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1015 - Lab Notes: Super-K flu is here … but it's not our biggest problem

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

1015 - Lab Notes: Super-K flu is here … but it's not our biggest problem

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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.

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Episodes

Lab Notes: Super-K flu is here … but it's not our biggest problem

New idea for the origin of language

Lab Notes: Slip! Slop! Slap! SUCCESS!

Astronomy and toxicology converge at Caltech

Lab Notes: Why air traffic won’t return to normal for months

How the US came close to losing half its science funding

Lab Notes: The surprising history of the backyard sprinkler

Stories told by feet

Lab Notes: Why buying a star name is nonsense

Ancient humans lived in an Indonesian cave until Homo sapiens arrived

Lab Notes: Skincare, pregnancy and a minefield of mixed messages

Social media ban impacts political knowledge of young Australians

Lab Notes: Can we tap the brakes on energy-hungry AI?

Humpbacks threat, green cities and EVs, and origins of life

Lab Notes: What's behind the rising tree death rates?

Mysterious stellar object discovered

Lab Notes: The oldest rock art in the world…that we know of

Kiruna: The city that moved to make way for a mine

Lab Notes: The Treaty of the Metre: how the metre came to be

Lab Notes: Why UV levels are so high in Australia

A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild

Mary Somerville — Brilliant polymath, scientific genius

Lab Notes: Why do whales strand en masse?

Celebrating 50 years of The Science Show

Lab Notes: Tips to reduce microplastics exposure

Émilie du Châtelet - portrait of a leader of the Enlightenment

Lab Notes: How is sunscreen SPF tested?

Author Terry Pratchett’s links to science and Adelaide

Lab Notes: How maths explains nature's weirdness

Evidence shows no link between pain relief drugs and autism

Lab Notes: Are bioplastics the future of packaging?

3 young high achievers in science, and Sydney hosts space conference

Lab Notes: Why aurora season isn't over yet

Rare earth minerals – we’ll need geologists to find them

Lab Notes: How are long-range weather forecasts made?

Bragg winners for science writing, more from the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and water droplets used for geoengineering

Lab Notes: How breastfeeding can protect against cancer

The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and a dilemma over the appropriate use of artefacts from a Roman shipwreck

Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack

The history of life on Earth may be very different to what we think

Lab Notes: Times we thought we found aliens

Paint additive boosts plant growth in greenhouses

Lab Notes: The extinct ape-like human relative that made tools

Teenagers encounter their challenges

Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing

2025 Nobel Prizes plus more from the British Science Festival

Lab Notes: How humpback whales bounced back

Reports from The British Science Festival in Liverpool England

Lab Notes: Why CO2 peaks at this time of year

Climate change and pollution effects seen on Palau

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