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Once considered a problem for high-income countries, being overweight is now on the rise in low- and middle-income parts of the world. At least 2.5 billion adults are now overweight or obese.
What’s causing this collective weight gain?
And if 2023 was the year of hype about weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, 2024 felt like the year of acceptance. We find out why weight-loss drugs are here to stay.
This week we’re joined by health journalist and Radio National presenter Tegan Taylor.
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Paul Davies retraces one of the great engineering achievements of the 19th century – the construction of a telegraph wire from the UK to Australia.
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More than 30 years ago, astronomers came up with the bold idea to build the world’s biggest radio telescopes.
One is now taking shape in the Western Australian outback, where scientists and engineers are installing more than 130,000 Christmas-tree-shaped antennas onto the red earth.
And those stunning auroras over the past year? There’s a good chance we’ll see more colourful displays in 2025.
All that and more with ABC Science digital executive producer Genelle Weule and University of Sydney astronomer and 2024 ABC Science Top Fiver Dr Laura Driessen.
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A signal that stumped seismologists for a year has finally been identified. And an author takes us to a distant location.
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Momelotinib, a drug to help treat myelofibrosis has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, a rare achievement for an all-Australian team.
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Opalised fossils previously overlooked at the Australian Museum have overturned our understanding of the origin of mammals with the emergence of a whole new age of mammals: The Age of Monotremes.
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Tim Mendham tells us about Alfred Russel Wallace who worked with Darwin establishing theories of evolution and natural selection but who is barely known.
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Bryde’s whale seen year-round in Australian east coast waters and reports from the British Science Festival.
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This week we look at some brilliant figures in science who after being allowed to fade from memory are now at last being recognised.
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After more than twenty years of observations, Tamara Davis has revealed that dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the universe may not be constant.
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Richard Fidler speaks to author Alison Bashford who has written about a hundred years of modern science and culture, told through a one family history.
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Plastic is being eaten by seabirds. Some migratory birds can no longer fly. And micro amounts are entering the cells of other creatures. Including us.
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The first Science Show was broadcast on 30th August 1975. This week’s program takes a suitably cosmic view of Australia, its origins and its future.
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