Understanding extinction — humanity has destroyed half the life on Earth; Could we prevent arthritis by regenerating cartilage?; Building a better cyborg leg — adding a sense of touch to artificial limbs; People with autism might be suffering from an oversensitivity to touch; Why isn't there a Lyme disease vaccine for humans?

Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio

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

Hear from Canadian-born cosmologist James Peebles about his Nobel Prize; The Quirks & Quarks science and environmental policy debate

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

Hear from the scientist who says red might not be so bad for us after all; NASA is testing a plan to deflect killer asteroids — by crashing into one; Could modern political strife be making us sick?; We're making tiny brains in the lab — should we be worried for them?; Hear from a researcher who’s investigating how evolution explains the female orgasm; How does 24 hour daylight impact animals in the far North?

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.

New plastic tea-bags shed billions of tiny particles into the cup; Venus is a hellscape now, but might once have been blue like Earth; Lethal memory fail: why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists; Ever older remains of early migrants rewrite the story of the first North Americans; Making Eden - how plants 'terraformed' the Earth.

Plastic tea-bag particles, Venus was habitable, driver memory fail, earliest North American migrants, Plants ‘terraformed’ the Earth

The glass obstacle course: Why so few women hold the top spots in STEM disciplines; Women’s brains ARE built for science. Modern neuroscience explodes an old myth; Women and science suffer when medical research doesn’t study females.

Quirks & Quarks women in science special — How science has done women wrong

Please note: We are discontinuing our segmented podcast feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed. Rocks recovered from ground zero reveal how the dinosaurs died; Archaeology from space - discovering history from a few hundred kilometres up; A jumbo jet lost an engine over Greenland — these researchers found it; The toes of foot painters are mapped in the brain as if they were fingers; Why are right whales roaming into danger off the East coast?; Why are the Tablelands of Gros Morne National Park barren?

Ground zero for dinosaur extinction, space archeology, toes on the brain, Finding a lost jet engine on Greenland, mystery of the wandering whales and barren tablelands

Please note: We are discontinuing our segmented feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed. Dodging venomous vipers and plant poachers to study how climate change impacts insects; Searching for dinosaurs in BC’s rockies — and finding grizzly bears instead; When the desert doesn’t bloom fake flowers are a scientist’s solution; A moment of distraction leads to near disaster while studying insects in a tropical paradise; Projectile vomiting birds are among the challenges in studying arctic lakes.

Quirks & Quarks ‘science in the field’ special — the summer adventures of scientists working in exotic and remote locations

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Quirks & Quarks is on hiatus. there will be no podcasts until September

50 years ago we walked on the moon, and it transformed life on Earth

Quirks & Quarks is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin putting the first human bootprints on the Moon.

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Quirks & Quarks is on hiatus. There will be no more podcasts until the July 20th Apollo 11 anniversary special

Your Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you in your home

Your Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat

Dogs expressive eyebrows make us fall for their cute faces

We’ve bred dogs to have expressive eyebrows that manipulate our emotions

Darwin's finches are being devastated by beak parasites

A face-eating parasite is devastating Darwin’s famous Galapagos finches

An AI learned numeracy while being trained for another task

AI is now learning to do things it hasn’t been taught

Honing in on why some people think beets taste and smell like dirt

Do your genes smell bad? DNA shows what our noses know

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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Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio

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