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!
On Boiling Point Science this week, Eastside Radio’s intern Brianna Raymond joins us to share her interview with Dr John C Mather from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre. We hear all about the James Webb Space Telescope plus some insights from Brianna on science and journalism. […]
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Sponge gardens, kelp forest and sea urchin barrens. Sydney’s coastal habitats are as diverse as the creatures that live there. Join us on a trip into Sydney’s amazing underwater world professionally guided by our guest, UNSW marine scientist, Dr John Turnbull. Why do sea urchins sometimes wear shells and other small debris as hats? What […]
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Dinosaurs steal all the limelight when it comes to mass extinctions. But there are plenty of others that deserve our attention. What can we learn from those species that are not among us anymore, what do they tell us about evolution and about Australia? Our guest studies what once was to answer questions about the […]
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When the bushland surrounding their home burned, twice, Lise and Stephen were at a loss. Where to start looking for recovery? Where to find your green again? It all began for Stephen with a family of Australian Wood Ducks (?????????? ??????), with 17 babies! From there Lise and Stephen have become the Environment Recovery Projects […]
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Let’s talk all about jellyfish! Are they even fish? Or are they an immortal animal of the ocean, multiplying exponentially only to one day take over our oceans? All of this and more in this weeks episode of Boiling Point. Listen in to your hosts Anastasia and Cat as they chat to jellyfish expert Dr. […]
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We often don’t think of cities as havens for diversity- but they can be- and you can help record it! Dr John Martin from Taronga Zoo leads a citizen science projects aimed at showing urban areas are home to more than bin chickens- and that these super adapters have some very innovative learning behaviours- like […]
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In 2019 Peter Ridgeway took a walk- 180km to cross Sydney’s unique Cumberland Plain Woodland. https://soundcloud.com/user-982894834/walking-sydneys-last-cumberland-plain-woodland/s-W9N5r8wxi56?si=bc468656317c466a8b747ab03acaf99a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing We leave the studio to visit Pete in the last woodland pockets of western Sydney. We learn about history, ecology and geology, plus our human relationship with this country. The relationship of traditional custodians. And those who have gone […]
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Scientific research is essential. That’s one of the teachings of the pandemic. However, researchers are humans and as most humans they have flaws and sometimes go astray. It is a minority, but it happens that researchers fake their results and make things up. Luckily there are people who have devoted their lives to keeping science […]
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2021 has been one tough year for everyone. But to round things up on a high note we figured we wanted to share our favourite science stories with our listeners. So tune in for the top 2021 science stories picked by your favourite Science Podcast, Boiling Point. It’s all of your favourite hosts in one […]
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Boiling Point’s Christmas Special! Insects do it, Komodo dragons and other lizards, there is even a snake species that has lived and reproduced without males for millions of years. But did you know that birds can do it, too? Recently, a team of researchers found two Californian condor chicks that came to be from parthenogenesis. […]
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Have you ever come across a sea snake? Chances are high that if you are not a diver or a fisherman on a prawn trawler you have never encountered one. You missed out! They are pretty cool. They adjusted perfectly from a life on land to their marine environment. They give birth to alive young […]
Women have been long ignored in scientific research. Many would argue that the reason for this is because of the hormonal cycle females experience that could vary the results. So I guess this means we should just ignore half of our population in scientific research? Welcome to Boiling Point, this week we are chatting Womens […]