Horses can remember your facial expressions, male fruit flies like having sex, a fungus stole genes from a bacteria and why kids have lots of energy.
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from rats in pants to collecting flies!
Neurons found in worms that affect sexual priority, a possible Dyson sphere discovered, and life may have originated 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from unboiled eggs to painful bee stings!
Stephen Hawking trolls the end of the universe, the only known swimming dinosaur, how the gut microbiome affects the immune system, and sex positions for bad backs.
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!
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.
