Science Friction - ABC RN

You just never know when you'll need a rat will save your life.

Some people dream of changing the world. Others do. Thank the flies.

There is nothing this physicist with radical roots won't think about! [REPEAT]

Once fences and armed guards protected genetically modified (GM) crops. But the rules are rapidly changing. From Vitamin D-boosted tomatoes to low GI potato chips, what say should citizens have?

Meet the neuroscientist turned bestselling rom-com novelist who's exposing the underbelly of science, the passion, and the power games.

Would you be game? Hear what happened when scientists make themselves vulnerable AND hilarious.

Two words. Tweeted then deleted. A meeting meltdown. Has #BlackLivesMatter put international science on notice?

Lace up your boots. Get down and dirty. We're hunting the impossible.

Nature's rules are made to be broken. Paul Steinhardt just had to find a way.

Big Pharma has helped get life-saving COVID-19 vaccines into billions of arms. The profits are pouring in, but at what cost?

Jane Goodall wants you to gird your loins. What does that mean? Well ... for hope, push PLAY.

By day, she's making molecules dance. By night, this vintage fashionista has a different dance on her mind.

Timnit Gebru was fired by Google in a cloud of controversy, now she's making waves beyond Big Tech's pervasive influence

You need a new organ. But there aren't enough to go around. Would you accept one from a pig? Hearts, kidneys, corneas ... xenotransplantation is here.

Indian-born engineer Nishant Jain flew in the face of expectations to radically reinvent himself as the Sneaky Artist

Ilya Kolmanovsky is a popular science superstar in Russia. Like so many anti-Putin activists, he's just made the most wrenching decision of his life. 

Why are we so weirdly paradoxical about food? Food, farms, revolution with two women closer to it all than most.

If you sell the gun but don't pull the trigger ... are you to blame?  

After 25 years of painstaking research, could scientists be getting close to unlocking the mysteries of Buruli ulcer?

When people from a small beach town on Phillip Island started developing severe skin lesions, scientists were left scratching their heads as to what was causing them.

Despite being very different people, sisters Masha and Dasha spent their entire lives conjoined.

A pair of twin girls is born in the late 1980s and their mother is told a series of ‘facts' about them. But just how much of what she was told is true?

Covid-zero was once a dream pursued by many countries, but the arrival of highly transmissible variants has brought an end to such aspirations for most. However there is one place where the Covid-zero dream is still alive: China.

A sliding door moment. A test of character. A career on the line. What would you do?

Few scientists can say they saved the planet. Paul Crutzen did. Legit. (RN Summer highlight)

Dark Matter sleuth. #BlackinSTEM pioneer. Particles for Justice co-founder. This incredible physicist will change your sense of the universe and your role in it. (RN Summer highlight)

Pass the scalpel - taxidermy is on the menu. (RN Summer highlight)

This scientist's childhood in a cult was... wild. The light and dark of the path to enlightenment. (RN Summer highlight)

No-one thought they would work. This dogged scientist persisted with a difficult idea. Now it's driving the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. (RN Summer highlight)

Two teams. Scientists and science journalists. And your quiz mistress with a whip. Let the mischief begin.

Blink and you'll miss it. Eyes wide open and you can't comprehend it. Life beats to all kinds of pulses.

Is the era of family secrets over? Is love deeper than DNA?

If a controversial river could speak, what would it say? Climb aboard and be prepared to get wet.

Frank, fearless stories of personal reinvention and career resuscitation. Are we giving young scientists false hope?

The Australian government wants to use technology to keep the fossil fuel dream alive. But will it work?

Crunch time at the COP26 Climate conference. Is Net Zero by 2050 a distraction? ABC Environment reporter Nick Kilvert joins Natasha and guests.

Sex is complicated. Oh yes indeed.

Science is way personal.

Is the key to a battery-powered future lying 4000 metres below the sea surface?

12 rabbits that turned a nation crazy. Cue: a plague, the founder of immunology, a famous actress, and ten million dollars.

A life and death mission. An extraordinary relationship.

They were pursuing their dreams, now they are running for their lives. Afghan scholars speak. Will the world listen?

This deadly pair of scientists are smashing ... barriers.

One, two, three ... and then ... more. When humans learnt how to count to more, then came mayhem and marvels. Bestselling science writer Dr Michael Brooks on The Art of More.

Raymond Schinazi has been fighting viruses his whole career, with some mighty wins against these molecular mischief makers. Can we learn from the past to treat this coronavirus?

Beyond vaccines, can history help us quash this coronavirus?

Two artists making the invisible visible. What does making nanoart reveal about us — gargantuans in a world of atoms? (REPEAT)

Who will win? Spin and hope or raw, sobering reality?

Two baby teeth and a whole world of secrets. Meet the DNA detectives hunting for the ghosts of pandemics past.

In the windy, wet, wild world of the subarctic, science is done differently.

Don't mess with this virus. Extraordinary stories from the 3 UK doctors we first met a year ago, all living with 'long COVID'