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Science Friction

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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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Tai Asks Why - the seventh grader with a cult science podcast and mind for big ideas 01.09.2019 29:50

Meet a 12 year old scientist who's got a whole lot of questions...enough to take you to the moon and back.

Only technology will save us from ourselves - Science Friction's Beaker Street Great Debate 25.08.2019 31:03

The battlelines are drawn, brains tuned, arguments sharpened and teeth gnashing as two teams go head to head at the BeakerStreet@TMAG festival at Hobart's Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery for National Science Week. Your fearless adjudicator, Science Friction host Natasha Mitchell, cannot and will not be bribed*. (*Except with wombats).

This famous physicist wants to solve a big mystery – cancer 18.08.2019 28:31

Why is a famous physicist and cosmologist usually interested in Big Questions about the Universe now diving into the deep history of cancer?

Artists on the loose at the Large Hadron Collider - Science Friction at the CERN 11.08.2019 27:29

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.

A mind on the move - Nobel winner Venki Ramakrishnan on being an outsider, borders and Brexit 04.08.2019 25:45

How can a Nobel Prize winning scientist feel like an outsider?