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- 🇦🇺AU · Natural Sciences#32100K to 300K
- 🇨🇦CA · Natural Sciences#1895K to 30K
- 🇸🇪SE · Natural Sciences#6610K to 30K
- 🇯🇵JP · Natural Sciences#8810K to 30K
- 🇭🇰HK · Natural Sciences#4810K to 30K
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Lab Notes: The bird flu risk for Aussie wildlife
Jun 24, 2026
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Auroras - seen on Earth at the poles and beyond
Jun 19, 2026
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Australia’s tropical herbarium
Jun 19, 2026
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Do insects feel pain?
Jun 19, 2026
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The Selfish Gene turns 50
Jun 19, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 |  Lab Notes: The bird flu risk for Aussie wildlife | A deadly variant of H5N1 avian influenza has finally reached mainland Australia: the last continent without it. Although the risk to human health remains low, this virus has spread through many different species overseas — and not just birds. So are our animals vulnerable? Jonathan Webb speaks with Dr Tiggy Grillo about which animals could be at risk, and what is being done to protect them.You can binge more episodes of the Lab Notes podcast with science editor and presenter Jonathan Webb on the ABC Listen app (Australia). You'll find episodes on animal behaviour, human health, space exploration and so much more.Get in touch with us: labnotes@abc.net.auFeaturing:Dr Tiggy Grillo, Chief Operating Officer of Wildlife Health AustraliaFurther information:Animal disease hotline: 1800 675 888What we know about how H5N1 bird flu got here and where it may appear nextWhy bird flu poses a high risk to many Australian native mammalsFor more on avian influenza and humans, have a listen to the latest Health Report bonus episode.This episode of Lab Notes was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  Auroras - seen on Earth at the poles and beyond | The coloured lights in the sky at the poles are produced by charged particles exciting molecules in the atmosphere. And not only on Earth. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  Australia’s tropical herbarium | James Cook University in Cairns hosts Australia’s tropical herbarium. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  Do insects feel pain? | We can’t ask them. So we must run experiments. Some indications suggest insects do feel pain. So should insects then have rights, such as mammals | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  The Selfish Gene turns 50 | We return to an interview back when this famous book was first launched in 1976, when it received sceptical responses from mainstream science. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  The role of cellular organelles in fighting pathogens such as toxoplasmosis | Lena Pernas studies organelles as active participants in host defence, asking how mitochondria and other organelles sense infection, communicate with one another, and coordinate cellular responses to invading microbes. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  Dangerously Well | In his book, Dangerously Well, Roger Rees writes about his experience in 2018 when his dear friend Anne Marks was diagnosed with a rare type of salivary gland cancer. | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | Lab Notes: What happens when a whale dies? | The largest, deepest and oldest whale graveyard has been found off the coast of Western Australia: teeming with life. Jonathan Webb takes a deep dive with environment reporter, Peter de Kruijff, into the science behind whale falls and their importance to underwater ecosystems.You can binge more episodes of the Lab Notes podcast with science editor and presenter Jonathan Webb on the ABC Listen app (Australia). You'll find episodes on animal behaviour, human health, space exploration and so much more.Get in touch with us: labnotes@abc.net.auFeaturing:Peter de Kruijff, environment reporterFurther information:World's biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off AustraliaA 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina ZoneThis episode of Lab Notes was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 |  How Australia can be a leader in clean energy✨ | clean energyleadership+3 | Max Lu | University of Wollongong | Australia | clean energyAustralia+3 | — | 11m 56s | |
| 6/12/26 |  Roads the biggest threat to tropical forests✨ | tropical forestsenvironmental impact+3 | — | ABC Australia | tropical forests | tropical forestshighways+3 | — | 9m 26s | |
| 6/12/26 |  Echidnas – not only spiky, but strong with a large brain✨ | echidnasevolution+3 | Danielle Clode | — | — | echidnaevolution+3 | — | 10m 38s | |
| 6/12/26 |  The sword linking Filipino pirates to Lord Nelson✨ | archaeologypirates+3 | Adam Brumm | sword | BrisbaneSouth-East Asia | swordFilipino pirates+5 | — | 23m 00s | |
| 6/11/26 | Lab Notes: Tallest tree in East Asia✨ | tallest treeTaiwan+4 | Dr Rebecca Hsu | Taiwan Institute of Forestry | East AsiaTaiwan+4 | tallest treeEast Asia+5 | — | 10m 41s | |
| 6/3/26 | Lab Notes: Plants can hear you✨ | plant awarenesssound response+3 | Dr Samarth Kulshrestha | University of CanterburyABC Australia | GadigalNgunnawal+1 | plantssound+3 | — | 10m 49s | |
| 5/29/26 |  Can AI talk whale?✨ | AIocean research+3 | — | AI toolsAustralian National Maritime Museum+1 | ocean | AIwhale communication+3 | — | 43m 02s | |
| 5/29/26 |  Vale Bridget Ogilvie✨ | parasitologyobituary+3 | — | Wellcome Trust | Glen InnesNSW | Bridget Ogilvieparasitologist+3 | — | 7m 49s | |
| 5/28/26 | Lab Notes: Lead may be hiding in your clothing✨ | hazardous chemicalsclothing safety+3 | Ellen Phiddian | Radio National | GadigalNgunnawal+1 | leadazo dyes+6 | — | 10m 47s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Evolution on campus – and in your town✨ | evolutionbirds+3 | — | ABC Australia | US | evolutionbirds+3 | — | 7m 16s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Do crickets feel pain?✨ | cricketspain perception+3 | — | ABC Australia | — | cricketspain+3 | — | 5m 48s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Restoring the Daintree rainforest✨ | rainforest restorationlogging history+3 | Susan Laurance | — | Daintree rainforestFar North Queensland | Daintree rainforestrestoration+3 | — | 10m 45s | |
| 5/22/26 |  E=mc2: an equation, a book and a musical for schools✨ | equationmusical+3 | — | E=mc2 The MusicalE=mc2 | — | E=mc2David Bodanis+3 | — | 6m 58s | |
| 5/22/26 |  Olympics sex testing will not produce conclusive results✨ | Olympicssex testing+3 | — | IOC | — | Olympicssex testing+5 | — | 10m 19s | |
| 5/21/26 | Lab Notes: Giant dino discovery fulfils a childhood dream✨ | dinosaur discoverypaleontology+4 | Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul | University College London | ThailandSouth-East Asia+2 | giant dinosaurNagatitan+7 | — | 10m 47s | |
| 5/15/26 |  Epilepsy pioneer elected 21st president of the Australian Academy of Science✨ | epilepsyscience leadership+3 | Sam Berkovic | Australian Academy of Science | — | epilepsyscience+5 | — | 7m 21s | |
| 5/15/26 |  Kingsley Dixon shares his love for botany and the environment✨ | botanyenvironment+3 | Kingsley Dixon | ABC Australia | — | Kingsley Dixonbotany+4 | — | 10m 59s | |
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Chart Positions
9 placements across 9 markets.
Chart Positions
9 placements across 9 markets.