Science Friction

Pain-free meat — is it possible? 11.07.2021 25:59 ↓

Ouch, that hurts. But who will listen? Down on the farm, understanding the biology of pain could make a real difference.

Medicine listen up! Birthing on country makes the land shake 04.07.2021 26:07 ↓

Yolgnu women want to make the the land shake again. Why?

The second kind of impossible: Part 2 — the wild adventure 27.06.2021 25:42 ↓

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.

14-day rule on human embryo research – why do scientists want it lifted? 13.06.2021 25:44 ↓

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 ↓

A skeleton with a back story that's almost too bizarre to believe. What would Suzy think? [REPEAT]

Lucy's Story - the chimp, the poet, and the interspecies experiment that went weird [REPEAT] 23.05.2021 32:31 ↓

Psychotherapist Maurice Temerlin called Lucy his "daughter"...but then things got weird. [REPEAT]

Troublemakers for truth — death threats for calling out bad COVID science 16.05.2021 26:13 ↓

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 ↓

Few scientists can say they saved the planet. Paul Crutzen did. Legit.

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.

Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN (REPEAT) 04.04.2021 25:45 ↓

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 ↓

How has one of the world's poorer nations become a shining star in this pandemic, when rich countries failed to save lives? Two African movers and shakers tell it like it is.

Laurence Vincent Lapointe's 'Pee of Gold': Has anti-doping science gone too far? 21.03.2021 25:35 ↓

An athlete plays detective to clear her name from scandal. Is anti-doping science to blame?

How to Be Animal - go on, embrace your inner beast! 14.03.2021 26:04 ↓

Don't forget this. You're an animal. And it just might be lovely.

Carlo Rovelli: intellectual free spirit, quantum physicist, bestselling author 07.03.2021 25:38 ↓

There is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about!

Meaning in mayhem: COVID death counts and a Black Lives Matter reckoning 28.02.2021 25:47 ↓

The pandemic is personal and political for data scientist Inioluwa Deb Raji and historian of medicine Evelynn Hammonds.

Science FAIL! A perilous story of why it's good to do 21.02.2021 25:41 ↓

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 ↓

No-one thought they would work. This dogged scientist persisted with a difficult idea. Now it's driving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Of Mice and Men: This top cancer scientist thought he knew a lot about cancer. Then he got it. 31.01.2021 28:27 ↓

You're a top cancer scientist. And then you get cancer. Suddenly you become "A Cancer Patient", and one of your colleagues is wielding the (robotic) scalpel. A story about science, knowledge, and vulnerability. (Summer Season highlight)

COVID-19, China’s wild wet markets, pangolins, and bats - is it US not THEM? 24.01.2021 31:15 ↓

Why do deadly viruses love bats so much, why don’t bats get crook, and what’s with China’s wild wet markets? The curious making of a pandemic. (Summer Season highlight)