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Lost in Science — 588 episodes
Black hole stars and cola cures
Scientific adventures
Covid booster research with Claire Von Mollendorf
Interstellar isotopes and new testing for embryos
Screen stories and space sugar
Fungi for Land: The kingdom of fungi
Artificial cells and carbon capture
Pickle juice & Venus flytraps
Lost in Science 1.0
Science of Quicksand & Attractive Mozzie Repellent
Step Back in Time
The making of a museum with Ben Francischelli
Type1Screen with Dr. John Wentworth
Time, Species and David Attenborough
Pointy things and leaches
Happy Dog Science Project with Dr Mia Cobb
Chimpan A to Chimpan Zee and all natural nukes
Imperfect AI physicians, and perfect pasta physics
Australia's Artemis Assistance & Citizen Science Month
Baby brain rewiring & cabbage kitchen chemistry
Dino Sails in the Sunset and Oils ain't Oils
CO2 in blood and artificial dinosaur eggs
Sharks, Parasites & Oldest Known Rock Art
Post Punk Physics and Toxic Tick Bites
International Women's Day 2026
Reef atmosphere & parasite infections
Echidna egg evolution & AI changing suspicious minds
The science of auroras, and the winter Olympics
Tracking the Buruli ulcer in Victoria
Summer series: ADHD & water fluoridation
Summer series 3: Euan Ritchie, Clancy Lester and Australian conservation
Summer Series: Ted Vanderfeen and the robots in space
Summer Series: Young Australian of the Year 2025
2025 in memoriam & quiz
Lost in Christmas 2025
Tammy Lee, FameLab International winner
Flashback - Santa’s Maths and Christmas trees
Algal blooms and funding blues
Moss in space & fluoride in water
PM Science Prizes and Dr. Grace on earthquakes
CRISPR Cures and Physics of Packing
Lost in Science Fiction Flashback
Lost in Science Fiction! Halloween Special
Predicting eureka & rule-breaking ants
2025 Nobel Prizes in science
Laugh, Think, and Maybe Drink: The Ig Nobel Prizes
Scicomm student takeover 2: genes and Anthropocenes
Scicomm student takeover: elephants and ravens
Ted Vanderfeen, space and mechatronics
Science Under Siege interview
Clancy the Bee Man and scanning for signs of life
Plains-Wanderers Expanding & Reviving Thylacines
Year of Quantum and Kelp Carbon Capture
Science voices and static electricity
Evolution Show; Ancient Burials & Animal Doubles
Stressed Bird Leaders and pre feather feathers
Matter vs antimatter, and clouds vs climate
Underground eyeless invertebrates and interstellar interlopers
Year of Quantum and Blood type changes
Does AI change your brain? Young Indigenous Womens' STEM Academy
New viruses in bats & weight-loss drugs in the brain
Galaxy Collisions and Cannonball Fungi
Possum rediscovery and sleep apnoea vs taping
Ice baths & cave diving for fossils
Radio telescopy, and lifeless life
Sitting vs exercise, and searching for Planet 9
Seed Oils and Chimp Doctors
New colour dropped and beach trash is dropping
Alien life signs and ADHD controversies
Dire wolves and dire research funding outlook
Young Australian of the Year: Dr Katrina Wruck
Quantum computing claims and volcano dating
Cat's Antarctic adventure
Methane from waterfalls, and protection from bacteria
Better living through science?
International Women's Day Special
Toxic Miscalculations and Wombat burrows
Caterpillars and asteroids
Year of quantum and floss leaders
Summer Series: Antimicrobial Honeys Ants & Shameful Science
Summer Series: How time flies and Night Parrot
Summer Series: Satellite up the sky, and animal crossings
Summer Series: Basics of alkaline water and great women in science herstory
Summer series: Animals teaching us how to love and how to fly
Summer Series: Bird Flu and Inverse Vaccines
End of year quiz and wrap up
Santa science: studying rivers from the sleigh & visiting every house
New human species and Orangutan medicine
Historical climate & alternative weather
Fart charting & forever chemicals
Rhinopocalypse and how long is a piece of string theory
Uplifting Discoveries and Positive Science
Lightning Power and Alien Biology
Lost in Science Fiction rewind
Puberty blockers & smartphones on the brain
Gut Health, Chronic Disease & Space Junk
Close call elections and more moony news
Short-term mini-moons & cave diving for fossils
Wow! Signal Mystery and Microbes on the Move
An Ignobel time of the year
Invisible mice & whale secrets
Back in time: Cat Taste & Wombat Citizen Science
Long Covid risk & skyglow pollution
Croc Defence and Cellular Aging
Possible signs of Martian life & slow Olympic swimming pools
The naming of things, and how dangerous are pollutants?
Llama nanobodies and nearby black holes
Back in Time
Sleep Patterns and Space Health
Woolly megabeasts and how they went extinct
Do tattoos cause cancer and are brains gendered?
Vampire facials and flapping wings
Celestial Spheres and plant roots on acid
Orangutan Medicine and Artillery Fungi
AI scientific authors & exotic exoplanets
Lost In Science... Flashback!
How does the Sun cause auroras, and does social media rot kids’ brains?
Quantum Computing and Macro fossil macropods
Blood Breakthroughs and Pig Kidney Transplants
Long Covid treatment and recovery
Ant Invasion & Bird Evolution
Out of the Sun
Energy costs of AI and energy transfer in forests
Infectious diseases - TB vaccines & big COVID data
Antarctic life and Great Barrier Reef bleaching
What colour are blueberries anyway? And what's happening with the moon boom?
International Women's Day: Breast cancer screeners and AI innovators
Sun-eating quasar and Moon-making crash
Night Parrot genome and how time flies
Asbestos update and why moths go to light
Love voles and Buruli ulcer mozzies
Summer Series: Australian animals in danger and how science is saving them
Summer Series: Physics vs evolution, Defrosted pathogens & jumping nematodes
Summer Series: Antimicrobial ants & gene therapy
Summer Series: Life on Earth and clever gulls
End of Year Quiz and Environmental impact of AI
Summer series: clogged pipes & conspiracies
Sciencemas! Fake vs real trees and El Niño in Australia
Moon origin and space water
Sitting sickness & bat viruses
Giant ancient eagles & potato disease breakthroughs
Physics vs Biology, and Viruses vs Bacteria
Life at the EXTREME
Wombat apps & reproducibility gaps
The microbial origins of brains, and microbial threats to them
Lost in Science Fiction: AI and hyperspace
Sate-light pollution and silky spider worms
Quantum dots & asteroid dust
Double creature feature; big dinos and hybrid species
Ignobel 2023 and water on... water on the moon
Life on distant worlds and protecting it on ours
Compost Coach and cat taste
Cancer immunotherapy & hand-clapping physics
Natural gas in the home and room temperature Superconductor stories
Topological switching, exercise and immunity and Albany Pitcher Plants
Antimicrobial Honeyants and historical zoology
Deep seas & dark stars
Defrosting pathogens and super conductor super controversy
Roads & nematodes
Artificial Intelligence and sweetener risk
Gravity waves and discovering dragons
It's UFO Day: un-flushable objects and unlikely aliens
Covid-19 origins revisited & seaweed carbon sinks
Fine tuning the universe & schools failing science
Pure dingoes and outback fireballs
Gene therapies and clever gulls
Space discoveries and a cause of Parkinson's Disease
Death Cap's no cutie & medical AI saves time
Nitrogen fixing and near-death experiences
Macquarie Island foundation and organic computers
Implicit bias in AI and the physics of swings
Thanks for the mammaries & spotting pseudoscience
Conspiracy cures and talking plants
Kelp forests in peril and dinosaur lips
Quasicrystals and cellular sorting
Covid origin update, multiversal madness and IVF history
Mosquito victims & superconductor claims
What is the most pro-earth protein you can eat from farmed animals, and calculating risks of heart disease
Backbone evolution and black hole energy
Weather balloon science and science we missed in January
Journey to the centre of the earth and the end of homework as we know it.
Helpless humans and disruptive discoveries
Summer Series: Claire talks to Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston about First knowledges of Australia
Summer series: Catriona on immunology & ecology
Summer Series: Claire talks mammals - protecting monotremes and rise of the warmbloods
Summer series: Michael Mann on climate change
Science stories of 2022: where are they now, and research we missed
Chemistry of Christmas cooking
Did humans domesticate cats, or did they decide to keep us as pets? And where are all the Christmas Beetles?
Climate change clarity and celebrating soil
Medicine waste and ice age asteroids
The science of olive oil: Interview with Professor Paolo Inglese
Methane is from Mars, Phosphine is from Venus, and doing the rat dance
Covid lab leak speculation & revolutionary click chemistry
Nobel prize for physics and reptilian viruses
Lost in Science Fiction! Space plants, hoverboards & wormholes
Deflecting asteroids and growing Moon plants
Peacock spiders and shark noses
Once and future humans: The Nobel prize for physiology and how to get babies to sleep
Immune cells and nature walks
The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes - The Winners!
T. rex evolution and reverse lasers
Out-of-season coral spawning and mistaken alpha males
Space junk and world's biggest bacteria
Hearing the rise of warm blood and more alleged academic misconduct.
National Science Week 2022
What is the mental health cost of unpaid domestic work and the Eureka Prizes 2022
Covid origins and AI sentience
Interstellar telescope discoveries and life from freeze dried skin
Return of the reproducing condors and regenerating frogs
Varroa threat to Australian Honey Bees
SIDS breakthrough and International Year of Glass
Recycling fabrics, and X and Y diversity
Plastic eating grubs and why twine is so strong
What is Monkeypox? And is the Hubble constant accurate?
First Nations knowledge on show, and mysteries between sleep and wakefulness
Dolphin communication & overpopulation science
Dolphin communication & overpopulation science
Pictures of blackness and mycelium on my ceiling
Parasites in your eyes, and lost in migration
Familiaris breeds - content? And life from space! Or at least the alphabet
Bad honey bees and bogus black holes
Moultin' spider crabs and over charged bosons
Menstruating mice and talking fungi
Research fraud and retractions part 2, and the magnificent Triceratops
Medical research questions and ozone layer issues
Animal bites and anaesthetised plants
Mosquito borne encephalitis and global mass extinction
International Women's Day Special
Food allergy rates flattening, and dinosaurs flattened in spring
Endangered koalas and fishy supplements
Protecting Australia's unique wildlife, and searching in space for signs of life
Pigs vs frogs: transplants vs regeneration
Summer Series: reseeding after fire & human cloning
Summer Series: Sunscreen is good, historical women and fishy humans
Summer series: Pigs and billionaires polluting our skies
Summer Series: tech billionaires in space and algal blooms
Summer Series: Eclectic genetics, Voles losing chromosomes and endangered species cloning
Summer series: Ducks swearing rudely and birds singing sweetly
Lost in Science Fictio-mas
Mysteries of painkillers and dive into water chemistry
Omicron and xenobots
DARTS IN SPAAAAACE and why nobody is really sure why we sleep
Busting vaccine myths and paralysis tick season
Virgin bird birth in condors, and basic errors with alkaline water
Prime Minister's Science Prize for covid sequence; Human metabolism changes speed at different life stages
How not to spill coffee and what is going on at COP26?
Koala vaccine and World Science Day
Strange space signals and non-mysterious mummies
Reseeding Victorian forests after bushfire and Nobel Prizes
Bushfire blooms and bird buds
A vexing history of vaccine hesitancy and clever cockatoos
Return of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot and the best of the Ig Nobel Prizes
Talking ducks and replacing knees with noses
Big Pharma and concerning conspiracy theories
Vale Steven Weinberg, and wild wattles where they're not wanted
Ah-choo! Is it hayfever or COVID? Why you should get tested, and how to do it with magnetic nanoparticles
Invertebrate creature feature; giant centipedes & daddy long legs research
Lost in Science Week! and the 6th IPCC report on climate change
Feral pig carbon emissions, and appeals to the wrong authority
The impact of lockdowns, and dodgy covid treatments
The pre-birth song of the masked Lapwing, and the return of the dung beetle!
It's the BS episode, with dung beetles and difficult physicists
Billionaire space race and Fat-tailed dunnart reproduction
CRISPR De-livers a cure and the galling prospect of lumpy plants
Spiders ballooning, and inevitable ageing
Where are all the time travelers? And how an old vaccine is finding new life in medical trials.
Safer poisons for mouse plagues, and science for hippies
Why babies get sick so often, and quadraphonic record players
If the Y chromosome goes extinct, do humans? And how are humans like fish?
Dinosaur discoveries and how to win an argument on the internet
Predicting earthquakes and insect extinctions
Malaria vaccine breakthrough and revisiting the NASA em drive
Brain implants, space junk and Elon Musk
Methane eating microbes and the Muon magnetic moments
Is the Astra Zeneca causing health problems? And the International Year of Fruits and vegetables
Citizen scientist spots peculiar peacock spider hider; and lunar-sea in the Suez Canal
Interstellar objects and clones that model human embryos
Warrior women of ancient times and the colonisation of Ascension
International Women's Day 2021; Paleontologist Mary Wade, and stories from a field ecologist
The connection between ideology and ability, is there a link? And cloning goes wild as old genes are brought back to life
Sunscreen and Vitamin D: is there a connection? And what is the Perseverance rover looking for on Mars
Parasitic blooms and booming animal populations
Can't see the wood? The return of Sputnik
Victorian Biodiversity Conference, and toxicity detecting spinach
Summer Series; Native grains and quantum fluids
Summer series; how do sharks smell and what's up with anti-matter?
Summer Series; 200 years of nursing and the return of the Zombie Pigs
Summer series; La Niña weather and how to engineer yourself a face mask
2020 24 hours to go: Lost in science end of year special
Lost in Christmas Special!
Native grains part 2, and Australian Pterosaurs uncovered
Covid-19 vaccine update; Developing Native Grains for agriculture
Sea Bees and yeasty antibodies
Winey Tears, Feathered nests and hot black ice
Fires and forests and endangered wanderers
Prime Minister's Science Prize and Humpback Whale watching
Water on the Moon, science prizes and the science of Seasickness
Are you getting sleepy? Do apps help you sleep or is it just white noise, also it's National Bird Week!
COVID on surfaces and the Nobel Prizes
Not so fake lost flavours and creative cephalopods
COVID-19 vaccines - where are we at?
Hot black ice in space and the 2020 Ignobel prize winners
Is there life on Venus?
Save the Plains Wanderer and brewing barley breakthroughs
Big step in the fight against Dengue Fever and invasive earthworms
Pardalote parasites and magnetic mutts
Ivermectin for COVID-19 and zombie pigs
Labradors and laboratories testing for COVID-19
Science Week roundup, and first hand covid news
A Taste of Tomorrow & Matter and Antimatter
Coronas in space and vaccines on earth
How to engineer a face mask and the La Niña effect
How sewage is used to track a virus, and IVF science
MTHFR gene investigation and the Arctic permafrost on fire!
Battling brassicas and coronavirus clusters
Controversial COVID-19 cures, and CRISPR treatments
Sharks smelling and spiders flying
Water science and quantum superfluids
Fires in logged forests, and the science of twins
200 years of nursing, plus news from outer space
Does your wine have legs? And what makes the dough sour?
Anti Matter and International Year of Plant Health
Coronavirus in sewage and science in lockdown
Stinky Lemurs courting, warming Coral bleaching
COVID-19 research: surface safety, vaccine development, and chloroquine controversy
COVID-19 Coronavirus special
International Women's Day 2020 Special; Gertrude Elion, Franklin Women and On the Origin of Faeces
Biggest bangs, defrosting worms and nature films
Super solar cells using quantum mechanics and cooling human body temperatures
Alien Black Cats and Alien broadcasts?
Multiple quantum timelines and 65,000 years of Aboriginal astronomy
Norfolk Island birds, Heath mouse love triangles and the Corsican cat-fox
Endometriosis and Russian to the moon
Smallest animals, knot science and Budj Bim eel traps
Shadows on the wall of reality, and a native otter mystery
Climate change basics, bushfires hurting koalas, and elements in solar cells
Air Quality and IPCC climate report
End of year wrap
Cooolbinia kids' questions and a cracker of an experiment
Universal music, chimera experiments, and saving koalas from bushfires
Multiple worlds and time travel, explosive volcano diamonds and male contraception
Indigenous science and atomic cannibal ants!
Triple creature feature! Cat-fox mystery, Irukandji misery, and zebra finch memory
Ibis in Ancient Egypt, why zebras have stripes, and DNA & RNA in primordial soup
Frog brains, eagle phone bills and early humans
Lost in science fiction! Moon fantasies, Space Oddities, and Brad Pitt
Aussie Backyard Bird Count and Prime Minister Prizes for science
Space science and the 2019 Nobel Prizes
Weird marsupials that were, and the cyborgs that are
Bacteria's disappearing act, the Planck theory of scientific advancement, and tougher oysters to cope with changign climate.
String theory when you're not actually doing string theory, Australia's native otter lends a hand in an investigation
New improved electric eels, anti-ageing pills, and vegetarian health misinformation
Eureka Prizes, Loch Ness DNA and Pet Cloning
IPCC report in detail; and what is the world's smallest animal?
Air pollution, the physics of hate, and teeth and tongues
Seaweed eating cows, spiderwebs & valuable elements
The Curiosity show returns on stage, Physics prize doubts
National Science Week! Fish at the museum, disposables at the gallery, and events around Australia
Asteroid armageddon, apple bacteria, and liquid magnets
Brain implants to read minds, the search for alien life and the value of meteorites
Full moon feature: Apollo 11 science, Soviet moon missions, and moon trees
Ancient Indigenous aquaculture, the Spanish flu and very old fungi!
Mud volcanos, demon eyed animals and algorithms in Magic: the gathering
Endometriosis examined and cold fusion reheated
Tech wars: The good, the bad, and the misused
Macadamia nut clones and quarks
Australia's spider-woman, and how fertility changes with age
Bacterial insecticide, all in good taste bud, and plastic not-so-fantastic
Carnivorous plant pollinators, Phosphorus and SCINEMA science film festival
Asteroid water, box jellyfish stings, and pints of science
Sexual harassment in physics, Australian bee species and ionic flight
Immunology Day, Rare Elements and Homo luzonensis
Dinosaur extinction and peanut allergies
Why we should be Casso-wary, the science of the Black Hole photo and 3D printing the human heart
Exercise and immune function, night parrots & super powers
Australian pitcher plants, sea lions, and invasive species
Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter, More science comedy, and the grapes of sparks
Connected to Port Phillip & Tesla Comedy
Counting bats and tallying bugs
International Women's Day 2019: incredible, underappreciated women of science
Venus missions, champagne spoons and gravity driven space travel
So many physics questions, wildlife on the Yorke Peninsula, and Transitions Film Festival
Bio-bricks, gallium and water flow in the Murray-Darling
Facing the elements, what is topological switching? And the diet of the future
Summer series: Sir John Gurdon and Ruth Benedict
Summer series: Jane Goodall & Chien-Shiung Wu
Summer series: Veronika Megler and Christopher Polge
Summer Series - William of Ockham and Albert Einstein
Summer series: Henrik Dam and Grace Olive Wiley
End of year wrap up
Christmas science, plants, animals and questions
Mitochondrial DNA surprises, Planet Sounds and the tip of the tongue
CRISPR babies and crater queries
Bugs in Space, Mysteries of the deep and brains in jars
Krill, kilograms and wombat poos
Invader week! Bugs in our brains, drugs in our waterways, and objects from interstellar space
Diet fads and animal fashions
Carbon sequestration and Elephant Music
Lost in Science-Fiction! Soylent Green, Jurassic Park & 2001: Space Odyssey
Flying after migratory birds, an unsung female astronomer, and another final paper from Stephen Hawking
Donna Strickland wins Nobel Prize for Physics; Environmental Film Festival; Greenhouse gas emissions missing targets
Komodo Dragons and closer look at Glyphosate research
Great women of science, and tuskless elephants
Do probiotics work? The 2018 Ignobel Prizes
Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves? Also bats, naked mole rats, and more!
Eureka Prizes for science, science of spaghetti breaking and rosehip neurons
What does the brain stem do, and when is National Threatened Species Day?
Understanding AI, lazy hominins and ancient cheese
TRIPLE CREATURE FEATURE; Magnet hating sharks, psychedelic cicadas and arctic wolfspiders
Lost in Science Week!
Water plinking physics, space grease and commuting bacteria
How do wetlands sequester carbon? And is green space in cities good for people?
How will climate change affect the planet? Why haven't we gone back to the moon? What does the new exoplanet tell us?
Thalidomide, Koko the gorilla, and new (old) giant dinosaur
3 parent babies, micromorts, and alternative to dark matter
Saline, Bogong Moths and the Stanford Prison Experiment revisited
Science around the campfire, and organics on Mars
Supernovae, wild horses vs the environment and marshmallows revisited.
Placebos, volcanoes, and Stephen Hawking's last paper
Combating climate change at the grassroots & Yanny vs Laurel
Antibiotic resistant epidemics, and international travel footprints flying high
Arty, farty, sluggy science
Hoppy yeast with CRISPR and how big is the universe?
New megapest insect, Fruit fly sex, and is chocolate really good for you?
Flesh eating bacteria update, not-so-rare earth metals, PFAS in the water
Medicinal plants from the Israeli desert and chill factors in trees
Space stations, Wallaby invaders and new human organ?
Eucalypts and bushfires; superfluid liquid helium
Funny bees, Indigenous migration & twin astronauts
Stephen Hawking, ALS and Nerve Gas
Biophysicist of the Year, Bilby poo-sniffing skills, Moon donut
International Women's Day Special
Diet vs climate, and Australia's Carpageddon
Triple Creature Feature! Eels, termites and monotremes
Talking orca, proto-butterflies, ice on Mars
Australian of the Year; do women flow with full moon; and cloning monkeys
Lost in Science - Summer series 5 from Laborastory
Lost in Science - Summer Series 4 from Laborastory
Lost in Science - Summer Series 3 from Laborastory
Lost in Science - Summer Series 2 from Laborastory
Lost in Science - Summer Series 1 from Laborastory
End of year wrap
A Science Carol: Past trespasses, Christmas Presence, and the future of Christmas in Space!
Yetis, Aphantasia and remembering well
Sparkly, filthy, magical science
Comic book science comes to life; Amazing Elephant Intelligence, and Shazam for frogs
Clever Keas, tick-borne meat allergies, cooling tinnies with lasers, and whistling pigeons
Pyramids, new orangutan and air-filtering house plants
Dinosaur Stripes and whale fossils
Neutron stars colliding and preserved prehistoric blood
Lost in Science Fiction Halloween special 2017
Flesh-eating bacteria and sustainable scallops
Cordelia Fine Testosterone Rex: Neurology, psychology & gender; Human body pH balance
Australia in space, and climate change driving owl evolution
Climate changing Coffee; IgNobel Prizes 2017; Fire affecting native animal habitat
Training astronauts, microgravity physics and runaway inflammation
Ancient algae blooms brought on animals, Eureka prize wrap up
A cure for hiccups and how the heck do magnets work?
Bone marrow donation and flesh-eating amphipods
Women in museum collections, Ancestry DNA kits and undiscovered elements
Cassini's last hurrah, determination of sex, and beyond the eye.
Kilogram changes, slug glue and eligibility for women's sport
Bees are alright, Pooping phosphorus and National Science Week
More Bird Brains, You're the Voice, and Chronic Fatigue research
Drummer cockatoos and proving Flat-Earthers wrong
Planets Lost in Space, Snails and PTSD, Human origins earlier than previously known
Wonders from the ocean abyss, and mental health of farmers
Dustology, Price equation, Galileo goes quantum
Testing proof, Mega Brush Turkeys and Peanut allergy advice reversal
Quantum weirdness, hyperloop technology, and allergy cures
This show is brought to you by "S"; Scinema, salt wars and simian senses
Are some people immune to hangovers? Does salt really make us thirsty? Charlie Marshall on science music.
Disappearing insects, social media psychology, and sushi sickness
Microwaves, destructive dogs and climate changing species distribution
Cycling for Health, What are Parabens? The Impact of roads
A Pint of Science, a March for Science, and Boltzmann brains
Naked mole rats, artificial sweeteners & negative mass
The science of Marathon running, Toxoplasmosis, and the psychology of rumours
FNQ's Thylacine, Siri's secrets and Manisha's bats
The hunt for Australia's climate past, dino tracks and billion year old algae
Wolf packs, Parasites Lost and the March for Science
Orangutan flange, mini mammals and brain facts
Food v cancer, new ancient humans, and kale, so much kale
Velvet Worms, Dragon's blood and Molasses flood
Earthquakes, case for a new continent & evaluating your achievements
Black holes, tasty tomatoes and visualisation
Bushfire risk, frog spit, and avoiding decision fatigue
China's water pollution, chocolate pollinators and kicking new year goals part 2
Venom, conspiracies and resolutions
Lost in Science Summer Series part 4
Lost in Science Summer series part 3
Lost in Science Summer Series part 2
Lost in Science Summer Series
End of year wrap up, including 2 new frogs, lots of tributes, and a science of the year quiz
British Medical Journal seasonal japes, the truth about Rudolph; Do people put on weight at Christmas, and why do they get so sleepy?
Is NASA's EM drive really a thing? And why students are not studying science
A2 milk, plant defence and dwarf planets
Echidnas, Lasers and Malaria
Milk: cow v soy v nut; plant genes for sex and dryness
Oldest evidence of Aboriginal habitation; smart bees; and science of will power
Histamines, antihistamines, the placebo effect and Victorian mosquito plague
Billionaire mad science, Devil tumour immunity, and natural contraception app
Characterising hallucinations and the suckiest creature of all time.
2016 Nobel Prizes for science
Comet climax, clever corvids and cruel cats
Antibacterial breakthrough, Ruby Payne Scott and Malaria in Sri Lanka no more
Wild Melbourne connecting communities and nature, and Bananageddon
Pacific chickens, new players in space, and unreasonable seasons
Tips on footy tipping; Dump the antibacterial soaps; The fig and the wasp (an untold fable)
Eureka Prizes, the bare bones of calcium, and early warming shows responsive climate
Expectations of exercise, benefits of viruses, and nature of Ngorongoro
Finches sing to eggs about climate; why do we have eyelashes; and Dunning Kruger effect
Cockroach milk myths, new particles that don't exist, and first mammal casualty of climate change
Skydiving without a parachute, Australia on the move, drugs in sport
Mangrove die-back in North Australia; Food wastage and Iron
Chronic pain, Urban bird violence and albatross poo clues.
Saturated fat yea or nay, new pigment YInmn blue, bio-engineering spider silk
Morphine, climate talk and randomised trials
Youth drinking decline, vitamin C for colds, and natural mechanics
The Orion Project; Significance; Climate Change and domestic animals
Election science funding promises
Potatoes + blood pressure, bats + cacti, and science + film
Randomness, Night Owls vs early Birds, and Cephalopods take over the ocean
Fat labradors; new findings on genetically engineered crops and a look at Manganese
Carp herpes, Noisy miners, Canadian wildfires and diagnosing Parkinson's disease
Aphantasia; Devil tumour breakthrough; Eta Aquarid metor shower
Saltwater Crocs; Japanese earthquakes; Dorothy Hodgkin
Mammal bias, insect consciousness and fruit fly control
Pole Position, "natural" GM, and "un-natural" bacteria
Coral bleaching, bacterial comics and fantasy maths
Bystander effect, wanderlust gene, and phytoestrogens
Hobbit extinction, Electric Dreams, Batmanisha
Pregnant T-Rex, science birthdays and WD-40
Pirate Bay of science, cold and flu tablets and your cat's personality
The end of the universe, particle rumours and local Nobel hero Elizabeth Blackburn
Safety in medical trials; Ash the Trash; Ban the Bunny
Women in science special
Gravitational waves rock our world
Brush your teeth; Intelligence? That's so Raven! ...and Flatwormers
Flossing, Zika and asexual evolution
Nucleosynthesis, a new planet and new antibiotic
Spiders from Mars, what colour is the sun, and scientific resolution keeping
Summer stories: Dani Measday on feuding paleontologists, and Josh Richards on being super on Mars
Summer stories: Clare Hampson on Robert Knox and Ben McKenzie on Hedy Lamarr
Summer stories: Katie Mack on Stephen Hawking and her real science hero, and Chris Lassig on Edward Teller
Summer stories: Cobi Smith on Rachel Carson and Daniel Horsley on Georg Cantor
Lost in Sciencemas 2015! Scientists and theories born in December
Science books, toilets and catching up on 2015 science
How your brain can taste, the science of flying V formations and citizen climate science
Antiobiotic resistance, electronic Roses and stuffed Brolgas
Elephants don't get cancer, busy bees for centuries, Einstein's big idea clocks up a century
Planet Venus, Caroline Herschel, and weird beer
Processed meats cause cancer, controversial paeleontology and willy wonka vegetables
Cheesey crack, sibling rivalry, and De-extinction
Lost in Science Fiction: Back to the Future, Eternal Sunshine & Star Wars
Winners! Nobel for medicine, Victorian engineer of the year, and the metal silver.
Extreme life, extreme gravitational waves and extremely small optics
Supercomputers for Sight, Waters of Mars, "Robot vs Star" wars
Fireballs in the sky, Ig Nobel prize for unboiling an egg, and prunes against cancer
Cachexia breakthrough, new human ancestor, nano-scale biophotonics
Songbirds in the city, sugar in the diet, and serious problems in science
Science, people and animal welfare; Incandescent rage; Cane Toads II: Return of the Quolls
Cane toads, courtship and Quinn
Chatting with a science star and catching dust from stars with solid smoke
Australian championship soccer robots; Music is as important as food; Who is the SciBabe?
National Science Week, Year of Light and talking about curing cancer
Amanda Bauer on becoming a star, Mystery sleeping sickness, Maremmas: guardian (dogs) of the galaxy (of wildlife)
Friendly pitcher plants, bandicoot arms and the linguistics of taxonomy
Hagfish gills; rewilding; let there be light!
Body lice, Black Death and big, big plasma tubes
Basking Sharks, Pink Rhino Horns, and Happy Birthday Hubble!
Sunny sensibility and liquid metal
One small leap for a second, virgin births in the real world
Bacteria vs bat disease and opium poppies, and centrifugal vs centripetal force
Coal seam gas vs the environment; the benefits of optimism
Who discovered microbes? And what is fracking?
Violet, bird beaks and Pluto
Measles, psephology and human embryo editing in detail
Mercury, caffeine, and zombie bacteria
Blue LED's, microfossils and rocking reef fish
Coloured quinces, human DNA manipulation and ancient antibiotic resistance
Hiring women in science, poison gas and you can name Pluto
Mice talk, Brontosaurus resurrected, Saving the Swift parrot
Nitrogen, Big Bang and talking bats
Bugs in water, in your body and in the comments
Microbes, meatbags and consensus
Limpet Teeth