Science Friction

A million migratory birds, a 26 year civil war...what's an Australian mining company got its eye on?

Decorated, detachable, curly, spiked, thorny, hooks, claspers, valves, flaps, spirals...is it time to reconsider what makes a penis...a penis?

Two teams...science journalists...scientists...and twenty big years of big science to bone up on. Let the hilarity begin. Ready, set, go!

It's the cosmic glue that tethers us together in the universe, ever-present but invisible. Poet Alicia Sometimes meets Australia's dark matter detectives.

If we made machines our kin, our siblings, our children...would we think differently about their design? Why Indigenous thinking can change A.I...

Two seasoned journalists pick up stethoscopes to become doctors...in the middle of a global pandemic. And a punk band in the making.

How do you climb inside the mind of someone who commits an evil act?

The showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is on. Why are many scientists angry, frightened, and galvanised?

The long haul of 'long COVID'. Are we facing another global pandemic...this one silent, confusing, and harder to understand?

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

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

When Jade was 21, she was charmed by a wellness influencer. Then she got a big shock.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Kathrin's friends have been sending her a range of wild theories about the virus.

Two families, two posts...and two stories of how seemingly benign shares on social media can turn bad.

A vaccine arms race is on to get us out of this pandemic, but could we all lose out if we don’t do things differently?

Even big diseases start small...PATIENT ZERO is a new podcast that tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin, why they happen and how we found ourselves in the middle of a really big one.

When Whanganui River in New Zealand was declared a legal person, Maori scientists knew exactly what they meant. But how do you unearth the science hidden in ancient oral stories?

The algorithms are out to get you and to protect you. Meet the directors of two films that will shock, surprise and move you, Welcome to Chechnya and Coded Bias.

Seventy-six women and a boatload of spin and soul-searching on the way to Antarctica. What happened next?

How much did Einstein’s first wife contribute to his work? Mileva's supporters and skeptics go head to head over the evidence in Part 2 of this Science Friction series.

Who was Einstein’s first wife? Muse or collaborator? The plot thickens. The battlelines are drawn.

COVID-19 is a pandemic of medical misinformation. But could it also provoke a revolt in ivory tower culture? Two scientists talk big data, big visions and Black Lives Matter.

Artist A.G. survived. Now the fossil fuel industry is in the cross-hairs. Correction: The President of the Philippines in 2013 was Benigno Aquino III.

A giant energy company is being sued. Now it speaks. So does the scientist who's become a thorn in their side over fossil fuels. Is the courtroom the new frontier for climate action?

In this playground of adventurers and mountain home to Peruvians, they don't know if or when it will happen. But they want fossil fuel companies to pay.