Climate grief 3 - climate and comedy

What do comedians think about climate change? How do they treat it in their routines? Are they hoping to achieve more than laughs and entertainment? This week Jonica Newby speaks totwo practitioners, Charlie Pickering and CraigReucassel.

Weird Antarctica - the truth behind secret Nazi bases and aliens

Craig Cormick tells a tale which comes with a warning for us all – best stop and think before we forward our latest internet discovery to everyone we know.

How we enjoy food - it’s more than just taste

The arrangement of food on the plate, the colours of packaging, the sound and smell and even the view out of the window are all part of how we experience food.

Beans for British farmers

Eric Holub is experimenting with new varieties of the white navy bean which will be suitable for growing in the UK.

What can we read from facial expressions?

Not much says Seth Pollak. Conclusions drawn from facial expressions will only be right around 30% of the time. At an early age we learn to use our faces to convey information that may mask our true feelings.

Nanoscience brings hope for treatment of sleeping sickness

Unique elements of the parasite which causes sleeping sickness may be targeted in developing treatments.

A hope that landscape management combines western and Indigenous science

Tiahni Adamson joined the CSIRO research ship Investigator as it sailed from Darwin to Fremantle. She describes what was discovered and hopes modern and Indigenous ways will all be used in land management.

Cosmic bursts unveil universe’s missing matter

Paul Davies explains how this new information will help answer key cosmological questions such as how the universe came to exist, what it is made of, and what is its ultimate fate.

Genomic processes described using biology and statistics

The Junction of Statistics and Biology lab at UCLA has described the biochemistry which allows mRNA molecules to be made in the cell.

Two visits to Antarctica

Foreign Correspondent and a medical scientist present two contrasting perspectives of Antarctica.