Boiling Point is Eastside Radio’s 30-minute foray into the scientific world. The BP crew discuss obscure scientific facts, recent developments and play tunes with a tenuous connection to their topics of choice!
A 2019 cow special favorite interview with Cam Radford @icow in Botswana How do you protect cattle from lions and mosquitos? Easy, you paint them! Put eyes on their bum and stripes on their body and they will be left in peace, most of the time at least. Nick and Cat are joined by carnivore […]
Shout out the social times of festival going!! We replay a favourite from Aug 2019 Alex chant with Gamran Green and Evie Preston , the founders of the Waste Collective In collaboration with researchers, Waste Collective is working on finding green solutions for the tonnes of rubbish left behind at music festivals in Australia every year. […]
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Aussie’s tackle the cane toad onslaught with a sausage! Chantelle and Alex interview ecologist Chris Jackson. The cane toad onslaught reached the WA Kimberley two years ago – but researchers were just ahead. Trialling a crazy scheme to train quolls that cane toads were NOT a tasty snack they dropped 10,000 nausea-inducing cane toad sausages…did […]
Cryptic jellies: New facts you didn’t know about jellyfish. And is a Blue Bottle a jelly fish anyway? Menopause in orcas: Why the top predators of the oceans stop reproducing with age and why this is special War on waste: New ways to fight the daily loads of rubbish COVID-2019 Update: Unfortunately, BP is not […]
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Bee colonies suffer from all kinds of pests. Pseudoscorpions might be the solution. UNSW PhD candidate Anastasia Shavrova studies arachnids, their potential use for the wellbeing of bees and sexual conflicts in the war between male and female arachnids. In the interview with Tim and Cat, Anastasia talks about all things spidery and how you […]
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Missed one of our best? Our CRISPR interview special is back! The pioneer of CRISPR: In conversation with Prof. Francisco mojica Chantelle and Tim interviewed Prof Francisco Mojica, as he gave a talk at the University of New South Wales in July 2018. Francisco discovered the mechanism, the repeating sequence of DNA in bacteria, that […]
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Boiling Point is back with one of its most popular interviews from 2019: Leopard mania! Boiling Point crew interviews leopard expert and UNSW researcher, Ben Walker, who talks about the cryptic nature of these fascinating, but pretty aggressive large cats and explains why it is so hard to study them. Plug into the podcast here: […]
This week’s dose of Boiling Point Science is brought to you by Tim, Cat and Chantelle The moon is ruling – How the moon impacts the length of our days on earth and why dinosaurs had shorter days Oxygen, the double-edged sword – How Stevie Wonder’s blindness and oxygen toxicity is intertwined Singing reefs – […]
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The new Boiling Point podcast is out! Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. It is time for some good news. We have heard some pretty dire predictions about the state of the Barrier Reef, driven by bleach events, ocean acidification, runoffs, microplastics. But fresh from the water we have returning guest Associate Prof. David Suggett (UTS) to […]
The new Boiling Point podcast is out! Dark sky reserves and skin cream to combat mozzie virus Tim chats with Tekapō Dark Sky project guide, Holly McClelland, about what happens in a dark sky reserve and how optical telescopes work And Chantelle reviews research into how skin cancer cream reduces risk of mosquito-borne virus by […]
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This week Boiling Point is brought to you by Nick, Cat, Chantelle and Alex, first aired in May 2018. Find out how to clean up an oil spill with a sponge made from sulfur and cooking oil; how microplastics affect our health; and the wonders of the gut microbiome. Subscribe to the podcast – bit.ly/BoilingPointScience […]
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This week’s dose of Boiling Point Science is brought to you by Nick and Tim. We discuss current aerial fire fighting techniques and emerging technology as well as what we know so far about the novel coronavirus. Listen in to the story: bit.ly/BoilingPointScience Sources https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/high-altitude-drop-system-night-aerial-firefighting/ https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 […]
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