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Quirks & Quarks is on hiatus for the summer. New podcasts will appear in September

Published: June 28, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 23 seconds

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Listener Question show

Published: June 21, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The age of monotremes, Third thumb, bird dream sounds, astronaut health database, aging and exercise, and sound perception

Published: June 14, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 7 seconds

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The pursuit of gravity, and more...

Published: June 7, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Killer whales are ramming boats for fun, and more...

Published: May 31, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The risks and benefits of pandemic virus research and more...

Published: May 24, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Sounds and smells of nature, and more...

Published: May 17, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Why the famous Higgs particle plays the field and more...

Published: May 10, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Quirks & Quarks goes to the dogs -- a dog science special

Published: May 4, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 19 seconds

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Tiny black holes that could smash through our planet, and more...

Published: April 26, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Bonus: What On Earth's Earth Day special

Published: April 22, 2024, 4:43 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 2 seconds

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Why this Indigenous researcher thinks we can do science differently, and more...

Published: April 20, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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COVID-19s long tail includes a range of impacts on the brain and more...

Published: April 12, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The dark side of LED lighting and more...

Published: April 5, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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An Australian Atlantis and other lost landscapes, and more...

Published: March 28, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The future of freshwater will we have a drop to drink, and more.

Published: March 22, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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How animals eating, excreting and expiring is like the world's bloodstream, and more

Published: March 15, 2024, 6:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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How disabled primates thrive in the wild and more...

Published: March 8, 2024, 9:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The boreal forest is on the move, and we need to understand how, and more...

Published: March 1, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Icelanders reap the costs and benefits of living on a volcanic island and more...

Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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A post valentines look at humpback mating songs and a marsupial thats sleepless for sex

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Scientists explore which came first, the chicken or the egg, and more...

Published: Feb. 9, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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An ancient trees crowning glory and more...

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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The aftermath of a record-smashing volcano: Hunga TongaHunga Haapai two years later, and more...

Published: Jan. 26, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Can diet and exercise be replaced by pills and more...

Published: Jan. 19, 2024, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Could buried hydrogen help save the world, and more...

Published: Jan. 12, 2024, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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A Cave of bones could rewrite the history of human evolution, and more...

Published: Jan. 5, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Our annual holiday question show

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Seasonal science with reindeer, special stars and miracle babies...

Published: Dec. 22, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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The Quirks & Quarks holiday book show!

Published: Dec. 15, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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A young carnivorous dinosaurs last meal and more

Published: Dec. 8, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Cat facts the latest science on our feline companions

Published: Dec. 1, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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How biodiversity contributes to human health and more...

Published: Nov. 24, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Alien blobs in the Earths mantle, and much more

Published: Nov. 17, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Eating fossil fuels, sea stars get a head, Right whale diet, music soothes pain and does biology suggest we lack free will?

Published: Nov. 10, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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AI research prize and risks, football and lifespan, smart glasses see with sound, most powerful solar storm and killer whale contamination

Published: Nov. 3, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Antarctic ice will melt for a century, the necrobiome recycles your corpse,how apes hang around, brain waves characterize false memories, and finding the biosignatures of long COVID

Published: Oct. 27, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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NASAs metal mission, hungry hippos chew badly, music synchronizes us, cicada boom is trees bane and risks and rewards of deep sea mining

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Quantum dot Nobel, super-hot supercontinent, lunar laser paving, neanderthal lion hunt, and evolving Eve

Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Nobel for vaccine key, human voices scare wildlife, baby black holes, fire and extinctions and concrete is a hard environmental problem.

Published: Oct. 6, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Trilobites last meal, Antimatter falls down, C. difficile in hospitals, African cows and cowboys in the Americas and appreciating ugly babies

Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Quirks & Quarks presents White Coat Black Art

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Studying the holes in an asteroid, Great Slave lake life, stone-age wood, finding the right homes for bats, understanding marine heat waves and aurorae on other planets

Published: Sept. 22, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Birth of a baby sperm whale, a robot that runs on gas, ship pollution and clouds, octopuss garden and can we prevent forest fires?

Published: Sept. 15, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Our Summer in the Field special: We catch up with Canadian scientists whove been exploring the Pacific ocean depths, adventuring in the far north and chasing butterflies on the shores of the great lakes

Published: Sept. 8, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Quirks is on Summer Hiatus

Published: June 30, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 28 seconds

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June 24, 2023 Listener Question Show

Published: June 23, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Dragging STEM forward, Lucys muscles, Canada Jay sibling rivalry, skateboards for preemies and sweet and sour cockroach treats

Published: June 16, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Cat contraception, termite air conditioning, octopuses re-engineer their proteins, coral viral infection and bizarre brain behaviour

Published: June 9, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Digital spinal prosthetic, ground squirrel hibernation, medium sized black hole, roundworm serotonin map and plastic pollution causes plasticosis

Published: June 2, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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When Greenland was green, bear back-scratching, Mars voyage emotional toll, fin whale seismic sensing, what made COVID-19 vaccines possible and gas fume shadows

Published: March 19, 2021, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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10 years since Japan’s tsunami, ants do social distancing, otters save kelp forests, ancient and agile hippo-sized reptile and autism and human innovation

Published: March 12, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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COVID & climate complexity, memory athletics, life on Earth is lucky, frogs do noise cancellation, speaking to the dreaming and hot air rising

Published: March 5, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Black in science: The legacy of racism in science and how Black scientists are moving the dial

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Magnetic pole reversals, viruses hunt bacteria, solar powered microflyers, trans people and sexual health, the music of endangered birds and why elliptical orbits?

Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Driving a rover on Mars, a stinky romantic gift, coral that can handle bleaching, easy choices aren’t stress free, monkeys ‘self-domesticate’ and unhealthy water holes

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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COVID treatments: what have we learned? Breakups change language, algae blooms on Greenland, bats’ impressive flight, amateur astronomers find brown dwarfs and fish in space?

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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New climate war tactics, lizard burrows are wildlife condos, sleep lunacy, blind naked mole-rat dialects, male mantises don’t go down easily, and how do astronauts float?

Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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A pandemic of boredom, dinosaur’s nether regions, a giant telescope on the moon, greenhouse gases and a mussel’s shell game and cancer ‘sleeps through’ chemotherapy

Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds

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Introducing: Tai Asks Why Season 3

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds

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Snake lasso climbing, detecting gravitational waves with pulsars, coping with soil compaction, what land should we protect to reach 30% and electric eels hunt in packs.

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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COVID-19 and fighting viral evolution, ice-age wolf pup, how jellyfish swim so efficiently and how to do online learning to make education better

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Listener question show — we answer your science questions, like: Where are the missing dinosaurs? Why does cold make you pee? Do insects feel pain? And much more.

Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Our producers' favourite stories of 2020. Tickling rats, the power of swearing, amazing awakening, squat don't sit, woodpecker wars and more

Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Quirks & Quarks holiday book show. Chance and human evolution, surviving a black hole, new insights about Neanderthals and more...

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Spotting STEVE, superbolts and megaflashes, hyperventilating sober, bees use poop as insect repellent and a spider research and racial equity in science.

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds

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A mysterious light from the universe, undoing cellular aging, feather talking, a smartwatch predicts COVID, the path of the polar bear and moon volcanoes

Published: Dec. 4, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Quick tests for COVID, rat hides poison in its fur, neuroscientists see how we see colour, our planet’s climate zones are changing and why the hottest temperatures are in Death Valley

Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Microbial mining in space, baby birds get the boot, palm oil substitutes, deep sea squid says ‘g’day’, Canada’s place in space and how do fans make cool air?

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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COVID vaccine & immune durability, Wallabies in the UK, ancient female hunters, humans are cooler than we used to be, Herzberg gold medal winner and how old are circadian rhythms?

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Fast radio bursts, monkeys with a puberty switch, black hole at our galaxy’s centre, and forever chemicals

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Wasps make cockroaches into zombies, water on the moon, how remoras surf whales, what Spirit bears do when we aren’t watching, and why hope matters in our environmental crisis and a continental question.

Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Ironclad beetle’s uncrushable shell, extinction made us upright and warm blooded, ‘Forever chemicals’ contaminate all of Canada, and a vet takes on great apes

Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Coronavirus and pain, sampling an asteroid, intersex moles, wildfires and CO2, Angry Weather and oxygen from trees.

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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A Nobel for CRISPR, awakening with a sleeping pill, sea turtle egg decoys thwart thieves, and the toxic threat of forever chemicals

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Fat bears and living with grizzlies, singing dogs back from the dead, wasp ovipositor inspires medical device and the price of too much information.

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Sep 26: Tailings pond detoxification, baboon friendship and longevity, ancient DNA in dirt, tickling rats for science and 5 ways the universe might die

Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Sep 19: Woodpecker wars, hibernating squid, Viking DNA and COVID Vaccines

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 16 seconds

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Sep 12: Summer Science Special — Fishing with the boys, COVID garbage, recognizing Black birders and Cougar kills

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 2 seconds

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Jul 3: Quirks & Quarks podcast on hiatus until September

Published: July 3, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 32 seconds

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June 27: The Quirks & Quarks Question show

Published: June 26, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Jun 20: A cosmic iceberg visit, female genetic superiority, a megadrought in the southwest and science fights Lyme disease invading Quebec

Published: June 19, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 36 seconds

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Jun 13: What if we hadn’t locked down? The return of race science, a dinosaur’s last meal and maybe we can go to Mars, but should we?

Published: June 12, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Detecting COVID in sewage, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, pet dogs fail at rescue, AI sources fossil poop, and the insect apocalypse

Published: June 5, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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May 30: Swearing makes pain more tolerable, Mt. St. Helens 40 years later, turning plants into carnivores and COVID reopening speedbumps

Published: May 29, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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May 23: Can COVID cut climate emissions permanently? Robot stand-up comedy and more, evolving animals from worm guts to fish fingers and adapting to climate change on the prairies

Published: May 22, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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May 16: COVID unknowns, a giant sloth graveyard, drying northern peatlands, and this is your brain on fear

Published: May 15, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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May 9: COVID stress and pregnancy, a black hole in our backyard, solving koalas’ drinking problem and how to live on Mars

Published: May 8, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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May 2: COVID and social isolation, COVID and dreams, the most dangerous place on Earth, Satellite streak watcher and Coping with sea level rise in Nova Scotia

Published: May 1, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Apr 25: Deepwater Horizon 10 years later, COVID-19 and understanding immunity. Invaders eat Europe’s ragweed, and making AI compatible with humans.

Published: April 24, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Apr 18: Age, sex and COVID-19 vulnerability, learning from pterosaur flight and, Earth Day’s odd birthday, and a super-dupernova

Published: April 17, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Introducing Unlocking Bryson's Brain

Published: April 14, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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Apr 11: COVID-19 transmission, reliving Apollo 13 in real time, birds watch out for rhinos, toads outbreed in hard times, and sports in mesoamerica 3400 years ago.

Published: April 10, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Apr 4 Testing for COVID-19, blood plasma clinical trials to begin, vaccine development, COVID threatens mountain gorillas and these boots were made for running

Published: April 3, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Mar 28: Mobilizing scientists in the COVID 19 fight, riding the COVID wave, NASA's space salad and Escobar's hippos are restoring an ecosystem

Published: March 27, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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COVID vulnerability, COVID and climate, iring a cannonball at an asteroid and a fossil ‘wonderchicken’

Published: March 20, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Coronavirus epidemiology, Greenland glaciers melt, squatting a better way to be sedentary and SmartICE supports northern life

Published: March 13, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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New technology gives amputees a hand, a big dam proposal, your dog’s heat sensitive nose, was the Earth once a waterworld, the fight to be the first female astronaut and composting garbage

Published: March 6, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 26 seconds

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Coronavirus containment window closing, whale skin care, gingko trees eternal youth, does cloud seeding work, and Does cloud seeding work, and listening to the sounds of the Arctic ocean

Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Introducing The Dose with Dr. Brian Goldman

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds

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Live animal markets and viruses, largest turtle’s horned shell, a robot for Europa, jewel beetles iridescent camouflage, better talk on climate change and flying west

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 27 seconds

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Agriculture moving north, Arrakoth’s secrets, the microbiome for flight, isheries science with indigenous perspective, slippery surface and seasons on other planets

Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 27 seconds

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Coronavirus treatment, parentese helps baby talk, seals clap back, splicing damaged nerves, getting astronauts to Mars healthy and sane and smoke on glaciers

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Understanding the coronavirus, cyborg jellyfish, judging cat pain, an AI knows how you dance and Canada’s newest and youngest astronaut

Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Intermittent fasting, the math of espresso, biological bricks, scurvy in modern Canada, snake venom sans snakes and chile tolerance.

Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Ancient gum preserves genome, a living robot, wolf puppies play fetch, rattlesnakes skin holds raindrops for drinking, science of imagination and quiet snow.

Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Fires in Australia, cuttlefish watch 3D movies, coal pollution harms crops, fossils show ancient parenting, first evidence of cooked vegetables, and why so much poop?

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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The Quirks & Quarks Listener Question show - where we answer your questions. Why dinosaurs are so big, why winter skies are so clear and much more.

Published: Jan. 3, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Quirks & Quarks year in review We look at some of the most significant science stories we covered (and one we didn’t) in 2019

Published: Dec. 27, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Quirks Holiday Book Show: Three science books looking at forensic ecology, the many worlds of quantum mechanics and culinary extinction

Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Saving the ozone helped climate change, extra-solar comet, great auk extinction, rockets for Mars, concussions and brain hemispheres and a question of cloud cover

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Inflammation and the brain, NASA visits the sun, climate shrinks birds, ancient paint from lake goo, smelling without olfactory bulbs and tweeting birds.

Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Tipping into climate catastrophe, blue whale heartbeat, thinking twice on fake news, a swift-swimming tunabot and the life of an ‘under-wolf’

Published: Nov. 29, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Psychedelics and ‘waking-dreams,’ adding feeling to virtual reality, the greatest ape, AI learns how music affects us, foreign accent syndrome and the latitude of venomous animals.

Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Watching wildfire with radar, the return of race science, laundry and microplastic, submarines for your bloodstream and oxygen for airplanes.

Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Lionfish are super digesters, Voyager 2 goes interstellar, carbon capture, AI reads scientific literature, fear, trauma and inheritance and animal heart attacks

Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Roadway pollution, fungus promotes pancreatic cancer, the bang in the Big Bang, infant eels magnetic migration and the pathway to Mars.

Published: Nov. 1, 2019, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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World’s loudest bird, a six-fingered lemur, a microbrewery in your gut, earthworms and the climate underground, a patient researcher and a question of indigestion

Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 46 seconds

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Understanding the Anthropocene extinction, regenerating cartilage, autism and touch, a prosthetic that feels and where’s my Lyme vaccine?

Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Canada’s latest Nobel laureate and our election science policy debate

Published: Oct. 11, 2019, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Red meat might not be bad, deflecting asteroids, politics making us sick, growing human brains in the lab, evolution and orgasms and animals in the midnight sun.

Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 1 second

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