Episodes

Many mosquito borne diseases are specific in both host and insect vector.

Mosquito borne encephalitis and global mass extinction

17 Mar 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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International Women's Day Special

10 Mar 2022
Emma Burrows, Linden Ashcroft, Claire Farrugia
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Artist's reconstruction of the extinction event at Tanis. Note the fish in the massive seiche wave in the background, while impact spherules rain from the sky (image by Joschua Knüppe, via Uppsala University)

Food allergy rates flattening, and dinosaurs flattened in spring

3 Mar 2022
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Endangered koalas and fishy supplements

24 Feb 2022
Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns, Chris Lassig
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Protecting Australia's unique wildlife, and searching in space for signs of life

17 Feb 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Frog regrowing its leg. Photograph: Murugan et al./Tufts University/Science Advance (via The Guardian)

Pigs vs frogs: transplants vs regeneration

10 Feb 2022
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Summer Series: reseeding after fire & human cloning

3 Feb 2022
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Zebrafish school

Summer Series: Sunscreen is good, historical women and fishy humans

27 Jan 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Do we pick on Elon Musk too much? He did launch a car into space just for the fun of it, although to be fair it's unlikely to cause much risk (Photo by SpaceX, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Summer series: Pigs and billionaires polluting our skies

20 Jan 2022
Christopher O'Bryan
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Space X demo launch

Summer Series: tech billionaires in space and algal blooms

13 Jan 2022
Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns, Christina Scallenberg
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I am a vole and I live in a hole

Summer Series: Eclectic genetics, Voles losing chromosomes and endangered species cloning

6 Jan 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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A blurry photo of a New Holland Honeyeater, a passerine (songbird) seeking out sweet, sweet nectar (Photo by Chris Lassig)

Summer series: Ducks swearing rudely and birds singing sweetly

30 Dec 2021
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Two Spider-Men face off

Lost in Science Fictio-mas

23 Dec 2021
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Mysteries of painkillers and dive into water chemistry

16 Dec 2021
Stu Burns, Chris Lassig, Claire Farrugia
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A stable and energy-efficient design for a xenobot - red is active heart muscle and green is passive skin tissue (Image by Kriegman, S., Blackiston, D., Levin, M., Bongard, J., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Omicron and xenobots

9 Dec 2021
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