The Science Show

* Mathematics as the basis of western musical harmony and how J. S. Bach loved numbers * Victoria's first dark matter detector fires up * Hurdles for new battery technology * Vale Bill Oddie

It's census time, which means lots of us are about to submit personal information via the Internet. Whether it's the ABS or your favourite online shop — how safe is our data in an era when AI models have shown they can hack companies without even being asked to? Jonathan Webb opens a back door to this new normal of cybersecurity with Professor Toby Murray. You can binge more ...

* Fluorescent sensors bring cell contents to life * Plotting the Oceans: Stories of Powerful Maps and Their Makers * Animal senses that work as well in water as on land * Mushroom Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Fungal Lives * Descend two kilometres underground to the cleanest lab on Earth

The longest survey of our southern skies — The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) — has just begun from the Vera Rubin Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert. Over the next 10 years, the largest digital camera on Earth will look at the same patches of sky time and again, aiming to record exploding stars, new asteroids, and maybe find what's behind dark energy. Jonathan ...

* Celebrating Charles Todd, father of the overland telegraph * Diverse background ideal for leader in pioneering science * Mirror life risks catastrophe * Future Right Now reveals concerns of young people * Botany courses becoming an endangered species