Science Friction

Science Friction

Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.

Episodes

July 10, 2022 26 mins
You just never know when you'll need a rat will save your life.
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Some people dream of changing the world. Others do. Thank the flies.
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There is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about! [REPEAT]
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Once fences and armed guards protected genetically modified (GM) crops. But the rules are rapidly changing. From Vitamin D-boosted tomatoes to low GI potato chips, what say should citizens have?
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Meet the neuroscientist turned bestselling rom-com novelist who's exposing the underbelly of science, the passion, and the power games.
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Would you be game? Hear what happened when scientists make themselves vulnerable AND hilarious.
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Two words. Tweeted then deleted. A meeting meltdown. Has #BlackLivesMatter put international science on notice?
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Lace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.
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Nature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.
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Big Pharma has helped get life-saving COVID-19 vaccines into billions of arms. The profits are pouring in, but at what cost?
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Jane Goodall wants you to gird your loins. What does that mean? Well ... for hope, push PLAY.
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By day, she's making molecules dance. By night, this vintage fashionista has a different dance on her mind.
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Timnit Gebru was fired by Google in a cloud of controversy, now she's making waves beyond Big Tech's pervasive influence
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You need a new organ. But there aren't enough to go around. Would you accept one from a pig? Hearts, kidneys, corneas ... xenotransplantation is here.
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Indian-born engineer Nishant Jain flew in the face of expectations to radically reinvent himself as the Sneaky Artist
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Ilya Kolmanovsky is a popular science superstar in Russia. Like so many anti-Putin activists, he’s just made the most wrenching decision of his life. 
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Why are we so weirdly paradoxical about food? Food, farms, revolution with two women closer to it all than most.
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If you sell the gun but don’t pull the trigger ... are you to blame?  
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March 6, 2022 26 mins
After 25 years of painstaking research, could scientists be getting close to unlocking the mysteries of Buruli ulcer?
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February 27, 2022 25 mins
When people from a small beach town on Phillip Island started developing severe skin lesions, scientists were left scratching their heads as to what was causing them.
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