This week on Lost in Science we investigate the ethics and opportunities of Sci-Hub - Pirate Bay for scientific journal articles. This website was created in 2011 by scientist Alexandra Elbakyan, from Kazakhstan, in reaction to the high cost of scientific research papers behind paywalls.
And did you know that all cold and flu tablets are not created equal? Stu looks into the chemistry and pharmacology of two different active ingredients in cold and flu tablets and why we may be getting short changed on over-the-counter drugs.
For the cat lovers amongst us, we purr-use the newly described Big Five personality traits for cats and how they differ from human personality traits? These have been the findings of a citizen science program in South Australia called Cat Tracker, which collects GPS and personality information about household cats.
Chris Lassig, Stuart Burns and Claire Farrugia and others.