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Science Friction
In humanity's next giant leap, astronauts are heading back to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. We'll bring you daily Artemis II mission updates, from lift-off to splashdown, and answer your questions about life as an astronaut, the science of spaceflight, and plans to venture beyo...
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11 | Artemis Explained: Mission accomplished
There wasn't a dry eye in mission control as the Artemis II astronauts safely returned in what NASA called a "perfect" splashdown.
Belinda and J...
10 | Artemis Explained: Countdown to splashdown
Nine days down … only one to go.
The Artemis II mission is currently hurtling through space back to Earth, and is expected to land in the Pacifi...
09 | Artemis Explained: Next stop, Earth
With under two days to go, the Artemis II astronauts are making the most of their remaining time in space.
Belinda and Jacinta take a look at w...
08 | Artemis Explained: Homeward bound
After the high of the lunar flyby, the four Artemis II astronauts are now on the return leg of their mission while scientists pore over the thousands...
07 | Artemis Explained: Moon flyby success
It’s been a big day for the Artemis II astronauts. They broke a 56-year record for the furthest distance humans have travelled from Earth, successfull...
06 | Artemis Explained: Moon joy
We’re at the pointy end of the Artemis II mission now: It’s the eve of the lunar flyby.
With the four astronauts now looped into the Moon’s gra...
05 | Artemis Explained: Science in space
Alongside taking snaps of Earth, chatting with mission control and fixing the toilet, the Artemis II astronauts are also taking part in all kinds of s...
04 | Artemis Explained: Halfway to the Moon
The Artemis II astronauts have passed the halfway point between Earth and the Moon, and still have around another day's travel time before they approa...
03 | Artemis Explained: No turning back
Just over a day after blasting off, four astronauts encased in an Orion capsule have veered away from Earth and are now on course to fly around the Mo...
02 | Artemis Explained: Lift off
And we have lift off!
Four astronauts successfully blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center and have started their journey to the Moon.
B...
01 | Artemis Explained: Before the launch
For the first time in 50 years, humanity is on the cusp of returning to the Moon, with the Artemis II lunar flyby mission set to launch in the coming...
PRESENTS - Expanse: The Nannup Four
Season six of the multi-award winning podcast Expanse: The Nannup Four explores the dark secrets, hard questions and lost chances around one of Austra...
BONUS | The Challenger Legacy: Q&A
What's the point of space exploration? Would you fly on a space shuttle? How did they fix the joints after the Challenger disaster?
For this sp...
05 | The Challenger Legacy: Apollo on Steroids
NASA is gearing up for the Artemis II mission — where it will send astronauts around the moon for the first time in 50 years. While space exploration...
04 | The Challenger Legacy: The Devil You Know
In the wake of twin disasters two decades apart, how do we make sense of why they happened?
In episode four, we find out what happened on the ve...
03 | The Challenger Legacy: Columbia
In 2003, close to two decades after the Challenger disaster, seven astronauts were killed in another space shuttle accident.
History has repeat...
02 | The Challenger Legacy: Five Lepers
In a conference room in Utah, space shuttle Challenger engineers watch in horror as it explodes live on TV.
These engineers are more than 3,000...
01 | The Challenger Legacy: Launch Fever
It's the morning of January 28th, 1986. On board the space shuttle Challenger are seven astronauts, including teacher Christa McAuliffe.
She is...
INTRODUCING — The Challenger Legacy
Forty years ago this January, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated on its way into orbit. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
In th...
05 | Artificial Evolution: Gene-Edited Babies
In 2018, a Chinese scientist made an announcement that shocked the world — and landed him years in prison.
In a special episode of Artificial Ev...
A story of hope: How Jane Goodall changed the world
Dr Jane Goodall, a pioneer of ground-breaking chimpanzee field research, has died at the age of 91.
Her early work, published in 1963, transform...
04 | Artificial Evolution: Pig Parts for People?
Timothy Andrews has lived with a pig kidney in his body for eight months.
That makes him a record breaker — living longer with a gene-edited pig...
03 | Artificial Evolution: Yuck or Yum? Gene-Edited Meat
Gene-edited fish are on the market in Japan, and similar foods could soon be on Australian shelves. But will we want to eat them, how affordable will...
02 | Artificial Evolution: Genetically Modified Marsupials
Earlier this year, a US biotech company claimed it had brought back a long-extinct species - the dire wolf, which roamed ancient America thousands of...
01 | Artificial Evolution: Cloning Goes Mainstream
Last year, 81-year-old rancher Arthur 'Jack' Schubarth was sentenced to six months in prison.
His crime? An elaborate, multi-country conspiracy...
INTRODUCING — Artificial Evolution
In 1996, Dolly the Sheep became the first ever cloned animal. Nearly 30 years later, genetic technology has reshaped the world around us. What exactly...
05 | Brain Rot: Meet the people who ditched their smartphones. Is it worth it?
We’ve all dreamt of lobbing our smartphone into the ocean and going off grid.
So what happens when you follow through with it?
For our fi...
04 | Brain Rot: Is internet addiction real?
Plenty of people will say they are addicted to the internet. But how well-recognised, scientifically, is an addiction ... to your screen?
In epi...
03 | Brain Rot: Is tech making your memory better or worse?
We’re trusting tech with more tasks than ever — including the ones our brains once did.We’re Googling things we used to know, taking screenshots of th...
02 | Brain Rot: Is AI turning us off human relationships?
Whether it’s social media, the omnipresent smartphone or AI companions, in recent decades the way we relate to each other has been completely up-ended...
01 | Brain Rot: Is there any proof your phone is destroying your attention span?
Everyone seems to have a hunch that their phone is destroying their attention span, but is there any science to back it up?
In episode one of Br...
INTRODUCING — Brain Rot
For Science Friction, it's Brain Rot — a new series about the science of being chronically online and what it’s doing to our brains.
What's real...
06 | Cooked: Vitamin B3 ... and the media
For episode six of Cooked, we turn the lens on … science communication itself.
We’re looking at how information travels from a scientific study...
05 | Cooked: Electrolytes — who needs them?
Over the past few years, you might have heard advertisements in your podcast feed or on social media for electrolyte supplements.
If you haven’t...
04 | Cooked: A peculiar potato experiment
Why did a group of anonymous strangers on the internet try to eat almost nothing but potatoes for a month?
On Cooked this week, an unusual expe...
03 | Cooked: Mystery in the Mediterranean
It was one of the world's biggest nutrition trials. A study of thousands of people which found that following a Mediterranean diet could meaningfully...
02 | Cooked: All-meat eaters say they feel great - but why?
Diets like carnivore have been popping up all over the place. People who go carnivore aim to eat nothing but a select few animal products, like meat a...
01 | Cooked: Could ice cream actually be good for you?
Two decades ago, nutritional epidemiologists made a startling finding – that people eating more ice cream were less likely to develop diabetes.
...
00 | INTRODUCING — Cooked
For Science Friction, a new series — Cooked!
On Cooked, we dig into the nuance of nutrition. Why are studies showing that ice cream could be goo...
06 | Is super-intelligent AI around the corner?
Behind the rise of AI there's big questions about where this technology is going.
Is it going to be super intelligent — and if that happens — is...