Oct 25, 2025
In this episode, we speak with Associate Professor Leszek Lisowski, Head of the Translational Vectorology Unit at the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI), about the cutting-edge world of gene therapy. He explains how viral vectors are engineered to deliver life-saving treatments for rare genetic diseases -...
Oct 18, 2025
In this episode, we’re joined by Associate Professor Sharna Jamadar, a cognitive neuroscientist at Monash University, to explore how the brain uses energy, and how that changes across the lifespan. Did you know that a 10-year-old’s brain uses over 50% of the body’s total energy, compared to just 20% in adults? We...
Oct 11, 2025
My go-to guy for all cosmic things Prof. Geraint Lewis, astrophysicist at the University of Sydney, returns to unpack a fascinating New York Times article on a newly observed “onionlike” space explosion that may reveal a new type of supernova. We dive into what actually happens when a star dies, the...
Oct 4, 2025
In this episode, friend of the show Geriant Lewis, Professor of
Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy within the
University of Sydney, joins us to unpack a fascinating New
Scientist article theorising on how a strange line of dwarf
galaxies may have formed.
We explore how high-speed collisions between...