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10:30 am - 11:00 amDr Karl joins Susan Graham-Ryan on ABC Townsville
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pmDr Karl joins Katherine Feeney on ABC Brisbane
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmDr Karl joins Lucy Smith on ABC Triple J Science Mornings
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Upset apples, brain capacity and caffeine sickness
Why does a bruised apple taste differently to an unbruised one? Plus: is it possible to evaluate the capacity of the brain in gigabytes? And why does caffeine make you feel sick in the stomach?
Great Moments in Science What happens when you get winded?
Have you ever been winded? You suddenly lose the ability to do something you’ve done 15 times each minute of your life. But why?
Australian Geographic The Science Behind the Tides
There are about 120 different possible tides each day. There are tides that happen once a day, twice a day, three times a day, four times a day, and so on. THE TOWN OF Karumba – at the Gulf of Carpentaria’s bottom right-hand corner – experiences only one high tide and one low tide each […]
Australian Geographic The fate of our first submarine
Dr Karl tells the story of Australia’s first submarine in World War One, the AE2. ON 31 DECEMBER, 1914, AE2 Australia’s only submarine (AE1 had been lost at sea off New Guinea two months earlier), sailed from Australia towards the Dardanelles. The plan was to trailblaze a path for the Allied fleet into the inland […]
