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Ian Connellan and Gail McCallum talk to Jason Flesher, the Director of Discovery Operations for Scenic, about his experiences in Antarctica.
Australia’s farmers and agricultural industries are at the front line when it comes to dealing with the impacts of climate change. Agriculture also contributes 14% of the country’s emissions.
The recently established Zero Net Emissions Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre (ZNE-Ag CRC) aims to help the agriculture industry transition to net zero by 2040 by bringing academic knowledge and agriculture experience together.
In this episode of Cosmos Country, hosts Glenn Morrison and Jamie Seidel speak with Dr Deb Cousins and Professor Matthew Morell from the ZNE-Ag CRC’s Establishment Committee about the role of the CRC, the challenges facing our farmers and the integrated systems approach needed to make the transition.
The Science Detectives are on another case.
This week, Olivia Henry wants to know why animals come in so many different colours and patterns. The detectives talk to Devi Stuart-Fox, a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of Melbourne, to find out.
This episode was hosted and produced by Imma Perfetto and edited by Andrew Wyrill.
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Regional communities looking for ways to diversify income and employment under climate change often turn to tourism. Recently, the Australian Tourism Commission created a data hub to help. It shows the value of Australian tourism by region; and the scale of incomes and number of people in the industry to be staggering.
The Cosmos Country podcast speaks with two people involved in tourism about how events can contribute to a diversified economy. Archaeologist Dr James Hunter is curator of Naval Heritage and Archaeology at the Australian National Maritime Museum. He recently highlighted the wreck called The South Australia, just offshore in Victor Harbour. Despite its size and importance to the history of South Australia, the wreck was only discovered less than a decade ago. Hunter is also exploring the southern SA coast in search of shipwrecks offshore of Robe.
And Carolyn Grant is Director of Engagement at the Ocean Lovers Festival in Sydney, a blend of ideas, arts and music.
They spoke to Cosmos Country’s podcast hosts Glenn Morrison and Marie Low.
It doesn’t rain at the South Pole. Why not? Will global warming change that?
This question from a Cosmos reader was a task for The Science Detectives.
Cosmos journalism intern Tyler Fisher was asked to investigate, to find out what’s going on.
We learn in school that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But we also know the Sun doesn’t stay in the same part of the sky the whole year round – it’s higher at some points and lower at others. So what’s going on?
What about the Moon? How does its path change across the sky?
On the latest episode of Science Detectives, a new podcast series from Cosmos, Ellen Phiddian gazes at the sky to figure out how its two biggest hits change their appearance. She’s joined by Mary Adam, an astronomy educator from the Adelaide Planetarium at the University of South Australia.
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When coral reefs disappear more is lost than animals and evonomic benefits. Dr Tommy Fellowes at the USyd’s School of Geosciences Geocoastal Research Group talkas to Cosmos Country reporter Glenn Morrison.
Cosmos Science regional reporters Jamie Seidel and Glenn Morrison find out how quolls were transported across the country to help re-wild an arid reserve in outback WA.
At the beginning of 2023, scientists made a surprise finding.
The pygmy right whale, which is the smallest of the baleen whales, didn’t move far from waters in the Southern Ocean. It’s surprising because long-distance migration is a behaviour practised by most other baleen whales.
Knowledge of this enigmatic species, which is a filter-feeder using baleen to sift tasty but tiny marine life from seawater, is slowly, but surely, on the rise.
But is this baleen like having a set of teeth? Or is it something altogether separate? Do whales even have teeth to chow down on prey that is so small?
On the latest episode of Science Detectives, a new podcast series from Cosmos, Matthew Ward Agius goes diving into what baleen is, whether whales have (or need) teeth, and how much food a whale really needs with whale researchers Dr Adelaide Dedden and Dr Catherine Kemper.
If marine microbes are Earth's unsung heroes, year 12 student Emelia is singing their praises.
They produce 50% of our oxygen, are a crucial part of the food pyramid and they can even help us understand the ancient world.
In this episode of Podcast Next Gen, join Emelia as she unpacks marine microbes in all their fabulous forms.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Science can answer most of life’s big and little questions – but you don’t always have scientist on hand to explain their reasoning. Now you do, with a new Cosmos Science Detectives podcast finding the experts and interrogating them to help answer your burning inquiries.
The crack Cosmos team of newsroom science journalists will leave no stone unturned. They’ll open a case file; find evidence and witnesses; and give you the detail you need to close a case of “uncertainty.”
In this episode, they explain why mangroves are thought to be important.
While for most of us, maths might conjure up equations and stuffy professors, for year 12 student Matilda, she thinks of poetry.
From weird and wonderful mathematical sequences popping up in traditional verse structures, to the mathematics of metre and rhythm, and even completely numerical poems, maths is everywhere.
In this episode of Podcast Next Gen, join Matilda as she dives into poetic mathematics and mathematical poetry.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
For those lucky enough to have been able to experience it, an aurora is an incredible sight.
But year 12 student Hajara wanted to know what was happening behind the scenes to cause these gorgeous hues. In this episode of Podcast Next Gen, she investigates how it occurs, where the colours come from, and exactly when and where you can find the auroras.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Have you ever been trying to study and turn on some music, but discover that what you’ve picked is just too good? Instead of focusing on your work, you end up vibing with the song.
Jorja, a year 12 student and robotics enthusiast wanted to know why, and so she hooked up her own brain to find out.
Explore Jorja’s brain on music, why jazz might be the most meditative, and why you need to keep an eye on those gamma waves.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
We all know the feeling – sweat forming on your brow and your face heating up. Eating something spicy is not an easy thing to forget.
Year 12 student Stephanie wanted to know why spicy food is just so hot. In this episode of Podcast Next Gen she discovers why a study used strawberry jam spiked with capsaicin, why one food acts like tear gas, and why you might need to fake it to you make it when it comes to spice.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
We all know about climate change, but do we really understand it? Maya, a year 12 student and musical theatre fan wants to know how it actually works.
So, why is our planet warming? Is it really our fault? And why is it like putting on a jumper? Maya puts on her best investigative sweater to find out.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Sophie is a year 12 student who loves kelp. And why wouldn’t she? A kelp forest called the Great Southern Reef is home to thousands of species of whales, sharks, turtles, okra, seals, and crustaceans.
But can kelp help us as well as all these animals? Sophie dives into the slimy substance to find out.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
In this Cosmos Country podcast, Glenn Morrison and Marie Low talk with Associate Professor Ken Karipidis from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) about any health risks posed by transmission lines.
Why does the sound of nails on a chalkboard make our skin crawl? Why does a bubbling brook make us calm (if more likely to need to pee)? In this episode of Podcast Next Gen, Zeph – a year 12 student – wanted to know why some sounds are fine, but others we hate.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
For this episode of Podcast Next Gen, Sarah – a year 12 student – is asking how skeletons are formed and what vital functions our bones undertake in our bodies, other than stopping us all from looking like shapeless blobs!
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Elizabeth is a year twelve student who loves magpies and has never been swooped. For this Podcast Next Gen, she’s diving into all facets of magpie – their different calls, colours and swooping, and why they have their own rap battles.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Somewhere in north-west NSW among 35,000 hectares of forest in the Pilliga National Park, a killer has been hiding. Nicknamed Rambo, the bandit evaded capture for more than 4 years, almost stopping a multi-million conservation project in its tracks.
Conspiracy theories are everywhere. The moon landing was fake, the Earth is flat, Area-51 houses aliens, climate science isn’t real, the government is controlled by lizard people. The list goes on and on and on.
Vishnu, a year 12 student loves everything about conspiracies, and this week on Podcast Next Gen, he’s trying to understand why people love conspiracy theories, and why in an age where we have access to more information than ever before, conspiracy theories still thrive.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Lina realised much too late that the scrambled eggs she was making were awful. But being an intrepid science student, she realised that maybe she could science her way to better eggs.
Whisk or fork? Hot or warm? And why does water just sometimes leak out of the eggs? Listen to the Podcast Next Gen episode below to find out.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum. The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters.
These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
In this episode of Cosmos Country, Jamie Seidel and Dr Glenn Morrison talk with Australian National University’s Head of Disaster Solutions, Associate Professor Roslyn Prinsley about how regional communities can address frequent, intense flood events.
Welcome to HabiChat, a podcast miniseries exploring ecosystems and the animals which live in them. Join Cosmos journalists as they talk to experts about the who’s who, and where’s where, of mammals in Australia.
Cosmos journalists Jacinta Bowler and Matthew Ward Agius talk to Natasha Harrison, a conservation biologist and behavioural ecologist in her final PhD year. They join her in a woodland soundscape and talk about the furry little t-rex of the mammal world – the brush-tailed bettong – and the threats facing them.
Welcome to HabiChat, a podcast miniseries exploring ecosystems and the animals which live in them. Join Cosmos journalists as they talk to experts about the who’s who, and where’s where, of mammals in Australia.
In this episode, Cosmos journalists Matthew Ward Agius and Jacinta Bowler talk to Cameron Dodd, a PhD student at the University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum, about the kultarr.
They discuss the arid environments these little-known mammals live in, the difficulties of studying such tiny, fast, and aggressive predators in the wild, a gruesome story from out in the field in the Simpson Desert, and more.
Angie is a year 12 student and wants you to connect the dots. That is, the dots between the kooky conspiracy theories of the Bermuda Triangle.
This million-kilometre square stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean has been apparently swallowing ships and planes since the early 1900s. What caused it? Angie puts some of the wackiest theories – like alien wormholes and crystal energies – under scientific scrutiny to try and find out.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
River ecologist and CSIRO Scientist Paul Murray talks to Ian Mannix about his new book: "The Life and Times of the Murray Cod."
When Hannah first saw snow, she was instantly fascinated by it. Even if it was more like a slushie than the delicate snow crystals she’d imagined.
In this episode of Podcast Next Gen, Hannah looks into what a snow flake (or snow crystal) actually is.
She wants to know why does it look the way it does? Are all types of snow the same? And finally, what does snow have to do with Kepler?
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Sascha has just turned 17 and recently had to choose her first car. But being both an environmentalist, and a motorsports fan on a budget, was harder than she thought.
In this episode of Podcast Next Gen, Sascha looks into the sustainability of electric cars.
She wants to know whether they’re better for the planet from the start to the end of their life, plus she tells us why her parents might need supervision when driving a Tesla.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Cosmos Country reporters Marie Low and Jamie Seidel discuss the electric ute road show with Ben Lever, a clean transport campaigner who’s been showcasing electric utes throughout Australia.
From pin straight to corkscrew curls, hair is a huge part of us – it protects us from the weather and provides a way for us to communicate who we are.
And what better way to communicate then to get out the hair dye.
Year 12 student Makaela has investigated what hair dye and bleach does to hair, what uncombable hair syndrome is, and why we love dyeing our hair despite the consequences.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
A weather forecast of above 35 degrees is frankly sweltering. But our natural human body temperature is 37 degrees. Although you might not think about it much, it’s worth asking, why is this the case?
Year 12 student Dorothea explores how heat works, how bodies keep cool, and what is actually happening to us when we have a fever.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
While Einstein wasn’t for it, calling it “spooky action at a distance”, quantum entanglement is very much a real thing.
Saskia is a year 12 student who enjoys teaching herself about complicated science phenomena, and for this episode of Podcast Next Gen she is investigating the complexities and complications of quantum entanglement.
That trip around the quantum world includes a high five at the beach, an Austrian telescope and mind melting physics.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia – the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These ‘shortcast’ episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
In the second episode of the first series of Cosmos Country, Cosmos science journalists discuss how regional and rural Australia are adapting to climate change.
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Many big cities around the world have issues with urban waste. Think of the garbage bags piled up on New York's streets or Jakarta's open dumping. But Singapore has managed to avoid much of this problem thanks to incineration.
David, a year 12 student from Western Australia, uncovers the ins and outs of Singapore's trash system in this episode of Podcast Next Gen.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia - the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These 'shortcast' episodes have been written and recorded by the students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
Amy – a year 12 student and casual bartender – knows way too many people with dead vape stashes under their beds.
While the government is trying to crack down, it doesn't seem like there will be a solution anytime soon. And in the mean time, recycling trucks and apartments are catching alight with vape batteries gone wrong.
This week on Podcast Next Gen, Amy dives into the (un)recyclability of disposable vapes, what the new crackdown could mean, and potential solutions.
Podcast Next Gen is a collaboration between Cosmos Magazine and the National Youth Science Forum.
The reporters are year 12 students from across Australia, and also the next generation of scientists, science journalists and podcasters. These 'shortcast' episodes have been written and recorded by students, giving them the opportunity to work with real science journalists and editors to make their science concept come to life.
In the first episode of the first series of Cosmos Country, Dr Glenn Morrison chats with colleague Marie Low, and ecologist Dr Brenda Lin from the CSIRO, about non-urban greening. As more people move away from cities and into the country, how important is it to keep our regions green? And how do we do it?
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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 Jacinta Bowler and Imma Perfetto debate one of life’s buggest (see what we did there?) questions – would you rather be an ant or a bee?
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Today, Cosmos journalists Matthew Agius and Ellen Phiddian debate whether recreating Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle, or the landing on the moon of the lunar module Eagle would be more better.
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Today, Cosmos journalists Jacinta Bowler and Ellen Phiddian bring an office discussion to the podcast platform: would an attack from a pair of cassowaries or 100 magpies be more terrifying?
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Australia will dispose of high-level nuclear waste from AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines, according to details revealed when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met leaders of UK and US on March 13.
Defence Minister Richard Marles confirmed the radioactive waste – including spent nuclear fuel – would require a new facility to be built on “current or future” Defence land with the process of selecting a site beginning in 2023.
Cosmos journalists Matt Agius and Petra Stock talked to Honorary Associate Professor Tony Irwin, Lecturer, Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University; Dr Nigel Marks, Material Scientist, Curtin University; Sara Bice, Foundation Director, Institute for Infrastructure in Society, Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University; and Amy Rust, Head of Engagement and communications, First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria, about what finding a site and disposing of high-level nuclear waste might involve.
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Today, Cosmos journalists Jacinta Bowler and Imma Perfetto debate the merits of whether a plague of locusts or frogs – naturally of biblical proportions - would be worse.
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Today, Cosmos journalists Matthew Agius and Evrim Yazgin ponder whether EVs are the answer to our climate commuting questions or whether a bit more planning and incentives for alternative transport would do the trick. They are joined by Dr Dorina Pojani, an associate professor in Urban Planning at the University of Queensland’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Professor Jago Dodson, the Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT.
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Today, Cosmos journalists Petra Stock and Ellen Phiddian debate the merits of high-tech spacesuits verses high-tech sportswear.
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At some point on a TV documentary, an internet video or even a school textbook, you've probably seen animation or still images of the earth's surface changing over time: from one massive content hundreds of millions of years ago to the surface we know today.
Today, Cosmos journalist Matthew Agius talks to Dr Tristan Salle, whose team from the University of Sydney - working with French scientists from Institut des Science de la Terre - have now, for the first time, modelled and produced high resolution representations of the way millions of years of sediment flows from land to the ocean took place, and how the features of today's land masses were created.
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Kathleen Folbigg has served 20 years of a 30-year sentence for killing her four children. She had exhausted all her avenues for appeal. Only after petitioning from grassroots supporters and legal representatives on the basis of new forensic pathology assessments did the New South Wales’ Governor open an inquiry into her convictions.
That was back in 2019, and despite those new forensic assessments being heard, judicial officer Reginald Blanch was not convinced there was a reasonable doubt cast by that and other evidence.
During the course of that inquiry, a rare gene mutation possessed by the Folbigg children was identified by two teams of researchers. One of those teams pursued research into that gene and concluded it would potentially explain the cause of their deaths. That led to New South Wales Attorney-General Mark Speakman opening a second inquiry into Folbigg’s convictions, which has finished hearing evidence from the geneticists, plus cardiologists, forensic pathologists, paediatricians, and psychology experts.
Quite a lot of science! But science that would not have been heard if not for the state of New South Wales enacting the rare provisions of a Governor’s appeal.
So, what can be done to make sure new science that’s potentially relevant to a case is heard when conventional means of appeal is exhausted.
The Australian Academy of Science was granted leave by the commission to appear as an independent scientific advisor to the inquiry. Today Cosmos journalist Matthew Agius talks to its chief executive is Anna Maria Arabia.
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Australia is facing its greatest ever engineering skills shortage, according to Engineers Australia.
The clean energy transition, major infrastructure projects and emerging sectors like space are increasing demand for engineering skills. Some 50,000 to 100,000 engineers are needed by 2030, just as fewer students, particularly girls, are choosing to enter the profession.
Ok it may sound nutty, but could baking, and engineering contestants on shows like Bake Off and Baking Impossible, be key ingredients in helping solve the workforce crisis by improving awareness and perceptions of engineering, and broadening engagement with STEM.
Today, Cosmos journalist Petra Stock talks to engineer, Great British Bake Off winner and now cookbook author Giuseppe Dell’Anno, and Jane MacMaster, Chief Engineer at Engineers Australia.
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This week the Kathleen Folbigg inquiry began again in Sydney. Folbigg was convicted in 2013 for the deaths of her four children.
It’s a case which has engaged the scientific community, which is interested in how science is treated in the judicial process. And particularly complex science.
But what about how scientists themselves perform in court? It’s often an alien world but ultimately the scientific process of inquiry and replicating data, should help courts create fairer justice.
In this podcast our Digital Editor Ian Mannix talks to Professor Adrian Lineacre, the former head of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Scientists Association, and who now heads the South Australian Justice Chair of Forensic Science at Flinders University, about what happens when scientists are in the dock.
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Daisuke Kanazawa is a collaborative researcher at the Centre for Global Commons in the University of Tokyo, Japan.
He is one of the authors of the Planet Positive Chemicals report, which details how the global chemical industry, responsible for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions, can get to net zero.
Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian spoke to Kanazawa to find out more.
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If we can predict the behaviour of individual molecules, we can do extraordinary things with them. We can desalinate water to almost perfect purity, fine tune batteries to perform as well as possible – and that’s just the beginning.
But it’s really difficult to simulate molecules to enable that prediction. A nearly-invisible microlitre drop of water has 10 billion billion molecules in it, all moving and changing at the speed of femtoseconds.
Which is why researchers are using supercomputers to model how molecules move and behave.
Today, Cosmos science journalist Ellen Phiddian talks Professor Debra Bernhardt and Dr Emily Kahl, at the University of Queensland, about how they are using the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre to simulate molecular behaviour.
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Cricket bats might be losing their quality thanks to climate change's impact on willow growth, could bamboo be a better option? One team out of Cambridge University thinks it might.
Today Cosmos journalist Matthew Agius talks to Cambridge University’s Ben Tinkler-Davies, about the potential of bamboo.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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With brownish feathers, distinctive fine white streaks, and a long cocked tail, the western grasswren (Amytornis textilis) is a charming but elusive native Australian songbird.
If you are lucky enough to spot one, you might find it darting between shrubs as it forages along the ground on Dirk Hartog Island in Western Australia – thanks to the first successful grasswren translocation effort last month.
It was to re-establish the population after the introduction of sheep, goats, and feral cats caused the birds, and 12 other species, to become extinct on the island.
Today Cosmos journalist Imma Perfetto talks to Dr Saul Cowen, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, and Aline Gibson Vega, whose PhD project helped in the translocation.
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How beach signs are interpreted by locals and those hailing from overseas is a crucial aspect of beach safety.
Today, Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to Dr Masaki Shibata, a lecturer in the Japanese Department of Adelaide University's School of Social Sciences - and a competitive swimmer and former lifesaver – about research he’s been doing into this very subject.
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Today, Jacinta Bowler and Evrim Yasgin debate whether telescopes or microscopes are better!
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In November 1987, 35 years ago, 266 scientists met at Monash University at what was the first meeting to consider the national scientific response to the greenhouse gas problem. At the time many were working on ridding the atmosphere of chlorofluorocarbons, closing the hole over the Antarctic. Many were sceptical of claims that carbon dioxide was an existential threat.
Today Cosmos editor Ian Mannix talks to Graeme Pearman from the CSIRO, who organised the meeting, and Neville Nicholls from the Bureau of Meteorology research centre, who attended.
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The risk of Hendra virus being passed from bats to horses – increasing the risk to humans – has escalated in Australia in recent decades.
When viruses spillover from animals to humans there can be serious consequences. SARS Cov-1, SARS Cov-2 (which causes COVID19) and Hendra viruses have all been linked to this kind of event.
A team of researchers, led by conservation biologist Dr Peggy Eby, from the University of New South Wales, and wildlife disease ecologist Dr Alison Peel from Griffith University, analysed 25 years of data on land use change, bat behaviour and Hendra virus spillover events in Australia. Their research is published in Nature.
Cosmos journalist Petra Stock talked to Dr Eby and Dr Peel to find out more.
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Today, Ellen Phiddian and Matt Agius debate whether you would rather give up alcohol or caffeine.
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Cyber security experts have called for online safety and security fundamentals to be taught from early primary school, after a review of the national curriculum revealed key skills gaps.
A report led by Dr Nicola Johnson for the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, has mapped the cyber safety content in the new Australian Curriculum against skills recommended by the Centre, for individuals and families to protect against common cyber security threats.
Today Cosmos journalist Petra Stock talks to Dr Johnson, from the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, who says “we need to start early with five-year-olds … there is a need to educate people from a young age to protect themselves from common cybersecurity threats.”
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Today, Petra Stock and Evrim Yazgin debate whether a Tyrannosaurus rex or cute little Minmi paravertebral would be better as a dino-pet.
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Andrea Boyd knew she wanted to work in the space field since she first saw Star Trek as a kid. The South Australian has ended up in a career as close to space as possible without leaving the ground.
Boyd is the ‘EUROCOM’ flight controller at the European Space Agency (ESA), meaning she’s the person who gets to talk to the astronauts on the ISS.
Cosmos Science Journalist Jacinta Bowler talked to Andrea Boyd about how she feels about being the Aussie ‘voice to space’ and what it’s like hanging out with astronauts all day. and a great video with Andrea Boyd.
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The Adélies gave us the phrase “penguin suit” and are found on almost the entire coastline in the white continent. But recent research has identified a problem with massive reduction in the numbers of breeding Adélie Penguins in some places in Antarctica. In some places their population is expanding, in some places it’s contracting, and in one or two places, numbers are alarming.
Australian Antarctic Division seabird ecologists, Dr Louise Emmerson and Dr Colin Southwell have been monitoring Adélie penguins for two decades, and spoke to Cosmos Digital News Editor Ian Mannix about their recent research.
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Every year, the European Academy of Science awards the Blaise Pascal medal to outstanding scientists. This year, Distinguished Professor Susan Scott has become the first Australian to receive the medal, “in recognition for her contributions to the advances of physics”.
According to the Academy, “Distinguished Professor Susan Scott is an internationally recognised mathematical physicist who has made ground-breaking discoveries in general relativity, cosmology and gravitational wave science spanning more than three decades.
“She played a leading role in Australia’s participation in the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, and the development of the field of gravitational wave science in Australia following on from that discovery.”
So, what exactly does that work entail? Cosmos sat down with Susan to find out.
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Today, Imma Perfetto and Matt Agius debate whether you would rather be bitten by a funnel-web spider or brown snake.
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Today, Ellen Phiddian and Jacinta Bowler debate whether you would rather be on the International Space Station or an Antarctic research station - for the next 12 months.
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Welcome to Behind The Scenes, where a Cosmos journalist pulls back the curtain to explore the exciting science in institutions around Australia. Today, Jacinta Bowler visits the palaeontology lab at Flinders University to talk with Professor Gavin Prideaux about his latest exciting discovery: a prehistoric mega-kangaroo.
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Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work. In this episode we're talking birdsong: Why do they sing? How do they learn? What happens if they can't hear each other?
Cosmos science journalist Imma Perfetto talks to Dr Dominique Potvin, a behavioural ecologist, evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, and senior lecturer in Animal Ecology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, to find out what we know about chirps, chortles and the science of song.
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Today we are talking about the academic scientific peer review process, which ordinarily involves a journal sending a submitted paper out to other experts for assessment before they decide to publish the article, something which has become part of the normal process for and sign of a quality academic scientific journal.
This subject is increasingly important as more and more high-profile and impactful research articles are being retracted or placed under editorial “notices of concern” both in Australia and overseas.
To learn more, Cosmos journalist Clare Kenyon talks to Dr Ivan Oransky, an acclaimed journalist and one of the creators of Retraction Watch, a site and database which collates, lists and discusses retractions and editorial notes of concern placed on peer-review journal article publications, and also Dr Elisabeth Bik, a Dutch-US microbiologist and image consultant especially renowned for her ability to detect image duplication and manipulation.”
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It's a big week for Cosmos Science Daily as it moves to its new home on the LiSTNR app under the name The Science Briefing – same host, same Cosmos newsroom; bigger and better. Today you get a sneak preview of just what The Science Briefing will be like – so make sure to download the LiSTNR app today.
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Big week for Cosmos Science Daily as it moves to its new home on the LiSTNR app under the name The Science Briefing – same host, same Cosmos newsroom; bigger and better. Your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto and for the last episode of Cosmos Science Daily on this channel, I’m joined by Cosmos editors Ian Connellan and Gail MacCallum along with the newsroom to talk about what we learned, what we loved and what’s next.
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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 disposable batteries made of paper, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who once made an origami penguin but never a battery.
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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 brine pools at the bottom of the ocean, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, whose only relationship with brine also involves olives.
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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 fishapods returning to the sea. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who doesn’t know what a fishapod is, but it sounds like a delightful seafood snack.
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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 genetics graduate, Jacinta Bowler, is talking about whether we’re using RATs properly. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who thinks she’s good at taking RATs … but is now kind of worried that she's not.
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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 astrophysicist, Claire Kenyon, is talking about the inner ear of evolving mammalian ancestors. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who is pretty sure she’s an evolved mammal.
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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 environmental engineer, Petra Stock, is talking about dinosaur dentures. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who hopes people find my fossilised teeth in the distant future.
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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 robot dog that can learn to walk in just one hour. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who took way longer than an hour to learn to walk.
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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 fast radio bursts from space! And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who would probably start listening to the radio again if it were being beamed from another galaxy.
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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 we have Cosmos editor, Gail MacCallum, talking about the Australian Mammal of the Year 2022. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who is very pleased to see that the Yellow-footed rock-wallaby made the shortlist.
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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 a breakthrough in gas storage, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who knows more about liquid fluids than gaseous fluids.
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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 the infectiousness of new COVID variants and how you can protect yourself, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who has had her fourth COVID shot, but still has some concerns ...
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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 environmental engineer, Petra Stock, is talking about the octaglove. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who has absolutely no idea what is going on here, but it excited to find out.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 cybersecurity tools, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who still thinks Hackers is Angelina Jolie’s best film.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about Australia’s 2022 flu season and the COVID-flu nexus, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who is hoping that her flu shot continues to come through with the goods this year.Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website
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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 quantum computers. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who wants to know if a quantum computer can still run Commander Keen IV.Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website
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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 whether rhythm might actually be genetic with yours truly, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who might have some groove … but it’s deep deep down in her heart.
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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 mites that inhabit your face and nipple area. And I am Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who is slightly concerned about the conversation to follow.
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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 Google’s AI chatbot LaMDA. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who would like to welcome our new machine overlords. Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website
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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 food miles, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who really love British crisps, but is now worried that she maybe shouldn’t buy them anymore.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about new evidence for long-term memory in wild frog-eating bats, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who ate frogs once and thought they were fine but a bit underwhelming.
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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 newsroom journalist and science graduate specialising in genetics, immunology and citizen science, Imma Perfetto is talking about new robot research making them more and more lifelike. And your host is Gail MacCallum, Cosmos editor and Star Trek fan, who never understood why if Dr Soong was smart enough to make Data, he couldn’t work out how to not make the skin yellow.
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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 newsroom journalist and evolutionary biologist, Qamariya Nasrullah is reporting on a super-strong bio-glue made from a common and unexpected source. She’s talking with Gail MacCallum, Cosmos editor and glue aficionado who once managed to stick two of her fingers together, just to see if it was possible.
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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 newsroom journalist and chemistry whiz, Ellen Phiddian is looking at the effect of exercise on flu vaccination with your host Gail MacCallum, Cosmos editor and exercise-averse, but this might be just the thing to make her change my mind.
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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. Newsroom journalist and biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis is spruiking mammals in our inaugural Australian mammal of the year 2022 with your host Gail MacCallum, Cosmos editor and most definitely an undecided voter ready to be swayed.
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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 taking us on a tour of tabletop experiments and particle physics, with your host, Gail MacCallum, Cosmos magazine editor and person whose mind is often blown by facts about particle physics.
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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 to us about space kombucha. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who tried kombucha once and thought it was great … once she added a shot of gin.
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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 noisy roads making it harder for kids to learn, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who would love for you to turn off your idling engine, when out the front of her house.
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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 the fluid physics of champagne cork popping, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist whose favourite fluids are blood, gin, … and sometimes champagne.
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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 free flu vaccinations in Australia, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who has an irrational fear of needles but still gets her flu shot every year.
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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 chicken domestication. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and occasional chicken-eater … because we live in a society that doesn’t require people to slaughter and prepare their own meat.
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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 … Megalodon vs Great White, with yours host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and epic shark lover who can’t believe that ‘Megalodon vs Great White’ is not a film yet.
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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 what a new Labor government means for the future of the Great Barrier Reef. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who has still never seen The Reef … unless you’re talking about the 2010 Australian horror film of the same name.
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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 Australian energy policy, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who still loves to exercise her democratic rights, and is pleased Australia does too.
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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 dinosaur blood. And your host Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who is very excited to be talking about two of her favourite things ever … dinosaurs and blood.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about a tiny robotic crab, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and average-sized human being.
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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 unpacking iridescent beetle wings. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who wishes she could iridesce.
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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 RNA pesticides, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and grateful consumer of RNA vaccines.
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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 about losing sleep over climate change, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and terribly light sleeper.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about how restoring abandoned farmland can mitigate climate change, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who has already picked out the farmhouse in Sweden that she’d like to buy.
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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 talking about black hole photography. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who wants to know if a black hole’s “best side” is also the left-hand side of her face.
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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 learning slower … but smarter, with your host Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and sometimes slow learner.
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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 to us about octopus death spirals. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who’s glad she’s not an octopus.
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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 walkability of Australian cities, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and almost full-time walker.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about the surprising diversity of ancient European dogs, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who thinks it’s super weird than some greyhounds are physically unable to sit.
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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 climate change icehouse modelling. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, and who wants everyone to think long and hard about climate change when they go to the polls this Saturday.
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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 a population of exoplanets, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who believes that Pluto is a Kuiper Belt object.
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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 unpacking oops neurons. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and definite oops-er!
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about wheat variants, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and wheat lover extraordinaire.
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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 Irwin’s turtle, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, shell-less applied mathematician and fluid mechanist.
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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 space music. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who is apparently a worse musician than the universe.
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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 science and chocolate, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who can consume a terrifying amount of chocolate in a single sitting.
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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 pulsars so bright you need sunglasses to see them, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist whose mother used to drive a different kind of Pulsar.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about the sweet secrets of seagrass, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who knows basically nothing about seagrasses except that dugongs think they’re great.
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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 the latest in musical research. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who used to be able to play four different types of recorder, and the orchestral glockenspiel.
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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 machine learning in medicine. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who is still a wee bit dubious about our newfound love for machine learning.
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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 reformed archaeologist, Amalyah Hart, is talking about catapulting post-coital spiders with your host, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who is not sure she wants to make a joke about herself here … Dr Sophie Calabretto.
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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 to us about enhanced rock weathering, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and slightly weathered human.
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A recent study has shown that up to 20% of floodwater on the east coast of Australia can be absorbed by aquifers, eventually getting into a 'groundwater superhighway' that stretches from Queensland to Sydney Harbour. What does this mean for the future of flooding and water security? To get some answers Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to Dr Ben Mather, a Computational Geophysicist, at the University of Sydney. After joining the University of Sydney in 2018, Ben now works within the EarthByte Group and has strong ties to the Sydney Informatics Hub and the Underworld research group.
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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 Australia’s smallest sauropod. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist whose chosen form of transport would be riding an Apatosaurus if she lived in a different epoch.
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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 hitting us with 4 fun science stories in approximately 4(x2.5) minutes. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who really likes science stories and is bad a making number jokes.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about how tiny, microscopic algae may have helped preserve rare spider fossils that are over 22 million years old, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who thinks spiders move with too many degrees of freedom.
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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 declining insect diversity, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and possessor of an endoskeleton.
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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 corflute recycling, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who loves to exercise her democratic rights.
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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 to us about using sound to destroy tumours. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, non-carcinogenic applied mathematician and fluid mechanist.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about vegan diets for dogs with yours truly, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and human fan of faux meat.
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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 to us about climate targets and COP26, with yours truly, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who is going to be a permanent sweaty mess of a human being if climate change is allowed to continue like this.
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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 telling us all about robots and pizzas. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who loves both robots and pizza. A lot.
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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 cosmic dust. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and tiny spec in the Universe.
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Today, we are looking at the sex and gender data gaps in medicine, how they can result in worse outcomes for everyone, what we still don't know, and how we can address the issue. Our expert in these matters is Professor Zoe Wainer, Deputy Secretary of Public Health in the Victorian Department of Health. She has a clinical background in cardiothoracic surgery and surgical oncology as well as public health and health administration, and her PhD was on sex differences in outcomes for people with lung cancer. She talks to Cosmos science journalist Ellen Phiddian.
Wainer (and colleagues) published a 2020 article on addressing sex and gender analysis in The Medical Journal of Australia. That article can be read here.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about anti-antibiotic bacteria with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and multi-celled organism.Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website
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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 reformed archaeologist, Amalyah Hart, is unpacking Big John the Triceratops with your host, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and epically tragic dinosaur fanperson, Dr Sophie Calabretto.
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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 to us about how the W Boson is upsetting particle physics, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who is so cool, she made a joke about quark gluon-plasma in her high-school yearbook.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about insect-inspired building materials with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who thinks nature is way better than us at a whole bunch of things.
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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 reformed archaeologist, Amalyah Hart, is unpacking mysterious monotremes with your host, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and non-egg-laying mammal, Dr Sophie Calabretto.
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Today, Cosmos science journalist Amalyah Hart is talking to Professor David Lindemayer, an ecologist and conservation biologist at the Australian National University. A lot of David's research focuses on tree dwelling marsupials, birds and other creatures and how their populations are faring in the forests and woodlands of south-eastern Australia. But he wears many hats and specialises in large-scale long-term projects that monitor the conservation of species in our forests, plantations, national parks and farmlands.
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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 tell us all about dog facial expressions. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and puppy lover.
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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 reformed archaeologist, Amalyah Hart, is unpacking the IPCC’s sixth assessment with your host, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who is VERY concerned about climate change, Dr Sophie Calabretto.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about smell preferences with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist, and hater of that sour, musty smell of a not-properly-dried towel.
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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 to us about longer lasting lithium-ion batteries, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and human battery, according to The Matrix.
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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 telling us all about lion oxytocin. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and connoisseur of Lion Kings.
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Have you ever eaten a cricket? How about a mealworm or an ant? Did you even know that these insects are available to buy as food products in Australia? Some experts think that increasing consumption of insect protein could be pretty good for our health and for the planet. Today, Cosmos science journalist Matilda Handsley-Davis talks to Sky Blackburn, an entomologist and food scientist based in Sydney. Sky is bringing these skills together to try to get edible insects into the Australian mainstream.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about using fungus to fight crazy ants with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who accidentally knows what ants taste like.
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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 reformed archaeologist, Amalyah Hart, is unpacking contraception for male mice with your host, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and human woman who thinks it’s crazy that, in this day and age, women are still primarily responsible for prevention of pregnancy, Dr Sophie Calabretto.
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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 to us about using rocks to understand ocean currents, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, and fluid mechanist who does not necessarily specialise in ocean currents.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is talking about rebuilding for flood resilience with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist, who does not approve of the fluid in a flood.
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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 tell us about hacking driverless cars. Your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and keen pedestrian.
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Today, Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to Dr Mathis Wackernagel, the founder and president of the Global Footprint Network. He co-developed the concept of the ecological footprint in the late 90s and has been a prominent advocate for sustainability for over two decades. He particularly works around Earth Overshoot Day, the day each year when the earth exceeds a year's worth of resources (in 2021, this was July 29).
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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 reformed archaeologist, Amalyah Hart, is unpacking the scientific kind of moonwalking with your host, applied mathematician and mainly terrestrial being, Dr Sophie Calabretto.
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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 biology graduate specialising in the human microbiome, Matilda Handsley-Davis, is unpacking whale baleen isotopes with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who knows what the words whale, baleen and isotope, mean independently but not as a sentence like that.
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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 to us about how nanotechnology and bug-wings can help us keep food fresher, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and avid eater of fresh food.
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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 telling us about a cool new way we have to clean solar panels. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician, fluid mechanist and alternative energy lover.
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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 reformed archaeologist, Amalyah Hart, is unpacking thylacines with your host and thylacine fan, Dr Sophie Calabretto.
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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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While Moderna has announced it will be making mRNA vaccines on Australian shores by 2024, there are places that could already be doing parts of the process.
One such facility is based in Adelaide, and run by BioCina. BioCina has the technology and regulatory approvals to do microbial cell culture: the first step of the mRNA production process, and is currently using the technology to make other pharmaceutical products.
Cosmos Journalist Ellen Phiddian wrote and produced today’s episode where we took a look inside the facility to see how this production process might work, and chatted to BioCina’s CEO, Ian Wisenberg.
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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 climate change threat to the Winter Olympics, a smart phone that might be able to tell if you have COVID, and a 750-kilometre-long lightning bolt. And our journalists today are Lauren Fuge, Amalyah Hart and Matilda Handsley-Davis.
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Today, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge reads a story that she wrote for the Cosmos website, and you can find the link to the story in the description. Ash Barty’s recent win at the Australian Open brought universal praise, but there’s one particular shot that is a weapon for the world number one, so we looked at just what the science, and physics in particular, behind her backhand slice.
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This is the start of a new weekly series where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom bring you their highlights from the week in science. Today we are joined by Ellen Phiddian, Amalyah Hart and Jamie Priest to talk hippos, little green men and long covid – amongst other things!
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Today, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge reads a story that ran in Cosmos Weekly. Wildlife tourism is the fastest growing sector of the travel industry, bringing in billions of dollars a year worldwide. In South Australia, tour operators and researchers have teamed up to protect a species they both love: white sharks.
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Today, Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian reads a story that ran in Cosmos Weekly. It looks at placebos. Right now “Honest placebo pills” are on the market, but does the science support them? You can find the original article at https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/medicine/placebo-pills/. The two studies that the article reference are Maher et al., 2021, ‘Placebos in clinical care: a suggestion beyond the evidence’, Medical Journal of Australia, https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51230, and Faasse & Colagiuri, 2019, ‘Placebos in Australian general practice: A national survey of physician use, beliefs and attitudes’, Australian Journal of General Practice, https://doi.org/10.31128/AJGP-11-18-4755.
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Who’s afraid of cobras? Not gorillas and chimps! Recent research has shown that an ancient ancestor of chimps, gorillas and humans evolved strong resistance to venom – specifically, to neurotoxins in snake venom – and passed it on to us. Today, Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis speaks to the study’s lead author, Associate Professor Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland (AKA Venom Doc), about how this was part of an ongoing evolutionary arms race between African apes and deadly venomous snakes and why he’s so interested in venom.
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Today Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-Chief Ian Connellan talks to astrophysicist Professor Alan Duffy. Alan has just stepped down as the Royal Institution of Australia's lead scientist after four years in the role. He is simply too busy these days to fit everything in, especially since his appointment earlier this year as director of the space technology and industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. To say it's been great to have Alan, and that the Royal Institution will miss him, is the understatement of the decade. He's a clever, amiable, and endlessly curious man. And he's also got an interesting backstory for someone who's ended up as one of Australia's best-known scientists.
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With half of the world’s population now living in cities, a number that is projected to reach two thirds in the coming decades, people are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food both geographically and conceptually. Food travels greater distances, leading to increased waste and supply chain vulnerability.
History tells us that during times of stress people turn to urban agriculture. Therefore, it is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a resurgence of urban agriculture for its contributions towards food security, health and wellbeing. Moreover, urban agriculture has been identified as a key strategy for adapting to climate change. Recent analysis identified it as a $4 billion growth opportunity for Australia.
So is urban agriculture just a nice idea, or a plausible reality?
Today, Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis talks to three experts from the University of Adelaide: Isobel Hume, a PhD Candidate, Dr Matthias Salomon, an Urban Soil Health researcher, and Tim Cavagnaro, a professor in Soil Ecology in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, to get some insights.
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Today the Cosmos editorial team are giving us their take on the highlights of the more than 1500 stories they have published this year. From Covid and climate, to fat bears and swearing ducks, Dr Deborah Devis, Lauren Fuge and Ellen Phiddian take us on a 2021 recap.
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The much-anticipated 26th UN Conference of the Parties – COP26 – is over, and the response to its agreement is mixed. Some say the path to net zero is inexorable; others feel that much remains to be agreed. In Australia, a dominant theme is that private enterprise and state governments are taking the lead on the path to net zero in the absence of a clear national commitment. There are other notable ‘other than government’ initiatives at international level. What position will Australia and the wider world be in at the end of the decade?
Today, we have two guests to discuss the aftermath of COP26. John O’Brien is Partner, Energy Transition & Decarbonisation, at Deloitte Australia. He works with clients to translate their decarbonisation/energy transition ambitions into practical business plans. John attended COP26 in Glasgow, this year and his latest book, Stories from 2030 has just been published. Dr Linden Ashcroft is a climate scientist, academic and science communicator. She works at the University of Melbourne, where she lectures in climate science and her research focuses on Australia’s past climates. Ashcroft is a regular on broadcast media and was a Science and Technology Australia 2019–20 Superstar of STEM. Today’s interview is hosted by the Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-Chief Ian Connellan
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The Best Australian Science Writing is an annual collection of – that’s right – the nation’s best science writing. This year a mixture of experienced authors and newcomers have come together under the editorship of Eureka prizewinning-writer Dyani Lewis. Today Dyani talks to three of BASW 2021’s writers. Freelance science writer Bianca Nogrady, conservation ecologist Ella Loeffler, and the science editor at CNET.com, Jackson Ryan. We hear about their stories, why they write about science, and what they’re planning to report on in the future.
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Today we have a special podcast that showcases a program initiated by the Royal Institution of Australia’s Education platform. In Class With is a series where we ask students from all over the country to ask eminent scientists questions.
Professor Fiona Wood, the inventor of spray-on-skin and a world-leading burns specialist, and speaking to you from Whadjuk Nyoongar land, will be answering their questions in this episode.
You can visit RiAus Education to learn more about our program – and head to Wild Dingo Press or any good bookstore to get your copy of Professor Fiona Wood’s Aussie STEM Stars book.
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Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish, based at ANU, has been named as the next president of the Australian Academy of Science. Jagadish is a world-renowned physicist and nanotechnology pioneer; he’s the first Australian of Indian heritage to lead the country’s premier science organisation. He was born in humble circumstances in Andhra Pradesh, south-eastern India. He moved to Australia with his family in 1990 to accept a position at ANU. Today Professor Jagadish talks to Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-Chief Ian Connellan about his background and his thoughts on the future of Australian science.
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Today we bring you a recording from the Nature Festival in Adelaide earlier this year where a panel of Bruce Pascoe, Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature; Major "Moogy" Sumner, a world-renowned performer and Ngarrindjeri cultural ambassador; artist Sonya Rankine; writer and curator Jared Thomas; and Warndu co-founder Damien Coulthard, discussed how nature, food and kinship intersect in Aboriginal cultures. Your host is Rebecca Sullivan, herself the other co-founder of Warndu.
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Soil carbon sequestration seems like a win for everyone: it improves soil quality, removes CO2 from the atmosphere, and provides an additional source of income for farmers via carbon credits. It forms a major part of the federal government’s plan to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050, with one official estimate suggesting that up to a fifth of our current yearly emissions could be negated with soil carbon. Is it really possible to put such a huge chunk of our emissions in the soil – and if so, how can we do it? What’s holding soil carbon farming back?
Today, Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to two experts. Louise Kiely is the Director of Carbon Farmers of Australia, and Dr Michael Crawford is CEO at the Cooperative Research Centre for High Performance Soils. Together, they provide an insight into both the science and legislation around carbon sequestration.
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What do your genes say about your risk of disease? We want to know what types of diseases we, and our children, are susceptible to so we can to our best to mitigate them. When we hear about our own risk of genetic disease, it can be frightening, but it may not mean what it seems.
In reality, genetic disease is highly complex, especially when multiple genes could contribute to any given trait. So, how do we collect this information and what does it mean?
Today, Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis talk to two experts. First up you will hear Professor Michael Inouye. He is Director of the Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Director of Research in the Dept Public Health & Primary Care at the University of Cambridge, Munz Chair of Cardiovascular Prediction & Prevention at the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Following the chat with Michael, Deborah talks to Dr Fayeza Khan, a Human Molecular Geneticist.
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Australian palaeontologist Professor John Long has spent a lifetime expanding what we know about ancient animals, especially fish from the Devonian age, about 400 million years ago. John grew up in Victoria and was educated at Monash University. His fossil expeditions have taken him throughout Australia and to places as diverse as Vietnam, Iran and Antarctica. His ground-breaking discoveries include contributing to our understanding of how reproduction evolved, and the reasons behind global mass extinctions. Science outreach is an important part of John’s work and he’s written more than 20 popular science books. Recently the tide of authorship turned the other way, and John became the subject of a new book in the Aussie STEM stars series. We asked the book’s author, Dr Danielle Clode, who’s also a Cosmos contributor, to talk to John about his life and work.
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Remote and wild, Antarctica is a spectacular place that most people on Earth won't ever get to. But it's a frontier for scientific research – and something we are very passionate about as The Royal Institution of Australian is the Australian Antarctic Division’s Education partner. Today Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge speaks to Professor Nicole Webster, who took up the role as the chief scientist of the Australian Antarctic Division this year. Webster completed her PhD at James Cook University in Queensland, investigating the microbial ecology of a Great Barrier Reef sponge, before transitioning into Antarctic science, including studying microbial communities as indicators for human-induced stress in the Antarctic marine environment. In this discussion we learn about what kind of research is undertaken on this frozen continent, from the smallest krill to the largest ice sheets, and what it might teach us about our future on this planet.
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Now, more than ever, it's important to communicate science in an engaging and accessible way - but using traditional media isn't the only way. Today, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge speaks to science communicator, Rachel Rayner. With a degree in Liberal Studies majoring in Physics and Art History & Theory, and a background in strategic marketing, events, and PR, she has a unique blend of skills – and her science communication takes in everything from performance to poetry.
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Professor Fred Watson AM has been a fixture of Australian astronomy for decades, perhaps best known for his work promoting and explaining science and astronomy on television, radio and through publications.
In addition to a long career at the Australian Astronomical Observatory and now as astronomer-at-large for the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, he is the author of several popular books, a regular radio presenter, and keen musician.
Today, The Royal Institution of Australia’s Editor-in-chief Ian Connellan, talks with Professor Watson about his work as an astronomer-at-large and about his new book, Spacewarp: Colliding Comets and other Cosmic Catastrophes, released on 1 November 2021. He takes us through topics including the tale of what got him interested in astronomy, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Dark Sky Alliance, and how we can improve our skies for professional and amateur astronomers alike.
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When we move off into the interplanetary expanse, we will still need to be well fed. But food isn’t exactly abundant in space, or on other planets like Mars. The answer? Space crops.
But what are the challenges of growing plants in space? And how could we develop crops to support long-term space habitation?
Today, Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis talks to Professor Matthew Gilliham, the director of the Waite Research Institute at the University of Adelaide. His research focuses on crop plant nutrition and stress resilience, and he is currently developing programs in space agriculture – including the growth and adaptation of plants to space environments.
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Scientists say that 2021 is our last chance to stop the effects of climate change from fundamentally disrupting the weather patterns we've relied on for millennia. After a year’s delay due to COVID, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - also known as COP26 - is about to begin in Glasgow, providing a crucial opportunity for more than 100 world leaders to come together and chart our future on this planet. But what do the climate scientists themselves think of this pivotal moment? This week, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge, speaks to five Australian climate scientists – one each day - to give you an insider’s guide into what's at stake at COP26, what to look out for, and what their hopes and fears are.
Today, we talk to Dr Andrew King, a lecturer in Climate Science and ARC DECRA fellow at the School of Earth Sciences and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, at the University of Melbourne.
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Scientists say that 2021 is our last chance to stop the effects of climate change from fundamentally disrupting the weather patterns we've relied on for millennia. After a year’s delay due to COVID, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - also known as COP26 - is about to begin in Glasgow, providing a crucial opportunity for more than 100 world leaders to come together and chart our future on this planet. But what do the climate scientists themselves think of this pivotal moment? This week, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge, speaks to five Australian climate scientists – one each day - to give you an insider’s guide into what's at stake at COP26, what to look out for, and what their hopes and fears are.
Today, we talk to Professor Mark Howden, a Director of the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions at The Australian National University. He is also an Honorary Professor at Melbourne University, a Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is the Chair of the ACT Climate Change Council.
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Scientists say that 2021 is our last chance to stop the effects of climate change from fundamentally disrupting the weather patterns we've relied on for millennia. After a year’s delay due to COVID, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - also known as COP26 - is about to begin in Glasgow, providing a crucial opportunity for more than 100 world leaders to come together and chart our future on this planet. But what do the climate scientists themselves think of this pivotal moment? This week, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge, speaks to five Australian climate scientists – one each day - to give you an insider’s guide into what's at stake at COP26, what to look out for, and what their hopes and fears are.
Today, we talk to Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climate scientist interested in extreme events. She is currently an ARC Future Fellowship, a chief investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, and a senior lecturer at the School of Science, UNSW Canberra.
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Scientists say that 2021 is our last chance to stop the effects of climate change from fundamentally disrupting the weather patterns we've relied on for millennia. After a year’s delay due to COVID, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - also known as COP26 - is about to begin in Glasgow, providing a crucial opportunity for more than 100 world leaders to come together and chart our future on this planet. But what do the climate scientists themselves think of this pivotal moment? This week, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge, speaks to five Australian climate scientists – one each day – to give you an insider’s guide into what's at stake at COP26, what to look out for, and what their hopes and fears are.
Today, we talk to Professor Matthew England, a physical oceanographer and climate scientist. He is currently Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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Scientists say that 2021 is our last chance to stop the effects of climate change from fundamentally disrupting the weather patterns we've relied on for millennia. After a year’s delay due to COVID, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference - also known as COP26 - is about to begin in Glasgow, providing a crucial opportunity for more than 100 world leaders to come together and chart our future on this planet. But what do the climate scientists themselves think of this pivotal moment? This week, Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge, speaks to five Australian climate scientists – one each day - to give you an insider’s guide into what's at stake at COP26, what to look out for, and what their hopes and fears are.
Today, we talk to Dr Linden Ashcroft, a lecturer in climate science and science communication at the University of Melbourne. Originally from country Victoria, Linden’s career has spanned the academic, government and non-for-profit sectors, working in climate science communication, citizen science and historical weather data rescue.
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If children are the future, then how we teach them will shape that world. But are we raising them in the right way? As STEM skills increasingly become necessary in shaping society, a data-driven approach to education may be the only way for the future generation to change the world. To explore this more, we have two fascinating guests who Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis will be talking to. Linda McIver is the executive director of Australian Data Science Education Institute. Her recent book "Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the World" explores the way we teach STEM, and proposes a data-centric, problem-based learning approach that engages kids and empowers them to create positive change in their own communities. Dr. Marissa Bond, is the Head of Technology at Lumination, a technology company on a mission to revolutionise the way we teach, learn and work.
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Today we present the Nature for Everyone session from the Nature Festival held in Adelaide between the 25th of September and the 4th of October this year. Nature does indeed have something for everyone but is it within everyone’s reach? In this panel discussion we look at the diverse value of nature, some of the barriers South Australians experience in accessing it, and showcase some of the programs that are working to make it easier for everyone to connect. Our guests today are Ben Trewren, Youth, Inc. Experiential Learning Manager, Youth, Inc. is an Adelaide-based learning alternative, designed specifically for young people aged 17-24 who are looking for something a bit different; Yvie Eglinton, Dept of Environment and Water’s National Parks Access Coordinator; Tricia Curtis, who looks after Trees For Life’s Regenerate and Stepping Stone Programs; and Harry Spurrier from Neurohero Foundation, an organisation that aims to improve the lives of teenagers with debilitating neurodegenerative disorders through virtual reality video games and at-home sustainable agriculture. The discussion is hosted by Christy Spiers, Network Facilitator for the SA Urban Food Network, and Adaptive Communities Coordinator for Green Adelaide.
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In a few days the Aussie Backyard Bird Count begins. It’s an annual activity for all ages and involves observing and counting the birds that live near you – whether that’s in a garden, the local park, or even a town centre. By capturing the participants observations within a 20-minute period, BirdLife Australia develops an understanding of local birds, and you get to know the local wildlife better!
To answer all the questions, Royal Institution Of Australia Editor-in-Chief Ian Connellan talks Sean Dooley, the National Public Affairs Manager for Birdlife Australia, and a noted author. His first book was 2005's The Big Twitch, the story of his attempt to break the Australian record for the number of birds seen in Australia in a single year.
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In 2022, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Telescope in the Western Australian outback will embark on a massive project to map the southern skies in radio waves. This survey, the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), will help us understand how the first stars and galaxies formed, and how they evolved into what we see today. The project involves over 400 researchers from around the world, and it’s being led by Australian astronomers. Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge spoke to Dr Michael Cowley, an astrophysicist from the Queensland University of Technology, who leads the Red Shift working group, to get the lowdown on this exciting project.
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Today we present the Nature of Politics session from the Nature Festival held in Adelaide between the 25th of September and the 4th of October this year. These days, everything feels like a partisan issue, be it immigration, national security, renewable energy or even lockdowns. More and more decision making seems to feel like a political football, even if it doesn't make sense. Despite its history, a basic concern for the environment seems to have been caught in this trend and in recent years, just labelling yourself an “environmentalist” has been seen as a polarizing thing to do.
We hear from James Bradley OAM, celebrated Australian writer and author of Clade; Michelle Grady, Australian Director of The Pew Charitable Trusts; Craig Wilkins, CEO of South Australia's peak environment organisation Conservation SA
And Natasha Davis, Chair of the South Australian Nature Alliance and CEO of Trees For Life (SA). This event is hosted by journalist Tory Shepherd.
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Where you live affects your health. Every day we walk through cities without considering how they’re designed and how they assist – or delay – our ability to live well. As the climate warms, cities are heating up too – and without interventions, this could make them more deadly. But we can now collect data on this at unprecedented levels, which can help us to change cities for the better.
To help us address these issues, we are joined by Jason Byrne, Professor of Human Geography and Planning at The University of Tasmania, and a researcher of urban political ecologies of green-space, climate change adaptation, and environmental justice; and Professor Billie Giles-Corti, Director of the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab at RMIT University. She has researched the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing for over two decades. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge.
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Global semiconductor industry sales top $400 billion; China has called chip independence a top national priority in its latest five-year plan; and U.S. President Joe Biden has vowed to build a secure American supply chain by reviving domestic manufacturing. Even the European Union is mulling measures to make its own chips.
Given our increasing dependence on semi-conductors in everything from cars and ATMS to phones and household appliances, what can Australia do to guarantee supply? Today we talk to Mike Nicholls, an entrepreneur, inventor and technologist, and a fund expert at helping start-ups generate their early customer leads, and opportunities; and Monash University’s Professor Michael Fuhrer, the director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), and a researcher in novel two-dimensional materials, semiconductors, metals, and superconductors about Australia’s opportunities – and threats – within the industry. Today’s interviews are hosted by Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian.
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South Australian-based company Micro-X has recently won $8 million in funding to further develop their small, portable CT scanner, which they aim to fit on an ambulance or in a plane. It’s a device that can mean the difference between life and death in patients having a stroke. The technology they use to enable a CT scanner to be produced that weighs just 30kg, instead of the normal three-quarters of a tonne, can be applied across many forms of x-ray from medical to airport security to military bomb squads, as managing director Peter Rowland explains in today’s interview hosted by Ellen Phiddian.
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Today we have an incredibly special podcast for you. We speak to two amazing women about the effect Taliban rule will have on education, especially for women and girls, in Afghanistan.
Farkhondeh Akbari, originally from Daikundi province in central Afghanistan. Akbari was born in 1991 in Afghanistan and migrated with her family to Australia when she was 12 years old. She has visited friends and relatives in Afghanistan throughout her life, most recently in 2019. She joins us today from Canberra, where she’s completing a PhD in diplomacy and peace settlements at the ANU.
Pashtana Durrani is a teacher, and founder and executive director of LEARN, an Afghani not-for-profit whose main focus is providing quality education to all children, especially girls, in Afghanistan. Pashtana has remained in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s return to power.
Ian Connellan, The Royal Institution of Australia’s Editor-in-Chief, conducts the interviews, and Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge narrates this amazing story.
If you’d like to know more about the challenges to education in Afghanistan please follow LEARN on social media:
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Go to Organisation for Developing Solutions (ADS) to learn about the education-focussed peacebuilding and development NGO that Farkhondeh co-founded.
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Today we are joined by Elizabeth Finkel, a multi award-winning science journalist, author, biochemist, and the co-founder of Cosmos magazine. She's recently written a letter and a series of articles on cosmosmagazine.com that delve deep into the science behind the COVID-19 vaccines, speaking specifically to people who are hesitant about getting a job. It is a true COVID toolkit, and it’s fascinating to hear her talk through the challenges she faced in explaining the science. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge.
The COVID Toolkit stories can be read by clicking on the links below:
A letter to my vaccine-hesitant friends
What we know about Ivermectin: correlation is not causation
Adverse reactions: Guillain Barre, TTS and the fine mesh net
The rollout: The danger of vaccines vs the danger of COVID
Are COVID-19 vaccines experimental?
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Australia may seem like an isolated country, but it is part of a wider ecosystem in the Asia-Pacific – especially when it comes to food. As food scarcity threatens, is food security a problem we need to tackle as a collective? What is Australia’s role in achieving food security in the Asia-Pacific region? We talk to Professor Andrew Campbell, CEO of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, and
Mr. Sridhar Dharmapuri, Senior Food Safety and Nutrition Officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, to get some answers. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis.
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Frogs have been vanishing in large numbers along the east coast of Australia since June, and we're not entirely sure why. They've been turning up sick and dying, with some populations disappearing within a week or two. We spoke with Dr. Jody Rowley, the amphibian and reptile curator at the Australian Museum to find out what's happening. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge.
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With its low rate of COVID-19 vaccinations, Australia is in the rare position of being able to continue vaccine trials on unvaccinated people. This is especially necessary because even vaccines with high efficacy, such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca, have no guarantee of remaining effective as the virus mutates. Today Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian talks to Adelaide’s Dr Chris Rook, fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, who will be conducting a phase III clinical trial of a protein vaccine. But even though vaccine trials are necessary, it’s still a long process from conception to approval. So how do you run a vaccine trial in Australia?
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Back in the 1940s, South Australian geologist Reg Sprigg first discovered Ediacaran fossils on the north end of Nilpena Station, to the west of the Flinders Ranges, redefining the Earth’s history by adding in a whole new period.
The Department for Environment and Water in South Australia has recently teamed up with several non-profit organisations to purchase a chunk of Nilpena Station and turn it into the Nilpena Ediacaran National Park. They’re currently building trails, planning tours to the fossil site, and creating a visitor’s centre which will have an audiovisual experience bringing a fossil bed to life.
Today Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge talks to Ross Fargher, the owner of Nilpena Station; Jason Irving, Manager of the National Parks and Protected Area Program for the Department for Environment and Water; and Mary Droser, Professor of Geology at the University of California, Riverside, USA. And if you want more on this, make sure you get the current issue of Cosmos Magazine, on sale now!
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The fledgling discipline of eco-acoustics has added a remarkable diagnostic tool to field biology: a valid and reliable way to prove the absence of our most secretive species. Where many species are incredibly hard to see, the needs of the genetic line still demand they reach out to potential mates. They do so through calling. Today, Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-chief Ian Connellan talks to Professor David Watson from Charles Sturt University about the Australian Acoustic Observatory, and how acoustics will transform ecology.
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During the current pandemic, intensive care units in hospitals have had to manage a significant number of critically ill COVID-19 patients. So what is it like on the frontline that is ICU?
We talk to Associate Professor Jai Darvall, an anaesthetist and intensive care specialist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he’s co-leader of the perioperative medicine service within the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management. He holds dual appointments at the University of Melbourne in the departments of Critical Care and Medical Education. Darvall has clinical and research interests in frailty, perioperative medicine, and persistent critical illness; his PhD investigated the mechanisms and outcomes of frailty in older surgical and ICU patients. This interview is hosted by Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-chief Ian Connellan.
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Today our expert panel is going to discuss a fairly simple proposition: whether science has played a role in the decline of truth. ‘Truth decay’ is a subject that’s been growing in visibility; the shift away from an accepted and agreed set of facts and data has been eroding trust in public institutions for many years. The trend may have been more profound in the United States (culminating as it did in the election of President Donald J. Trump), but Australia hasn’t been immune. The challenges presented over many years by climate change and more recently by COVID-19 have placed science firmly at the centre of debate about the veracity of information, and the qualifications of those dispensing it. Has science stood apart from the decline of truth, or has it played a role in widening the gap between fact and fantasy?
Professor Caroline McMillen has been Chief Scientist of South Australia since 2018. She is a medical researcher, the chair or a member of multiple research and advisory boards, and she’s held academic leadership positions at multiple universities across Australia, including seven years as Vice Chancellor of the University of Newcastle; The Hon Michael Kirby served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia between 1996 and 2009, and was Acting Chief Justice on two occasions during the period. He’s had an extraordinarily long and distinguished judicial career – upon retirement from the High Court he was the country’s longest-serving judge – and he’s served on the governing bodies of universities and national and international bodies including the World Health Organisation; and Associate Professor Antony Eagle, a philosopher based at the University of Adelaide. His research has mainly been in ‘theoretical’ philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of science, philosophy of logic and language, philosophy of probability, and philosophy of physics. He completed undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and did his higher degrees at Princeton University in the USA.
Today’s Cosmos Briefing is hosted by ABC Adelaide presenter Ali Clarke.
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Since COVID-19 hit, the science of modelling has moved into the spotlight. Today we’re talking about the reasons for the difference between two recently published examples from the Doherty Institute and a preprint from ANU. Professor Ivo Mueller, an epidemiologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, working across population health and immunity, explains the assumptions inherent in each. At a time where modelling is so prevalent, it’s important to build modelling literacy and unpack the methodology of modelling, so we can all understand what they can and can’t do! Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos Magazine editor Gail MacCallum.
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Today we talk with Adam Smith, Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University and managing director at Reef Ecologic, and Nathan Cook, a marine scientist at Reef Ecologic. In March this year they discovered the widest coral on the Great Barrier Reef. Happily, given the challenges the reef is facing, it is in good health. Monitoring these corals can have multiple scientific and climate related benefits. This interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge.
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Given location and area, Australia has an unlimited capacity in sustainable electricity, yet the country lags behind the rest of the world in electric vehicle purchase. EV new vehicles sales in Australia in 2020 were 0.6%. In Norway this number is 54%, with the aim to be 100% by 2025. Why is this the case and what’s being done to change it? To find out some answers we are talking today to Ben Warren, National Manager of Electrification, Nissan Australia, and Gail Broadbent, a PhD candidate from the. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW. Today’s interview is hosted by Professor Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia.
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Today we talk with Ian McKeown, Head of High Performance at the Port Adelaide Football Club. Off the back of the Olympics, and now as we head towards the finals of the winter codes, maximising the performance of athletes in their chosen pursuits is front of mind. The role that sports science plays in improving performance continues to grow, as people such as Ian find new ways to train the human body. Today’s interview is hosted by Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-chief Ian Connellan.
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As the Australian Space Industry forges ahead, data gathered from space will connect farmers, land managers and emergency services with the real-time changes on Earth in minute detail. But the discoveries made don’t simply jump from lab to industry; they need to be translated into products and companies to reach national impact. So, what is impeding the connection between cutting-edge research and the people who can benefit from its use as a service? And who are the space entrepreneurs paving the way towards a connected Australia?
Today we talk to Dr Ilana Feain, a commercialisation specialist of astronomy and space science and CSIRO, and director of Quasar Satellite Technologies Pty Ltd, a new Australian space start-up that is set to revolutionise space communication , and Flavia Tata Nardini, the CEO and Cofounder of Adelaide-based Fleet Space Technologies, a space company connecting the internet of things across the world through a fleet of small, low-cost satellites, and Mission Chair of Seven Sisters Mission, The Australian lunar exploration mission to send nanosatellites and sensors to the Moon to search for accessible water.
Today’s interview is hosted by Professor Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia.
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Polymer brushes are substances with a range of medical and environmental uses - environmentally friendly cleaning products, environmental remediation, minerals processing, biotechnology, sensors, drug delivery, and membranes -, but the way they behave at the nano level isn't entirely clear. Today we talk to Dr Andrew Nelson, an instrument scientist at ANSTO, Dr Isaac Gresham from UNSW, and Hayden Robertson, a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle. All three are working on research to get a better understanding of just how they can be more useful, and ultimately provide a way to predict their behaviour for real-world applications. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian.
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Cybersecurity – the suite of practices used to protect digital assets and information – is regularly in the news, through stories about cyber threats such as ransomware and spyware attacks, and foreign actors hacking into critical systems. Do cyber threats mean that computers are our weakest boundary fences – as individuals, companies/institutions, and nations? Will the next world war be an online one?
Today we talk with Dr Dennis “Darknet” Desmond, a lecturer with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Cyber Security, Cyber Intelligence and Cryptography, and a Research Analyst developing oppositional human factor darknet interventions. He holds a PhD in human factors and sociotechnical systems focused on cyber and financial technologies to disrupt crypto-laundering activities. Dr Desmond has previously served as a special agent for the United States Army and Federal Bureau of Investigation, and as a Senior Intelligence Officer with a specialty in identity defence with the U. S. Department of Defense. Today’s interview is hosted by Professor Alan Duffy.
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Today we talk with Dr Christian Schwab, an astronomer at Macquarie University who has just helped develop one of the most precise tools ever built for detecting new planets outside our solar system. The NEID spectrometer was funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, and has just started scanning the skies at the WIYN 3.5m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in the US. This interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge.
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One of the coolest things about living at this point in human history is that we are now able to visit other worlds. From rovers trundling over the rocky surface of Mars to probes in orbit around Jupiter and Saturn, we have the incredible opportunity to collect information about other planets – but to do this, scientists need to develop cutting-edge tools. A team at RMIT University in Melbourne has just developed a miniature radar device that will help us see below the surface of the Moon and Mars. We speak to one member of the research team, James McNae. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge.
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As we build a clean energy future, solar energy research is diversifying. This is one of the focuses of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Exciton Science, a collaboration between Australian unis and industry that explores how light interacts with advanced materials. In particular, they study Excitons, an excited state of matter that is crucial to semiconductors, which are used in light-based applications from lasers to solar cells. One group within the ARC is working on building better solar panels. Right now, typical silicon solar cells only capture about 30% of the energy that lands on them. So part of this group's research is trying to identify cheaper and more efficient materials to make these cells. Today we talk to Carl Belle, the lead researcher with a team at RMIT University and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science in Melbourne. He is trying to find new candidate materials with these cells using an interesting approach: machine learning. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Lauren Fuge.
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Today we talk to Dr. Chadden Hunter, an Australian wildlife biologist and filmmaker. After completing a PhD on gel-ada baboons in Ethiopia, Chadden worked with National Geographic and Discovery Channel, filming everything from tribal ceremonies in Africa to snow leopards in Pakistan. On the BBC series “Planet Earth” he became known as ‘the guy covered in bat poop’, and whilst filming arctic wolves for “Frozen Planet” learnt that minus 40C was cold enough to freeze his eyes shut. His credits include Producer/Director on “Planet Earth 2” and “Seven Worlds-One Planet”. Co-Series Producer of BBC’s “Wild Arabia” and National Geographic’s “Cliffhangers”. Principal Director of “the “Frozen Planet” series. Collectively, the series he has worked on have won 12 Emmys and 8 Baftas. He is also the winner of the Best Film/Documentary this year in our own SCINEMA International Science Film Festival. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis.
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Today we talk to Dr Nicholas Eyre, a Molecular virologist at Flinders University. We recently ran an episode about the controversial gain of function research, which is a technique used in virology and genetics to knock a function into a virus, such as transmissibility, to learn how it evolves. One thing that resonated from that particular interview was the importance of understanding the properties of a virus well before an outbreak occurs. Our previous episode looked at the Zika virus, and today we look at Dengue fever. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis.
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Today we talk to Associate Professor Michael Beard, Head of the Viral Pathogenesis Research Laboratory at the University of Adelaide. Our topic is the controversial gain of function research, a technique in virology and genetics which is often used knock a function into a virus to change its transmissibility. The idea is that this kind of research helps us learn more about how a virus evolves, predict future pandemics, and influences vaccine design. However, there is renewed public focus on the area as there have been claims that this type of research is responsible, via a lab leak, for the current COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Dr Deborah Devis.
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Today we talk to Professor Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist and lead scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia. With growing interest in the world of commercial space travel, Alan discusses the current status is, the major players, and who else is going to benefit. Today’s interview is hosted by RiAus editor-in-chief Ian Connellan.
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Today we talk to Dr Allison Young, who has recently received a junior fellowship from The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation. Vertigo is a common but under-treated medical condition with a lifetime prevalence up to 40%. Currently, the diagnosis and treatment of vertigo is done primarily by specialists who represent only 1% of the doctors in Australia. Her project, in collaboration with clinicians, data scientists and statisticians, will use machine learning techniques to develop a “virtual expert” diagnostic tool to assist the diagnosis of vertigo in the hospital emergency room, general practice, and in outpatient clinics. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian.
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Today we have a special podcast. Dr Deborah Devis is reading a story she wrote that featured in Cosmos Weekly, our online subscription-based deep dive into the biggest issues. She looks at the world of fracture testing, and a new device that is making the task of finding flaws in a thing – like every thing – a whole lot easier.
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Today we talk with Journalist Earl Swift. Earl’s latest book, Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, is the follow-up to his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem. In it he investigates the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions, distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle, were the pinnacle of human exploration. Today’s interview is hosted by Royal Institution of Australia Editor-in-Chief Ian Connellan.
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Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Physics at ANU, Susan M. Scott, is a mathematical physicist working on fundamental theoretical aspects of gravitation and, general relativity theory in particular. She has been part of a team of international scientists who have, for the first time, detected the moment a black hole and a neutron star collided in space, not just once but twice. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian.
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James Brown is a marine biologist and pearl farmer from Broome WA, who was recently recognised as the 2020-21 Australian Farmer of the Year and winner of the Award for Excellence in Innovation for his innovative approach to farming, his support of industry research and development and his dedication to advancing Australian pearls as a premium product around the world. We talk to James about what it is like to farm oysters and pearls and how science is permeating the industry. Today’s interview is hosted by Cosmos Magazine editor Gail MacCallum
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There’s a lot more to a retail transaction – whether online or in-store – than there used to be. Information (data) about you and your shopping habits is collected just about every time you make a purchase. How is it used? How will it affect the future of retailing?
Jonathan Reeve is GM APAC for Eagle Eye, a software as a service personalised digital loyalty and promotions platform. Clients include Loblaw, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, the Warehouse Group and Woolworths. Jonathan has worked with global retailers across three continents and is the author of Retail’s Last Mile: Why Online Shopping Will Exceed Our Wildest Predictions.
Neil Ridgway is the Chief Brand and Marketing Officer at Rip Curl International and part of the global senior leadership team reporting directly to Group CEO. He oversees all global eCommerce, advertising and marketing online and offline, content across all channels, Rip Curl Retail look and feel, wholesale sell-in, pro surf and snow team sponsorship and events. Prior to working with Rip Curl, Neil was a magazine publisher, editor and journalist.
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Cosmos journalist Ellen Phiddian speaks to Dr Karen Alt, Head of the Nano Theranostics Laboratory at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Monash University, about medical imaging technology using nanoparticles, how it compares to current imaging like MRI, and where it could be seen in the future.
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If they can’t be used second-hand, is it possible to recycle old clothes? What about recycling other fabrics and textiles? An Australian company, BlockTexx, has recently received funding to build a textile recovery facility in Queensland. Using technology developed by Queensland University of Technology researchers, the plant will take old textiles and turn them into raw materials that can be used by other industries.
One of the central problems with textiles is that they’re often a mix of completely different chemicals – such as cotton and polyester. This makes them very difficult to turn into new, high-quality products. The separation-of-fibre technology (S.O.F.T.) process developed by QUT, however, separates the polyester and cotton in textiles completely, allowing them to be used for other purposes.
Cosmos spoke to Robert Speight, a professor at QUT, and Adrian Jones, a co-founder of BlockTexx, about the technology and its environmental implications.
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Artificial intelligence technology brings the promise of improvements in many areas of life, but it’s not without problems. Near the top of the list of issues are ways in which it may embed prejudice, for instance through facial recognition, and surveillance. If AI’s to fulfil its potential, it needs to be safe, fair and reliable.
About three years ago, the Australian Human Rights Commission began compiling a report into the impacts of AI; the Human Rights and Technology Final Report was presented to the federal Attorney General in March, and tabled in parliament in early June.
Cosmos Editor-in-Chief Ian Connellan speaks to Australian Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow about the reasons for examining new technologies in a human rights framework, and about the key recommendations made.
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Remote and wild, Antarctica was once solely the domain of hardcore explorers. As the continent becomes more accessible, science and tourism are expanding – but does this come with an environmental cost? Should access to these fragile ecosystems be regulated, and who gets to decide?
Professor Steven L Chown FAA FRSsaf is Director of Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative and Professor at Monash University. His Antarctic research covers many aspects of biodiversity variation and its conservation. Owing to his interest in the science-policy interface, for many years he represented the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), of which he was also President (2016-2021), at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, providing scientific advice on a broad range of environmental and science policy matters.
Dr Jaimie Cleeland is an early career scientist working on Southern Ocean fisheries at the Australian Antarctic Division. Her research directly contributes to the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, where she represents Australia as an independent scientific delegate. Providing advice on the impact fishing has on bycatch species such as seabirds and deep-water skates and sharks, and ways that we can better manage fisheries around Antarctica to conserve non-target species.
Greg Mortimer OAM is best known as a mountaineer; he was one of the first two Australians to climb Mt Everest (1984) and the first Australian to climb Antarctica’s highest peak, Vinson Massif, in 1988. He later co-founded adventure cruise company Aurora Expeditions and has led over 80 expeditions to Antarctica. He trained as a geochemist and geologist has also previously worked for the New Zealand Antarctic Division.
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Lauren Fuge, a science journalist with the Royal Institution of Australia, talks to Brett Krause, the president and cofounder of Brettacorp Inc, a not-for-profit building forests in the Cassowary Coast region of Tropical North Queensland, Australia, about Brettacorp’s mission to revegetate degraded lands and rehabilitate habitat through conservation and preservation techniques.
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Over the next decade, the Australian manufacturing industry will need to change its practices to continue making things for the rest of the world. Dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution, AI and smart technologies have the potential to make the sector more productive and less wasteful, but the implementation needs to be done right. How will AI change our manufacturing sector, and what skills will we need to stay competitive?
Professor Giselle Rampersad, Professor of Innovation at Flinders University, leads a digital upskilling program for BAE Systems, SMEs and STEM teachers. It won the Training and Mentorship Program for 2020 in the Australian Defence Industry Awards. She also leads industry 4.0 research with Naval Group Pacific, on exoskeletons and machining robots.
Martin Guenzl is a senior executive with Boral, focussing on digital transformation and disruption in industrial settings. He has founded, developed and successfully led digital solutions businesses over the last twenty years, including AI-centric solutions. He holds an Electronics Engineering degree from University of WA and an MBA from London Business School.
They join our host, Dr Deborah Devis of The Royal Institution of Australia to discuss this key issue.
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Water is the most vital resource on Earth and underpins all areas of survival. Over the next ten years, we will need more fresh water to sustain us – even as drought and contamination make our current resources dwindle. How do we protect our most precious resource?
Assoc. Professor Bradley Moggridge is a Kamilaroi Man with over 20 years’ experience in Aboriginal engagement, water & environmental science. Bradley is currently an Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science (hydrogeology & environmental science) P/T PhD candidate at University of Canberra & the Indigenous Liaison Officer for the Threatened Species Recovery Hub.
Warwick Ragg was raised on a farm in the NSW Southern Highlands and has almost 30 years experience in rural and regional advocacy. Prior to joining NFF Warwick had been working in the Commonwealth Government in stakeholder engagement roles and had previously spent a decade with NSW Farmers’ Association and a further decade as chief executive of Australian Forest Growers.
Dr Erin O’Donnell is a water law and policy specialist. She has worked in water management since 2002, focusing on water markets, environmental flows, and water governance. Erin is recognized internationally for her research into the groundbreaking new field of legal rights for rivers, and the challenges and opportunities these new rights create for protecting the multiple social, cultural and natural values of rivers. In 2018, Erin was appointed to the inaugural Birrarung Council, the voice of the Yarra River.
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Dr Deborah Devis, a science journalist with the Royal Institution of Australia, talks to Philippa Sjoquist, principal advisor of sustainability strategy and development at Rio Tinto, about Rio Tinto’s proposed strategy to address the environmental costs of mining.
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Dr Alan Finkel AO FAA FTSE is an Australian neuroscientist, engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He served as Chancellor of Monash University from 2008 to 2016 and was Chief Scientist of Australia from 2016 to 2020. He is also President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ex-officio) and Patron of the Australian Science Media Centre, and he contributes to a number of research institutes. A neuroscientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, he invented a commercially successful device which substantially speeds up drug research and founded the science magazines Cosmos and G: The Green Lifestyle Magazine.Dr Finkel talks with Ian Connellan, The Royal Institution of Australia's Editor-In-Chief about how we’ll shift greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
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Think of a computing process underpinned by masses of complex data – such as modelling planet-wide shifts in climate or simulating the detonation of an atomic bomb. The process is known as supercomputing, and it’s run on a powerful system working at its maximum potential performance – a supercomputer.
Dr Karen Lee-Waddell (Director of the Australian SKA regional centre, and Project Scientist for WALLABY, the all-sky neutral hydrogen survey that is being conducted on the CSIRO’s new telescope, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder), Professor Sean Smith (Director of the NCI and conjointly Professor of computational nanomaterials science and technology at the ANU) and Ivan Galea (Vice President, Analytics and Data Science at Atlassian) join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss the very big analysis machines we turn to in order consider the world’s, and science’s, very big questions.
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Dr Cathy Foley is a physicist and commenced her term as Australia’s ninth chief scientist in January 2021. Before that she had a long and distinguished career at CSIRO, where she was appointed chief scientist in August 2018 – only the second woman in that role.
Over the course of her career, she has made significant contributions to the understanding of semiconductors and high-temperature superconductors. Her work led to the development of field-deployable superconducting devices that locate valuable mineral deposits by detecting minute magnetic fields (ten million times weaker than the Earth’s field).
Dr Vikram Sharma is a quantum physicist and the founder and CEO of Canberra-based QuintessenceLabs, which is a world leader in the quantum cybersecurity industry. Vikram is a dual MSc holder – in computer science (from ANU), and management (from Stanford University, California). His doctorate in quantum physics was also awarded by ANU.
Dr Johan Verjans is a cardiologist who combines clinical and research work. He’s deputy director, Medical Machine Learning, at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning; a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide attached to South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute; an associate investigator at Adelaide Uni’s Centre for Nanoscale Biophotonics; and a consultant cardiologist at Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Our guests join moderator Tory Shepherd, an Adelaide-based journalist and broadcaster, to discuss what AI is, its certain prevalence in our future, the variety of real-world applications for which it’s already used, and future applications, both already in development and as yet only imagined
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Papua New Guinea has been somewhat sheltered from the COVID-19 pandemic, with relatively low numbers throughout 2020. Since late February, however, the country has experienced a spike in new cases.
Dr Deborah Devis, a science journalist with the Royal Institution of Australia, talks to Professor Leanne Robinson, Program Director of Health Security and Group Leader and Vector-Borne Diseases & Tropical Public Health at the Burnet Institute, to discuss the situation.
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The global economy sees unprecedented levels of resources extracted at great expense and effort, as well as polluting emissions in the process, to forge new products but all too often these then go to landfill at the end of their lives. A revolutionary, yet beguilingly simple, idea known as the circular economy would see all these products entirely recycled and their resources returned to form new products in turn. Just how realistic is the intention to transform the entire economy to realise this? And what role can Australia play in forging a new, more sustainable, approach to consumerism?
Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla (internationally recognised materials scientist, engineer, and inventor revolutionising recycling science, and inaugural Director of the Circular Economy Innovation Network by the NSW Government through its Office of Chief Scientist and Engineer) and Professor Thomas Maschmeyer (Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney and recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation (2020) – Australia’s top prize in the field) join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss the circular economy and what it means for business in Australia.
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Australian-born Professor Peter Goadsby is the NIHR-Wellcome Trust King’s Clinical Research Facility at King’s College London in the United Kingdom and is Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is also Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King’s College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St, London. Professor Goadsby is one of four neuroscientists who have won this year’s prestigious international Brain Prize. The group has been recognised for discovering a key mechanism that causes migraines.
Dr Deborah Devis, a science journalist with the Royal Institution of Australia, talks to Professor Goadsby about the culmination of four decades of developing new classes of migraine-specific drugs that are informed by the neurology of the brain.
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To combat the climate crisis, the world needs to decarbonise its economy, and that means finding ways to store and transport renewable electricity. Hydrogen has the potential to be a completely clean supply of energy, but it could just as easily become the next emissions and resource-intensive industry. If hydrogen takes off, where can we expect it to go?
Dr Jessica Allen (an electrochemist and an engineer working in chemical engineering at the University of Newcastle) and Associate Professor Adam Osseiran (President of the Hydrogen Society of Australia) join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss the future of hydrogen as an energy source.
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The recent pardon petition by leading Australian scientists regarding the Kathleen Folbigg case – in which new scientific findings have shown her four children could have died of natural cases – has raised a number of questions about how specialised scientific evidence is regarded by our system of courts.
Gary Edmond (law professor at University of NSW), Anna-Maria Arabia (chief executive of the Australian Academy of Science) and Richard O’Brien (endocrinology professor at the University of Melbourne and frequent expert witness) join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss why science and law can't communicate.
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Healthcare has been changing rapidly since genomic data became available, and has opened the door to precise, targeted therapies and treatments for an individual. However, the amount of data that can be collected from a single genome is immense, especially when looking to learn about whole populations. For this, high processing computers and AI are necessary to help distil and analyse genomic data.
Dr Deborah Devis, a science journalist with the Royal Institution of Australia, talks to Dr Mileidy Giraldo, Global lead of Life Sciences at Lenovo about the future of personalised health care and the need for big data, high processing computers and intersectional expertise.
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It has been two years since the official launch of the Australian Space Agency. While the Agency is still young, it has opened exciting doors for the nation from fast-growing startups to multi-national collaborations. We look at how Australia’s space industry is expanding, what we can do to stay competitive, and how to maximise the benefits of private industry alongside government at the final frontier.
Dr Cassandra Steer (Mission Specialist with the ANU Institute for Space, and a Senior Lecturer at the College of Law), Adam Gilmour (CEO and co-founder of Gilmour Space, a venture-funded space technology and rocket company), and Aude Vignelles (Chief Technology Officer at the Australian Space Agency), join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss.
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A major threat of climate change is to future food security. With a projected Australian population of 35.9 million in 2050, and rising average temperatures of up to 4°C, how will agricultural science work to feed the future? Should we lean on gene technology or traditional methods? Professor Rachel Burton (Head of the Plant Science Department & Chief Investigator ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at Waite Campus, University of Adelaide) and Dr Angela Pattison (Research Scientist at the University of Sydney Plant Breeding Institute) join our host Dr Deborah Devis (Geneticist & Science Journalist at The Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss.
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Barely known to the public before the COVID briefings of early 2020, epidemiological modelling informs public health decisions that can shutter communities and alter lives. But what does it mean? Professor Jodie McVernon (physician and director of Doherty Epidemiology) and Professor Tony Blakely (an epidemiologist, specialist in public health medicine and Director of the Population Interventions Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health) join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss.
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Demand for renewable energy technologies is growing across the world, but their constituent materials – such as the lithium used in batteries – are non-renewable, as the Earth contains only finite amounts. Currently, 55% the world’s lithium supply comes from Australia, so we must ask ourselves: how do we mine these materials in a sustainable and responsible way? Dr Mahdokht Shaibani (Research Fellow at Monash University, with expertise in materials synthesis, engineering, and scale-up for next-generation energy storage systems) and Professor Rick Valenta (Director of the WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland) join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss.
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