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The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.

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Stanford University: the great university with a dark side

The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia are to be combined as one in 2026. So how do you start a new university? You could look at the most successful universities and see what makes them great.

Published: SatSat 20 Jul 2024 at 2:00amwith Robyn Williams

Duration: 54 minutes 2 seconds

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The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss

The ocean depths may be out of sight, but they play an important role in climate and the cycling of nutrients.

Duration: 54 minutes 2 seconds

Published: 13 Jul 2024Sat 13 Jul 2024 at 2:00amwith Robyn Williams

The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter

From deep within a mountain in Italy, scientists hope increasingly sophisticated experiments are closing in on the hidden matter of the universe.

An illustration of a parrot surrounded by planets and stars

Duration: 55 minutes 16 seconds

Published: 6 Jul 2024Sat 6 Jul 2024 at 2:00amwith Carl Smith

Strange Frontiers 10 | The world’s largest underground laboratory hunts for dark matter in Italy

From deep within a mountain in Italy, scientists hope increasingly sophisticated experiments are closing in on the hidden matter of the universe.

Dr Marcello Messina in a giant cavern looking at the 3-storey glass building and giant container of the XENONnT experiment

Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds

Published: 6 Jul 2024Sat 6 Jul 2024 at 2:00amby Carl Smith

Hunting for cosmic collisions that ripple space-time

When a gravitational wave is detected this scientist is often woken by an alarm and quickly starts scanning the sky

Dr Francesca Onori rugged up on a cold and windy mountaintop with a stone observatory building behind her

Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds

Published: 6 Jul 2024Sat 6 Jul 2024 at 2:00amby Carl Smith

Strange Frontiers

Strange Frontiers 01 | From a German peak, powerful lasers are fired into the night sky

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Hannes Vogelmann stands amongst the German alps

Duration: 21 minutes 22 seconds

Published: 31 Jan 2023Tue 31 Jan 2023 at 7:54amby Carl Smith

Strange Frontiers 02 | The factory where one of the most expensive and elusive materials is made

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds

Published: 5 Feb 2023Sun 5 Feb 2023 at 9:27pmby Carl Smith

Strange Frontiers 03 | How a scientist fell in love with a fossil

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Kristina Eck looks lovingly at the jawbone of Homo heidelbergensis

Duration: 28 minutes 15 seconds

Published: 15 Feb 2023Wed 15 Feb 2023 at 2:03amby Carl Smith

Strange Frontiers 04 | Autonomous minibus ready for passengers

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Mari-Ly Klaats stands in front of an autonomous minibus

Duration: 21 minutes 18 seconds

Published: 28 Feb 2023Tue 28 Feb 2023 at 6:07amby Carl Smith

The physics of music

The physics of music - part 1

The Science Show presents the first of a three-part series on how physics and music were closely linked in their early development. The series was first heard in 1994 and is presented by physicist from Sydney University the late Ian Johnston.

Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

Published: 24 Oct 2022Mon 24 Oct 2022 at 6:39am

The physics of music - part 2

New thinking in the Renaissance led to a new understanding of physics and with it, a new musical scale and new instruments. Physics and music bloomed.

Duration: 53 minutes 21 seconds

Published: 6 Mar 2023Mon 6 Mar 2023 at 8:58pm

The physics of music - part 3

We continue Ian Johnston’s story of the parallel developments of physics and music. Some combinations of notes we find pleasing. Others less so. How is this explained by physics?

Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds

Published: 6 Mar 2023Mon 6 Mar 2023 at 8:58pm

The physics of music - part 4

We continue our series of programs about the connections between physics and music presented by the late Ian Johnston from The University of Sydney.

Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

Published: 24 Oct 2022Mon 24 Oct 2022 at 6:26am

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