Episodes

Masked Lapwing

The pre-birth song of the masked Lapwing, and the return of the dung beetle!

22 Jul 2021
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig Guests Krystal Kostaglou; Valerie Caron
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Dung beetle larva inside a broodball made of poo (photo supplied by Valerie Caron, CSIRO)

It's the BS episode, with dung beetles and difficult physicists

15 Jul 2021
Valerie Caron
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Billionaire space race and Fat-tailed dunnart reproduction

8 Jul 2021
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Leaf galls on Eucalyptus robusta

CRISPR De-livers a cure and the galling prospect of lumpy plants

1 Jul 2021
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Spiders ballooning, and inevitable ageing

24 Jun 2021
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Glowing clocks

Where are all the time travelers? And how an old vaccine is finding new life in medical trials.

10 Jun 2021
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Mouse plague in 2007, probably very similar to the current one because mice look pretty much the same (Photo by CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Safer poisons for mouse plagues, and science for hippies

3 Jun 2021
Maggie Watson, Tom Thumb
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Why babies get sick so often, and quadraphonic record players

27 May 2021
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Zebrafish school

If the Y chromosome goes extinct, do humans? And how are humans like fish?

20 May 2021
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Dinosaur discoveries and how to win an argument on the internet

13 May 2021
Adele Pentland, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia
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Common European toad, Bufo Bufo

Predicting earthquakes and insect extinctions

6 May 2021
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig Guest: Michael Braby
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Malaria vaccine breakthrough and revisiting the NASA em drive

29 Apr 2021
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A train of Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, as seen from the International Space Station – with bonus Aurora australis (Photo by NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Brain implants, space junk and Elon Musk

22 Apr 2021
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Methane eating microbes and the Muon magnetic moments

15 Apr 2021
Luke Jeffrey, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Painting of man made of fruit and vegetables

Is the Astra Zeneca causing health problems? And the International Year of Fruits and vegetables

8 Apr 2021
Stu Burns, Chris Lassig
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