We round-up National Science Week events from around the country, look at the theme of the science of light, and ask will there ever be a cure for cancer?

We find out how some carnivorous pitcher plants give home to ants and bats, speak to a researcher about why bandicoots have more diverse forelimbs than other marsupials, and look at the linguistics of taxonomy with some funny species names, although they're not all funny-funny.

We talk to physics student Cleo Loi, who discovered giant plasma tubes in the Earth's magnetosphere, and we scratch around the evolution of both body lice and the bacterium that caused the Black Death.

All about the element mercury, and how sun exposure is a risk for skin cancer, despite what you may have read on the internet.

Bats in America are being killed by a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome, but a common bacteria may be the key to beating it. Bacteria and yeast could also soon be used to manufacture morphine and other opiates—possibly with the help of a centrifuge, a machine that relies on either centrifugal or centripetal force—which do you believe is real?

Antonie Leeuwenhoek made some startling discoveries in the 17th century. And non-conventional gas extraction is not always fracking, but what happens when it is?

Stu looks at why measles vaccines are possibly protective against other illness, Chris delves into the world of psephology, the scientific study of elections, and Beth talks to Dr. Hannah Brown about the recently announced research from China into human DNA editing in embryos.