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Lost in Science — 579 episodes

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Science of Quicksand & Attractive Mozzie Repellent

2

Step Back in Time

3

The making of a museum with Ben Francischelli

4

Type1Screen with Dr. John Wentworth

5

Time, Species and David Attenborough

6

Pointy things and leaches

7

Happy Dog Science Project with Dr Mia Cobb

8

Chimpan A to Chimpan Zee and all natural nukes

9

Imperfect AI physicians, and perfect pasta physics

10

Australia's Artemis Assistance & Citizen Science Month

11

Baby brain rewiring & cabbage kitchen chemistry

12

Dino Sails in the Sunset and Oils ain't Oils

13

CO2 in blood and artificial dinosaur eggs

14

Sharks, Parasites & Oldest Known Rock Art

15

Post Punk Physics and Toxic Tick Bites

16

International Women's Day 2026

17

Reef atmosphere & parasite infections

18

Echidna egg evolution & AI changing suspicious minds

19

The science of auroras, and the winter Olympics

20

Tracking the Buruli ulcer in Victoria

21

Summer series: ADHD & water fluoridation

22

Summer series 3: Euan Ritchie, Clancy Lester and Australian conservation

23

Summer Series: Ted Vanderfeen and the robots in space

24

Summer Series: Young Australian of the Year 2025

25

2025 in memoriam & quiz

26

Lost in Christmas 2025

27

Tammy Lee, FameLab International winner

28

Flashback - Santa’s Maths and Christmas trees

29

Algal blooms and funding blues

30

Moss in space & fluoride in water

31

PM Science Prizes and Dr. Grace on earthquakes

32

CRISPR Cures and Physics of Packing

33

Lost in Science Fiction Flashback

34

Lost in Science Fiction! Halloween Special

35

Predicting eureka & rule-breaking ants

36

2025 Nobel Prizes in science

37

Laugh, Think, and Maybe Drink: The Ig Nobel Prizes

38

Scicomm student takeover 2: genes and Anthropocenes

39

Scicomm student takeover: elephants and ravens

40

Ted Vanderfeen, space and mechatronics

41

Science Under Siege interview

42

Clancy the Bee Man and scanning for signs of life

43

Plains-Wanderers Expanding & Reviving Thylacines

44

Year of Quantum and Kelp Carbon Capture

45

Science voices and static electricity

46

Evolution Show; Ancient Burials & Animal Doubles

47

Stressed Bird Leaders and pre feather feathers

48

Matter vs antimatter, and clouds vs climate

49

Underground eyeless invertebrates and interstellar interlopers

50

Year of Quantum and Blood type changes

51

Does AI change your brain? Young Indigenous Womens' STEM Academy

52

New viruses in bats & weight-loss drugs in the brain

53

Galaxy Collisions and Cannonball Fungi

54

Possum rediscovery and sleep apnoea vs taping

55

Ice baths & cave diving for fossils

56

Radio telescopy, and lifeless life

57

Sitting vs exercise, and searching for Planet 9

58

Seed Oils and Chimp Doctors

59

New colour dropped and beach trash is dropping

60

Alien life signs and ADHD controversies

61

Dire wolves and dire research funding outlook

62

Young Australian of the Year: Dr Katrina Wruck

63

Quantum computing claims and volcano dating

64

Cat's Antarctic adventure

65

Methane from waterfalls, and protection from bacteria

66

Better living through science?

67

International Women's Day Special

68

Toxic Miscalculations and Wombat burrows

69

Caterpillars and asteroids

70

Year of quantum and floss leaders

71

Summer Series: Antimicrobial Honeys Ants & Shameful Science

72

Summer Series: How time flies and Night Parrot

73

Summer Series: Satellite up the sky, and animal crossings

74

Summer Series: Basics of alkaline water and great women in science herstory

75

Summer series: Animals teaching us how to love and how to fly

76

Summer Series: Bird Flu and Inverse Vaccines

77

End of year quiz and wrap up

78

Santa science: studying rivers from the sleigh & visiting every house

79

New human species and Orangutan medicine

80

Historical climate & alternative weather

81

Fart charting & forever chemicals

82

Rhinopocalypse and how long is a piece of string theory

83

Uplifting Discoveries and Positive Science

84

Lightning Power and Alien Biology

85

Lost in Science Fiction rewind

86

Puberty blockers & smartphones on the brain

87

Gut Health, Chronic Disease & Space Junk

88

Close call elections and more moony news

89

Short-term mini-moons & cave diving for fossils

90

Wow! Signal Mystery and Microbes on the Move

91

An Ignobel time of the year

92

Invisible mice & whale secrets

93

Back in time: Cat Taste & Wombat Citizen Science

94

Long Covid risk & skyglow pollution

95

Croc Defence and Cellular Aging

96

Possible signs of Martian life & slow Olympic swimming pools

97

The naming of things, and how dangerous are pollutants?

98

Llama nanobodies and nearby black holes

99

Back in Time

100

Sleep Patterns and Space Health

101

Woolly megabeasts and how they went extinct

102

Do tattoos cause cancer and are brains gendered?

103

Vampire facials and flapping wings

104

Celestial Spheres and plant roots on acid

105

Orangutan Medicine and Artillery Fungi

106

AI scientific authors & exotic exoplanets

107

Lost In Science... Flashback!

108

How does the Sun cause auroras, and does social media rot kids’ brains?

109

Quantum Computing and Macro fossil macropods

110

Blood Breakthroughs and Pig Kidney Transplants

111

Long Covid treatment and recovery

112

Ant Invasion & Bird Evolution

113

Out of the Sun

114

Energy costs of AI and energy transfer in forests

115

Infectious diseases - TB vaccines & big COVID data

116

Antarctic life and Great Barrier Reef bleaching

117

What colour are blueberries anyway? And what's happening with the moon boom?

118

International Women's Day: Breast cancer screeners and AI innovators

119

Sun-eating quasar and Moon-making crash

120

Night Parrot genome and how time flies

121

Asbestos update and why moths go to light

122

Love voles and Buruli ulcer mozzies

123

Summer Series: Australian animals in danger and how science is saving them

124

Summer Series: Physics vs evolution, Defrosted pathogens & jumping nematodes

125

Summer Series: Antimicrobial ants & gene therapy

126

Summer Series: Life on Earth and clever gulls

127

End of Year Quiz and Environmental impact of AI

128

Summer series: clogged pipes & conspiracies

129

Sciencemas! Fake vs real trees and El Niño in Australia

130

Moon origin and space water

131

Sitting sickness & bat viruses

132

Giant ancient eagles & potato disease breakthroughs

133

Physics vs Biology, and Viruses vs Bacteria

134

Life at the EXTREME

135

Wombat apps & reproducibility gaps

136

The microbial origins of brains, and microbial threats to them

137

Lost in Science Fiction: AI and hyperspace

138

Sate-light pollution and silky spider worms

139

Quantum dots & asteroid dust

140

Double creature feature; big dinos and hybrid species

141

Ignobel 2023 and water on... water on the moon

142

Life on distant worlds and protecting it on ours

143

Compost Coach and cat taste

144

Cancer immunotherapy & hand-clapping physics

145

Natural gas in the home and room temperature Superconductor stories

146

Topological switching, exercise and immunity and Albany Pitcher Plants

147

Antimicrobial Honeyants and historical zoology

148

Deep seas & dark stars

149

Defrosting pathogens and super conductor super controversy

150

Roads & nematodes

151

Artificial Intelligence and sweetener risk

152

Gravity waves and discovering dragons

153

It's UFO Day: un-flushable objects and unlikely aliens

154

Covid-19 origins revisited & seaweed carbon sinks

155

Fine tuning the universe & schools failing science

156

Pure dingoes and outback fireballs

157

Gene therapies and clever gulls

158

Space discoveries and a cause of Parkinson's Disease

159

Death Cap's no cutie & medical AI saves time

160

Nitrogen fixing and near-death experiences

161

Macquarie Island foundation and organic computers

162

Implicit bias in AI and the physics of swings

163

Thanks for the mammaries & spotting pseudoscience

164

Conspiracy cures and talking plants

165

Kelp forests in peril and dinosaur lips

166

Quasicrystals and cellular sorting

167

Covid origin update, multiversal madness and IVF history

168

Mosquito victims & superconductor claims

169

What is the most pro-earth protein you can eat from farmed animals, and calculating risks of heart disease

170

Backbone evolution and black hole energy

171

Weather balloon science and science we missed in January

172

Journey to the centre of the earth and the end of homework as we know it.

173

Helpless humans and disruptive discoveries

174

Summer Series: Claire talks to Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston about First knowledges of Australia

175

Summer series: Catriona on immunology & ecology

176

Summer Series: Claire talks mammals - protecting monotremes and rise of the warmbloods

177

Summer series: Michael Mann on climate change

178

Science stories of 2022: where are they now, and research we missed

179

Chemistry of Christmas cooking

180

Did humans domesticate cats, or did they decide to keep us as pets? And where are all the Christmas Beetles?

181

Climate change clarity and celebrating soil

182

Medicine waste and ice age asteroids

183

The science of olive oil: Interview with Professor Paolo Inglese

184

Methane is from Mars, Phosphine is from Venus, and doing the rat dance

185

Covid lab leak speculation & revolutionary click chemistry

186

Nobel prize for physics and reptilian viruses

187

Lost in Science Fiction! Space plants, hoverboards & wormholes

188

Deflecting asteroids and growing Moon plants

189

Peacock spiders and shark noses

190

Once and future humans: The Nobel prize for physiology and how to get babies to sleep

191

Immune cells and nature walks

192

The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes - The Winners!

193

T. rex evolution and reverse lasers

194

Out-of-season coral spawning and mistaken alpha males

195

Space junk and world's biggest bacteria

196

Hearing the rise of warm blood and more alleged academic misconduct.

197

National Science Week 2022

198

What is the mental health cost of unpaid domestic work and the Eureka Prizes 2022

199

Covid origins and AI sentience

200

Interstellar telescope discoveries and life from freeze dried skin

201

Return of the reproducing condors and regenerating frogs

202

Varroa threat to Australian Honey Bees

203

SIDS breakthrough and International Year of Glass

204

Recycling fabrics, and X and Y diversity

205

Plastic eating grubs and why twine is so strong

206

What is Monkeypox? And is the Hubble constant accurate?

207

First Nations knowledge on show, and mysteries between sleep and wakefulness

208

Dolphin communication & overpopulation science

209

Dolphin communication & overpopulation science

210

Pictures of blackness and mycelium on my ceiling

211

Parasites in your eyes, and lost in migration

212

Familiaris breeds - content? And life from space! Or at least the alphabet

213

Bad honey bees and bogus black holes

214

Moultin' spider crabs and over charged bosons

215

Menstruating mice and talking fungi

216

Research fraud and retractions part 2, and the magnificent Triceratops

217

Medical research questions and ozone layer issues

218

Animal bites and anaesthetised plants

219

Mosquito borne encephalitis and global mass extinction

220

International Women's Day Special

221

Food allergy rates flattening, and dinosaurs flattened in spring

222

Endangered koalas and fishy supplements

223

Protecting Australia's unique wildlife, and searching in space for signs of life

224

Pigs vs frogs: transplants vs regeneration

225

Summer Series: reseeding after fire & human cloning

226

Summer Series: Sunscreen is good, historical women and fishy humans

227

Summer series: Pigs and billionaires polluting our skies

228

Summer Series: tech billionaires in space and algal blooms

229

Summer Series: Eclectic genetics, Voles losing chromosomes and endangered species cloning

230

Summer series: Ducks swearing rudely and birds singing sweetly

231

Lost in Science Fictio-mas

232

Mysteries of painkillers and dive into water chemistry

233

Omicron and xenobots

234

DARTS IN SPAAAAACE and why nobody is really sure why we sleep

235

Busting vaccine myths and paralysis tick season

236

Virgin bird birth in condors, and basic errors with alkaline water

237

Prime Minister's Science Prize for covid sequence; Human metabolism changes speed at different life stages

238

How not to spill coffee and what is going on at COP26?

239

Koala vaccine and World Science Day

240

Strange space signals and non-mysterious mummies

241

Reseeding Victorian forests after bushfire and Nobel Prizes

242

Bushfire blooms and bird buds

243

A vexing history of vaccine hesitancy and clever cockatoos

244

Return of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot and the best of the Ig Nobel Prizes

245

Talking ducks and replacing knees with noses

246

Big Pharma and concerning conspiracy theories

247

Vale Steven Weinberg, and wild wattles where they're not wanted

248

Ah-choo! Is it hayfever or COVID? Why you should get tested, and how to do it with magnetic nanoparticles

249

Invertebrate creature feature; giant centipedes & daddy long legs research

250

Lost in Science Week! and the 6th IPCC report on climate change

251

Feral pig carbon emissions, and appeals to the wrong authority

252

The impact of lockdowns, and dodgy covid treatments

253

The pre-birth song of the masked Lapwing, and the return of the dung beetle!

254

It's the BS episode, with dung beetles and difficult physicists

255

Billionaire space race and Fat-tailed dunnart reproduction

256

CRISPR De-livers a cure and the galling prospect of lumpy plants

257

Spiders ballooning, and inevitable ageing

258

Where are all the time travelers? And how an old vaccine is finding new life in medical trials.

259

Safer poisons for mouse plagues, and science for hippies

260

Why babies get sick so often, and quadraphonic record players

261

If the Y chromosome goes extinct, do humans? And how are humans like fish?

262

Dinosaur discoveries and how to win an argument on the internet

263

Predicting earthquakes and insect extinctions

264

Malaria vaccine breakthrough and revisiting the NASA em drive

265

Brain implants, space junk and Elon Musk

266

Methane eating microbes and the Muon magnetic moments

267

Is the Astra Zeneca causing health problems? And the International Year of Fruits and vegetables

268

Citizen scientist spots peculiar peacock spider hider; and lunar-sea in the Suez Canal

269

Interstellar objects and clones that model human embryos

270

Warrior women of ancient times and the colonisation of Ascension

271

International Women's Day 2021; Paleontologist Mary Wade, and stories from a field ecologist

272

The connection between ideology and ability, is there a link? And cloning goes wild as old genes are brought back to life

273

Sunscreen and Vitamin D: is there a connection? And what is the Perseverance rover looking for on Mars

274

Parasitic blooms and booming animal populations

275

Can't see the wood? The return of Sputnik

276

Victorian Biodiversity Conference, and toxicity detecting spinach

277

Summer Series; Native grains and quantum fluids

278

Summer series; how do sharks smell and what's up with anti-matter?

279

Summer Series; 200 years of nursing and the return of the Zombie Pigs

280

Summer series; La Niña weather and how to engineer yourself a face mask

281

2020 24 hours to go: Lost in science end of year special

282

Lost in Christmas Special!

283

Native grains part 2, and Australian Pterosaurs uncovered

284

Covid-19 vaccine update; Developing Native Grains for agriculture

285

Sea Bees and yeasty antibodies

286

Winey Tears, Feathered nests and hot black ice

287

Fires and forests and endangered wanderers

288

Prime Minister's Science Prize and Humpback Whale watching

289

Water on the Moon, science prizes and the science of Seasickness

290

Are you getting sleepy? Do apps help you sleep or is it just white noise, also it's National Bird Week!

291

COVID on surfaces and the Nobel Prizes

292

Not so fake lost flavours and creative cephalopods

293

COVID-19 vaccines - where are we at?

294

Hot black ice in space and the 2020 Ignobel prize winners

295

Is there life on Venus?

296

Save the Plains Wanderer and brewing barley breakthroughs

297

Big step in the fight against Dengue Fever and invasive earthworms

298

Pardalote parasites and magnetic mutts

299

Ivermectin for COVID-19 and zombie pigs

300

Labradors and laboratories testing for COVID-19

301

Science Week roundup, and first hand covid news

302

A Taste of Tomorrow & Matter and Antimatter

303

Coronas in space and vaccines on earth

304

How to engineer a face mask and the La Niña effect

305

How sewage is used to track a virus, and IVF science

306

MTHFR gene investigation and the Arctic permafrost on fire!

307

Battling brassicas and coronavirus clusters

308

Controversial COVID-19 cures, and CRISPR treatments

309

Sharks smelling and spiders flying

310

Water science and quantum superfluids

311

Fires in logged forests, and the science of twins

312

200 years of nursing, plus news from outer space

313

Does your wine have legs? And what makes the dough sour?

314

Anti Matter and International Year of Plant Health

315

Coronavirus in sewage and science in lockdown

316

Stinky Lemurs courting, warming Coral bleaching

317

COVID-19 research: surface safety, vaccine development, and chloroquine controversy

318

COVID-19 Coronavirus special

319

International Women's Day 2020 Special; Gertrude Elion, Franklin Women and On the Origin of Faeces

320

Biggest bangs, defrosting worms and nature films

321

Super solar cells using quantum mechanics and cooling human body temperatures

322

Alien Black Cats and Alien broadcasts?

323

Multiple quantum timelines and 65,000 years of Aboriginal astronomy

324

Norfolk Island birds, Heath mouse love triangles and the Corsican cat-fox

325

Endometriosis and Russian to the moon

326

Smallest animals, knot science and Budj Bim eel traps

327

Shadows on the wall of reality, and a native otter mystery

328

Climate change basics, bushfires hurting koalas, and elements in solar cells

329

Air Quality and IPCC climate report

330

End of year wrap

331

Cooolbinia kids' questions and a cracker of an experiment

332

Universal music, chimera experiments, and saving koalas from bushfires

333

Multiple worlds and time travel, explosive volcano diamonds and male contraception

334

Indigenous science and atomic cannibal ants!

335

Triple creature feature! Cat-fox mystery, Irukandji misery, and zebra finch memory

336

Ibis in Ancient Egypt, why zebras have stripes, and DNA & RNA in primordial soup

337

Frog brains, eagle phone bills and early humans

338

Lost in science fiction! Moon fantasies, Space Oddities, and Brad Pitt

339

Aussie Backyard Bird Count and Prime Minister Prizes for science

340

Space science and the 2019 Nobel Prizes

341

Weird marsupials that were, and the cyborgs that are

342

Bacteria's disappearing act, the Planck theory of scientific advancement, and tougher oysters to cope with changign climate.

343

String theory when you're not actually doing string theory, Australia's native otter lends a hand in an investigation

344

New improved electric eels, anti-ageing pills, and vegetarian health misinformation

345

Eureka Prizes, Loch Ness DNA and Pet Cloning

346

IPCC report in detail; and what is the world's smallest animal?

347

Air pollution, the physics of hate, and teeth and tongues

348

Seaweed eating cows, spiderwebs & valuable elements

349

The Curiosity show returns on stage, Physics prize doubts

350

National Science Week! Fish at the museum, disposables at the gallery, and events around Australia

351

Asteroid armageddon, apple bacteria, and liquid magnets

352

Brain implants to read minds, the search for alien life and the value of meteorites

353

Full moon feature: Apollo 11 science, Soviet moon missions, and moon trees

354

Ancient Indigenous aquaculture, the Spanish flu and very old fungi!

355

Mud volcanos, demon eyed animals and algorithms in Magic: the gathering

356

Endometriosis examined and cold fusion reheated

357

Tech wars: The good, the bad, and the misused

358

Macadamia nut clones and quarks

359

Australia's spider-woman, and how fertility changes with age

360

Bacterial insecticide, all in good taste bud, and plastic not-so-fantastic

361

Carnivorous plant pollinators, Phosphorus and SCINEMA science film festival

362

Asteroid water, box jellyfish stings, and pints of science

363

Sexual harassment in physics, Australian bee species and ionic flight

364

Immunology Day, Rare Elements and Homo luzonensis

365

Dinosaur extinction and peanut allergies

366

Why we should be Casso-wary, the science of the Black Hole photo and 3D printing the human heart

367

Exercise and immune function, night parrots & super powers

368

Australian pitcher plants, sea lions, and invasive species

369

Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter, More science comedy, and the grapes of sparks

370

Connected to Port Phillip & Tesla Comedy

371

Counting bats and tallying bugs

372

International Women's Day 2019: incredible, underappreciated women of science

373

Venus missions, champagne spoons and gravity driven space travel

374

So many physics questions, wildlife on the Yorke Peninsula, and Transitions Film Festival

375

Bio-bricks, gallium and water flow in the Murray-Darling

376

Facing the elements, what is topological switching? And the diet of the future

377

Summer series: Sir John Gurdon and Ruth Benedict

378

Summer series: Jane Goodall & Chien-Shiung Wu

379

Summer series: Veronika Megler and Christopher Polge

380

Summer Series - William of Ockham and Albert Einstein

381

Summer series: Henrik Dam and Grace Olive Wiley

382

End of year wrap up

383

Christmas science, plants, animals and questions

384

Mitochondrial DNA surprises, Planet Sounds and the tip of the tongue

385

CRISPR babies and crater queries

386

Bugs in Space, Mysteries of the deep and brains in jars

387

Krill, kilograms and wombat poos

388

Invader week! Bugs in our brains, drugs in our waterways, and objects from interstellar space

389

Diet fads and animal fashions

390

Carbon sequestration and Elephant Music

391

Lost in Science-Fiction! Soylent Green, Jurassic Park & 2001: Space Odyssey

392

Flying after migratory birds, an unsung female astronomer, and another final paper from Stephen Hawking

393

Donna Strickland wins Nobel Prize for Physics; Environmental Film Festival; Greenhouse gas emissions missing targets

394

Komodo Dragons and closer look at Glyphosate research

395

Great women of science, and tuskless elephants

396

Do probiotics work? The 2018 Ignobel Prizes

397

Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves? Also bats, naked mole rats, and more!

398

Eureka Prizes for science, science of spaghetti breaking and rosehip neurons

399

What does the brain stem do, and when is National Threatened Species Day?

400

Understanding AI, lazy hominins and ancient cheese

401

TRIPLE CREATURE FEATURE; Magnet hating sharks, psychedelic cicadas and arctic wolfspiders

402

Lost in Science Week!

403

Water plinking physics, space grease and commuting bacteria

404

How do wetlands sequester carbon? And is green space in cities good for people?

405

How will climate change affect the planet? Why haven't we gone back to the moon? What does the new exoplanet tell us?

406

Thalidomide, Koko the gorilla, and new (old) giant dinosaur

407

3 parent babies, micromorts, and alternative to dark matter

408

Saline, Bogong Moths and the Stanford Prison Experiment revisited

409

Science around the campfire, and organics on Mars

410

Supernovae, wild horses vs the environment and marshmallows revisited.

411

Placebos, volcanoes, and Stephen Hawking's last paper

412

Combating climate change at the grassroots & Yanny vs Laurel

413

Antibiotic resistant epidemics, and international travel footprints flying high

414

Arty, farty, sluggy science

415

Hoppy yeast with CRISPR and how big is the universe?

416

New megapest insect, Fruit fly sex, and is chocolate really good for you?

417

Flesh eating bacteria update, not-so-rare earth metals, PFAS in the water

418

Medicinal plants from the Israeli desert and chill factors in trees

419

Space stations, Wallaby invaders and new human organ?

420

Eucalypts and bushfires; superfluid liquid helium

421

Funny bees, Indigenous migration & twin astronauts

422

Stephen Hawking, ALS and Nerve Gas

423

Biophysicist of the Year, Bilby poo-sniffing skills, Moon donut

424

International Women's Day Special

425

Diet vs climate, and Australia's Carpageddon

426

Triple Creature Feature! Eels, termites and monotremes

427

Talking orca, proto-butterflies, ice on Mars

428

Australian of the Year; do women flow with full moon; and cloning monkeys

429

Lost in Science - Summer series 5 from Laborastory

430

Lost in Science - Summer Series 4 from Laborastory

431

Lost in Science - Summer Series 3 from Laborastory

432

Lost in Science - Summer Series 2 from Laborastory

433

Lost in Science - Summer Series 1 from Laborastory

434

End of year wrap

435

A Science Carol: Past trespasses, Christmas Presence, and the future of Christmas in Space!

436

Yetis, Aphantasia and remembering well

437

Sparkly, filthy, magical science

438

Comic book science comes to life; Amazing Elephant Intelligence, and Shazam for frogs

439

Clever Keas, tick-borne meat allergies, cooling tinnies with lasers, and whistling pigeons

440

Pyramids, new orangutan and air-filtering house plants

441

Dinosaur Stripes and whale fossils

442

Neutron stars colliding and preserved prehistoric blood

443

Lost in Science Fiction Halloween special 2017

444

Flesh-eating bacteria and sustainable scallops

445

Cordelia Fine Testosterone Rex: Neurology, psychology & gender; Human body pH balance

446

Australia in space, and climate change driving owl evolution

447

Climate changing Coffee; IgNobel Prizes 2017; Fire affecting native animal habitat

448

Training astronauts, microgravity physics and runaway inflammation

449

Ancient algae blooms brought on animals, Eureka prize wrap up

450

A cure for hiccups and how the heck do magnets work?

451

Bone marrow donation and flesh-eating amphipods

452

Women in museum collections, Ancestry DNA kits and undiscovered elements

453

Cassini's last hurrah, determination of sex, and beyond the eye.

454

Kilogram changes, slug glue and eligibility for women's sport

455

Bees are alright, Pooping phosphorus and National Science Week

456

More Bird Brains, You're the Voice, and Chronic Fatigue research

457

Drummer cockatoos and proving Flat-Earthers wrong

458

Planets Lost in Space, Snails and PTSD, Human origins earlier than previously known

459

Wonders from the ocean abyss, and mental health of farmers

460

Dustology, Price equation, Galileo goes quantum

461

Testing proof, Mega Brush Turkeys and Peanut allergy advice reversal

462

Quantum weirdness, hyperloop technology, and allergy cures

463

This show is brought to you by "S"; Scinema, salt wars and simian senses

464

Are some people immune to hangovers? Does salt really make us thirsty? Charlie Marshall on science music.

465

Disappearing insects, social media psychology, and sushi sickness

466

Microwaves, destructive dogs and climate changing species distribution

467

Cycling for Health, What are Parabens? The Impact of roads

468

A Pint of Science, a March for Science, and Boltzmann brains

469

Naked mole rats, artificial sweeteners & negative mass

470

The science of Marathon running, Toxoplasmosis, and the psychology of rumours

471

FNQ's Thylacine, Siri's secrets and Manisha's bats

472

The hunt for Australia's climate past, dino tracks and billion year old algae

473

Wolf packs, Parasites Lost and the March for Science

474

Orangutan flange, mini mammals and brain facts

475

Food v cancer, new ancient humans, and kale, so much kale

476

Velvet Worms, Dragon's blood and Molasses flood

477

Earthquakes, case for a new continent & evaluating your achievements

478

Black holes, tasty tomatoes and visualisation

479

Bushfire risk, frog spit, and avoiding decision fatigue

480

China's water pollution, chocolate pollinators and kicking new year goals part 2

481

Venom, conspiracies and resolutions

482

Lost in Science Summer Series part 4

483

Lost in Science Summer series part 3

484

Lost in Science Summer Series part 2

485

Lost in Science Summer Series

486

End of year wrap up, including 2 new frogs, lots of tributes, and a science of the year quiz

487

British Medical Journal seasonal japes, the truth about Rudolph; Do people put on weight at Christmas, and why do they get so sleepy?

488

Is NASA's EM drive really a thing? And why students are not studying science

489

A2 milk, plant defence and dwarf planets

490

Echidnas, Lasers and Malaria

491

Milk: cow v soy v nut; plant genes for sex and dryness

492

Oldest evidence of Aboriginal habitation; smart bees; and science of will power

493

Histamines, antihistamines, the placebo effect and Victorian mosquito plague

494

Billionaire mad science, Devil tumour immunity, and natural contraception app

495

Characterising hallucinations and the suckiest creature of all time.

496

2016 Nobel Prizes for science

497

Comet climax, clever corvids and cruel cats

498

Antibacterial breakthrough, Ruby Payne Scott and Malaria in Sri Lanka no more

499

Wild Melbourne connecting communities and nature, and Bananageddon

500

Pacific chickens, new players in space, and unreasonable seasons

501

Tips on footy tipping; Dump the antibacterial soaps; The fig and the wasp (an untold fable)

502

Eureka Prizes, the bare bones of calcium, and early warming shows responsive climate

503

Expectations of exercise, benefits of viruses, and nature of Ngorongoro

504

Finches sing to eggs about climate; why do we have eyelashes; and Dunning Kruger effect

505

Cockroach milk myths, new particles that don't exist, and first mammal casualty of climate change

506

Skydiving without a parachute, Australia on the move, drugs in sport

507

Mangrove die-back in North Australia; Food wastage and Iron

508

Chronic pain, Urban bird violence and albatross poo clues.

509

Saturated fat yea or nay, new pigment YInmn blue, bio-engineering spider silk

510

Morphine, climate talk and randomised trials

511

Youth drinking decline, vitamin C for colds, and natural mechanics

512

The Orion Project; Significance; Climate Change and domestic animals

513

Election science funding promises

514

Potatoes + blood pressure, bats + cacti, and science + film

515

Randomness, Night Owls vs early Birds, and Cephalopods take over the ocean

516

Fat labradors; new findings on genetically engineered crops and a look at Manganese

517

Carp herpes, Noisy miners, Canadian wildfires and diagnosing Parkinson's disease

518

Aphantasia; Devil tumour breakthrough; Eta Aquarid metor shower

519

Saltwater Crocs; Japanese earthquakes; Dorothy Hodgkin

520

Mammal bias, insect consciousness and fruit fly control

521

Pole Position, "natural" GM, and "un-natural" bacteria

522

Coral bleaching, bacterial comics and fantasy maths

523

Bystander effect, wanderlust gene, and phytoestrogens

524

Hobbit extinction, Electric Dreams, Batmanisha

525

Pregnant T-Rex, science birthdays and WD-40

526

Pirate Bay of science, cold and flu tablets and your cat's personality

527

The end of the universe, particle rumours and local Nobel hero Elizabeth Blackburn

528

Safety in medical trials; Ash the Trash; Ban the Bunny

529

Women in science special

530

Gravitational waves rock our world

531

Brush your teeth; Intelligence? That's so Raven! ...and Flatwormers

532

Flossing, Zika and asexual evolution

533

Nucleosynthesis, a new planet and new antibiotic

534

Spiders from Mars, what colour is the sun, and scientific resolution keeping

535

Summer stories: Dani Measday on feuding paleontologists, and Josh Richards on being super on Mars

536

Summer stories: Clare Hampson on Robert Knox and Ben McKenzie on Hedy Lamarr

537

Summer stories: Katie Mack on Stephen Hawking and her real science hero, and Chris Lassig on Edward Teller

538

Summer stories: Cobi Smith on Rachel Carson and Daniel Horsley on Georg Cantor

539

Lost in Sciencemas 2015! Scientists and theories born in December

540

Science books, toilets and catching up on 2015 science

541

How your brain can taste, the science of flying V formations and citizen climate science

542

Antiobiotic resistance, electronic Roses and stuffed Brolgas

543

Elephants don't get cancer, busy bees for centuries, Einstein's big idea clocks up a century

544

Planet Venus, Caroline Herschel, and weird beer

545

Processed meats cause cancer, controversial paeleontology and willy wonka vegetables

546

Cheesey crack, sibling rivalry, and De-extinction

547

Lost in Science Fiction: Back to the Future, Eternal Sunshine & Star Wars

548

Winners! Nobel for medicine, Victorian engineer of the year, and the metal silver.

549

Extreme life, extreme gravitational waves and extremely small optics

550

Supercomputers for Sight, Waters of Mars, "Robot vs Star" wars

551

Fireballs in the sky, Ig Nobel prize for unboiling an egg, and prunes against cancer

552

Cachexia breakthrough, new human ancestor, nano-scale biophotonics

553

Songbirds in the city, sugar in the diet, and serious problems in science

554

Science, people and animal welfare; Incandescent rage; Cane Toads II: Return of the Quolls

555

Cane toads, courtship and Quinn

556

Chatting with a science star and catching dust from stars with solid smoke

557

Australian championship soccer robots; Music is as important as food; Who is the SciBabe?

558

National Science Week, Year of Light and talking about curing cancer

559

Amanda Bauer on becoming a star, Mystery sleeping sickness, Maremmas: guardian (dogs) of the galaxy (of wildlife)

560

Friendly pitcher plants, bandicoot arms and the linguistics of taxonomy

561

Hagfish gills; rewilding; let there be light!

562

Body lice, Black Death and big, big plasma tubes

563

Basking Sharks, Pink Rhino Horns, and Happy Birthday Hubble!

564

Sunny sensibility and liquid metal

565

One small leap for a second, virgin births in the real world

566

Bacteria vs bat disease and opium poppies, and centrifugal vs centripetal force

567

Coal seam gas vs the environment; the benefits of optimism

568

Who discovered microbes? And what is fracking?

569

Violet, bird beaks and Pluto

570

Measles, psephology and human embryo editing in detail

571

Mercury, caffeine, and zombie bacteria

572

Blue LED's, microfossils and rocking reef fish

573

Coloured quinces, human DNA manipulation and ancient antibiotic resistance

574

Hiring women in science, poison gas and you can name Pluto

575

Mice talk, Brontosaurus resurrected, Saving the Swift parrot

576

Nitrogen, Big Bang and talking bats

577

Bugs in water, in your body and in the comments

578

Microbes, meatbags and consensus

579

Limpet Teeth