Quirks and Quarks
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Quirks and Quarks
CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.
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Making snake bites less deadly, and more…
On this week's episode: tracking down a stellar explosion, climate apathy, arctic foxes are key in northern food web, why golf balls lip out of holes...
The good, the bad and the ugly of geoengineering, and more...
On this week's episode: studying a rare visitor to our solar system, eating saturated fats can mess with our internal clocks, holding hands with our 2...
Sleuthing out scientific fraud, and more...
On this week's episode: selling sunlight on demand, rhinos roamed Canada’s Arctic 23 million years ago, making a more precise parachute using kirigami...
Rise of the zombie bugs, and more…
On this week's spooktacular episode: Wolves are afraid of the big bad human, methane spewing from Montreal’s largest snow dump, screaming babies make...
Moose are hot and bothered, and more...
Nobel Prize in medicine for a leash on our immune system
Our immune system has enormous power to defend us against the wide range of pathogens a...
Celebrating 50 years of Quirks & Quarks!
On October 9, 1975, CBC listeners across the country heard David Suzuki introduce the very first episode of Quirks & Quarks. 50 years and thousands of...
Life at the limits, and more…
Remembering Jane: a conversation with Jane Goodall on her storied career
Science lost a unique pioneering figure this week. Jane Goodall — prima...
Tracking Grizzlies in B.C with AI and more...
Let’s go, Grue Jays!
New kinds of birds are not usually discovered while browsing Facebook, but an ornithologist spotted something he’d never se...
Understanding our inner light, and more...
Dust from car tires can be bad for fish — what might it do to us?
As car tires wear, they shed billions of ultrafine particles of rubber that co...
Science in Prison and more...
10 years ago we first saw gravitational waves — what we’ve seen since
In September 2015, LIGO—or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observa...
Our Summer Science Special
Every summer, Canadian scientists leave their labs and classrooms and fan out across the planet to do research in the field. This week, we’re sharing...
Quirks & Quarks will return in September
We're on hiatus for the summer, but we'll return with new episodes on September 6. In the meantime visit our website at cbc.ca/quirks to browse our ar...
Scientific Sovereignty — How Canadian scientists are coping with U.S. cuts and chaos
Politically-driven chaos is disrupting U.S. scientific institutions and creating challenges for science in Canada. Science is a global endeavour and c...
Our Listener Question show
Have you ever wondered how particle accelerators work? Or what microwaves really do to food? Have you spent time pondering the mystery of how ice ages...
Eradicating plagues forever, and more...
Energy with a grain of salt
Researchers have developed a new sodium metal powered fuel cell with up to triple the output for its weight of a lit...
Why music makes us groove, and more...
Mutant super-powers give Korean sea women diving abilities
The Haenyeo, or sea women, of the Korean island of Jeju have been celebrated historic...
How to live forever, and more...
Chimpanzees lay down mad beats to communicate
Apart from their rich vocal palette, chimpanzees drum on trees to communicate over long distances....
Why the Information Age seems so overwhelming, and more...
Chimpanzees use medicinal plants for first aid and hygiene
Researchers have observed wild chimpanzees seeking out particular plants, including o...
Using microbes to solve crimes, and more…
The beginnings of our end — where the anus came from
Our distant evolutionary ancestors had no anuses. Their waste was excreted from the same o...
Wild fish can tell us apart, and more...
The ‘bone collector’ caterpillar covers itself with body parts
It’s like something from a horror movie. A creeping, carnivorous creature that in...
Understanding heat extremes and more...
All the colours of the rainbow, plus one
Researchers have fired lasers directly into the eye to stimulate photoreceptors, and produce the percep...
What the dinosaurs did and more...
How a helpless baby bird protects itself from hungry hunters
There’s not a more vulnerable creature in nature than a baby bird. Tiny and immobil...
How human noises impact animals, and more…
A tree has evolved to attract lightning strikes — to eliminate the competition
Scientists working in Panama noticed that a particular tropical t...
Our bodies and brains fight weight loss, and more…
An attractive new strategy for brain surgery
A Canadian team is developing minimally-invasive micro-tools for brain surgery that can be operated...
Moving forests to save the butterflies, and more...
One whale’s waste is an ocean organism’s treasure
The nutrients in the ocean are not evenly distributed. Resources tend to be rich around coastl...
What fossil plants say about the evolution of life, and more…
Is our universe inside a black hole? New evidence from JWST galaxy images
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope of distant galaxies cou...
The silent, long-term effects of COVID, and more...
Watching polar bear mums and cubs emerge from their winter dens
Polar Bear mothers spend the winter in warm and cozy dens, gestating and then bi...
The recipe for finding life on other planets, and more...
Big birds with bitty brains are still kind of bright
We’ve learned a lot about the remarkable intelligence of birds like crows and parrots, but...
Is it Dark Energy, or is time just different in space? And more…
Scientists are recruiting elephant seals to learn more about the oceans’ twilight zone
Below about 200 metres there’s still a lot going on in th...
How AI is transforming science, and more...
As soon as the last ice age glaciers melted, Indigenous people occupied this site
A recently discovered archaeological site in Saskatchewan, dat...