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!
In this week’s episode of Boiling Point, Alex is joined by 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. Plug into the podcast here: iTunes: https://goo.gl/YtzS83 […]
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Join Boiling Point’s Chantelle, Nick and Cat on journey through three trending science stories. 1. The universal blood donation – Researchers identified an enzyme extracted from gut bacteria that strip off the sugar molecules of red blood cells. The results are red blood cells with the blood type O. And anyone can safely receive this […]
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On Boiling Point this week, Alex and Cat are joined by special guest Ben Walker. July is interview month on Boiling Point! Leopard expert and UNSW researcher, Ben Walker, talks about the cryptic nature of these fascinating, but pretty aggressive large cats and he explains why it is so hard to study them. […]
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Special Guests Dr Peyman Mostaghemi and Naif Alqatani From UNSW, our two special guests get supercritical with a chat about petroleum engineering (yup coal, oil and gas) But we want to know more- How does extraction actually work? What are the new technologies (AI is one of them)!? How are researchers making it cleaner and less invasive? […]
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One of Boiling Point’s Goldies is back; The stimulant special! What does the stimulant drug #Ritalin do to those who don’t have #ADHD? 30 % of college students in the US take it to be more efficient with their studying. What are the side effects? Zap your brain and you will become smarter and more […]
Boiling Point 18 June 2019 Radiothon Episode. This week for our 2019 Radiothon Episodes we took to Facebook and our live phone lines to get questions from our listeners: Why is there a Star Trek Chevron symbol on Mars? Why don’t we see vaccines for Malaria and HIV? Are there any concerns for CRISPR gene […]
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This week on Boiling Point, Cat and Jake are joined by UNSW PhD candidate Tahneal Hawke to talk about her research on Platypus. Once considered a hoax, platypus are truly unique. Their nocturnal and aquatic lifestyle make research difficult. Until recently it was unclear how stable platypus populations currently are. Tahneal found evidence for a […]
Science history mysteries! Fuzzy little helpers – How penicillin came into being. A cheer for the milkmaid – how the beauty of milkmaids helped to develop the very first vaccination in human history: the smallpox vaccine HeLa, the immortal cells from cervical cancer victim, Henrietta Slack- a cell line that just doesn’t want to die, […]
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This week’s dose of Boiling Point science brought to you by Nick, Jake and Chantelle. Gold-Digging Mushrooms found in Western Australia introduce a potential new method to identify hidden gold deposits The “Light Triad,“the three characteristics of good natured people VS the “Dark Triad” traits of people who exhibit destructive social behaviour Gender Conformity found […]
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Tim, Alex and Cat discuss the options of alien life in space, microbial helpers and the issue with the rhesus factor Grumpy monkey? – the downside of having rhesus factor negative Alone in space? – the Drake equation knows the odds Friends on Mars? – tiny bacteria may help us colonize Mars Rhesus factor […]
Nick, Jake and Cat are joined by special guest Kat Ross this week Massive mushroom clouds, Star Trek Spaceship Voyageur and women in STEM – astronomist Kathryn Ross is fascinated by space and its mysteries. She is a PhD student at Curtin University in Perth looking at radio galaxies and their black holes. Her […]
Box jellyfish antidote and the jawbone of ancient human species , the Denisovans Excruciating pain and a quick death – A marvellous science journey led a University of Sydney research team to discover first antidote for box jellyfish venom and develop a handy topical ointment. Widely traveled with a sense for mountaineering – jawbone of […]
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