"Please note: We are discontinuing our segmented podcast feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed."New plastic tea-bags shed billions of tiny particles into the cup; Venus is a hellscape now, but might once have been blue like Earth; Let

Quirks & Quarks women in science special — How science has done women wrong

Sep 20th, 2019 54m 40s

Please note: We are discontinuing our segmented podcast feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed.The glass obstacle course: Why so few women hold the top spots in STEM disciplines; Women’s brains ARE built for science. Modern neuroscienc

Ground zero for dinosaur extinction, space archeology, toes on the brain, Finding a lost jet engine on Greenland, mystery of the wandering whales and barren tablelands

Sep 13th, 2019 54m 40s

Please note: We are discontinuing our segmented podcast feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed.Rocks recovered from ground zero reveal how the dinosaurs died; Archaeology from space - discovering history from a few hundred kilometres u

Quirks & Quarks ‘science in the field’ special — the summer adventures of scientists working in exotic and remote locations

Sep 6th, 2019 54m 40s

Please note: We are discontinuing our segmented feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed.Dodging venomous vipers and plant poachers to study how climate change impacts insects; Searching for dinosaurs in BC’s rockies — and finding grizzl

Quirks & Quarks is on hiatus. there will be no podcasts until September

Jul 26th, 2019 16s

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Quirks & Quarks is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin putting the first human bootprints on the Moon.

Jul 19th, 2019 54m 4s

50 years ago we walked on the moon, and it transformed life on Earth

Quirks & Quarks is on hiatus. There will be no more podcasts until the July 20th Apollo 11 anniversary special

Jun 28th, 2019 24s

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Your Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat

Jun 21st, 2019 15m 44s

Your Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you in your home

We’ve bred dogs to have expressive eyebrows that manipulate our emotions

Jun 21st, 2019 7m 34s

Dogs expressive eyebrows make us fall for their cute faces

A face-eating parasite is devastating Darwin’s famous Galapagos finches

Jun 21st, 2019 8m 28s

Darwin's finches are being devastated by beak parasites

AI is now learning to do things it hasn’t been taught

Jun 21st, 2019 8m 53s

An AI learned numeracy while being trained for another task

Do your genes smell bad? DNA shows what our noses know

Jun 21st, 2019 7m 59s

Honing in on why some people think beets taste and smell like dirt

Bonobo mothers act as wing-mums for their sons

Jun 21st, 2019 6m 32s

Bonobo mothers act as matchmakers for their sons

A research assistant named Spongebob? Sea sponges collect data for science

Jun 21st, 2019 8m 24s

Sea sponges are better than scientists at DNA collection

Do electric car batteries take more CO2 to make than they save?

Jun 21st, 2019 2m 38s

Do electric car batteries take more CO2 to make than they save?

Should we have humans in space? A Quirks & Quarks public debate

Jun 14th, 2019 1h 5m

In our first ever Quirks & Quarks public debate, recorded live in Toronto, astronaut Chris Hadfield, cosmologist Renée Hložek, planetary scientist Marianne Mader and space flight historian Amy Shira Teitel weigh in on whether we should leave sp