Episodes
This year, for the summer of 2017-18, Science Extra will be broadcast on ABC RN from 7-8am on Sunday. This hour will include episodes of The Infinite Monkey Cage and Ockham's Razor. Those shows have their own podcasts, which you can find in your favourite podcasting app. ABC Science Editor Jonathan Webb's discussions of the science year in the review will appear in the Science Show podcast feed.
Published 12/16/17
The Monkey Cage get's a good night's sleep; goodbye to the ABC science program Catalyst, discuss science communication, and Ockham's eradicates crown gall in fruit trees.
Published 01/21/17
The Infinite Monkeys catch up with 200 years of Frankenstein; we remember Ahmed Zewail; there's a survey of how the 'F' word affects our mood; and Ockham's on the science-y-ness of our parliament.
Published 01/14/17
Infinite Monkeys on The Battle of the Sexes, farewell to an archeological great, nanotech and molecular Lego, and Part 2 in the exquisite fleece quest.
Published 01/07/17
The Infinite Monkey Cage: The recipe to build a universe. Farewell Harry Kroto. Evolutionary biology. Creating an exquisite wool: Pt. 1.
Published 12/31/16
Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at Glastonbury Music Festival in their Infinite Monkey Cage; we remember Bill Mollison who died this year; there's the new biological science of nano information; and Ockham's Razor on the ground-breaking medical procedures undergone by Shaun Stocker.
Published 12/17/16
Ideas for the future, vale ABC's Darren Osbourne, using butterflies to invent new material, and an exploration of two cultures.
Published 01/23/16
The Infinite Monkey Cage is preoccupied with plants, goodbye to Alastair Lucas, what would it be like to live in a zillion year town and the ecology of bees in Europe.
Published 01/16/16
The Infinite Monkey Cage looks at the solar system, vale Lisa Jardine, the harm from Wifi and other radiation, and when museum objects clash with a noise orchestra.
Published 01/09/16
The Infinite Monkey Cage explores the solar system, and exhibition on the Otherworlds, vale Priscilla Kincaid Smith and what makes a woman fall in love with worms?
Published 01/02/16
The Infinite Monkey Cage on fierce creatures, birds coping with climate change near Oxford, the Year of Light and vale Dr Chris Nordin.
Published 12/26/15
Those wild men from The Infinite Monkey Cage, Brian Cox and Robin Ince, tackle deception. Is the Higgs Boson a hoax? We hear about new Earth-like planets, and say farewell to the late Professor John Swan.
Published 12/19/15
The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 10, episode 6: Irrationality
Tasmanian water quality
Sleep
Human nutrition
Ockham’s razor—French exploration
Published 01/24/15
The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 10, episode 5: The big bang
Immune system
Figs
Farewell Gerald Edelman
Ockham’s razor—Cystic fibrosis
Published 01/17/15
Infinite Monkey Cage: series10, ep. 4 Can science save us? Beluga whales. Farewell Marilyn Butler. Frankenstein and the magic of science.
Published 01/10/15
The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 10, episode 3
Talking to plants, and asking them questions
C. elegans, a very useful worm to study
Farewell Nigel Calder
Ockham’s razor—Australian science and the American dream
Published 01/03/15
Infinite monkey cage, Series 10, episode 2
Tumours and being active
Cancer and engineering
Farewell to Tony Kidman
Ockham’s razor—Sweet scents of deceit, pt 2
Published 12/27/14
Infinite monkey cage S10/ep1; remembering Tony McMichael, flying safely and cheaply; weather machines; Ockham's razor
Published 12/20/14
The Infinite Monkey Cage series 8 ep.6 Science Museum
Remembering Peter Pockley
Reasons behind body dissatisfaction in teens
Ockham's Razor - John Gardiner - Australian tales
Published 01/25/14
The Infinite Monkey Cage series 8 ep.5 Alfred Russel Wallace
Writer Elaine Morgan dies aged 92
When galaxies merge
Ockham's Razor - James Tickner - Two cultures in science
Published 01/18/14
The Infinite Monkey Cage series 8 ep.4 What makes a science a science?
Tribute to John Mainstone
Ockham's Razor - James La Nauze - Fred Hollows and his dream for Vietnam
Published 01/11/14
The Infinite Monkey Cage series 8 ep.3 Space Tourism
Vale Mike Morewood
Poor skills in correct use of adrenalin devices for anaphylaxis
Ockham's Razor - Thomas Barlow - the shifting world economy
Published 01/04/14
The Infinite Monkey Cage series 8 ep.2 Glastonbury
Mike Morewood’s great discovery
Assessing the risk from Alutu
Ockham's Razor - Reese Halter - The war against nature
Published 12/28/13
The Infinite Monkey Cage series 8 ep.1 What is death?
Double Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Frederick Sanger dies aged 95
Better shipping schedules offer savings for exporters
Ockham's Razor - John Carmody - Sir John Eccles
Published 12/21/13