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Echidnas are one of the few species of Monotremes in the world

Echidnas, Lasers and Malaria

1 Dec 2016

Hosts: Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia Guests: Anna Sexton; Christine Cooper

What milk do you choose?

Milk: cow v soy v nut; plant genes for sex and dryness

24 Nov 2016

Hosts: Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns Guest: Scott McAdam

Oldest evidence of Aboriginal habitation; smart bees; and science of will power

17 Nov 2016

Mosquito numbers are up this year in Southern Australia

Histamines, antihistamines, the placebo effect and Victorian mosquito plague

10 Nov 2016

Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig

Tasmanian Devils are very bitey critters. Here are two of them fighting over food (Photo by amanderson2, via Flickr)

Billionaire mad science, Devil tumour immunity, and natural contraception app

3 Nov 2016

Hallucinations can be terrifying, but what are they?

Characterising hallucinations and the suckiest creature of all time.

27 Oct 2016

Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig, Manisha Bhardwaj Guest: Associate Professor Joel Pearson

Donuts are the same shape as coffee cups according to topology.

2016 Nobel Prizes for science

20 Oct 2016

Stuart Burns, Manisha Bhardwaj, Chris Lassig

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from a distance of 82.6 km, as seen by the Rosetta navigation camera on 21 March 2015—the image has been cropped and processed to bring out the details of the comet's activity (ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Comet climax, clever corvids and cruel cats

13 Oct 2016

Rosie Hohnen

Australian scientist Ruby Payne-Scott

Antibacterial breakthrough, Ruby Payne Scott and Malaria in Sri Lanka no more

6 Oct 2016

Hosts: Claire Farrugia, Stu Burns, Chris Lassig Guests: Professor Greg Qiao, Professor Sharon Bell

Wild Melbourne connecting communities and nature, and Bananageddon

29 Sep 2016