Episodes

Sweet potato varities have long held expressed genes from otehr organisms
28 Apr 2016
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia
Coral bleaching at Lizard Island in the northern Great Barrier Reef (Credit: Dorothea Bender-Champ for ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies)
21 Apr 2016
James Kerry & Gregory Crocetti
The Tesla 3
7 Apr 2016
Chris Lassig, Claire Farrugia, Manisha Bhardwaj
Feral rabbits in Australia have caused damage to agricultural land and natural ecosystems
10 Mar 2016
Stuart Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
Numerical simulation of colliding rainbow holes, sorry, BLACK holes, by Werner Benger (via NASA Blueshift and Wikimedia Commons)
25 Feb 2016
We talk the biggest discovery of the year (so far) with astrophysicist Katie Mack: what are gravitational waves, how did they find them, what do they mean?
Katie Mack
18 Feb 2016
How good dental and gum health can reduce the risk of other diseases, Just how smart are crows and ravens? And how flat worms can regrow their heads, and even the heads of their relatives.
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia
Flossing foto by Walter Siegmund, via Wikimedia Commons
11 Feb 2016
Find out how scientific is flossing your teeth, how asexual organisms evolve and how dangerous is Zika virus.
Ian Mackay
4 Feb 2016
Get the low down on the elusive Planet 9, a new antibiotic developed from breast milk, and we go back in time to see how our periodic table of elements was created
Jonti Horner
The sun
28 Jan 2016
We find out about the Spiders on Mars and how photos are taken of them, ponder the question of "What Colour is the sun" and investigate scientific ways to help keep New Year's resolutions throughout the year
Stu Burns, Chris Lassig, Claire Farrugia
What a bunch of happy faces! Clockwise from top left: Dani Measday, Michael Patterson, Josh Richards, Chris Lassig, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. The last two less happy.
21 Jan 2016
In our final summer tale from the Laborastory, museum conservator Dani Measday tells the story of the rival palaeontologists who competed in the Great Dinosaur Rush. And astronaut-candidate Josh Richards tells us if going to Mars could give you superpowers.
Dani Measday and Josh Richards