Episodes

International Women's Day Special

10 Mar 2022
Emma Burrows, Linden Ashcroft, Claire Farrugia
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Artist's reconstruction of the extinction event at Tanis. Note the fish in the massive seiche wave in the background, while impact spherules rain from the sky (image by Joschua Knüppe, via Uppsala University)

Food allergy rates flattening, and dinosaurs flattened in spring

3 Mar 2022
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Endangered koalas and fishy supplements

24 Feb 2022
Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns, Chris Lassig
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Protecting Australia's unique wildlife, and searching in space for signs of life

17 Feb 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Frog regrowing its leg. Photograph: Murugan et al./Tufts University/Science Advance (via The Guardian)

Pigs vs frogs: transplants vs regeneration

10 Feb 2022
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Summer Series: reseeding after fire & human cloning

3 Feb 2022
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Zebrafish school

Summer Series: Sunscreen is good, historical women and fishy humans

27 Jan 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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Do we pick on Elon Musk too much? He did launch a car into space just for the fun of it, although to be fair it's unlikely to cause much risk (Photo by SpaceX, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Summer series: Pigs and billionaires polluting our skies

20 Jan 2022
Christopher O'Bryan
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Space X demo launch

Summer Series: tech billionaires in space and algal blooms

13 Jan 2022
Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns, Christina Scallenberg
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I am a vole and I live in a hole

Summer Series: Eclectic genetics, Voles losing chromosomes and endangered species cloning

6 Jan 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig
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