A CN Tower-sized mega tsunami, and more…
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...
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Quirks and Quarks Complete Show from CBC Radio
CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.
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20 of 29 episodesCocaine in waterways makes salmon roam further, and more…
Cocaine and many other chemicals and drugs are found in many waterways, but especially around wastewater treatment plants. Scientists expose...
Introducing IDEAS | How a historian found the lost women of science
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 does whaaat? And more…
Seabird poop plays a surprising role in bringing life to barren islands, spreading nutrients throughout the ocean, and even creating wealth...
Why this biologist loves unpopular animals, and more…
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...
Moving beyond animal testing, and more…
There's been a growing movement to develop new technologies to replace at least some of the animals used in scientific research. Researchers...
What we hope to see on the far side of the moon, and more…
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...
Dogs have been by our side for 16,000 years, and more...
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...
A stinky planet full of magma, and more...
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...
Bonobo females bully the boys, and more…
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...
Filming a black hole in action, and more…
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...
How starfish move their tiny tube feet, and more…
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...
How living on Mars could change humans, and more…
From the pressurized space suits to living in underground spaces, it's clear that living on Mars would cause irreversible biological changes...
The sensitive secrets of elephant whiskers, and more…
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...
Belugas swap mates for survival, and more…
Researchers made the surprising discovery that Alaska beluga whales have swinging sex lives — and that could be their key to survival in the...
Polar bears are thriving in Svalbard, and more...
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...
'Gifted' dogs learn from eavesdropping, and more...
Some dogs are more adept at learning language than others. Researchers studying these special dogs discovered that, much like toddlers, thes...
The reason chimps can reason, and more…
We may share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but somewhere along the evolutionary line to us, our brains took a major detour. New resear...
New dino species in another dino's vomit, and more
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...
Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!
On this week’s episode of Quirks & Quarks, it's our ever-popular and always satisfying Holiday Listener Question Show that includes: Why did...
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