ABC Australia
Science Friction
Quantum computers could be the next giant leap in technology — transforming how we heal people, how we grow food, how we get around our cities. So how close are we to the quantum future we've been promised? For Science Friction on ABC Radio National, Jacinta Bowler unpacks how the weird world of quantum physics could change everything. Hear about the surprising twists, the quantum cat-fights and the plucky heroes that have defined humanity's effort to build nature's most unpredictable machine. Dead and Alive is a four-part series from Science Friction on ABC Radio National. Episode 1 is out on...
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27. okt 2026
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Lace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.
The second kind of impossible: Part 1 — a maverick mind 20.06.2021 25:45
Nature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.
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Research on human embryos has been very constrained. Will that change?
The wattle war 06.06.2021 25:54
Flower power, and the mighty battle that divided nations.
The wild woman of Brooklyn, the Peabody bones, and science of tree climbing! [REPEAT] 30.05.2021 34:33
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Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird [REPEAT] 23.05.2021 32:31
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Death threats. Cyber harassment. Meet three dogged scientists on a mission ...
The Anthropocene radical: the scientist who saved the world 09.05.2021 25:47
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Your right to know the universe! Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's disordered cosmos and Particles for Justice 02.05.2021 25:31
Dark Matter sleuth. #BlackinSTEM pioneer. Particles for Justice co-founder. This incredible physicist will change your sense of the universe and your role in it.
I grew up in a sect — top scientist's candid story of an Orange People childhood 25.04.2021 25:44
This scientist's childhood in a cult was ... let's say ... wild. The light and dark of the path to enlightenment.
Natasha tries taxidermy: the wild, wonderful world of the museum makers 18.04.2021 25:43
Pass the scalpel - taxidermy is on the menu.
The mystery of the flute boy bones: a child lost in time 11.04.2021 26:16
Science Friction breathes life into the bones of an ancient medical curiosity...and investigates the story of a child lost in time.
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88 metres underground, in the labyrinth of chambers and corridors of the world’s large particle accelerator, art and science collide in wild and wonderful ways.
Trust after genocide: this African COVID success is a big wake-up call for the West 28.03.2021 26:11
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There is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about!
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A sliding door moment. A test of character. A career on the line. What would you do?
DEMONS: be scared, very scared* 14.02.2021 25:45
When Jimena Canales went looking, she found them everywhere. But Science's demons are not the supernatural souls of religion.
From wild idea to COVID vaccine – meet the mRNA pioneer who could win a Nobel 07.02.2021 26:31
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