Episodes

Humpback whales using a bubble net to catch krill

Invisible mice & whale secrets

12 Sep 2024
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Back in time: Cat Taste & Wombat Citizen Science

5 Sep 2024
Dr Julie Old, Chris Lassig, Claire Farrugia
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Long Covid risk & skyglow pollution

29 Aug 2024
Kirsty Short
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Freshwater Crocodile

Croc Defence and Cellular Aging

22 Aug 2024
Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns
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Close-up of the rock "Cheyava Falls" found on Mars by the Perseverance Rover, with "leopard spots" that on Earth would be signs of microbial activity (photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Possible signs of Martian life & slow Olympic swimming pools

15 Aug 2024
David Flannery
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Carl Linn aka Carolus Linnaeus

The naming of things, and how dangerous are pollutants?

8 Aug 2024
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia Guest Dr. Oliver Jones
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Artist’s impression of Gaia BH1, the closest black hole to Earth, and its Sun-like companion star (Image by International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani)

Llama nanobodies and nearby black holes

1 Aug 2024
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Jumbled clocks

Back in Time

25 Jul 2024
Claire Farrugia, Manisha Bhardwaj, Stu Burns
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Sleep Patterns and Space Health

18 Jul 2024
Stu Burns, Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses with other Ice Age fauna of northern Spain (Image by Mauricio Antón, via Wikimedia Commons)

Woolly megabeasts and how they went extinct

11 Jul 2024
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A tattoo is applied to pale skin by gloved hands

Do tattoos cause cancer and are brains gendered?

4 Jul 2024
Stu Burns, Catriona Nguyen-Robertson, Chris Lassig Guest Dr. Adam Osth
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Shamelessly using a photo of a Kardashian to illustrate what a vampire facial with platelet-rich plasma looks like

Vampire facials and flapping wings

20 Jun 2024
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Seedlings emerge from soil

Celestial Spheres and plant roots on acid

13 Jun 2024
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Orangutan Medicine and Artillery Fungi

6 Jun 2024
Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns
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Artist's impression of an unrelated super-puffy planet (Image by Baperookamo, via Wikimedia Commons)

AI scientific authors & exotic exoplanets

30 May 2024
Chris Lassig, Catriona Nguyen-Robertson, Stu Burns
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