Episodes

Olives become oil

The science of olive oil: Interview with Professor Paolo Inglese

24 Nov 2022
Stu Burns Guest: Paolo Inglese
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Disco rat

Methane is from Mars, Phosphine is from Venus, and doing the rat dance

17 Nov 2022
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns
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Covid lab leak speculation & revolutionary click chemistry

10 Nov 2022
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Frog in a pond

Nobel prize for physics and reptilian viruses

3 Nov 2022
Chris Lassig, Stu Burns Guest: Emma Harding
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Lost in Science Fiction! Space plants, hoverboards & wormholes

27 Oct 2022
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Sped-up timelapse of the final images taken by the DART spacecraft's camera. (NASA/John Hopkins APL)

Deflecting asteroids and growing Moon plants

20 Oct 2022
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Peacock spiders and shark noses

13 Oct 2022
Stu Burns, Claire Farrugia, Chris Lassig Guests: Joseph Schubert, Victoria Camilleri Asch
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Sleepy baby

Once and future humans: The Nobel prize for physiology and how to get babies to sleep

6 Oct 2022
Stu Burns, Chris Lassig
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Colourised scanning electron micrograph of a T cell (Image by NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Immune cells and nature walks

29 Sep 2022
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
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Ducks swimming

The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes - The Winners!

22 Sep 2022
Stu Burns, Chris Lassig
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