The Science Show

Daniel Dennett - why are we here? 10,000 years ago, the human population plus livestock and pets would have weighted less than 1% of ...

David Attenborough - Titan Arum David Attenborough describes Titan Arum, the plant with the largest flowering body in the world. Richard ...

The future is in our hands 50 years ago the population of the world was less than 3 billion. Now it´s more than double that number. The ...

The Rap Guide to Evolution Baba Brinkman is the Eminem of evolution: rapping brilliantly to rapturous audiences around the world on natural ...

Oxford University´s Professor for the Public Understanding of Science Marcus de Sautoy says mathematics is a basic tool and underlies all ...

The science of running an airline Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce studied mathematics and physics. He explains how a background in ...

Emails from East Anglia Hundreds of emails between scientists at the University of East Anglia´s Climate Research Unit have been ...

Adelaide Institute develops new optical fibres The institute has developed new kinds of optical fibres with nanoscale holes. These holes ...

Spacesuits for Mars A possible future Mars habitat has been constructed in the desert in Utah. It contains rooms and workshops, as well as ...

Chemistry improves brown coal In the third part of our Coal: beyond burning series, Nicky Phillips talks to Len Humphries, the CEO of ...

Catch up on Coal In the part of our series Coal: beyond burning, Nicky Phillips presents your responses to last week´s piece on ...

Coal: beyond burning Australia, like many countries, has vast resources of coal, but what can we do with it if we don´t burn it? Why burn ...