Joanna Khan

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Joanna Khan

The Australian government wants to use technology to keep the fossil fuel dream alive. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a central plank in its plan. What is it and will it work? In Part 2 of this COP26 special Natasha Mitchell is joined by ABC environment reporter Nick Kilvert and guests, for a robust discussion. In Part 1, leading scientists respond to 'Net Zero by 2050'. Read more Carbon capture and storage: does it work, and does it mean we can keep burning fossil fuels?

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Joanna Khan

Four thousand metres below the ocean surface is a strange, dark world that science is still learning about. There are faceless fish and zombie worms, and there's also ancient mineral deposits that have formed over millions of years. In a world hungry for new tech to combat the climate crisis, some have their eyes on these minerals. But who owns the deep seafloor, and should it be mined?

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Joanna Khan

As a child growing up in a strict, religious household in suburban Virginia, Dr Simón(e) Sun took a biology textbook to church. Science eventually helped sow the seeds of a personal transformation, and became a refuge, a calling, and a muse. Neuroscientist, musician, artist, and transgender woman Dr Sun researches neuroplasticity by day, and composes music from her data by night.

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Joanna Khan

Have you ever had to take a U-turn and radically re-imagine or reinvent your future? Sometimes it turns out to be the very best thing you could have done. Frank and fearless stories of three accomplished medical researchers at different stages of reinventing themselves, their identities as scientists, and their careers ... after falling hard. Medical research saves lives, but are Australia's medical scientists in serious need of life support?

Aug 15, 2023 | abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Joanna Khan

From microseconds to millions of years, life works in wild and wonderful ways and at radically different time scales across the universe. Human consciousness fast. Evolution s-s-s-slow.   From ballistic mushroom spores to long-lived moss piglets, tickle your mind with biologist Nicholas Money's lyrical meditation on time, life, the universe and everything.