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Quirks and Quarks, 54 episodes.

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Ice Age Alaskan basecamp shows what life was like 13,800 years ago

2

Spooktacular bogs, zombie cells, ghostly stars and more…

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Scientists find anti-aging secrets in a 194-year-old tortoise

4

Nobel laureates share their winning science

5

How feasting black holes time their burps

6

How corals tell us climate change is supersizing El Niño

7

A feather found in dino poop and more...

8

Summertime and the science isn’t always easy

9

Sweat, comets and dino milk. It’s our summer question show!

10

How to battle climate apathy, and more stories about humans

11

Celebrating 50 years of Quirks & Quarks!

12

Sensing space junk, and other stellar stories

13

Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!

14

Monkeys swallow soil to eat more junk food, and other summery science

15

Using ants to make yogurt, and other producer picks

16

Whales, sex and rocks — it's our book show!

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Pumas vs. penguins, and other clever carnivores

18

Summer Science Spectacular

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Sweat, comets and dino milk. It’s our summer question show!

20

Great white sharks in hot water, and more…

21

Fossilized squirrel poop full of ancient animals, and more…

22

Humans and animals love the same sounds, and more...

23

A terrifying T. rex of the sea, and more…

24

Listening in on fish grunts, and more…

25

How dandelion seeds take flight, and more…

26

A CN Tower-sized mega tsunami, and more…

27

Cocaine in waterways makes salmon roam further, and more…

28

Introducing IDEAS | How a historian found the lost women of science

29

Seabird poop does whaaat? And more…

30

Why this biologist loves unpopular animals, and more…

31

Moving beyond animal testing, and more…

32

What we hope to see on the far side of the moon, and more…

33

Dogs have been by our side for 16,000 years, and more...

34

A stinky planet full of magma, and more...

35

Bonobo females bully the boys, and more…

36

Filming a black hole in action, and more…

37

How starfish move their tiny tube feet, and more…

38

How living on Mars could change humans, and more…

39

The sensitive secrets of elephant whiskers, and more…

40

Belugas swap mates for survival, and more…

41

Polar bears are thriving in Svalbard, and more...

42

'Gifted' dogs learn from eavesdropping, and more...

43

The reason chimps can reason, and more…

44

New dino species in another dino's vomit, and more

45

Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!

46

Predictions about science in 2025, recorded 25 years ago

47

Whales, sex, and rocks — it's our holiday book show!

48

How Jeremy Hansen is prepping for the moon, and more…

49

Cleveland’s ancient car-sized sea monster had bony fangs, and more…

50

The environmental costs of nation-building, and more…

51

The mystery of the drunken trees, and more…

52

Making snake bites less deadly, and more…

53

The pros and cons of geoengineering, and more...

54

Sleuthing out scientific fraud, and more...