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If you like a good, broad mix of Science - new science, hard science, pop science, historical science and very silly science, listen to Diffusion.

From 2007 in memory of Charles Willock and Darren Osborne: Identity Card Special Edition Presented by Darren Osborne, Synthetic interview wi...

Listen to news of self-watering fungi, and a fruit fly brain copied into a computer, hooked up to a pretend body, living in a simulated worl...

From 2008: Listen to Nanotechnologist Michael Ford explain how to make matter do whatever you wish, Marc West goes on a pub crawl of science...

Listen to news of 3D printed brain interfaces, Neural computers, brain-computer-interface speech, AI gets its own computer, and night-time s...

From 2008: Victoria Bond finds out if the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world, Ian Woolf talks to Professor Mike Cortie about zapping...

Listen to the second part of the Question and Answer session with the audience and scientists from the 2026 Frontiers of Science Forum. Answ...

Listen to part 1 of the Question and Answer session with the audience and scientists from the 2026 Frontiers of Science Forum. Answering the...

Listen to Dr Marsilea Booth talk about wearable medical sensors at Nutromics. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a...

Listen to Dr Cuhananthan Sathiyajith talk about his startup to commercialise a new medical tool that can both diagnose and treat cancer at t...

Listen to the second part of my interview with Professor Noushin Nasiri talk about nanotechnology - very small things with very big effects....

Listen to nanotechnologist Noushin Nasiri talk about how she works at the smallest scale, for the biggest impact. - Part 1 Hosted and produc...

Listen to part 2 of Dr Eliza Middleton chatting about the benefits of communicating with people from different professions who think differe...

Listen to Dr Eliza Middleton discuss the advantages of speaking with people from completely different disciplines than your own - Part 1 Hos...

Listen to Professor Judith Dawes talk about creating random lasers to sense molecules in 2021, Kachina Allen explains the dangers of Power D...

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...

Listen to news of a notorious genetic engineer returning, from 2016 Symbiotica Director Oron Catts talks about frog leg steak art, and what...

Listen to the latest news of Chinese thorium power technology, a 2012 Thorium talk from SkeptiCamp, a 2012 interview with Thorium expert Dr...

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. Hosted and pr...

Dr Boob ponders the ethical and technological implication of teleportation. Ian Woolf looks at the physics of the duck's quack. News of high...

From 2014: Mind reading apps for Google glass, Alcohol without the harm? by Ian Woolf Skyrmions explained by John August, Tales of the inter...

From 2008: Ian Woolf interviews Crikey tech writer Stilgherrian about the Australian Government's plan to censor the internet. Patrick Rubie...

The 2006 Diffusion Christmas Quiz: Schrodinger's Cats vs Pavlov's Dogs in a Winner-Takes-All contest. Hosted by Chris Stewart, with Tilly Bo...

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 Abra...

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 Abra...

Listen to a deep dive into the restructuring of CSIRO and the endless budget cuts driving the firing of 1150 more scientists. Hosted and pro...

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 huma...

A 30 second promotional trailer on why you should listen to Diffusion Science Radio Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by ma...

Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology won the 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. I spoke...

From 2009: Listen to Marc West ask Dr Chris Pettigrew how Mystique's disguise super-powers might really work, Charles Willock reports on the...

From 2010: Listen to part 2 of Wolverine science from Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew, Ant martyrs by Victoria Bond Hot stuff at the RHIC w...

Listen to the 2025 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for the discovery of regulatory T-cells calming the immune system and stopping it from a...

The 2025 Nobel prizes were won for quantum tunneling and quantisation in a macroscopic circuit, and for the discovery of metal organic frame...

From 2010:Listen to the science of Wolverine with Marc West and Dr Chris Pettigrew, Marc West, Aaron Cooke and Ian Woolf discuss the science...

Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the biology, anthropology and beauty of knots. News of automated democracy! Hosted...

Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about how knitting and neural networks are just complicated knots, and how imagining a do...

Listen to Associate Professor Suszanna Dancso talk about the mathematics and science of knots, weaving, networks and neural networks - part...

From 2007: 2007 Science News by Ian Woolf, Human evolution by Marc West, Retrocausality by Tim Baynes, Sperm wars by Darren Osbourne, Scienc...

Listen to James Vandeleur talk about Quantum Computer programming, particle physics, and the Casimir effect, in the International Year of Qu...

Listen to James Vandeleau talk about Quantum Computers, in the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 3. Hosted and pro...

Listen to James Vandeleau talk about the history of Quantum physics, what it means and a demonstration with polarised sunglasses. News of sc...

Listen to James Vandeleau talk about the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology - part 1. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Sup...

Listen to the final part of John Pane talking about privacy rights online, from social media bubbles, to how kids need to practice socializi...

Listen to the second part of John Pane talking about privacy rights online, from your private interactions with AI, to the dangers of manipu...

Listen to John Pane, Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia talk about the executive order from Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inma...

Listen to the risks of vitamin B6 poisoning that can damage your nerves and make you fall, and news of a cocktail that makes worms and mice...

From 2009: "Worms worms worms" by Lachlan Whatmore "Science Trivia" hosted by Victoria Bond. "The number 30" by Patrick Rubie News by Victor...

Listen to John August from 2009 talk about travelling in tornadoes. News of mystery radio signals, a hole in the magnetosphere, and artifici...

From the Singularity University Summit 2019: Shelley Laslett talks about the neuroscience of changing your behaviour, Hosted and produced by...

From 2017: Listen to Dr Ainsley Newson talk about bioethics and personal genomics. News of Gut bacteria for longer life Hosted and produced...

From 2017: From 2017: Professor Stuart Kauffman reads from The surprizing story of Patrick, Rupert, Sly and Gus - evolutionary niches and co...