Episodes

What milk do you choose?

Milk: cow v soy v nut; plant genes for sex and dryness

24 Nov 2016
Hosts: Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns Guest: Scott McAdam
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Oldest evidence of Aboriginal habitation; smart bees; and science of will power

17 Nov 2016
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Mosquito numbers are up this year in Southern Australia

Histamines, antihistamines, the placebo effect and Victorian mosquito plague

10 Nov 2016
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Tasmanian Devils are very bitey critters. Here are two of them fighting over food (Photo by amanderson2, via Flickr)

Billionaire mad science, Devil tumour immunity, and natural contraception app

3 Nov 2016
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Hallucinations can be terrifying, but what are they?

Characterising hallucinations and the suckiest creature of all time.

27 Oct 2016
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig, Manisha Bhardwaj Guest: Associate Professor Joel Pearson
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Donuts are the same shape as coffee cups according to topology.

2016 Nobel Prizes for science

20 Oct 2016
Stuart Burns, Manisha Bhardwaj, Chris Lassig
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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from a distance of 82.6 km, as seen by the Rosetta navigation camera on 21 March 2015—the image has been cropped and processed to bring out the details of the comet's activity (ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Comet climax, clever corvids and cruel cats

13 Oct 2016
Rosie Hohnen
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Australian scientist Ruby Payne-Scott

Antibacterial breakthrough, Ruby Payne Scott and Malaria in Sri Lanka no more

6 Oct 2016
Hosts: Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns, Chris Lassig Guests: Professor Greg Qiao, Professor Sharon Bell
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Wild Melbourne connecting communities and nature, and Bananageddon

29 Sep 2016
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Red junglefowl, Gallus gallus, the bird from which domesticated chickens are descended (Photo by Subramanya C K, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pacific chickens, new players in space, and unreasonable seasons

22 Sep 2016
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Tips on footy tipping; Dump the antibacterial soaps; The fig and the wasp (an untold fable)

15 Sep 2016
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Coral growth was one of the measures used in a recently published study to track climate for the last 500 years

Eureka Prizes, the bare bones of calcium, and early warming shows responsive climate

8 Sep 2016
Hosts: Claire Farrugia, Manisha Bhardwaj, Stu Burns, Chris Lassig Guests: Associate Professor Nerilie Abram
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Lioness in the Ngorongoro Crater (Photo by SajjadF, via Wikimedia Commons)

Expectations of exercise, benefits of viruses, and nature of Ngorongoro

1 Sep 2016
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A male Zebra Finch in Karratha, WA (Photo by Jim Bendon, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by snowmanradio)

Finches sing to eggs about climate; why do we have eyelashes; and Dunning Kruger effect

25 Aug 2016
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The Bramble Cay Melomys, now extinct.

Cockroach milk myths, new particles that don't exist, and first mammal casualty of climate change

18 Aug 2016
Stu Burns, Chris Lassig, Manisha Bhardwaj
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