Episodes

Cat in wrapping paper

Did humans domesticate cats, or did they decide to keep us as pets? And where are all the Christmas Beetles?

15 Dec 2022
Chris Lassig, Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Global average temperatures over the past 2000 years or so, with a distinct (ice) hockey stick shape (Image by RCraig09, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, derived from a graphic by Ed Hawkins)

Climate change clarity and celebrating soil

8 Dec 2022
Professor Michael Mann
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Medicine waste and ice age asteroids

1 Dec 2022
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Olives become oil

The science of olive oil: Interview with Professor Paolo Inglese

24 Nov 2022
Stu Burns Guest: Paolo Inglese
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Disco rat

Methane is from Mars, Phosphine is from Venus, and doing the rat dance

17 Nov 2022
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Covid lab leak speculation & revolutionary click chemistry

10 Nov 2022
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Frog in a pond

Nobel prize for physics and reptilian viruses

3 Nov 2022
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns Guest: Emma Harding
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Lost in Science Fiction! Space plants, hoverboards & wormholes

27 Oct 2022
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Sped-up timelapse of the final images taken by the DART spacecraft's camera. (NASA/John Hopkins APL)

Deflecting asteroids and growing Moon plants

20 Oct 2022
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Peacock spiders and shark noses

13 Oct 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig Guests: Joseph Schubert, Victoria Camilleri Asch
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