Talking Science
by Stavros kinnas
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Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computers
Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computers
About this podcast
Talking Science is your weekly dive into the wonders of the scientific world. Join our hosts as they break down complex ideas into fun, engaging conversations—covering everything from cutting-edge discoveries and mind-bending theories to everyday science that shapes our lives. Whether you’re a curious learner, a science enthusiast, or just someone who loves a good "aha!" moment, Talking Science makes big ideas accessible, entertaining, and thought-provoking.
Episodes
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- Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computers · 25 minQuantum entanglement gets described as spooky, instant, faster-than-light communication between particles, and almost none of that popular framing survives contact with the…
- Fungi – The Hidden Kingdom · 26 minThe mushroom on your pizza is just the tip of the organism, a temporary fruiting structure sitting above a vast, mostly invisible network that might stretch for kilometres…
- Uranus and Neptune – The Forgotten Ice Giants · 27 minThe last time a spacecraft visited Uranus or Neptune, it was 1986 and 1989 respectively, and nobody has been back since. This episode explores why these two outer worlds get…
- Caves and Karst – Landscapes Dissolved by Water · 22 minRain that vanishes into the ground in a limestone landscape isn't just soaking away — it can be dissolving solid rock, one drop at a time. This episode explains the chemistry…
- Neutrinos – The Ghost Particles · 24 minRight now, a hundred trillion particles from the Sun are passing through your body every second, and you'll never feel one. This episode traces the neutrino from Wolfgang Pauli's…
- Metabolism and Diabetes – How the Body Handles Fuel · 19 minSkip a meal and feel foggy an hour later? That's your body's fuel-management system sending an urgent signal. This episode explains what metabolism actually means, how insulin…
- The Cosmic Distance Ladder – How We Measure the Universe · 23 minHow do astronomers know a galaxy is two million light years away, or thirteen billion? This episode climbs the cosmic distance ladder rung by rung, from bouncing radar off Venus…
- Deep Time – How We Learned the Earth's Age · 24 minHold an ordinary rock in your hand, and you're holding something that, statistically, is probably older than every human civilisation combined, older than the dinosaurs, quite…
- Gravity – The Weakest Force in Charge of Everything · 22 minPick up a small fridge magnet and use it to lift a paperclip off the table, and you've just watched electromagnetism, working through a scrap of moulded plastic and metal…
- Allergies and Autoimmunity – When Defence Misfires · 25 minA bee sting that sends one person to hospital and barely bothers the person standing next to them; a pancreas that quietly stops making the insulin the body needs; a small…
- Sagittarius A* – The Monster at the Milky Way's Heart · 26 minOn a clear, dark night, away from city lights, the Milky Way arcs overhead as a soft river of stars — and buried in the dense, glowing crowd of that river's centre sits something…
- Fossils – How Life Turns to Stone · 26 minTurning into a fossil is far rarer than a museum full of skeletons might suggest - it takes a specific, unlikely sequence of chance and chemistry, and most living things that…
- Friction – The Force That Wears the World Down · 24 minFriction is so ordinary that it's easy to overlook - it's the reason your shoes grip the footpath and your car can stop at a red light - but it's also one of the biggest sources…
- Blood – The Most Complicated Fluid You Own · 22 minBlood looks simple - a red liquid that appears whenever you're cut - but it's actually one of the most sophisticated tissues in the human body, carrying oxygen, fighting…
- Meteorites – Rocks That Fall from the Sky · 24 minEvery day, tonnes of material from space drift down through Earth's atmosphere, and every so often a fragment survives the fall intact enough to land in someone's paddock, or…
- Minerals and Mining – The Rocks Underneath the Economy · 26 minEvery phone, car battery, kitchen bench and steel beam traces back to rock pulled out of the ground somewhere, shaped over geological time by processes most of us never think…
- Pressure – From the Deep Sea to Diamond Anvils · 23 minYour ears popping on a flight, a sealed bag of chips ballooning up at cruising altitude, a pressure cooker cutting a stew's cooking time in half — all of it is the same simple…
- Anaesthesia – Switching Consciousness Off and On · 25 minEvery day, in operating theatres all over Australia, people are deliberately, reversibly switched off, their pain, memory and movement suspended long enough for a surgeon to…
- Radio Astronomy – Listening to the Invisible Sky · 26 minThe night sky isn't only the pinpricks of starlight we see with our eyes — it's also quietly broadcasting on wavelengths we can't see at all, and for the last century a small…
- The Arid Zone – How Life Works in the Australian Outback · 25 minRoughly seventy per cent of Australia is arid or semi-arid, yet the outback is far from empty: it runs on a distinctive boom-and-bust rhythm built around unpredictable rain. This…
