Episodes

Numerical simulation of colliding rainbow holes, sorry, BLACK holes, by Werner Benger (via NASA Blueshift and Wikimedia Commons)
25 Feb 2016
We talk the biggest discovery of the year (so far) with astrophysicist Katie Mack: what are gravitational waves, how did they find them, what do they mean?
Katie Mack
18 Feb 2016
How good dental and gum health can reduce the risk of other diseases, Just how smart are crows and ravens? And how flat worms can regrow their heads, and even the heads of their relatives.
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia
Flossing foto by Walter Siegmund, via Wikimedia Commons
11 Feb 2016
Find out how scientific is flossing your teeth, how asexual organisms evolve and how dangerous is Zika virus.
Ian Mackay
4 Feb 2016
Get the low down on the elusive Planet 9, a new antibiotic developed from breast milk, and we go back in time to see how our periodic table of elements was created
Jonti Horner
The sun
28 Jan 2016
We find out about the Spiders on Mars and how photos are taken of them, ponder the question of "What Colour is the sun" and investigate scientific ways to help keep New Year's resolutions throughout the year
Stu Burns, Chris Lassig, Claire Farrugia
What a bunch of happy faces! Clockwise from top left: Dani Measday, Michael Patterson, Josh Richards, Chris Lassig, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. The last two less happy.
21 Jan 2016
In our final summer tale from the Laborastory, museum conservator Dani Measday tells the story of the rival palaeontologists who competed in the Great Dinosaur Rush. And astronaut-candidate Josh Richards tells us if going to Mars could give you superpowers.
Dani Measday and Josh Richards
Top: Pathologist Clare Hampson (left) talks about Robert Knox (right). Bottom: Actor and comedian Ben McKenzie (left) talks about Hedy Lamarr (right—pictured with John Garfield).
14 Jan 2016
In more summer tales from the Laborastory, pathologist Clare Hampson tells the scandalous story of Scottish surgeon Robert Knox, and actor and comedian Ben Mckenzie talks about inventor and Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr.
Clare Hampson and Ben McKenzie
Top: Astrophysicist Katie Mack (left) talks about Stephen Hawking (right). Bottom: Lost in Science presenter Chris Lassig (left) talks about Edward Teller (right).
7 Jan 2016
Continuing our summer series of tales from the Laborastory, astrophysicist Katie Mack talks about meeting cosmologist Stephen Hawking and reveals her real science hero, and Lost in Science's Chris Lassig tells the story of Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb.
Katie Mack and Chris Lassig
Top: Science communicator Cobi Smith (left) talks about Rachel Carson (right). Bottom: Mathematician Daniel Horsley (left) talks about Georg Cantor (right).
31 Dec 2015
In our summer series of tales from the Laborastory, science communicator Cobi Smith talks about American biologist Rachel Carson, and mathematician Daniel Horsley tells the story of German set theorist Georg Cantor.
Cobi Smith and Daniel Horsley
Left to right: James Prescott Joule, Isaac Newton, Ada Lovelace, Louis Pasteur and Clara Barton. Maxwell's equations are on the table.
24 Dec 2015
This December we celebrate Ada Lovelace, James Prescott Joule, Isaac Newton, Clara Barton, Louis Pasteur and... Maxwell's equations?