# Saving Australia’s R&D, robot for cleaning up oil, and quantum physics with Paul Davies

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Podcast: [The Science Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-science-show-887135)
Published: 2026-03-27T21:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/scienceshow/ambitious-oil-robot-paul-davies-quantum-physics/106430742
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Duration seconds: 3195

## Resource

Paul Davies explains some of the weirdness that is quantum physics

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