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Science Friction

Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.

Ranked #1

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Bioerror to bioterror - what if a human-engineered virus escaped the lab? Part 1

Bioerror to bioterror - what if a human-engineered virus escaped the lab? Part 1

Scientists can now 'engineer' biological organisms never before found in Nature. What if they make a mistake, and a synt... Read more

15 Sep 2019

28mins

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Bioerror to bioterror - does synthetic biology give new tools to terrorists? Part 2

Bioerror to bioterror - does synthetic biology give new tools to terrorists? Part 2

Will bioterrorism become more targeted with the help of new tools in biotechnology and synthetic biology? From your cell... Read more

22 Sep 2019

29mins

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A whole lot of POO!

A whole lot of POO!

On poo, pooing and all that palaver. A children's author, a colorectal surgeon, a psychologist walked onto stage...

24 Nov 2019

35mins

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Searching for Doggerland: stones, bones and a world submerged by climate change

Searching for Doggerland: stones, bones and a world submerged by climate change

It's there if you look...under the sea. But how would we know? Join Science Friction on a journey into the lost heart of... Read more

3 Nov 2019

26mins

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Matty's Story - donor conception and the cost of secrecy

Matty's Story - donor conception and the cost of secrecy

What if you suddenly found out you aren't quite who you thought you were? Matty and family's story will move you.

27 Oct 2019

25mins

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Faith challenged - 21 and searching for science in the land of Trump (Summer Season)

Faith challenged - 21 and searching for science in the land of Trump (Summer Season)

One Amish childhood + one strict Christian upbringing = two 21 year olds questioning everything they were ever taught. O... Read more

5 Jan 2020

33mins

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Selfish by nature? Two scientific renegades who looked for kindness and paid a price

Selfish by nature? Two scientific renegades who looked for kindness and paid a price

The selfish gene. The selfish ape. Survival of the fittest. Remarkable stories of two renegades who challenged a scienti... Read more

1 Dec 2019

30mins

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The Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the road to Tibet (Summer Season)

The Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the road to Tibet (Summer Season)

A young ornithologist. A Nazi expedition to Tibet. A Faustian pact in the name of science, but at what cost? This story... Read more

12 Jan 2020

30mins

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Lolita and Linda's uterus transplant - an ethical, emotional, and scientific minefield (Summer Season)

Lolita and Linda's uterus transplant - an ethical, emotional, and scientific minefield (Summer Season)

Lolita had one of the world's first uterus transplants - then what happened? (Summer Season highlight)

29 Dec 2019

37mins

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"A perfectly normal girl - although she likes computers" Hidden stories from Australian computing

"A perfectly normal girl - although she likes computers" Hidden stories from Australian computing

In the 1950s computers were so big they filled whole rooms. Women were employed in big numbers to work with them. But th... Read more

17 Nov 2019

30mins

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Rules of contagion - meet a mathematician at the frontline of the COVID-19 fight

Rules of contagion - meet a mathematician at the frontline of the COVID-19 fight

At the frontline of the COVID-19 fight right now, Adam Kucharski is author of The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread ... Read more

29 Mar 2020

30mins

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Was Einstein's wife the hidden contributor on his most famous works? Part 2

Was Einstein's wife the hidden contributor on his most famous works? Part 2

How much did Einstein’s first wife contribute to his work? Mileva's supporters and skeptics go head to head over the evi... Read more

21 Apr 2019

33mins

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Who was Einstein’s first wife? Part 1 -Debate heats up over Mileva's role in Albert’s science

Who was Einstein’s first wife? Part 1 -Debate heats up over Mileva's role in Albert’s science

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

14 Apr 2019

27mins

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Who owns your DNA? Ancestry services, solving crimes and your privacy

Who owns your DNA? Ancestry services, solving crimes and your privacy

Genetic profiling of persecuted Muslim people in China. Forensic investigators using popular ancestry services to solve ... Read more

7 Apr 2019

33mins

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Do genetic ancestry tests know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale of race and science (Summer Season)

Do genetic ancestry tests know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale of race and science (Summer Season)

Palestinian-American cartoonist and illustrator Marguerite Dabaie thought she understood her ancestry. But then she had ... Read more

19 Jan 2020

34mins

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Acclaimed Beasts of No Nation author Uzodinma Iweala - on science, power, and race

Acclaimed Beasts of No Nation author Uzodinma Iweala - on science, power, and race

The stories we construct about biology, viruses, and beyond can reshape the course of our lives. When the world suddenly... Read more

22 Mar 2020

31mins

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Lise Meitner and the bittersweet story of a nuclear genius

Lise Meitner and the bittersweet story of a nuclear genius

Nuclear fission. That Nobel Prize. The Nazis. Lise Meitner's story has it all and more.

28 Apr 2019

25mins

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School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)

School gate racism, education reclaimed, and family found (Part 2)

Three generations with powerful, personal stories of family lost and found, racism, and the right to education reclaimed... Read more

8 Mar 2020

34mins

Ranked #19

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Does genomics know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale about genetic databases and ancestry testing

Does genomics know if you’re Palestinian? A cautionary tale about genetic databases and ancestry testing

Palestinian-American cartoonist and illustrator Marguerite Dabaie thought she understood her ancestry. But then she had ... Read more

26 May 2019

34mins

Ranked #20

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The CRISPR gene-edited babies and the doctor who made them - what really happened?

The CRISPR gene-edited babies and the doctor who made them - what really happened?

Wall Street Journal journalist Preetika Rana has unearthed extraordinary new information about the Chinese scientist who... Read more

2 Jun 2019

33mins

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