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Diffusion Science Radio
Diffusion Science Radio is broadcast each week from Sydney, Australia.
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Nanotech Pubs
From 2008: Listen to Nanotechnologist Michael Ford explain how to make matter do whatever you wish,
Marc West goes on a pub crawl of scie...
Brain Computers
Listen to news of 3D printed brain interfaces, Neural computers, brain-computer-interface speech, AI gets its own computer, and night-time solar power...
Zapping nanoparticles frees minds
From 2008: Victoria Bond finds out if the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world,
Ian Woolf talks to Professor Mike Cortie about zappi...
2026 Frontiers of Science - part 2
Listen to the second part of the Question and Answer session with the audience and scientists from the 2026 Frontiers of Science Forum. Answering the...
2026 Frontiers of Science - part 1
Listen to part 1 of the Question and Answer session with the audience and scientists from the 2026 Frontiers of Science Forum. Answering the questions...
Sensing medical wearbles
Listen to Dr Marsilea Booth talk about wearable medical sensors at Nutromics.
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Radiotheranostics
Listen to Dr Cuhananthan Sathiyajith talk about his startup to commercialise a new medical tool that can both diagnose and treat cancer at the same ti...
Noushin's Nanotechnology - part 2
Listen to the second part of my interview with Professor Noushin Nasiri talk about nanotechnology - very small things with very big effects. News of E...
Noushin's Nanotechnology - part 1
Listen to nanotechnologist Noushin Nasiri talk about how she works at the smallest scale, for the biggest impact. - Part 1
Hosted and pro...
Discipline Spaces - part 2
Listen to nanotechnologist Noushin Nasiri talk about how she works at the smallest scale, for the biggest impact. - Part 1
Hosted and pro...
Discipline Spaces - part 2
Listen to part 2 of Dr Eliza Middleton chatting about the benefits of communicating with people from different professions who think differently to yo...
Discipline Spaces - part 2
Listen to part 2 of Dr Eliza Middleton chatting about the benefits of communicating with people from different professions who think differently to yo...
Discipline Spaces - part 1
Listen to Dr Eliza Middleton discuss the advantages of speaking with people from completely different disciplines than your own - Part 1
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Random Laser Sensing
Listen to Professor Judith Dawes talk about creating random lasers to sense molecules in 2021,
Kachina Allen explains the dangers of Power Dress...
Artemis II to the Moon
Listen to news of NASA's Artemis II crewed mission around the dark side of the Moon launches next week - what is planned and the wet launch rehearsal...
Symbiotica babies
Listen to news of a notorious genetic engineer returning,
from 2016 Symbiotica Director Oron Catts talks about frog leg steak art, and wh...
Transhumanitarianism ciguatera jobs
Listen to the latest news of Chinese thorium power technology, a 2012 Thorium talk from SkeptiCamp, a 2012 interview with Thorium expert Dr Massimo Sa...
Transhumanitarianism ciguatera jobs
Listen to Ian Woolf's 2023 stand-up comedy act on Ciguatera, his 2013 Jobs From Hell story, and a song about fixing the world.
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Teleporting Quack Echoes
Dr Boob ponders the ethical and technological implication of teleportation.
Ian Woolf looks at the physics of the duck's quack. News of high he...
Eternal September and synthehol
From 2014:
Mind reading apps for Google glass,
Alcohol without the harm? by Ian Woolf
Skyrmions explained by John Aug...
Internet Censorship like its 2008
From 2008:
Ian Woolf interviews Crikey tech writer Stilgherrian about the
Australian Government's plan to censor the internet.
Quiz of Xmas Past
The 2006 Diffusion Christmas Quiz:
Schrodinger's Cats vs Pavlov's Dogs
in a Winner-Takes-All contest.
Hosted...
Quiz of Xmas Past
The 2006 Diffusion Christmas Quiz:
Schrodinger's Cats vs Pavlov's Dogs
in a Winner-Takes-All contest.
Hosted...
2025 IgNobel Prizes - part 2
The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think - part 2, hosted by Marc Abrahams
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2025 IgNobel Prizes - part 2
The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think - part 2, hosted by Marc Abrahams
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2025 IgNobel Prizes - part 1
The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think - part 1, hosted by Marc Abrahams
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CSIRO Cuts - too many scientists fired
Listen to a deep dive into the restructuring of CSIRO and the endless budget cuts driving the firing of 1150 more scientists.
Hosted and...
Net Zero
Listen to a deep dive of the Coal-lition's rejection of Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions, and the bi-partisan introduction of Net Zero human rights f...
30 Second promotion trailer
A 30 second promotional trailer on why you should listen to Diffusion Science Radio
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science
Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology won the 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. I spoke with her...
Sin science, Mystique, and pill problems
From 2009: Listen to Marc West ask Dr Chris Pettigrew how Mystique's disguise super-powers might really work,
Charles Willock reports on...
Sin science, Mystique, and pill problems
From 2009: Listen to Marc West ask Dr Chris Pettigrew how Mystique's disguise super-powers might really work,
Charles Willock reports on...
Luna Park, and Wolverine part 2
From 2010: Listen to part 2 of Wolverine science from Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew,
Ant martyrs by Victoria Bond
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2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine, learning online banned
Listen to the 2025 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for the discovery of regulatory T-cells calming the immune system and stopping it from attacking t...
2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
The 2025 Nobel prizes were won for quantum tunneling and quantisation in a macroscopic circuit, and for the discovery of metal organic framework molec...
Wolverine snails
From 2010:Listen to the science of Wolverine with Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew,
Marc West, Aaron Cooke and Ian Woolf discuss the scie...
Knots and Networks - part 3
Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the biology, anthropology and beauty of knots. News of automated democracy!
Host...
Knots and Networks - part 2
Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about how knitting and neural networks are just complicated knots, and how imagining a donut shaped...
Knots and Networks - part 1
Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the mathematics and science of knots, weaving, networks and neural networks - part 1
Retrocausality Again
From 2007:
2007 Science News by Ian Woolf,
Human evolution by Marc West,
Retrocausality by Tim Baynes,