All Episodes

Individuality, and non-monogamy boosts chickadee cognition

Gorilla sperm, and subversive gambling machines

Genetic cancer sensors, and why crabs walk sideways

How termites build their nests, and drivers of new diseases

Cold haemoglobin, and teaching old dogs new ethics

How many friends for best brain health?

Social media and febrile fish

Ancient Genes and Trust in New Tech

Right handedness, and genes for hairiness

Rebuilding Dinosaurs and Stress from Siblings

Babies cry in utero, and pushing preprints

Urban microbiomes, and crushed cancers

Does Vaping Inflame the Brain?

Animal handedness, diabetes and dinosaurs

Human birth trigger genes, and clam cancer

Sediba's backbone, and antibacterial bacteria

Can Corals Resist Bleaching?

Does stress turn your hair grey?

The widowhood effect, and clapped out baboons

Psychedelic drugs and river water bugs

Egyptian baboons and overlooked COVID genes

Sea slugs and anti-sickness drugs

AI for infertility, and scar-free healing

Prostate cancer prediction and bonobo culture

Ears, hearts, and halting Huntington's

Sugar on the brain, HIV, and science sex bias

Sparrows, cavefish and fighting fungus

Why do bats carry so many dread diseases?

The plants with three parents

Zika immunity and falling body temperatures

Tardigrades and the Ten Commandments

How many new mutations from Mum and Dad?

Astronauts, geese and realistic retinas

Brain basis of blindsight

Malaria and Myrmecophiles

Vaccines and viral swarms

Weaponised insulin

Dodgy cells and big neurons

Insect Farmers and oxytocin

Epilepsy and Sushi

Escaping from Predators

Homo naledi

Magnetic Nerve Cells

Tinnitus and Mouse Ultrasound

Do newborns feel pain?

Herpes vaccine, and flies with brain damage

TB, and a Handshake

Stress, fertility and remote-controlled sperm

Synthetic cells, antivirals and sex pheromones

Flu, Cannabis and HIV

Cost of corruption, and Ebola

Making blind mice see and mosquitoes resistant to malaria

Why we don't (often) bite our tongues

Pain, gene therapy, and regenerating worms

Radiation, Anti-aphrodisiacs and Glowing Squid

Redeye, Spies and Bacteria

Rats won't rat on rats

Sedatives, Maths and Evolution

Bacteria and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Human Sperm, Gut Bugs and Decomposition

Undead Cells

Now hear this!

Plants keep Thyme, cancer drug resistance and clear corneas

Multicellular life, potato blight and Hepatitis B