Physical Science (ANU Podcasts)
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Description
These are recordings of ANU public lectures and special events that are categorised by physical science
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Professor Brian Schmidt - Nobel Prize for Physics Press Conference | The Australian National University… | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tales of stars and stellar systems - Helmut Jerjen | Mt Stromlo Centenary Celebrations - Tales Of Stars and Stellar SystemsAstronomy has arguably the single… | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space science and Climate change | As part of Mt Stromlo’s centenary celebrations for 2011, this lecture series provides an opportunity to hear… | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Climate Change: Perspectives from the Past | People are constantly asking how today's climate compares with detailed climate records from tens of thousands of years ago to tens of millions of years ago. To the best of our knowledge, we have to… | 5/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change 2010: Where do we go from here? | Over the past few months, the climate change challenge has taken some odd twists and turns. The COP15 meeting in Copenhagen was widely condemned in the press as a failure; the Australian Government… | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Post Copenhagen: Where do we go now? | What really went on at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference? Was it a fiasco or a positive step forward? Those are some of the questions that were addressed by a panel of experts at The Australian… | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The global energy challenge | A stable and sustainable energy supply is one of the major issues of this Century. World-energy demand is expected to increase by about 70% in the coming 20 years, while the production of petroleum… | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thirsty Work | Rod Quantock says, "If climate change doesn't scare you, then you don't get the science." Fortunately Quantock does, and when he gives you his take on the physics, chemistry, biology, geology, palaeontology,… | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Strucure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers | "God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers" - Paul Erdos The prime numbers are a fascinating blend of both structure… | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Black Holes and Galaxies | Evidence has been accumulating for several decades that many galaxies harbor central mass concentrations that may be in the form of black holes with masses between a few million to a few billion time… | 8/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Powering the Planet: The Challenge for Science in the 21st Century | The supply of secure, clean, sustainable energy is arguably the most important scientific and technical challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. Rising living standards of a growing world population… | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Origin of the Elements of Life | Human beings are, by nature, curious about their beginnings. Often, such questions of "how we came to be" are confined to the origins of modern society, or the development of human beings as a species.… | 5/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt | New Horizons is the first scientific investigation to obtain a close look at Pluto and its moon Charon. Scientists hope to find answers to basic questions about the surface properties, geology, interior… | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Physics Students Uncovered | As part of National Science Week, the ANU College of Science recently pitted 5 Physics PhD students against each other in a competition to showcase their presentation skills, passion and ability to… | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Messages from the Past: The Warm Earth We Know | As a pioneer in paleoceanography who has contributed to three generations of scientific ocean drilling programs, Ted Moore questions whether lessons learned from Earth's past will help us better appreciate… | 5/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dark Side of the Universe | Professor Silk discusses how our understanding of cosmology has evolved in recent years from the old Big Bang cosmology of the Einstein era. Observations have shown us that the universe is mostly dark.… | 8/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Debunking ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ | Leading expert scientists from ANU and Stanford University presented critiques of the ABC televised program from the previous evening entitled 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'. The forum was then opened… | 7/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geological Perspectives on Climate Change | Throughout Earth’s history, mass extinctions of species were closely related to physical and chemical changes in the atmosphere and the oceans. These variations were controlled by heat from the… | 6/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: The First Months | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was launched in 2005 to search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time. While other Mars missions have shown that… | 5/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Brightest Explosions in the Universe | The Earth is hit each day by the bright flash of gamma rays lasting from a fraction of a second to several minutes. These bursts originate in distant galaxies as stars collapse and form black holes.… | 12/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It Ain’t Necessarily So … Bro | Dr Karl explodes our most common ‘mythconceptions’, including whether the daddy long legs is really the most venomous spider in the world and whether a frog will really sit in a pot of gently… | 11/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Beginning of Earth History | Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago with its initial condition greatly affected by the trauma of giant impacts. In this lecture, Professor David Stevenson discusses how this trauma affects the similarities… | 11/1/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Architecture for International Cooperation on Climate Change | The Fifth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture was presented by Professor Warwick J McKibbin. Sir Leslie Melville’s legacy includes the design and establishment of… | 10/30/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meet the Author: David Suzuki | In this last lecture tour of Australia, acclaimed environmentalist and scientist Dr David Suzuki tells the story of his passion for the planet – a passion that for several decades he has brought… | 10/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Submarine Volcanoes of the Western Pacific | The way the sea floor is mapped has been revolutionised in the last decade by high resolution, multi-beam sonar systems,… | 9/21/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sailing into the Final Frontier: The Giant Magellan Telescope | In the centuries-old quest to refine human understanding of the universe in which we live, the… | 9/21/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fusion Energy & The ITER Project: The Next Step to a Sustainable Future | Fusion energy powers the sun and the stars, but it is yet to be tapped by man. Countries representing over half the world’s population plan to construct and operate a large experimental device,… | 8/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 27 Episodes |
