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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