The Conversation Weekly

185 Episodes

1. Neutrality: why countries choose not to join a war – and what responsibilities come with it

   Published: 05/05/2022
2. Ukraine invasion threatens international collaboration in space – is current space law equipped to handle a new era of shifting power structures?

   Published: 28/04/2022
3. How your culture informs your emotional reaction to music

   Published: 21/04/2022
4. Why Indonesia plans to relocate its capital from Jakarta to a new forest city on the island of Borneo

   Published: 14/04/2022
5. Could lead makeup really have killed an 18th century socialite? A scientist investigated

   Published: 07/04/2022
6. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy – 50 years of ongoing protest for Indigenous sovereignty in Australia

   Published: 31/03/2022
7. How has Emmanuel Macron changed France?

   Published: 24/03/2022
8. The history and evolution of Ukrainian national identity

   Published: 17/03/2022
9. The trauma of life in limbo for refugees and asylum seekers in immigration detention

   Published: 10/03/2022
10. Climate change: IPCC scientists on the narrowing window of opportunity to adapt

    Published: 03/03/2022
11. Nuclear fusion record broken – what will it take to start generating electricity?

    Published: 24/02/2022
12. Sahel security: what a wave of military coups means for the fight against jihadi groups in West Africa

    Published: 17/02/2022
13. If Russia invades Ukraine, what could happen to natural gas supplies to Europe?

    Published: 10/02/2022
14. The inside story of discovering omicron: South African scientists on the lessons their experience offers the rest of the world

    Published: 03/02/2022
15. China's plans for Xinjiang, and what it means for the region's persecuted Uyghurs

    Published: 27/01/2022
16. The science of sugar – why we're hardwired to love it and what eating too much does to your brain

    Published: 20/01/2022
17. Crypto countries: Nigeria and El Salvador's opposing journeys into digital currencies

    Published: 13/01/2022
18. 2022 science preview: mRNA vaccines, asteroid missions and collaborative robots

    Published: 05/01/2022
19. How the arts can help us come back together again

    Published: 16/12/2021
20. Peering into the history of the universe: astronomers explain why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal

    Published: 09/12/2021