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Picture Perfect Landing At Jezero
As America passes 500,000 tragic covid deaths, it celebrates a flawless, tour-de-force…
Reigniting The Fear Factor – Victoria’s Latest Statewide Lockdown Condemned
Senior medical specialist Geoffrey Wells, organiser of the Covid Doctors Network, says…
Seven Minutes Of Terror – An Arrival On Mars Like Never Before
NASA’s Perseverance spacecraft carries 23 cameras, including 7 for entry, descent and…
Ranking Countries’ Pandemic Response
Australia’s Lowy Institute has released an interactive online study of why and…
Translating Brain Signals Into Synthesised Speech
Research at the University of Bath’s Center for Accountable, Transparent and Responsible…
Is There Life At Venus?
In September 2020, the internet exploded with news of life existing at…
GPs Warn Of A Mental Health Crisis From Melbourne’s Lockdown
Piers talks with busy Melbourne GP Dr. Stacey Harris about the disturbing…
Beyond Fear – Need For Openness & Community Discussion In Restarting Victoria
Piers talks with Bob Millar, general surgeon and transplant specialist at Royal…
Looking For Life Under Europa’s Ice
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, set to launch to Jupiter in 2024, will…
Vast Trove Of Human DNA Data Sold To Private Equity
Ancestry.com, a global network with 20 billion family history records and the…
Amid The Pandemic, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Launches Safely To Mars
Despite serious challenges on Earth, NASA has succeeded in launching the most…
The Development Of Physics – Newton, Maxwell And Einstein
Dr Ian Storey, lecturer in information systems at RMIT, ties together Newton’s…
4.5 Billion Souls In Lockdown – The Human, Social And Economic Costs
Piers talks with Dr. Ian Storey, lecturer in information systems at RMIT,…
Humankind Grounded By Covid-19
Several space missions have been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic. And it’s…
CO2 From Air Into Beer
CSIRO has found a way of capturing carbon dioxide directly from the…
Real Time Prediction Of Suicide
Our digital fingerprints are everywhere. Big data allows all sorts of insights…
New Hope For Those With Peanut Allergies
An expensive new treatment promises gradually to protect allergic children from accidental…
Hunting Ghost Particles At The South Pole
A look at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the amazing astrophysics research…
Precision Landing For Mars 2020 At Jezero
As its July 2020 launch date approaches, more information is coming to…
A New Theory Suggests Aliens Could Use Neutrinos Or Gravitational Waves To Communicate
Imagine a super-advanced civilisation capable of building on a galactic scale, enjoying…
3D-Printed Fake Fish To Hit Supermarket Shelves
San Diego start-up BlueNalu has found a way to make a plant-based…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change? (Part 2)
The bushfire emergency has killed over a billion animals and decimated national…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change?
With 1.5% of Australia’s land mass burnt in disastrous bushfires – an…
Climate Change, Not Just A Rogue Asteroid, Killed The Dinosaurs
Fossilised Antarctic seashells show the planet was unstable, warmed by intense volcanism,…
World’s Oceans Have A Million Times More Plastic Than We Thought
New measurement methods show that pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm…
Space Bugs That Eat Rock And Metal
Metallosphaera sedula is a single-celled organism and hails from some of the…
Preserving Pirated Scientific Papers
Library Genesis and Sci-Huh have evolved into very popular and massive repositories…
Suspended Animation For The Critically Injured
Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have used emergency…
How To Really Lose Weight
If you lose 1 kg of body weight, where does it go?…
The Way You Move Makes You Unique
A French-Australian study finds the way your muscle groups work together is…
Our Restless Earth (Part 2)
Physicist Dr Tony Heyes tells how the Serbian polymath Milutin Milankovic, interned…
Our Restless Earth (Part 1)
In this fascinating discussion, Physicist Dr Tony Heyes explains the background and…
Coming To Grips With The Science Behind Buruli Ulcers
Piers talks with leading experts on Buruli ulcers Professor Tim Stinear of…
Lab-grown Meat Coming Of Age
Production costs are falling dramatically and the day may come when a…
Facebook Zealots Likened To Drug Addicts
A recent Michigan State University study published in the Journal of Behavioural…
The Iron-ion Battery From India
Newly developed at the Institute of Technology in Madras, iron-ion batteries are…
Accelerating Science With AI
Artificial intelligence has been proven to fast track technical breakthroughs and human…
Celebrating Science In Australia
The whole country is reveling in the wonders of science and the…
Why Sir Fred Hoyle Didn’t Get A Nobel Prize (Part 2)
Some say Sir Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer famed for his work…
Why Sir Fred Hoyle Didn’t Get A Nobel Prize (Part 1)
Some say Sir Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer famed for his work…
On Stephen Hawking’s Epitaph
Physicist Dr Tony Heyes explains the equation inscribed on Stephen Hawking’s grave…
Taming Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Looks like heart disease drug Ticagrelor could double as a new kind…
A Clean And Green Alternative To Styrofoam
Researchers at Washington State University have invented an environmentally-friendly foam made from…
Periodic Table Turns 150
In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev formulated his periodic table which revolutionised…
Looks Like The Universe’s Rate Of Expansion Is Variable
We chat with physicist Dr.Tony Heyes about new Hubble Space Telescope data…
Pristine Batch Of Lunar Surface Samples To Be Opened
Three containers of sealed moon rocks will soon be opened 50 years…
3D Printed Human Heart
Israeli scientists have succeeded in printing a mini heart the size of…
Very Unintended Effects Of Botox
Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that botox and cosmetic surgery…
First Ever Image Of A Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope, a huge effort of more than 200 scientists…