joined Ruby today, and we learned that magpies in larger groups are smarter, ecologists are planting prairies in our cities, and that somewhere out there is the loneliest frog in the world.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-02-08/australian-magpie-brain-power-boosted-by-group-size/9401674

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/vacant-lot-ecological-experiments/552746/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43004367

Dr Alice Williamson discussed Australian of the Year, quantum physicist Michelle Simmons, and talked jogging apps revealing secret US army bases.

http://theconversation.com/award-to-michelle-simmons-reflects-strategic-importance-of-quantum-physics-for-australia-90759https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases

Dr Alice Williamson joins Ruby once again to talk bacteria that make gold nuggets, and how gamblers 600 years ago decided to make dice fair.

Dr Alice Williamson joined Ruby this morning to talk fire starting birds and a machine the size of a pill that could change diagnostic medicine as we know it.

Lucy Smith is officially wrapping up her time as host of Up For It, making way for a new presenter in 2018 after an incredible two years behind the mic. On her final edition of Up and Atom, Dr Alice Williamson quite literally put her to the test, submitting Lucy to her first science quiz since high school while recapping the biggest science stories covered on Up and Atom over the past year. Questions ranged from why Western Australians were asked to collect as many cane toads as possible, to who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and when the first-ever sighting of a gravitational wave event using conventional telescopes was. While Lucy may be moving on, Dr Alice will be back with more science in 2018.