Podcast Episodes

Sleuthing out scientific fraud, and more...

On this week's episode: selling sunlight on demand, rhinos roamed Canada’s Arctic 23 million years ago, making a more precise parachute using kirigam…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Rise of the zombie bugs, and more…

On this week's spooktacular episode: Wolves are afraid of the big bad human, methane spewing from Montreal’s largest snow dump, screaming babies make…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Moose are hot and bothered, and more...

Nobel Prize in medicine for a leash on our immune system

Our immune system has enormous power to defend us against the wide range of pathogens and inv…

5 months ago

Celebrating 50 years of Quirks & Quarks!

On October 9, 1975, CBC listeners across the country heard David Suzuki introduce the very first episode of Quirks & Quarks. 50 years and thousands o…

5 months, 1 week ago

Life at the limits, and more…

Remembering Jane: a conversation with Jane Goodall on her storied career

Science lost a unique pioneering figure this week. Jane Goodall — primatologi…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tracking Grizzlies in B.C with AI and more...

Let’s go, Grue Jays!

New kinds of birds are not usually discovered while browsing Facebook, but an ornithologist spotted something he’d never seen bef…

5 months, 3 weeks ago