Diffusion Science radio
by Ian Woolf
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Innovation and Industry Forum - part 2
Innovation and Industry Forum - part 2
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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. Broadcast from Sydney, Australia every Monday 6:30pm. Hosted by Ian Woolf. email: [email protected]
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- Innovation and Industry Forum - part 2Join Ian Woolf spending the day with passionate high school teachers, industry allies, and Hewlett-Packard senior executive Jennifer Baile, at the Innovation and Industry Forum…
- Innovation and Industry Forum - part 1Join Ian Woolf spending the day with passionate high school teachers, industry allies, and the Federal Shadow Minister for Education Julian Leeser, at the Innovation and Industry…
- Quantum cows - part 2Listen to part 2, Dr James Bennet talks about how he creates photon pairs to detect greenhouse gases from cows. News of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Physics. hosted and produced by…
- Quantum cows - part 1Listen to Dr James Bennet talk about how he creates photon pairs to detect greenhouse gases from cows. News of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Medicine. hosted and produced by Ian Woolf…
- Dark cosmic onionListen to Amirita Mukherjee speak with Ian Woolf about how dark matter and the Universe form a cosmic onion. hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a…
- Ecstacy and Kin selectionListen to audo resurrection with Resemble Enhance by Ian Woolf, From 2001: Ecstasy and Parkinson's Disease by Adam Mark, Kin Selection by Lachlan Whatmore, News of RNA…
- Harshna's Hyper-entanglementListen to Harner Gounder talk about her work on harnessing the quantum weirdness of hyper-entanglement. News of parallel teleportation. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Support…
- Carbon Catalysed CommoditiesListen to Dr Pradeep Muthy talk about converting captured carbon into commercial commoditioes and chemicals with catalysts. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by…
- Asthma and InflammagingListen to Professor Vanessa Murphy talk with Ian Woolf about asthma, its treatment and prevention. News of a drug to prevent inflammaging - the inflammatory disease of old age…
- Roaches and RobotsListen to Coackroaches rescuers with guns, cameras, diving suits and space suits. Diffusion attacked by bots. OpenAI bots cooperate to hack in a swarm, expressed in song…
- Antarctica and Lorenzo's OilFrom 2001: Dr Victoria I. Lytle spoke with Matt Whitfort about her Antarctic sea ice sheet research and 7 expeditions, with the Antarctic CRC and Australian Antarctic Division…
- Black holes, Red Wine, and Remote ScientistsFrom 2003: News of tasty virtual reality, vegetarian robots, and sugar power by Ian Woolf, Dr Robin Burns speaks with Christine Baker on how scientists live remotely, Marian…
- K-Mart Moral Panic MarketingListen to the facts behind the media feeding frenzy over K-mart Smart Glasses, and news of Elon Musk-style waste disposal. Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by…
- Fires, Ears and MathsFrom 2001: Bush fires interview with John Winter from NSW Royal Fire Brigade by Deanna Coleman, Bionic ears Angelique Hutchison Maths as a political weapon CSIRO's Lianne Scott…
- Science Theatre and HandednessFrom 2001, listen to Science Theatre by Lachlan Whatmore, Handedness by Adam Mark. News of stem cells from skin, basking sharks, prostate cancer genes, and wearable stimulation…
- AI's Obsessions - part 2The US plans to return to the Moon in 2028, but China might beat them if Space companies can't meet the deadline. Claude AI has an ethics attack and throws a tantrum, News that a…
- Young ScientistsListen to Jack, Riley and Flynn talk about their new way way to lift water ten metres using a tiny fraction of the power of a mechanical pump, using bubbles. produced and hosted…
- AI's Obsessions - part 1Listen to ChatGPT's obsession with Goblins. News of AI being banned, unbanned, and data centre deals. produced and hosted by Ian Wool Support Diffusion by making a contribution…
- Quantum solar martian lunar prawn historyFrom 2001: Quantum history by David Blank, Martian meteorites by Ian Woolf, Well-bred prawns by Tim Baynes, Rats keep their hair on by Deanna Coleman, Solar eruptions by Tim…
- Self Recognising ReactorsFrom the 2000 archives: listen to how we recognise ourselves by Gina Sartore, Ian Woolf interviews Robert Robinson about the replacement reactor at Lucas Heights, Mad Cow disease…
