The Cosmos Podcast
Investigating the key intersection of science and the community – the stuff that actually matters to us – and cutting through the half-truths and inaccurate science that floods the digital domain. Find the science of everything at cosmosmagazine.com
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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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Welcome to 'Would You Rather' a podcast where Cosmos science journalists debate a topic and only one comes out the victor.
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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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 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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Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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...
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 the merits of whether a plague of locusts or frogs – naturally of biblical proportions - would be worse.
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Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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 Queensla...
Welcome to 'Would You Rather' a podcast where Cosmos science journalists debate a topic and only one comes out the victor.
Today, Cosmos journalists Petra Stock and Ellen Phiddian debate the merits of high-tech spacesuits verses high-tech sportswear.
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Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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 t...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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 con...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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, p...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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 themsel...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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 Phid...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
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.
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
Big dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex have been extinct for 66 million years, but it’s still fun to think about how they might interact with humans.
So, which dinosaur would make a good pet? Honestly, there are many decent options, but how can you look past the king, T. rex?
Cosmos journalist Evrim Yazgin recently spoke to wor...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
After 31 years of planning, radio telescopes called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) have finally begun construction. The Australian site in the Murchison region of WA – known as SKA-Low – will eventually comprise over 130,000 Christmas tree-like antennae.
Today Cosmos journalist Jacinta Bowler talks to ...
Welcome to a Cosmos Insights podcast, where we talk to scientists in Australia about the impact of their work.
In mid-January this year, a Titan Arum (or corpse flower), nearly 10 years old, showed off its first ever bloom at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
The foul-smelling corpse flower only blooms for a couple of days every few years, so it's a cool thing to see.
But this corpse flower is particular...
Your favourite Cosmos journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny, and odd questions that arose in science this year.
Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Centre for compiling the questions and hosting "Quizmas."
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Your favourite Cosmos journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny, and odd questions that arose in science this year.
Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Centre for compiling the questions and hosting "Quizmas."
Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website
Subscribe to Cosmos Magazine (print) or Cosmos Weekly
Watch and listen to all our Cos...
Your favourite Cosmos Science journalists try to answer the tricky, challenging, funny and odd questions that arose in science this year.
Thanks to the team from the Australian Science Media Exchange for compiling the questioning and hosting "Quizmas."
Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine website
Subscribe to Cosmos Magazine (print) or the Cosmos Weekly
Watch and listen to all our Cosmos Briefings
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