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Lost in Science, 599 episodes. Page 3 of 6.

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Medicine waste and ice age asteroids

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The science of olive oil: Interview with Professor Paolo Inglese

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

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Covid lab leak speculation & revolutionary click chemistry

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Nobel prize for physics and reptilian viruses

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Lost in Science Fiction! Space plants, hoverboards & wormholes

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Deflecting asteroids and growing Moon plants

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Peacock spiders and shark noses

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

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Immune cells and nature walks

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

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T. rex evolution and reverse lasers

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Out-of-season coral spawning and mistaken alpha males

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Space junk and world's biggest bacteria

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

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National Science Week 2022

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

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Covid origins and AI sentience

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Interstellar telescope discoveries and life from freeze dried skin

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Return of the reproducing condors and regenerating frogs

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Varroa threat to Australian Honey Bees

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SIDS breakthrough and International Year of Glass

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Recycling fabrics, and X and Y diversity

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Plastic eating grubs and why twine is so strong

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What is Monkeypox? And is the Hubble constant accurate?

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

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Dolphin communication & overpopulation science

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Dolphin communication & overpopulation science

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Pictures of blackness and mycelium on my ceiling

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Parasites in your eyes, and lost in migration

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

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Bad honey bees and bogus black holes

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Moultin' spider crabs and over charged bosons

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Menstruating mice and talking fungi

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Research fraud and retractions part 2, and the magnificent Triceratops

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Medical research questions and ozone layer issues

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Animal bites and anaesthetised plants

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Mosquito borne encephalitis and global mass extinction

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International Women's Day Special

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Food allergy rates flattening, and dinosaurs flattened in spring

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Endangered koalas and fishy supplements

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

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Pigs vs frogs: transplants vs regeneration

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Summer Series: reseeding after fire & human cloning

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

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Summer series: Pigs and billionaires polluting our skies

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Summer Series: tech billionaires in space and algal blooms

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

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Summer series: Ducks swearing rudely and birds singing sweetly

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Lost in Science Fictio-mas

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Mysteries of painkillers and dive into water chemistry

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Omicron and xenobots

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

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Busting vaccine myths and paralysis tick season

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

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

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

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Koala vaccine and World Science Day

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Strange space signals and non-mysterious mummies

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Reseeding Victorian forests after bushfire and Nobel Prizes

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Bushfire blooms and bird buds

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A vexing history of vaccine hesitancy and clever cockatoos

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

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Talking ducks and replacing knees with noses

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Big Pharma and concerning conspiracy theories

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

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

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Invertebrate creature feature; giant centipedes & daddy long legs research

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

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Feral pig carbon emissions, and appeals to the wrong authority

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The impact of lockdowns, and dodgy covid treatments

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

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

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Billionaire space race and Fat-tailed dunnart reproduction

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

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Spiders ballooning, and inevitable ageing

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

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Safer poisons for mouse plagues, and science for hippies

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Why babies get sick so often, and quadraphonic record players

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

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Dinosaur discoveries and how to win an argument on the internet

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Predicting earthquakes and insect extinctions

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Malaria vaccine breakthrough and revisiting the NASA em drive

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Brain implants, space junk and Elon Musk

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Methane eating microbes and the Muon magnetic moments

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

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

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Interstellar objects and clones that model human embryos

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Warrior women of ancient times and the colonisation of Ascension

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

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

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

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Parasitic blooms and booming animal populations

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Can't see the wood? The return of Sputnik

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Victorian Biodiversity Conference, and toxicity detecting spinach

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Summer Series; Native grains and quantum fluids

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

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

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

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