20 - 26 Aug 2021

Preserving whale sharks, the race to patent psychedelic drugs, the science of guns in the US, ENSO and global warming, and the Next Big Thing is learning more about groundwater.

Matauranga Maori and natural disasters, baby formula marketing, rewilding, Auto-GPT and the Next Big Thing in Indigenous medical science.

A look back on Skylab, fusing traditional knowledge and western science, sustaining seagrass, the other koala threat, volcanic solutions to an ore-some problem.

The dilemma of rehabilitating Australia’s mine pits, a new way to regenerate a sustainable way of life, part three of the Cyberneticists series, solving the spider crab mystery, and the Next Big Thing is mathematically describing flame.

The toxic waste dump near Kaniva, the Great Southern Reef, why batteries are king, development in the Alpine National Park, generative AI.

Learning from the history of flying taxis, making sunlight better, what can be done about Australians experiencing climate trauma, do biofuels really reduce greenhouse gases? And Professor Lauren Ball’s Next Big Thing is the question: Whose responsibility is it to enable health and wellbeing?

Inside the qubit factory, the lockdown lowdown, the scientists giving help to kelp, cybernetics history, conservation conundrums.

Heron Island research station, spinifex nanotechnology, seabed mining, Cathy Foley’s quantum Next Big Thing, bees and tracking urban microbiome.

Baby-brain needs a rebrand, unpeeling the wrap on climate challenges, surfing the sustainability wave, the big space questions facing government, protecting the ‘Aussie Easter bunny’.

The true history of the chicken, Cybernetics – controlling information, Maori knowledge changing how New Zealand responds to disasters, lifeline for the grey nurse shark, and the Next Big Thing is communicating the next COVID wave.

The golden age of paleo-tourism, detecting pesticide residues, phasing out native logging in Victoria, the ins and outs of amateur astronomy, and the Australian Conservation Foundation CEO’s Next Big Thing is the science of solutions.

Blue Oval and out? The ups and downs of weather modification, combating crowns of thorns, getting to the bottom of the Top End’s buffalo problem, diverse DNA in Australia’s ecosystems.