

Diffusion Science radio
Ian Woolf
If you like a good, broad mix of Science - new science, hard science, pop science, historical science and very silly science, listen to Diffusion.
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Feb 23, 2025 • 0sec
Student Bioengineering Challenge
From 2019:
Bioengineering Innovation Outreach Challenge 2019 prize winners by Ian Woolf,<br/>
Professor Hala Zrieqat talks about the ARC Bioengineering Innovation Centre,<br/>
Dr Gavinda Singh talks about his research in cancer cures and his mentorship,<br/>
Team Team from Sydney Girls High School talk about their Epilepsy brainwave monitoring solution,<br/>
Team Biochis from Mount Carmel Catholic School talk about their nutritional deficiency detecting watch,<br/>
Team Discovery Channel from Fort St High School talk about implanting an epinephrine dispensor for allergic shock,<br/>
PhD students Mathilde Longfield and Ben Ferguson talk about mentoring the high school students,<br/>
Team Exothermics from Sydney Girls High School talks about making scorpion antivenom cheaper and easier to access,<br/>
Team Tissue Box from Sydney Girls High School talks about her team's water-proof hearing aid.<br/>
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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Team Exothermics from Sydney Girls High School
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Feb 16, 2025 • 0sec
Enhancing Astronomy - part 2
Listen to Associate Professor Benjamin Pope talk about improving images from the James Webb telescope with statistics - part 2
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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Feb 9, 2025 • 0sec
Enhancing Astronomy - part 1
Listen to Associate Professor Benjamin Pope talk about enhancing astronomy with statistics - part 1
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Feb 2, 2025 • 0sec
Nano 3D Printing Eyes
From 2019: Listen to Professor Martin Wegener talks about nano 3D Printing of working retinas to cure blindness.
News of Feeling hands, and incriminating handshakes
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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Jan 26, 2025 • 0sec
Fly eye glasses and carrot therapy
News of smart glasses for macular degeneration, DeepSeek AI, Virus therapy, Carrot Therapy and Brain chips!
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Jan 19, 2025 • 0sec
Automation, investment and society
From 2019: Alex Kelly talks about economics, automation, investment, and how to change things for a better society.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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Jan 12, 2025 • 0sec
Non-negotiable nuclear dump and Fram2Ham 24/7
Listen to the Ig Nobel Award 24/7 lectures, with news of compulsory Naval nuclear waste dumps and the Fram2Ham space mission.
Hosted and produced by Ian Woolf
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Jan 5, 2025 • 0sec
34th First annual Ig Nobel Prizes
Listen to the 34th First annual Ig Nobel Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think, edited down to 22 minutes.
Hosted by Marc Abrahams,
Edited by Ian Woolf
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Dec 22, 2024 • 0sec
Nuclear Proliferation and Robot Relations
Special Guests Dr Sue Wareham OAM of the Medical
Association for the Prevention of War, and A/Prof
Tilman Ruff, Australian Chair of the International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons talk with
Charles Willock about nuclear proliferation.
Jaroon Descartes is Jacqui Pfeffer's Special Guest
in Part II of "Relationships with Robots".
Presented by: Lachlan Whatmore
News: Patrick Rubie and Ian Woolf
Panelled by: Ian Woolf
Produced by Charles Willock and Ian Woolf
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Dec 15, 2024 • 0sec
Nuclear Waste again
From 2007, but the science is still valid, and the technology hasn't improved:
Dr Ian Farnan, University of Cambridge, talks to Charles Willock about large errors in estimates of nuclear waste storage times.
Alan Parkinson, nuclear engineer, talks with Charles Willock about the mishandling of nuclear waste at the Maralinga weapons testing site in South Australia.
Presented by: Emily Fearn
Panelled by: Celine Steinfeld
Produced by Charles Willock and Ian Woolf
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