The Science Show

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The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.

Recent Episodes
  • Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?
    Apr 22, 2025 – 0:13:00
  • The power of palaeontology
    Apr 19, 2025 – 0:52:38
  • Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast
    Apr 15, 2025 – 0:12:49
  • New findings show how genetic mutations drive autoimmunity.
    Apr 12, 2025 – 0:54:05
  • Lab Notes: How to decommission a nuclear power plant
    Apr 8, 2025 – 0:13:47
  • A new approach for democracy, tracing ancient dead stars and does the soil have a biome?
    Apr 5, 2025 – 0:54:07
  • Lab Notes: Should we be putting pig parts in people?
    Apr 1, 2025 – 0:13:27
  • Net zero carbon emissions – a review of progress
    Mar 29, 2025 – 0:53:17
  • Lab Notes: Why have Saturn's rings 'vanished'?
    Mar 25, 2025 – 0:11:48
  • Landscape and islands
    Mar 22, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Lab Notes: The extreme conditions F1 drivers face in a race
    Mar 18, 2025 – 0:13:33
  • Your exposome, Kavli awards and more improbable research
    Mar 15, 2025 – 0:52:12
  • Lab Notes: 1 in 3 women get this infection. To cure it, treat men
    Mar 11, 2025 – 0:13:05
  • A crisis, an opera, and one of the greatest photos in history - The AAAS rides again.
    Mar 8, 2025 – 0:54:06
  • Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
    Mar 4, 2025 –
  • Naomi Oreskes The Big Myth and a new theory for the origin of black holes
    Mar 1, 2025 – 0:54:05
  • Lab Notes: Are we on the brink of another pandemic?
    Feb 25, 2025 – 0:13:24
  • Scope for all as some cities leap ahead with green initiatives
    Feb 22, 2025 – 0:53:03
  • Lab Notes: What history can teach us about ‘city-killer’ asteroids
    Feb 18, 2025 – 0:13:11
  • Vale Felicia Huppert
    Feb 15, 2025 – 0:54:05
  • Lab Notes: Varroa is here but honey bees strike back
    Feb 11, 2025 – 0:13:30
  • The wonder of Australia’s deserts
    Feb 8, 2025 – 0:54:04
  • Lab Notes: Why the Australian sun has a real sting to it
    Feb 4, 2025 – 0:13:33
  • Old rocks, old humans, old sharks, and links to today
    Feb 1, 2025 – 0:54:04
  • Lab Notes: More than whale food — krill are climate heroes
    Jan 28, 2025 – 0:13:19
  • Science Show Summer - Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
    Jan 25, 2025 – 0:53:50
  • Lab Notes: A debunked vaccine theory rears its ugly head — again
    Jan 21, 2025 – 0:13:15
  • Micronesian community and scientists unite to protect remote Ulithi atoll
    Jan 18, 2025 – 0:54:03
  • Science Extra: Echoes of a tsunami
    Jan 15, 2025 – 0:50:06
  • Science Show Summer - Hedy Lamarr - actress, inventor, and amateur engineer
    Jan 11, 2025 – 0:54:08
  • Science Extra: The anatomy of a scam
    Jan 8, 2025 – 0:50:06
  • Science Show Summer - Merlin meets Dr Crispy
    Jan 4, 2025 – 0:52:42
  • Science Extra: March of the cane toads
    Jan 1, 2025 – 0:50:06
  • Science Show Summer - The Extremely Large Telescope
    Dec 28, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Science Extra: Weight of the world
    Dec 25, 2024 – 0:50:05
  • Science Show Summer - A wire around the world
    Dec 21, 2024 – 0:53:39
  • Science Extra: More auroras in store?
    Dec 18, 2024 – 0:50:05
  • Science books for Christmas and a portrait of Matthew Bailes
    Dec 14, 2024 – 0:51:51
  • Mysterious signal and a mysterious place
    Dec 7, 2024 – 0:53:23
  • PM’s Innovation Prize for childhood cancer drug
    Nov 30, 2024 – 0:53:58
  • Australia’s “Indiana Jones” and the lost Age of Mammals
    Nov 23, 2024 – 0:54:04
  • Prime Minister’s teaching prizes, platypuses with high PFAS and house bricks from sugar cane waste
    Nov 16, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Big astronomical flash imminent and gay behaviour across the animal world
    Nov 9, 2024 – 0:52:20
  • Cheaper hydrogen, marine invertebrates and European wasps threaten biodiversity
    Nov 2, 2024 – 0:53:12
  • Stephen Hawking’s voice – and what he left behind!
    Oct 26, 2024 – 0:53:50
  • Bryde’s whales prolific in east coast Australian waters
    Oct 19, 2024 – 0:53:33
  • Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson
    Oct 12, 2024 – 0:53:24
  • Surprise Hon Doc for Rose, but why did we forget Louise?
    Oct 5, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • Dark energy – not necessarily constant
    Sep 28, 2024 – 0:54:06
  • The Extremely Large Telescope - under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
    Sep 21, 2024 – 0:54:06
Recent Reviews
  • Bennybobobo
    Amazing!
    The most in-depth, digestible, and compelling show I’ve found in a while. Such a valuable resource!
  • Anonamous dragon
    Nice?
    Nice?
  • Groanman
    Curious American
    The best podcast around for science news. I love the range of topics, the in depth discussions, and the interesting guests from around the world. I look forward to every new episode.
  • Randal Hall
    Propaganda for the globalists
    Nothing to see here.
  • Mr. Sina
    Dear, Robin Williams
    I have a great honer to be one of your fan and I think the world needs more and more like Robin Williams.
  • *88love it
    Great!
    Very interesting podcast. Keeps me interested the whole time! Love it!
  • etherdog
    Everyone should listen to The Science Show
    Robyn Williams, the presenter, is quite knowlegeable, well read, and an excellent interviewer. He probes for depth and does not waste your time. Great journalism and very down to earth without talking down to the audience.
  • aardpark
    Entertaining and enlightening
    Like all podcasts from ABC/RN, just great. So happy they provide a transcript - I can't count how many segments I've used as learning and test materials for my German university students taking our English for Scientists courses.
  • Ol4ono4ik
    Pure information
    This is essential show for anyone to what to know here and now besides politics. I think this is amazing source.
  • JoeSixpack
    Let's complain about Austrailian Science Policy
    Instead of getting interesting science talk, The most recent podcasts are a soapbox for those wanting to complain about Australia's government policy regarding science. Don't believe me? Just look at some recent podcast titles. Look, I'm sure that the discussions have merit, but it seems that 3 of the last 5 podcasts have dwelled on this subject, in tedious boring detail. If you are interested in the mind numbing machinations of bureaucracy, then listen to the podcast. If you are interested in Science then look elsewhere.
  • D20chick
    Boring
    Interviews focus more on opinions than science. Constant moralizing and seems to assume everyone will agree with his positions. Also, it was distracting how obsessed the host was with nationality.
  • dsfsdfsfs
    photographer
    I've been listening to this show for the past six years. Along with scientific American and Ted Talks, this is my primary portal into the world of science, technology and humanities. I'm grateful that Robin has stuck around so long, and has produced such an extensive body of knowldge, and has shared it with the masses.
  • Allen Courtwell
    Boring
    Boring and monotone.
  • 50yo in Berkeley
    talented host, long format
    I am not a working scientist, but I like learning about science. This is my favorite science podcast. Although the talented host Robin Williams never misses a chance to find a link to Australia, he interviews english-speaking scientists from all over the world. The scope of the show is very broad, covering life sciences, physical sciences, technology, information science and science policy, but Mr. Williams never seems out of his depth. The pace is a bit leisurely, so listeners in a hurry might want to try the version of this podcast with separate stories. For my part, I love the depth the 1 hour format allows. An interesting new feature is one PhD candidate each week describing their research.
  • Gregjohnston
    Great show
    I'm an Australian living in the US, so it's good to hear an Australian voice keeping me up to date with whats going on in the science world back home and throughout the world (but mainly the EU & USA). Never a boring show, keep up with the good work!
  • Megavolt
    Happy accident
    In the USA, there is another ABC and another Robin Williams, which is what I thought I was getting. I was delightfully wrong, and have been listening faithfully ever since. I used to carpool with a conservative Christian who was mightily annoyed that the ABC treated global warming in a serious way. It is good to get an international view of scientific issues, especially in the states, and especially in a thoughtful an entertaining way. Growing accustomed to the Aussie accent after a struggle at first.
  • amreview1
    On the air weekly for 30+ years, Australia's legendary The Science Show ranks with PBS's Nova.
    The Science Show is one of the flagship productions of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and arguably the finest hour long science-oriented radio show available in the English language. Australian Robin Williams, who has hosted the show for the last 30 something years, seems to be able to get any Nobel Prize winning scientist in the world on the phone on short notice, and often does. Even when the shows concern a uniquely Australian issue, the science behind the issue is frequently mindblowing, and worthy of a world audience. (Also worthy of a world audience is Australia's other great science show, Originz, a privately produced podcast.) The Science Show is one of those rare science shows that, while aimed at a mass audience, doesn't compromise the intelligence of its content for popularity's sake. Major league!!
  • erbyfub
    Good science show
    The radio broadcast general science show from Australia. It's not bad, done in "reporting" style. Probably better if you live in and/or are more interested than I in Australia, though usually good for everyone that likes science.
  • Hear Hear!
    Informative and Varied
    This science podcast takes on a variety of subjects in a manner that is informative and entertaining without falling into the realm of infotainment. The Australian angle to the show is an added bonus.
  • kcbrit
    Great Podcast for Science Buffs
    Love this podcast. Very diverse and right amount of coverage for each subject. My new favorite driving to work.
  • Derry W
    Of the highest quality
    I took to podcasting about a year ago. I'm a biologist, with a big interest in all kinds of science. The Science Show is pure quality. I give my highest recommendation to this one, full marks to ABC and Robin Williams.
  • PrimoOpus
    Outstanding!!
    ABC Radio National sets the standard for public interest podcasting. The Science Show is simply the best and most entertaining science podcast out there. I also recommend In Conversation, Okham's Razor and All In The Mind from ABC.
  • Jeff77
    One if the best Scuence Broadcasts
    Robin Williams is very knowledgeable on science and asks interesting, insightful, and opinionated questions that make for interesting conversation. I particularly like his wide selection of researchers chosen for interviews and the fact he rarely gets hooked on government topics when looking for subjects, the way Ira Flato does on "Science Firday". The "Science Show", along with Canada's "Quirks and Quarks" is one of the best science podcasts out there.
  • El Guapo44
    Easily the Best Science Show
    The more I listen to this show, the better it gets. I'm a big NPR fan, especially Science Friday, but I believe this show does a better job and its funny, too!
  • Jetgarden
    Thought Provoking
    It's not just science, it's science reporting in a way that changes your entire perspective on the topics they discuss.
  • lonestarlady
    The Science Show
    For the science geek in all of us. Smart, intelligent yet highly entertaining look into science news. I hear stories here that are not covered in the United States, but should be!!
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