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Oumuamua’s strange behaviour has a natural explanation, no aliens needed; Great apes spin to make themselves dizzy — apparently just for kicks; A sensor equipped surgical glove could help make delivery of babies safer; The process of elimination — how tiny insects pee 300 times their own weight every day; A new scale for atmospheric river intensity is helping us understand them; Extreme weather is increasing — so much that it’s changing earth’s gravity; Listener Question: Why do geese sometimes fly north in winter?
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563 - Oumuamua probably not an alien spaceship, dizzy great apes, infant delivery glove, prolifically peeing insects, atmospheric rivers and the gravity of climate changeFri, 24 Mar 2023
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562 - Earliest horsepeople, whales use ‘vocal fry’, plankton might migrate poleward, mapping a fruit fly brain and understanding the cuddly, cute and really strange koalaFri, 17 Mar 2023
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561 - Owls' hunt under snow, elephant gardeners, bats' sensory moustaches, songbirds swarm their predators, cockatoos' tool use and seals appreciate a good rhythmFri, 03 Mar 2023
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560 - Giraffe romance, CO2 record interruption, stone-age farmer violence, recycled water purity and fears of a fungal futureFri, 24 Feb 2023
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559 - Super-size penguins, planning a mission to Uranus, an Egyptian embalming workshop, a sandwich inspired water filter and 19 ways of looking at consciousness.Fri, 17 Feb 2023
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558 - Trouble for the ‘love hormone,’ shading Earth with moon dust, making memories with an app, orca sons inhibit mom’s future offspring and more detail on how the first people got to the AmericasFri, 10 Feb 2023
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557 - Dolphins help human fishers, Arctic foxes are tremendous travelers, Neanderthals hunted super-elephants, rubble pile asteroid threat and how particle physics helped us understand what was the matterFri, 03 Feb 2023
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556 - Humans understand ape gestures, wolves eat sea otters, ‘Golden Boy’ mummy, polar pre-primate, Black in science update and domestication and taming.Fri, 27 Jan 2023
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555 - Fork-headed trilobite, echidnas blow snot bubbles, Perseverance delivery drop-off, farming fish lose their fertilizer and inoculation against misinformation.Fri, 20 Jan 2023
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554 - Exxon’s excellent climate science, dolphins drowned out by ocean noise, supersonic but boomless, climate change and insects, and designing Canada’s lunar rover.Fri, 13 Jan 2023
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553 - A real viral video, is scientific innovation stagnating, rocks from the Oort cloud, constipated scorpions, nature and nurture and why we try to cool fevers.Fri, 06 Jan 2023
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552 - December 31 Question showFri, 30 Dec 2022
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551 - Testing reindeer hearing, a river runs under Antarctica, saving sharks with electricity and cougars and grizzlies return to ManitobaThu, 22 Dec 2022
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550 - Our annual holiday book show, including the health hazards of space and more… A history of COVID-19 and the neuroscience of religion.Fri, 16 Dec 2022
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549 - Dinosaurs go clubbing, the sounds of swearing, detecting 2 million year old DNA, dancing really is all about the bass and is it too late for fusion?Fri, 09 Dec 2022
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548 - Growling bats, seeing an exoplanet’s atmosphere, making lab coats fabulous, milking an ant and finding the symbolic site of the anthropoceneFri, 02 Dec 2022
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547 - Turtles under ice, fungal electronics, airplane radiation, black wolf viral resistance, hailstorm chasers and where the water’s going.Fri, 25 Nov 2022
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546 - Octopus chucking, Mayan ruins mercury contamination, neighborhood black hole, climate makes shrimp snap, discovering T. Rex and how loons see through the murkFri, 18 Nov 2022
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545 - Rocket debris falling to Earth, non-compostable plastic, animal vocalization, illegal fishers use ‘stealth mode’ and Earth’s population hits 8 billionThu, 10 Nov 2022
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544 - Socializing between chimps and gorillas, deer and daylight savings, giant asteroid, aye-aye nose picking, Herzberg Gold medal and comet Shoemaker-LevyFri, 04 Nov 2022
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543 - Celebrating Bob McDonald's 30 years as host of Quirks & QuarksFri, 28 Oct 2022
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542 - Quirks and Quarks Introduces: The Outlaw OceanMon, 24 Oct 2022
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541 - Brain cells play pong, genes for surviving the Black Death, a penguins extra egg, black hole burps and a natural history of spiritsFri, 21 Oct 2022
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540 - Did life on Mars exterminate itself? Stone-age chemistry produces super-glue, African origins for dinosaurs, wolves’ attachment to humans, Nobel for Neanderthals and downloading the mindFri, 14 Oct 2022
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539 - Nobel for quantum entanglement, mystery of the missing bear toes, the dinosaurs’ last tsunami, the genetics of the Anglo-Saxon takeover of England and activists work to “Support our Science’Fri, 07 Oct 2022
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538 - Redirecting an asteroid, Rainforest politics, wildlife and COVID, megalodon was a monster, Indigenous perspectives on Astronomy.Thu, 29 Sep 2022
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