Lagrange Point

Research can raise many ethical questions, but what about when your research has people's lives in the balance? What if your research challenges long held ideas about best practice? We talk about innovation in research, the peer review system and medical research ethics.

We celebrate cutting edge science from right here in Australia from our very own CSIRO. We talk about how you can save lives in the developing world with carbon nanotube tea, Pulsar powered GPS for navigating in space, and growing silk from bees!

We say farewell to the grandfather of Australian Science Communication, talk about celebrity science communicators, we discuss the parallels between art and science and recap National Science week 2013.

Want to eat meat without harming an animal? What about turning lemons and vinegar into sweet foods with a simple miracle fruit? We delve into the world of senses and how we can trick them or use them to our advantage. We also discuss ways to enhance our senses or invent new ones.

In this astronomy special of Lagrange Point we dig into the latest update from the Square Kilometre Array, Zombie comets coming back to life to haunt the solar system, crinkle cut chips and their connection to the sun and what happens russian rockets going bad!

We contemplate our digital legacies and the ethics of a clean start, and we play where in time is our fact or fiction game, in which our guest has to guess which modern day inventions are ancient!