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Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks fro...
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Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
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Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
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Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
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Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
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Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remember...
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Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
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Dark energy – not necessarily constant
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The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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The Huxleys – a scientific dynasty
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Seabirds have stomachs full of plastic
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The Science Show celebrates 49 years
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New chemical reaction promises to slash price of some pharmaceuticals
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Merlin meets Dr Crispy
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Fire destroying the Amazon, northern hemisphere forests and a tropical island su...
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Biodiversity crucial on land, in rivers and in our guts
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One billion people at risk as temperatures rise, sex genes, Shackleton VR and te...
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Stanford University: the great university with a dark side
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The deep dark ocean – Exploring the abyss
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The world's largest underground lab and the hunt for dark matter
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The hunt for a crucial update to Einstein's revolutionary theories
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The lab listening to Earth's mysterious seismic rumbles
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Molecules with their own fingerprint
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Paul Ehrlich - memoir traces science, activism and concerns for the planet
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Age of Monotremes including three new genera
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Are our tall forests really being saved?
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Big savings possible for the world’s ships
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Charcoal reveals secrets of first humans in Australia
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Getting serious about energy storage. But is it too late as wildfires rage?
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Scientists protest in Adelaide
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Two inspirational books and new powers for Parkes dish
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The science of friendship
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The amazing world of alpine plants
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Meet the man who changed the world forever
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Big things
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US National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Microorganisms support all life, and plastic in creatures’ guts
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Supernova!
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How Chinese science was revealed to the world
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Improved photosynthesis may increase crop yields
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Climate forces change to traditional lifestyles in PNG
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The Science Show’s Top 100 Australian Scientists
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Science Extra: Aspects of psychology: ADHD diagnosis explosion—and singing to ba...
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H. G. Wells – father of science fiction
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Science Extra: falling antimatter, chimps, Beethoven's hair, Jupiter, and that t...
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Portrait of Isaac Newton
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Science Extra: One semaglutide please
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What to do when science doesn’t cut through
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Science Extra: The rise of the thinking machines
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