Why do newborn babies smile? More details about the black hole in our galaxy, and could the oldest known fossils be just rocks?
Advantages of jaundice, giant carnivorous invasive cloned flatworms, a successful eradication project, and the asteroid that orbits the wrong way.
Our top stories from 2017. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from gravitational waves to Roman concrete!
Super sticky frog tongues, intermediate-mass black holes, happy baby songs and a bridge of stars between galaxies.
The most likely explanation for Tabby’s Star yet, baby microbiota, complex life’s false start, and DNA with six chemical bases!
Benefits of breastfeeding babies, baboon social structure and gut microbiomes, a DNA family tree of the UK shows historic migration waves, accidentally turning cancer cells into immune cells, and NASA wants your suggestions for features on Pluto!
Evolutionary biologist Professor Rob Brooks joins us to talk beards, crying babies, tsetse flies, dolphins and more!
Blinky the mutant crab, specific man-made actions linked to climate change, baby immune systems, asteroids, insect sex and more!
Brain-to-brain communication, Greenland’s hidden Grand Canyon, in utero bacteria, in utero learning, and fish leadership.
Women in space, HIV Baby ‘cured’, 60 Second Science, new telescopes and diamonds from the sea floor!
Always informative, often entertaining. Great selection of regulars with a variety of interests and expertise. Also great guests with and Australian focus.
Nice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!
I have enjoyed this podcast b/c it is very funny banter about science stories but there is also a serious edge to the analysis. It's proof that you can be amusing and entertaining as well as giving the science content its due. Highly recommended weekly listening.
