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CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.
On the morning of August 10, 2025, a landslide in a fjord along the southern Alaskan coast triggered a mega tsunami. It generated the second...
Cocaine and many other chemicals and drugs are found in many waterways, but especially around wastewater treatment plants. Scientists expose...
IDEAS, hosted by Nahlah Ayed is a weekday podcast that explores how ideas shape our world. “One of your tribe is enough.” That’s what Margar...
Seabird poop plays a surprising role in bringing life to barren islands, spreading nutrients throughout the ocean, and even creating wealth...
We tend to think of animals like snakes, rats and even cockroaches as pests, but in her new book, biologist Marlene Zuk says there's a lot w...
There's been a growing movement to develop new technologies to replace at least some of the animals used in scientific research. Researchers...
On their mission around the moon, Jeremy Hansen and his crewmates will become the only four people on Earth to ever lay eyes on the entire f...
New research confirms that dogs were the first animal to form a domestic relationship with humans, dating back to the end of the last Ice Ag...
An unusual hellscape of a planet found 34 light years from Earth has a deep ocean of molten magma surrounded by noxious, hot, rotten egg-typ...
We used to think that of our primate relatives, chimps were the more aggressive ape and bonobos were more peaceful. A recent study found tha...
You may have seen Black Hole, the image, but have you heard of the upcoming Black Hole, The Movie? This week, astronomers launched a new cam...
Starfish don't have brains, and yet they're able to mobilize hundreds of tiny hydraulic tube feet to get around. Now scientists are getting...
From the pressurized space suits to living in underground spaces, it's clear that living on Mars would cause irreversible biological changes...
An elephant’s trunk is incredibly strong and rugged, and yet it is one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New researc...
Researchers made the surprising discovery that Alaska beluga whales have swinging sex lives — and that could be their key to survival in the...
Scientists spent nearly 25 years studying close to 800 polar bears in the Barents Sea region and discovered that those polar bears seem to b...
Some dogs are more adept at learning language than others. Researchers studying these special dogs discovered that, much like toddlers, thes...
We may share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but somewhere along the evolutionary line to us, our brains took a major detour. New resear...
An unassuming fossilized slab in the basement of a museum in Brazil turned out to be 110-million-year-old dinosaur vomit, and inside that vo...
On this week’s episode of Quirks & Quarks, it's our ever-popular and always satisfying Holiday Listener Question Show that includes: Why did...
In 2000, Quirks & Quarks celebrated its 25th anniversary by travelling forward in time — to 2025 — to find out how science had changed in th...
We talk to authors of some of this year’s most fascinating science books in our annual Holiday Book Show. INCLUDING: Questioning the purpose...
Next stop - the moon! Jeremy Hansen stops by our studio to chat about how he’s prepping to be the first Canadian to go to the moon. Plus: Sa...
Scientists are shedding light on the strange, car-sized, armoured fish that lived 360 million years ago in what is now Cleveland. Plus: The...
On this week’s episode: a mini tyrannosaur is a new species, ants redesign to avoid illness, toxic lead gave humans the edge over Neandertha...
This week: bees trained to keep track of time, eating small amounts of plastic can kill ocean animals, scientists spot winds blowing from ou...
On this week's episode: tracking down a stellar explosion, climate apathy, arctic foxes are key in northern food web, why golf balls lip out...
On this week's episode: studying a rare visitor to our solar system, eating saturated fats can mess with our internal clocks, holding hands...
On this week's episode: selling sunlight on demand, rhinos roamed Canada’s Arctic 23 million years ago, making a more precise parachute usin...