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From 2008: Victoria Bond finds out if the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world, Ian Woolf talks to Professor Mike Cortie about zapping gold nanoparticles to cure mind-control parasites, News by Patrick Rubie: King Tut's foetuses, solar power at night, smart bricks, dandelion rubber Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus fl...

Listen to the second part of the Question and Answer session with the audience and scientists from the 2026 Frontiers of Science Forum. Answering the questions were the speakers Professor Dane McCamey talking about quantum electronics, Dr Eliza Middleton talking about science across the disciplines, Professor Noushin Nasiri talking about nanotechnology, and Professor James Brown talking about popu...

Listen to part 1 of the Question and Answer session with the audience and scientists from the 2026 Frontiers of Science Forum. Answering the questions were the speakers Professor Dane McCamey talking about quantum electronics, Dr Eliza Middleton talking about science across the disciplines, Professor Noushin Nasiri talking about nanotechnology, and Professor James Brown talking about population st...

Listen to Dr Marsilea Booth talk about wearable medical sensors at Nutromics. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to Dr Cuhananthan Sathiyajith talk about his startup to commercialise a new medical tool that can both diagnose and treat cancer at the same time in a paradignm called Radiotheranostics - Therpeutic diagnostics. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to the second part of my interview with Professor Noushin Nasiri talk about nanotechnology - very small things with very big effects. News of E-safety censorship. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to nanotechnologist Noushin Nasiri talk about how she works at the smallest scale, for the biggest impact. - Part 1 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to part 2 of Dr Eliza Middleton chatting about the benefits of communicating with people from different professions who think differently to you. News of blinding tattoos and fattening exercise Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to Dr Eliza Middleton discuss the advantages of speaking with people from completely different disciplines than your own - Part 1 Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to Professor Judith Dawes talk about creating random lasers to sense molecules in 2021, Kachina Allen explains the dangers of Power Dressing Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to news of NASA's Artemis II crewed mission around the dark side of the Moon launches next week - what is planned and the wet launch rehearsal this week. Mining the Moon from 2007, and a song about Transhumanitarianism. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to news of a notorious genetic engineer returning, from 2016 Symbiotica Director Oron Catts talks about frog leg steak art, and what industry can learn from biology, then Guy Ben-Ary talks about Cellf - a dish of living neurons that jams with human musicians. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to the latest news of Chinese thorium power technology, a 2012 Thorium talk from SkeptiCamp, a 2012 interview with Thorium expert Dr Massimo Salvadore, and 2014 Thorium powered cars Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to Ian Woolf's 2023 stand-up comedy act on Ciguatera, his 2013 Jobs From Hell story, and a song about fixing the world. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Dr Boob ponders the ethical and technological implication of teleportation. Ian Woolf looks at the physics of the duck's quack. News of high heels helping prosthetic design with Julie-Anne Popple, Ian Woolf discusses Harvard's journal boycott, and Therese Chen looks at Harry Potter style blood testing. Hosted and produced by Julie-Anne Popple. Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Dif...

From 2014: Mind reading apps for Google glass, Alcohol without the harm? by Ian Woolf Skyrmions explained by John August, Tales of the internet before the web by Ian Woolf Presented and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

From 2008: Ian Woolf interviews Crikey tech writer Stilgherrian about the Australian Government's plan to censor the internet. Patrick Rubie tells about heart-powered pacemakers, and why looks matter more at speed dating sessions, Caitlin Howlett pleads the case of whales versus the US Navy, Presented by Monica Sharma and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Dif...

The 2006 Diffusion Christmas Quiz: Schrodinger's Cats vs Pavlov's Dogs in a Winner-Takes-All contest. Hosted by Chris Stewart, with Tilly Boleyn, Vanessa Gardos, Shona Blair, Catherine Beehag, Celine Steinfeld, Jacqui Pfeffer, Jacqui Hayes, Ian Woolf, Darren Osbourne, Derek Muller, Charles Willock. Hosted by Chris Stewart Produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Dif...

The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think - part 2, hosted by Marc Abrahams produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think - part 1, hosted by Marc Abrahams produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to a deep dive into the restructuring of CSIRO and the endless budget cuts driving the firing of 1150 more scientists. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Listen to a deep dive of the Coal-lition's rejection of Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions, and the bi-partisan introduction of Net Zero human rights for Australians online. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

A 30 second promotional trailer on why you should listen to Diffusion Science Radio Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology won the 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. I spoke with her in 2021 about how we can improve indoor air quality to reduce the transmission of COVID19, and other airborne diseases. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution Support Diffusion by buying venus flytrap shirts

From 2009: Listen to Marc West ask Dr Chris Pettigrew how Mystique's disguise super-powers might really work, Charles Willock reports on the distribution of sin in the USA, Ian Woolf and Patrick Rubie discuss lesser known side effects of the contraceptive pill News by Victoria Bond: - protons re-introduced to the LHC - Swine flu is nothing to sneeze at - rebuilding glaciers - electric field therap...