Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio
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Catégories: Sciences et Médecine
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Study says climate change could cause us to lose sleep – in more ways than one; Scientists successfully grow plants in moon dust; Fossil preserves critical evidence for how trilobites had sex half a billion years ago; A scientist recreates avian soundscapes so we can hear what we’re missing; How the medical system needs to – and is – engaging with its climate impacts; Quirks Question: Why does my breath feel warm when I exhale with an open mouth, and cool when I blow through tight lips?
Épisodes précédents
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528 - Losing sleep over climate change, growing plants in lunar soil, trilobite sex, the sound of biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and medical care and a question of blowing air.Fri, 20 May 2022
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527 - Ancient oyster mounds, seagrass’ sweet secret, saving the Mekong delta, reading minds to produce sound and next-gen COVID-19 vaccinesFri, 13 May 2022
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526 - Endangered tiny porpoise, Mars-quakes, thermal batteries, bloodworms metal fangs, finding alternatives to animal experimentation and why does coal release mercury?Fri, 06 May 2022
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525 - Avian flu outbreak, prehistoric art and firelight, the dingo genome, joggers save calories, Canada’s space tourist and what tsunamis do to marine life.Fri, 29 Apr 2022
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524 - Shallow water on Europa, tourists making iguanas diabetic, dolphin social networking, working out how dinosaurs walked and what to do to save the world’s coral reefs.Fri, 22 Apr 2022
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523 - Quirks and Quarks Introduces: Tai Asks Why - Season 4Wed, 20 Apr 2022
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522 - Legless fossils, smells of the past, research with Russia, sleeping sharks and the new story of the first peoples in the Americas.Thu, 14 Apr 2022
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521 - Arctic plastic pollution, the ‘drunken monkey’ hypothesis, the songs of the manatee, Indigenous led caribou conservation, the Norse in brown-land and tropical tree leaves.Fri, 08 Apr 2022
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520 - New human genome, lion cuddle chemical, Pluto’s ice volcanoes, deconstructing de-extinction, giant crocodiles in BCFri, 01 Apr 2022
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519 - Boa breathing, green fire retardant vampire bat evolution, building urban biodiversity and fungal leatherFri, 25 Mar 2022
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518 - A sabretooth hypercarnivore, pack hunting spiders, urban trees and invasive insects, testing a baleen whale’s hearing, tire rubber pollution, clothes that listen to you and lithium mining in Ontario.Fri, 18 Mar 2022
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517 - Mar 12: Russia and space cooperation, the UN plastic treaty, ancient 10-legged octopus, medical alarm sounds and the price of fear for prey animals.Fri, 11 Mar 2022
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516 - Climate change and health, the biggest bacteria, rare earth metal recycling, tracking a giant Antarctic iceberg and are we living in a simulation?Fri, 04 Mar 2022
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515 - Feb 26 - A Quirks & Quarks special: Feeding The Future - How we can feed 10 billion people without killing the planetFri, 25 Feb 2022
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514 - Roman porta-potty, rogue waves, why dogs can be tiny and titanic, half billion year old fossil nerves, a history of timekeeping and sleep and light.Fri, 18 Feb 2022
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513 - The doomsday glacier, why we love, neanderthals and humans cave-swapping and more, mosquitos see red and astronomers vs. satellite constellationsFri, 11 Feb 2022
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512 - Long COVID and the brain, gravitational waves from supermassive black holes, swapping spit, climate change and fish wars and hibernators recycle nutrientsFri, 04 Feb 2022
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511 - 130,000 new viruses discovered, chimpanzee social learning, what’s moving the tectonic plates, deer return to wildfire landscape and why aliens might look like us.Fri, 28 Jan 2022
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510 - Tongan Volcano, why whales don’t choke on their food, darkness doomed the dinosaurs, plastic into marine fuel, electrically stimulating cartilage growth and scientific colonialism.Fri, 21 Jan 2022
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509 - Seed dispersal and climate change, the Local Bubble, pint-sized war-horses, seeing memories form in an animal and a vaccine mixing study that didn’t quite happen.Fri, 14 Jan 2022
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508 - Protecting cattle from wolves without killing, Shark antibodies to fight coronaviruses, wildlife DNA in the air, Tiny fish do the wave and why smoke is different from clouds.Fri, 07 Jan 2022
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507 - Our annual holiday listener question show; Where does the rubber from tires go? Can a laser cut through a mirror? Why don’t some animals vomit?Fri, 31 Dec 2021
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506 - Quirks and Quarks Introduces: Tai Asks Why - Special EpisodeTue, 21 Dec 2021
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505 - Holiday book show. We look at some great science books for winter reading or last minute giftsFri, 17 Dec 2021
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504 - Sounds of a coral reef, the message in young blood, ants communicate with vomit, the wildlife of Fukushima, NASA’s new space telescope and forests and carbon sequestration.Fri, 10 Dec 2021
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503 - Xenobot self-replication, red light for declining vision, water from the solar wind, exploring the mind-body link, and Deaf in science: beyond the range of hearingFri, 03 Dec 2021
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502 - Snapping science, male pregnant seahorse placentas, astronauts in Labrador, slacklining, skateboarding robot, aerosol COVID and Maori soot in AntarcticaFri, 26 Nov 2021
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