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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Bonobo females bully the boys, and more…
We used to think that of our primate relatives, chimps were the more aggressive ape and bonobos were more peaceful. A recent study found that bonobos...
Filming a black hole in action, and more…
You may have seen Black Hole, the image, but have you heard of the upcoming Black Hole, The Movie? This week, astronomers launched a new campaign to c...
How starfish move their tiny tube feet, and more…
Starfish don't have brains, and yet they're able to mobilize hundreds of tiny hydraulic tube feet to get around. Now scientists are getting an underst...
How living on Mars could change humans, and more…
From the pressurized space suits to living in underground spaces, it's clear that living on Mars would cause irreversible biological changes to any hu...
The sensitive secrets of elephant whiskers, and more…
An elephant’s trunk is incredibly strong and rugged, and yet it is one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals...
Belugas swap mates for survival, and more…
Researchers made the surprising discovery that Alaska beluga whales have swinging sex lives — and that could be their key to survival in the warming A...
Polar bears are thriving in Svalbard, and more...
Scientists spent nearly 25 years studying close to 800 polar bears in the Barents Sea region and discovered that those polar bears seem to be doing ju...
Jan 24: 'Gifted' dogs learn from eavesdropping, and more...
Some dogs are more adept at learning language than others. Researchers studying these special dogs discovered that, much like toddlers, these smart fu...
The reason chimps can reason, and more…
We may share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but somewhere along the evolutionary line to us, our brains took a major detour. New research suggest...
New dinosaur species identified in fossilized dino barf, and more
An unassuming fossilized slab in the basement of a museum in Brazil turned out to be 110-million-year-old dinosaur vomit, and inside that vomit were t...
Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!
On this week’s episode of Quirks & Quarks, it's our ever-popular and always satisfying Holiday Listener Question Show that includes:
A 25-year-old time capsule with science predictions for 2025
In 2000, Quirks & Quarks celebrated its 25th anniversary by travelling forward in time — to 2025 — to find out how science had changed in the years si...
Whales, sex, and rocks — it's our holiday book show!
We talk to authors of some of this year’s most fascinating science books in our annual Holiday Book Show.
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How Jeremy Hansen is prepping for the moon, and more…
Next stop - the moon! Jeremy Hansen stops by our studio to chat about how he’s prepping to be the first Canadian to go to the moon.
Cleveland’s ancient car-sized sea monster had bony fangs, and more…
Scientists are shedding light on the strange, car-sized, armoured fish that lived 360 million years ago in what is now Cleveland.
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The environmental costs of nation-building, and more…
On this week’s episode: a mini tyrannosaur is a new species, ants redesign to avoid illness, toxic lead gave humans the edge over Neanderthals, invasi...
The mystery of the drunken trees, and more…
This week: bees trained to keep track of time, eating small amounts of plastic can kill ocean animals, scientists spot winds blowing from our black ho...
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...