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590 - How biodiversity contributes to human health and more…

Quirks and Quarks

590 - How biodiversity contributes to human health and more…

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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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590 - How biodiversity contributes to human health and more…

Fri, 24 Nov 2023
589 - Alien blobs in the Earth’s mantle, and much more

Fri, 17 Nov 2023
588 - Eating fossil fuels, sea stars get a head, Right whale diet, music soothes pain and does biology suggest we lack free will?

Fri, 10 Nov 2023
587 - AI research prize and risks, football and lifespan, smart glasses see with sound, most powerful solar storm and killer whale contamination

Fri, 03 Nov 2023
586 - Antarctic ice will melt for a century, the necrobiome recycles your corpse,how apes hang around, brain waves characterize false memories, and finding the biosignatures of long COVID

Fri, 27 Oct 2023
585 - NASA’s metal mission, hungry hippos chew badly, music synchronizes us, cicada boom is trees bane and risks and rewards of deep sea mining

Mon, 23 Oct 2023
584 - Quantum dot Nobel, super-hot supercontinent, lunar laser paving, neanderthal lion hunt, and evolving Eve

Fri, 13 Oct 2023
583 - Nobel for vaccine key, human voices scare wildlife, baby black holes, fire and extinctions and concrete is a hard environmental problem.

Fri, 06 Oct 2023
582 - Trilobite’s last meal, Antimatter falls down, C. difficile in hospitals, African cows and cowboys in the Americas and appreciating ugly babies

Fri, 29 Sep 2023
581 - Quirks & Quarks presents White Coat Black Art

Tue, 26 Sep 2023
580 - Studying the holes in an asteroid, Great Slave lake life, stone-age wood, finding the right homes for bats, understanding marine heat waves and aurorae on other planets

Fri, 22 Sep 2023
579 - Birth of a baby sperm whale, a robot that runs on gas, ship pollution and clouds, octopus’s garden and can we prevent forest fires?

Fri, 15 Sep 2023
578 - Our Summer in the Field special: We catch up with Canadian scientists who’ve been exploring the Pacific ocean depths, adventuring in the far north and chasing butterflies on the shores of the great lakes

Fri, 08 Sep 2023
577 - Quirks is on Summer Hiatus

Fri, 30 Jun 2023
576 - June 24, 2023 Listener Question Show

Fri, 23 Jun 2023
575 - Dragging STEM forward, Lucy’s muscles, Canada Jay sibling rivalry, skateboards for preemies and sweet and sour cockroach treats

Fri, 16 Jun 2023
574 - Cat contraception, termite air conditioning, octopuses re-engineer their proteins, coral viral infection and bizarre brain behaviour

Fri, 09 Jun 2023
573 - Digital spinal prosthetic, ground squirrel hibernation, medium sized black hole, roundworm serotonin map and plastic pollution causes ‘plasticosis’

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

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