Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronomy: radio astronomy. By scanning the skies for radio waves instead of the light waves that we can see with our eyes, Payne-Scott and her colleagues opened a new window into the universe and transformed the way we explore it. But to keep her job as a woman working for the Australian government in the 1940s, Payne-Scott had to keep a pretty big secret.
Sharon Bell, anthropologist and professor emerita at the Australian National University in Canberra, who specializes in women in science in Australia
Elizabeth Mahony, a radio astronomer working at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency
Fiona Hall, a prominent Australian artist and Ruby Payne-Scott’s daughter
Brian Schmidt, an astrophysicist who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping to discover that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
HOSTS
Samia Bouzid - Samia Bouzid is an audio producer, writer and science communicator whose work spans a range of topics related to science and culture.
Carol Sutton Lewis
PRODUCERS
Samia Bouzid
Audio Producer and Sound Designer.
Samia is based in Philadelphia. Her work spans a range of themes, including science, language, and culture. She has contributed to shows such as the Duolingo French and Spanish podcasts, the BBC’s Short Cuts, and LWC Studios' 100 Latina Birthdays. She also writes scripts for science YouTube channels including SciShow and Be Smart. She holds an M.A. in journalism from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a B.S. in astrophysics from Rutgers University.
Elah Feder
Senior Producer.
Elah is a journalist, audio producer, and editor. Her work has appeared on Science Friday, Undiscovered, Science Diction, Planet Money, and various CBC shows. She has a masters from the University of Toronto, where she studied evolutionary biology, and later completed a masters at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Take a listen to the bat echolocation sounds of several species. The echolocation sounds you heard in the episode are courtesy of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at the Ohio State University. The pitch is normally beyond our audible range. You can hear these sounds because they’ve been shifted to 10 times below their original frequency.
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