<![CDATA[Natural Reaction]]> Natural Reaction uses scientists to explain science to the masses. We chat about lab life and the coolest new stories on a weekly basis.

Jacinta Bowler is an accomplished science communicator who has been published by ABC, SBS Science and ScienceAlert, as well as running the desk on Natural Reaction. 

She is also a complete science nerd who spends her time building terrariums, baking treats, and fact-checking people at parties. 

Nadya Panagides is a UQ scientist who's dabbled in cancer immunology and snake venom research, but is currently occupied with her PhD in molecular biology.

When not in the lab, she can be found in sweaty mosh-pits and will make you lasagna if you ask nicely.

Izrin Ariff is a science and journalism graduate, and is currently completing his honors at UQ in plant genetics. 

He's a lover of science, fiction, science fiction, and puns. 

We also play the team's favourite selection of local and international music. 

Listen in at 7pm Tuesday on Zed Digital, or at any time on the podcast.

Listen to all past episodes here, or on iTunes.

]]> en Fri, 15 May 2026 18:53:06 +1000 https://4zzz.org.au/programs/natural-reaction/ <![CDATA[Natural Reaction]]> https://amrap-pages-image.s3.amazonaws.com/profile/6290.jpg?cacbeb=9842031 4ZZZ info@4zzz.org.au Natural Reaction uses scientists to explain science to the masses. We chat about lab life and the coolest new stories on a weekly basis.

Jacinta Bowler is an accomplished science communicator who has been published by ABC, SBS Science and ScienceAlert, as well as running the desk on Natural Reaction. 

She is also a complete science nerd who spends her time building terrariums, baking treats, and fact-checking people at parties. 

Nadya Panagides is a UQ scientist who's dabbled in cancer immunology and snake venom research, but is currently occupied with her PhD in molecular biology.

When not in the lab, she can be found in sweaty mosh-pits and will make you lasagna if you ask nicely.

Izrin Ariff is a science and journalism graduate, and is currently completing his honors at UQ in plant genetics. 

He's a lover of science, fiction, science fiction, and puns. 

We also play the team's favourite selection of local and international music. 

Listen in at 7pm Tuesday on Zed Digital, or at any time on the podcast.

Listen to all past episodes here, or on iTunes.

]]> https://4zzz.org.au/programs/natural-reaction/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-05-29-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Space, Chicken Hybrids and an Interview with Dr Frank Sainsbury ]]> It's the last episode of Natural Reaction... for the moment.

We finish the season talking about lady astronauts, chicken human hybrids and how Juno takes a photo of Jupiter. 

We also talk to Dr Frank Sainsbury about virus like particles, how the hype of nano particles deals with reality, and a bunch more - listen in!

  • Songs played
  • Ball Park Music - Fence Sitter
  • The Dollar Bill Murrays - I Want Everything
  • Carmouflage Rose - Late Nights
  • Bug - Neighbourhood
  • The Jungle Giants - She's A Riot
  • The Medics - Griffin
  • Kate Miller-Heidke - You've Underestimated Me Dude
  • Last Dinosaurs - Honolulu
  • Seth Sentry - Dear Science
  • DZ Deathrays - Shred For Summer
]]> Tue, 29 May 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-05-29 19:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-05-22-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Blood, Coins, and an Interview with Jake Clark]]> This week we have in Jake Clark, a PhD Student with the Astrophysics Group at the University of Southern Queensland to talk about exoplanets, exploring the stars from Toowoomba and of course, aliens. 

Izzy discusses Roman coins and how an ice core can give remarkable results, and Nadya discusses all the colours of blood in the animal kingdom. 

Jacinta quickly discusses hippo poo. Listen in!

  • Songs played
  • Winston Surfshirt - FreeForYou (Mookhi remix)
  • The Goon Sax - She Knows
  • Ruby Gilbert - Cold Hearted Killers
  • Telescreen - Crowded
  • Dan Sultan - Reaction (ft. Meg Mac)
  • Death Club 7 - Cursed Crowd
  • Ruby Fields - Ritalin
  • L. Flora - What's My Name
  • Arctic Monkeys - Batphone
  • Janelle Monae - Django Jane
]]> Tue, 22 May 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-05-22 19:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-05-15-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Viagra, AI Hairdressing and an Interview with Dr James Reid]]> This week we have Dr James Reid in the studio to talk about super computers, academia, and why he doesn't work with quantum. 

Nadya discusses repurposing Viagra for cancer, and Jacinta talks about an AI placing a hair appointment. 

Izzy discusses apex preditors moving back into original habitats.

Listen in! 

  • Songs played
  • Approachable Members of Your Local Community - Velcro
  • DEAN FOREVER - Ease The Nearing
  • Baker Booy - Mr La Di Da Di
  • Master Wolf - Dreams and Nighmares
  • 100% - New All
  • Minor Premiers - The Great Circle Line
  • Okin Osan - I Wanna Be That Girl
  • Keelan Mak - Weigh You Down
  • WAAX - Labrador
  • Dan Sultan - Killer ft Camp Cope
  • Glass Animals - Pork Soda
]]> Tue, 15 May 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-05-15 19:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-05-08-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Book Club: Sex and Scientists]]> With only four weeks to go until an indefinite hiatus to Natural Reaction, we thought we would do some of the stuf we'd always said we wanted to do, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. 

First up: book club! We chat about woman in science, a bad history of everything, sex in space, animal sex, and the science of superheroes. 

Listen in!

  • Songs played
  • Amber - Plastic
  • OKBADLANDS - Alchemist
  • The Creases - Is It Love?
  • Primitive Motion - Small Orbit
  • Fool Child - Dance On Your Own
  • Pink Matter - Quicksand
  • Samsaruh - Gunpowder
  • Last Dinosaurs - Dominos
  • Remi - My People (ft. Thando)
  • Ecca Vandal - Your Orbit (ft. Sampa The Great)
  • Bluejuice - Vitriol
]]> Tue, 8 May 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-05-08 19:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-05-01-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[The Secret Cuban Internet, A New(ish) DNA Structure, and An Interview with Diana Lucia]]> We have amazing guest Diana Lucia into the studio to talk about alcohol and how it affects humans at the stage of conception. We also chat animal models, and what being a skeptic actually means. 

Izzy discusses how to make old damaged nerves do new tricks, we chat about Pint of Science, Nadya jumps into chatting about a new DNA structure and we finish off with Cuban offline internet. Listen in!

  • Songs played
  • Amy and Ant - Rectangle Friend
  • Deep City Diver - Dream Sequence
  • Jon Marsden - Never Get High
  • Twelve Past Midnight - Daffodils & Absinthe
  • Raave Taapes - SUDS
  • Couching Tiger - Side Effects
  • Paris Plan - Modern
  • Baskervillan - Bitter Pink
  • San Mei - Wonder
  • Ivorylane - Sea of Trees
  • Mad Mike & The Irrational Ducks - Can I Put My Love Inside You?
  • The Dirty Winter - Can't Beat The Heat
  • IV League - Superstar
  • SpookyDove - Neon Dash
]]> Tue, 1 May 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-05-01 19:00:00/ https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-04-24-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Nano-material, Snubbed Scientists, and an interview with Cedric van den Berg]]>
  • Songs played
  • Omiera - The Sightless
  • Drown This City - Third Law
  • Skarlett Elektra - Mosh
  • Sanzu - 18 Days of Rain
  • Wharves - High School Hero
  • Tang - Freaky Fungi
  • Nitro Zeus - The Crawls of Parliment
  • Weightless in Orbit - Dialogue
  • Igorrr - IEUD
  • Stiff Nips - Execution
  • The Molotov - In The Red
    • ]]>     Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-04-24 19:00:00/     https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-04-17-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Salad, Bad Aluminium, and an Interview with Dr James Bennett]]> This week we have physicist Dr James Bennett in to talk about light, all it's weird properties, and the coldest thing in the Universe. 

    Nadya discusses a VERY bad autism and aluminium study, and Izzy jumps into dark matter. Jacinta also really quickly talks about cold cold salads.

    Listen in!

    • Songs played
    • Black Water Fever - Tell Me Now
    • Press Club - Suburbia
    • Atlas and the Attic - Hidden
    • Jacinta Lal - Pretty Little Beast
    • Easy Street - Parties
    • Esme - I Wonder
    • Hannah Cameron - What's It For
    • MacShane - Wait
    • Zelita - Excalibur
    • WHALEHOUSE - Sexy Whale Beach Party
    • ShockOne ft Cruz Patterson - Bleed Black
    • Carmoflage Rose - Wildflowers
    ]]>     Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-04-17 19:00:00/     https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-04-10-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Biofilm, Whales, and an interview with Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos]]> This week we have genetic ecologist Associate Professor Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos into the studio to talk about genes, flowers, work life balance and what a species even is. 

    Nadya talks about Snubbed Scientist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and her amazing work in discovering what the stars are made of. 

    Izzy discusses how biofilms can have memory, and we finish off with some 'jazzy' whale noises. 

    Listen in!

    • Songs played
    • Terra Pines - Kidult
    • Keeskea - You Did
    • Lubulwa - Magneficent Summers
    • Middle Kids - Mistake
    • Trey Cooper - Embrace
    • Sometime Sonny - Don't Say Much
    • The Sleepyheads - Nothing's Really Changed
    • Marville - Speak Easy
    • Tiny Giants - Sink Swim
    • Demon Days - No Winners
    • Tape/Off - Day In, Day Out
    • Hatchie - Sugar & Spice
    ]]>     Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-04-10 19:00:00/     https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-04-03-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[The Easter Special: Falling Space Ships and Tangents]]> It's a weird episode, probably because the team have eaten too much chocolate. Jacinta talks about weird egg shapes, Nadya talks about why eggs look like they do, and Izzy discusses weird places for eggs, such as hydrothermal vents. We also discuss about chocolate, and how it's not as good as you think. Plus we discuss the falling spaceship Tiangong-1.

    • Songs played
    • Bugs - Glue
    • Locked In Lummo - Boundaries
    • Carla Geneve - Greg's Discount Chemist
    • Scaredy Snake - 4000
    • Adult.Films - Ordinary.Ppl
    • Chester Black - All Black Air
    • Basenji ft Tkay Maidza - Mistakes
    • Semester - Falling Short
    • Cheeky Velvet - Slay Queen
    • Boatkeeper - Shadows
    • MUKI - Friends Don't Make Out
    • Panic! At the Disco - LA Devotee
    ]]>     Tue, 3 Apr 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-04-03 19:00:00/     https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-03-27-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Cocaine is Everywhere, Cambridge Analytica and Saiga antelope]]> We finally talk about Saiga antelope, and the story is way sadder than Jacinta thought it was going to be. 

    Izzy talks about aboriginal languages, and how one group of researchers took a biological approach. 

    Jacinta talks about bad science journalism, and if one in ten people really have cocaine or heroine on their hands. 

    Finally, Izzy tries to boil down the Cambridge Analytica scandle into a four minute segment. Listen in!

    • Songs played
    • Fight Ibis - Woolly Bop
    • WING DEFENCE - STUCK
    • DEATH CLUB 7 - Ex Hex
    • Spitfireliar - Science
    • Kwame - WOW
    • Soviet X-Ray Record Club - Weekend
    • Blaq Carrie - Sendereka ft. Kwasi
    • Ball Park Music - Frank
    • Arig - Mama Said
    • JOY - Hooked
    • A.B. Original - Blaccout
    ]]>     Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-03-27 19:00:00/     https://undead.4zzz.fm/zed-digital/ZD-2018-03-20-19-00.mp3 <![CDATA[Quantum, Hawking, and Sex Chromosomes]]> We have physics professor Tom Stace come in to talk about physics, quantum mechanics, and the late Stephen Hawking. We also talk about NATO and its effects on the Arab Spring, and our Snubbed Scientist - Nettie Stevens. Listen in!

    • Songs played
    • The Biology Of Plants - Bok Choi
    • The Do Yo Thangs - Sucka
    • Tetrahedra - New Found Love
    • Zefereli - The End
    • PLANET - Save.Sold
    • Courtney Barnett - Need A Little Time
    • Asha Jefferies - Chaos
    • Flowertruck - Enough For Now
    • Red Aster - Cage
    • Adult.Films - Do.I.Get.You.High
    • Jane Not Jane - Beast
    • Bugs - Glue
    ]]>     Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:00:00 +1000 http://4zzz.org.au/program/natural-reaction/2018-03-20 19:00:00/