Episodes

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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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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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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Tectonic plates of the Earth, with the Indo-Australian plate in orange and red (Image by United States Geological Survey)

Skydiving without a parachute, Australia on the move, drugs in sport

11 Aug 2016

Oliver Jones

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Mangrove die-back in North Australia; Food wastage and Iron

4 Aug 2016

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Albatross are among the biggest seabirds

Chronic pain, Urban bird violence and albatross poo clues.

28 Jul 2016

Hosts: Stu Burns, Chris Lassig, Manisha Bhardwaj Guests: Tasha Stanton; Julie McInnes

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YInMn blue (Photo: Oregon State University)

Saturated fat yea or nay, new pigment YInmn blue, bio-engineering spider silk

21 Jul 2016

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Morphine, climate talk and randomised trials

14 Jul 2016

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Animation of how the plant hopper Issus uses gears in its hind legs to jump (Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton)

Youth drinking decline, vitamin C for colds, and natural mechanics

7 Jul 2016

Michael Livingston

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