Lost in Science

By Chris Lassig, Stuart Burns and Claire Farrugia and others.

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Entertaining news and discussion about research that has impact on society and providing a wide range of science and technology news. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.

Episode Date
Blood Breakthroughs and Pig Kidney Transplants
May 01, 2024
Long Covid treatment and recovery
Apr 24, 2024
Ant Invasion & Bird Evolution
Apr 17, 2024
Out of the Sun
Apr 10, 2024
Energy costs of AI and energy transfer in forests
Apr 03, 2024
Infectious diseases - TB vaccines & big COVID data
Mar 27, 2024
Antarctic life and Great Barrier Reef bleaching
Mar 20, 2024
What colour are blueberries anyway? And what's happening with the moon boom?
Mar 13, 2024
International Women's Day: Breast cancer screeners and AI innovators
Mar 06, 2024
Sun-eating quasar and Moon-making crash
Feb 28, 2024
Night Parrot genome and how time flies
Feb 21, 2024
Asbestos update and why moths go to light
Feb 14, 2024
Love voles and Buruli ulcer mozzies
Feb 07, 2024
Summer Series: Physics vs evolution, Defrosted pathogens & jumping nematodes
Jan 31, 2024
Summer Series: Australian animals in danger and how science is saving them
Jan 31, 2024
Summer Series: Antimicrobial ants & gene therapy
Jan 17, 2024
Summer Series: Life on Earth and clever gulls
Jan 10, 2024
Summer series: clogged pipes & conspiracies
Jan 03, 2024
End of Year Quiz and Environmental impact of AI
Jan 03, 2024
Sciencemas! Fake vs real trees and El Niño in Australia
Dec 20, 2023
Moon origin and space water
Dec 13, 2023
Sitting sickness & bat viruses
Dec 06, 2023
Giant ancient eagles & potato disease breakthroughs
Nov 29, 2023
Physics vs Biology, and Viruses vs Bacteria
Nov 22, 2023
Life at the EXTREME
Nov 15, 2023
Wombat apps & reproducibility gaps
Nov 08, 2023
The microbial origins of brains, and microbial threats to them
Nov 01, 2023
Lost in Science Fiction: AI and hyperspace
Oct 25, 2023
Sate-light pollution and silky spider worms
Oct 18, 2023
Quantum dots & asteroid dust
Oct 11, 2023
Double creature feature; big dinos and hybrid species
Oct 04, 2023
Ignobel 2023 and water on... water on the moon
Sep 27, 2023
Life on distant worlds and protecting it on ours
Sep 20, 2023
Compost Coach and cat taste
Sep 13, 2023
Cancer immunotherapy & hand-clapping physics
Sep 06, 2023
Natural gas in the home and room temperature Superconductor stories
Aug 30, 2023
Topological switching, exercise and immunity and Albany Pitcher Plants
Aug 23, 2023
Antimicrobial Honeyants and historical zoology
Aug 16, 2023
Deep seas & dark stars
Aug 09, 2023
Defrosting pathogens and super conductor super controversy
Aug 02, 2023
Roads & nematodes
Jul 26, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and sweetener risk
Jul 19, 2023
Gravity waves and discovering dragons
Jul 12, 2023
It's UFO Day: un-flushable objects and unlikely aliens
Jul 05, 2023
Covid-19 origins revisited & seaweed carbon sinks
Jun 28, 2023
Fine tuning the universe & schools failing science
Jun 21, 2023
Pure dingoes and outback fireballs
Jun 07, 2023
Gene therapies and clever gulls
May 31, 2023
Space discoveries and a cause of Parkinson's Disease
May 24, 2023
Death Cap's no cutie & medical AI saves time
May 17, 2023
Nitrogen fixing and near-death experiences
May 10, 2023
Macquarie Island foundation and organic computers
May 03, 2023
Implicit bias in AI and the physics of swings
Apr 26, 2023
Thanks for the mammaries & spotting pseudoscience
Apr 19, 2023
Conspiracy cures and talking plants
Apr 12, 2023
Kelp forests in peril and dinosaur lips
Apr 05, 2023
Quasicrystals and cellular sorting
Mar 29, 2023
Covid origin update, multiversal madness and IVF history
Mar 22, 2023
Mosquito victims & superconductor claims
Mar 15, 2023
International Women's Day Special
Mar 08, 2023
What is the most pro-earth protein you can eat from farmed animals, and calculating risks of heart disease
Mar 01, 2023
Backbone evolution and black hole energy
Feb 22, 2023
Weather balloon science and science we missed in January
Feb 15, 2023
Journey to the centre of the earth and the end of homework as we know it.
Feb 08, 2023
Helpless humans and disruptive discoveries
Feb 01, 2023
Summer Series: Claire talks to Barkandji woman Zena Cumpston about First knowledges of Australia
Jan 25, 2023
Summer series: Catriona on immunology & ecology
Jan 18, 2023
Summer Series: Claire talks mammals - protecting monotremes and rise of the warmbloods
Jan 11, 2023
Summer series: Michael Mann on climate change
Jan 04, 2023
Science stories of 2022: where are they now, and research we missed
Dec 28, 2022
Chemistry of Christmas cooking
Dec 21, 2022
Did humans domesticate cats, or did they decide to keep us as pets? And where are all the Christmas Beetles?
Dec 14, 2022
Climate change clarity and celebrating soil
Dec 07, 2022
Medicine waste and ice age asteroids
Nov 30, 2022
The science of olive oil: Interview with Professor Paolo Inglese
Nov 23, 2022
Methane is from Mars, Phosphine is from Venus, and doing the rat dance
Nov 16, 2022
Covid lab leak speculation & revolutionary click chemistry
Nov 09, 2022
Nobel prize for physics and reptilian viruses
Nov 02, 2022
Lost in Science Fiction! Space plants, hoverboards & wormholes
Oct 26, 2022
Deflecting asteroids and growing Moon plants
Oct 19, 2022
Peacock spiders and shark noses
Oct 12, 2022
Once and future humans: The Nobel prize for physiology and how to get babies to sleep
Oct 05, 2022
Immune cells and nature walks
Sep 28, 2022
The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes - The Winners!
Sep 21, 2022
T. rex evolution and reverse lasers
Sep 14, 2022
Out-of-season coral spawning and mistaken alpha males
Aug 31, 2022
Space junk and world's biggest bacteria
Aug 24, 2022
Hearing the rise of warm blood and more alleged academic misconduct.
Aug 17, 2022
National Science Week 2022
Aug 10, 2022
What is the mental health cost of unpaid domestic work and the Eureka Prizes 2022
Aug 07, 2022
Covid origins and AI sentience
Aug 03, 2022
Interstellar telescope discoveries and life from freeze dried skin
Jul 27, 2022
Return of the reproducing condors and regenerating frogs
Jul 20, 2022
Varroa threat to Australian Honey Bees
Jul 13, 2022
SIDS breakthrough and International Year of Glass
Jul 06, 2022
Recycling fabrics, and X and Y diversity
Jun 29, 2022
Plastic eating grubs and why twine is so strong
Jun 22, 2022
What is Monkeypox? And is the Hubble constant accurate?
Jun 15, 2022
First Nations knowledge on show, and mysteries between sleep and wakefulness
Jun 08, 2022
Dolphin communication & overpopulation science
Jun 01, 2022
Dolphin communication & overpopulation science
Jun 01, 2022
Pictures of blackness and mycelium on my ceiling
May 25, 2022
Parasites in your eyes, and lost in migration
May 18, 2022
Thylacine de extinction and robot helpers
May 11, 2022
Familiaris breeds - content? And life from space! Or at least the alphabet
May 04, 2022
Bad honey bees and bogus black holes
Apr 27, 2022
Moultin' spider crabs and over charged bosons
Apr 20, 2022
Menstruating mice and talking fungi
Apr 14, 2022
Research fraud and retractions part 2, and the magnificent Triceratops
Apr 06, 2022
Medical research questions and ozone layer issues
Mar 30, 2022
Animal bites and anaesthetised plants
Mar 23, 2022
Mosquito borne encephalitis and global mass extinction
Mar 16, 2022
International Women's Day Special
Mar 09, 2022
Food allergy rates flattening, and dinosaurs flattened in spring
Mar 02, 2022
Endangered koalas and fishy supplements
Feb 23, 2022
Protecting Australia's unique wildlife, and searching in space for signs of life
Feb 16, 2022
Pigs vs frogs: transplants vs regeneration
Feb 09, 2022
Summer Series: reseeding after fire & human cloning
Feb 02, 2022
Summer Series: Sunscreen is good, historical women and fishy humans
Jan 26, 2022
Summer series: Pigs and billionaires polluting our skies
Jan 19, 2022
Summer Series: tech billionaires in space and algal blooms
Jan 12, 2022
Summer Series: Eclectic genetics, Voles losing chromosomes and endangered species cloning
Jan 05, 2022
Summer series: Ducks swearing rudely and birds singing sweetly
Dec 29, 2021
Lost in Science Fictio-mas
Dec 22, 2021
Mysteries of painkillers and dive into water chemistry
Dec 15, 2021
Omicron and xenobots
Dec 08, 2021
DARTS IN SPAAAAACE and why nobody is really sure why we sleep
Dec 01, 2021
Busting vaccine myths and paralysis tick season
Nov 24, 2021
Virgin bird birth in condors, and basic errors with alkaline water
Nov 17, 2021
Prime Minister's Science Prize for covid sequence; Human metabolism changes speed at different life stages
Nov 10, 2021
How not to spill coffee and what is going on at COP26?
Nov 03, 2021
Koala vaccine and World Science Day
Oct 27, 2021
Strange space signals and non-mysterious mummies
Oct 20, 2021
Reseeding Victorian forests after bushfire and Nobel Prizes
Oct 13, 2021
Bushfire blooms and bird buds
Oct 06, 2021
A vexing history of vaccine hesitancy and clever cockatoos
Sep 29, 2021
Return of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot and the best of the Ig Nobel Prizes
Sep 22, 2021
Talking ducks and replacing knees with noses
Sep 15, 2021
Big Pharma and concerning conspiracy theories
Sep 08, 2021
Vale Steven Weinberg, and wild wattles where they're not wanted
Sep 01, 2021
Ah-choo! Is it hayfever or COVID? Why you should get tested, and how to do it with magnetic nanoparticles
Aug 25, 2021
Invertebrate creature feature; giant centipedes & daddy long legs research
Aug 18, 2021
Lost in Science Week! and the 6th IPCC report on climate change
Aug 11, 2021
Feral pig carbon emissions, and appeals to the wrong authority
Aug 04, 2021
The impact of lockdowns, and dodgy covid treatments
Jul 28, 2021
The pre-birth song of the masked Lapwing, and the return of the dung beetle!
Jul 21, 2021
It's the BS episode, with dung beetles and difficult physicists
Jul 14, 2021
Billionaire space race and Fat-tailed dunnart reproduction
Jul 07, 2021
CRISPR De-livers a cure and the galling prospect of lumpy plants
Jun 30, 2021
Spiders ballooning, and inevitable ageing
Jun 23, 2021
Where are all the time travelers? And how an old vaccine is finding new life in medical trials.
Jun 09, 2021
Safer poisons for mouse plagues, and science for hippies
Jun 02, 2021
Why babies get sick so often, and quadraphonic record players
May 26, 2021
If the Y chromosome goes extinct, do humans? And how are humans like fish?
May 19, 2021
Dinosaur discoveries and how to win an argument on the internet
May 12, 2021
Predicting earthquakes and insect extinctions
May 05, 2021
Malaria vaccine breakthrough and revisiting the NASA em drive
Apr 28, 2021
Brain implants, space junk and Elon Musk
Apr 21, 2021
Methane eating microbes and the Muon magnetic moments
Apr 14, 2021
Is the Astra Zeneca causing health problems? And the International Year of Fruits and vegetables
Apr 07, 2021
Citizen scientist spots peculiar peacock spider hider; and lunar-sea in the Suez Canal
Mar 31, 2021
Interstellar objects and clones that model human embryos
Mar 24, 2021
Warrior women of ancient times and the colonisation of Ascension
Mar 17, 2021
International Women's Day 2021; Paleontologist Mary Wade, and stories from a field ecologist
Mar 10, 2021
The connection between ideology and ability, is there a link? And cloning goes wild as old genes are brought back to life
Mar 03, 2021
Sunscreen and Vitamin D: is there a connection? And what is the Perseverance rover looking for on Mars
Feb 24, 2021
Parasitic blooms and booming animal populations
Feb 17, 2021
Can't see the wood? The return of Sputnik
Feb 10, 2021
Victorian Biodiversity Conference, and toxicity detecting spinach
Feb 03, 2021
Summer Series; Native grains and quantum fluids
Jan 27, 2021
Summer series; how do sharks smell and what's up with anti-matter?
Jan 20, 2021
Summer Series; 200 years of nursing and the return of the Zombie Pigs
Jan 13, 2021
Summer series; La Niña weather and how to engineer yourself a face mask
Jan 06, 2021
2020 24 hours to go: Lost in science end of year special
Dec 30, 2020
Lost in Christmas Special!
Dec 23, 2020
Native grains part 2, and Australian Pterosaurs uncovered
Dec 16, 2020
Covid-19 vaccine update; Developing Native Grains for agriculture
Dec 09, 2020
Sea Bees and yeasty antibodies
Nov 25, 2020
Winey Tears, Feathered nests and hot black ice
Nov 18, 2020
Fires and forests and endangered wanderers
Nov 11, 2020
Prime Minister's Science Prize and Humpback Whale watching
Nov 04, 2020
Water on the Moon, science prizes and the science of Seasickness
Oct 28, 2020
Are you getting sleepy? Do apps help you sleep or is it just white noise, also it's National Bird Week!
Oct 21, 2020
COVID on surfaces and the Nobel Prizes
Oct 14, 2020
Not so fake lost flavours and creative cephalopods
Oct 07, 2020
COVID-19 vaccines - where are we at?
Sep 30, 2020
Hot black ice in space and the 2020 Ignobel prize winners
Sep 23, 2020
Is there life on Venus?
Sep 16, 2020
Save the Plains Wanderer and brewing barley breakthroughs
Sep 09, 2020
Big step in the fight against Dengue Fever and invasive earthworms
Sep 02, 2020
Pardalote parasites and magnetic mutts
Aug 26, 2020
Ivermectin for COVID-19 and zombie pigs
Aug 19, 2020
Labradors and laboratories testing for COVID-19
Aug 12, 2020
Science Week roundup, and first hand covid news
Aug 05, 2020
A Taste of Tomorrow & Matter and Antimatter
Jul 29, 2020
Coronas in space and vaccines on earth
Jul 22, 2020
How to engineer a face mask and the La Niña effect
Jul 15, 2020
How sewage is used to track a virus, and IVF science
Jul 08, 2020
MTHFR gene investigation and the Arctic permafrost on fire!
Jul 01, 2020
Battling brassicas and coronavirus clusters
Jun 24, 2020
Controversial COVID-19 cures, and CRISPR treatments
Jun 10, 2020
Sharks smelling and spiders flying
Jun 03, 2020
Water science and quantum superfluids
May 27, 2020
Fires in logged forests, and the science of twins
May 20, 2020
200 years of nursing, plus news from outer space
May 13, 2020
Does your wine have legs? And what makes the dough sour?
May 06, 2020
Anti Matter and International Year of Plant Health
Apr 29, 2020
Coronavirus in sewage and science in lockdown
Apr 22, 2020
Stinky Lemurs courting, warming Coral bleaching
Apr 15, 2020
COVID-19 research: surface safety, vaccine development, and chloroquine controversy
Apr 01, 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus special
Mar 18, 2020
International Women's Day 2020 Special; Gertrude Elion, Franklin Women and On the Origin of Faeces
Mar 11, 2020
Biggest bangs, defrosting worms and nature films
Mar 04, 2020
Super solar cells using quantum mechanics and cooling human body temperatures
Feb 26, 2020
Alien Black Cats and Alien broadcasts?
Feb 19, 2020
Multiple quantum timelines and 65,000 years of Aboriginal astronomy
Feb 12, 2020
Norfolk Island birds, Heath mouse love triangles and the Corsican cat-fox
Feb 05, 2020
Endometriosis and Russian to the moon
Jan 29, 2020
Smallest animals, knot science and Budj Bim eel traps
Jan 22, 2020
Shadows on the wall of reality, and a native otter mystery
Jan 15, 2020
Climate change basics, bushfires hurting koalas, and elements in solar cells
Jan 08, 2020
Air Quality and IPCC climate report
Jan 01, 2020
End of year wrap
Dec 25, 2019
Cooolbinia kids' questions and a cracker of an experiment
Dec 18, 2019
Universal music, chimera experiments, and saving koalas from bushfires
Dec 11, 2019
Multiple worlds and time travel, explosive volcano diamonds and male contraception
Dec 04, 2019
Indigenous science and atomic cannibal ants!
Nov 27, 2019
Triple creature feature! Cat-fox mystery, Irukandji misery, and zebra finch memory
Nov 20, 2019
Ibis in Ancient Egypt, why zebras have stripes, and DNA & RNA in primordial soup
Nov 13, 2019
Frog brains, eagle phone bills and early humans
Nov 06, 2019
Lost in science fiction! Moon fantasies, Space Oddities, and Brad Pitt
Oct 30, 2019
Aussie Backyard Bird Count and Prime Minister Prizes for science
Oct 23, 2019
Space science and the 2019 Nobel Prizes
Oct 16, 2019
Weird marsupials that were, and the cyborgs that are
Oct 09, 2019
Bacteria's disappearing act, the Planck theory of scientific advancement, and tougher oysters to cope with changign climate.
Oct 02, 2019
String theory when you're not actually doing string theory, Australia's native otter lends a hand in an investigation
Sep 25, 2019
New improved electric eels, anti-ageing pills, and vegetarian health misinformation
Sep 18, 2019
Eureka Prizes, Loch Ness DNA and Pet Cloning
Sep 11, 2019
IPCC report in detail; and what is the world's smallest animal?
Sep 04, 2019
Air pollution, the physics of hate, and teeth and tongues
Aug 28, 2019
Seaweed eating cows, spiderwebs & valuable elements
Aug 21, 2019
The Curiosity show returns on stage, Physics prize doubts
Aug 14, 2019
National Science Week! Fish at the museum, disposables at the gallery, and events around Australia
Aug 07, 2019
Asteroid armageddon, apple bacteria, and liquid magnets
Jul 31, 2019
Brain implants to read minds, the search for alien life and the value of meteorites
Jul 24, 2019
Full moon feature: Apollo 11 science, Soviet moon missions, and moon trees
Jul 17, 2019
Ancient Indigenous aquaculture, the Spanish flu and very old fungi!
Jul 10, 2019
Mud volcanos, demon eyed animals and algorithms in Magic: the gathering
Jul 03, 2019
Endometriosis examined and cold fusion reheated
Jun 26, 2019
Tech wars: The good, the bad, and the misused
Jun 19, 2019
Macadamia nut clones and quarks
Jun 12, 2019
Australia's spider-woman, and how fertility changes with age
Jun 05, 2019
Bacterial insecticide, all in good taste bud, and plastic not-so-fantastic
May 29, 2019
Carnivorous plant pollinators, Phosphorus and SCINEMA science film festival
May 22, 2019
Asteroid water, box jellyfish stings, and pints of science
May 15, 2019
Sexual harassment in physics, Australian bee species and ionic flight
May 08, 2019
Immunology Day, Rare Elements and Homo luzonensis
May 01, 2019
Dinosaur extinction and peanut allergies
Apr 24, 2019
Why we should be Casso-wary, the science of the Black Hole photo and 3D printing the human heart
Apr 17, 2019
Exercise and immune function, night parrots & super powers
Apr 10, 2019
Australian pitcher plants, sea lions, and invasive species
Apr 03, 2019
Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter, More science comedy, and the grapes of sparks
Mar 27, 2019
Connected to Port Phillip & Tesla Comedy
Mar 20, 2019
Counting bats and tallying bugs
Mar 13, 2019
International Women's Day 2019: incredible, underappreciated women of science
Mar 06, 2019
Venus missions, champagne spoons and gravity driven space travel
Feb 27, 2019
So many physics questions, wildlife on the Yorke Peninsula, and Transitions Film Festival
Feb 20, 2019
Bio-bricks, gallium and water flow in the Murray-Darling
Feb 13, 2019
Facing the elements, what is topological switching? And the diet of the future
Feb 06, 2019
Summer series: Sir John Gurdon and Ruth Benedict
Jan 30, 2019
Summer series: Jane Goodall & Chien-Shiung Wu
Jan 23, 2019
Summer series: Veronika Megler and Christopher Polge
Jan 16, 2019
Summer Series - William of Ockham and Albert Einstein
Jan 09, 2019
Summer series: Henrik Dam and Grace Olive Wiley
Jan 02, 2019
End of year wrap up
Dec 26, 2018
Christmas science, plants, animals and questions
Dec 19, 2018
Mitochondrial DNA surprises, Planet Sounds and the tip of the tongue
Dec 12, 2018
CRISPR babies and crater queries
Dec 05, 2018
Bugs in Space, Mysteries of the deep and brains in jars
Nov 28, 2018
Krill, kilograms and wombat poos
Nov 21, 2018
Invader week! Bugs in our brains, drugs in our waterways, and objects from interstellar space
Nov 14, 2018
Diet fads and animal fashions
Nov 07, 2018
Carbon sequestration and Elephant Music
Oct 31, 2018
Lost in Science-Fiction! Soylent Green, Jurassic Park & 2001: Space Odyssey
Oct 24, 2018
Flying after migratory birds, an unsung female astronomer, and another final paper from Stephen Hawking
Oct 17, 2018
Donna Strickland wins Nobel Prize for Physics; Environmental Film Festival; Greenhouse gas emissions missing targets
Oct 10, 2018
Komodo Dragons and closer look at Glyphosate research
Oct 03, 2018
Great women of science, and tuskless elephants
Sep 26, 2018
Do probiotics work? The 2018 Ignobel Prizes
Sep 19, 2018
Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves? Also bats, naked mole rats, and more!
Sep 12, 2018
Eureka Prizes for science, science of spaghetti breaking and rosehip neurons
Sep 05, 2018
What does the brain stem do, and when is National Threatened Species Day?
Aug 29, 2018
Understanding AI, lazy hominins and ancient cheese
Aug 22, 2018
TRIPLE CREATURE FEATURE; Magnet hating sharks, psychedelic cicadas and arctic wolfspiders
Aug 15, 2018
Lost in Science Week!
Aug 08, 2018
Water plinking physics, space grease and commuting bacteria
Aug 01, 2018
How do wetlands sequester carbon? And is green space in cities good for people?
Jul 25, 2018
How will climate change affect the planet? Why haven't we gone back to the moon? What does the new exoplanet tell us?
Jul 18, 2018
Thalidomide, Koko the gorilla, and new (old) giant dinosaur
Jul 11, 2018
3 parent babies, micromorts, and alternative to dark matter
Jul 04, 2018
Saline, Bogong Moths and the Stanford Prison Experiment revisited
Jun 27, 2018
Science around the campfire, and organics on Mars
Jun 20, 2018
Supernovae, wild horses vs the environment and marshmallows revisited.
Jun 13, 2018
Placebos, volcanoes, and Stephen Hawking's last paper
Jun 06, 2018
Combating climate change at the grassroots & Yanny vs Laurel
May 30, 2018
Antibiotic resistant epidemics, and international travel footprints flying high
May 23, 2018
Arty, farty, sluggy science
May 16, 2018
Hoppy yeast with CRISPR and how big is the universe?
May 09, 2018
New megapest insect, Fruit fly sex, and is chocolate really good for you?
May 02, 2018
Flesh eating bacteria update, not-so-rare earth metals, PFAS in the water
Apr 25, 2018
Medicinal plants from the Israeli desert and chill factors in trees
Apr 18, 2018
Space stations, Wallaby invaders and new human organ?
Apr 11, 2018
Eucalypts and bushfires; superfluid liquid helium
Apr 04, 2018
Funny bees, Indigenous migration & twin astronauts
Mar 28, 2018
Stephen Hawking, ALS and Nerve Gas
Mar 21, 2018
Biophysicist of the Year, Bilby poo-sniffing skills, Moon donut
Mar 14, 2018
International Women's Day Special
Mar 07, 2018
Diet vs climate, and Australia's Carpageddon
Feb 28, 2018
Triple Creature Feature! Eels, termites and monotremes
Feb 21, 2018
Talking orca, proto-butterflies, ice on Mars
Feb 14, 2018
Australian of the Year; do women flow with full moon; and cloning monkeys
Feb 07, 2018
Lost in Science - Summer series 5 from Laborastory
Jan 31, 2018
Lost in Science - Summer Series 4 from Laborastory
Jan 24, 2018
Lost in Science - Summer Series 3 from Laborastory
Jan 17, 2018
Lost in Science - Summer Series 2 from Laborastory
Jan 10, 2018
Lost in Science - Summer Series 1 from Laborastory
Jan 03, 2018
End of year wrap
Dec 27, 2017
A Science Carol: Past trespasses, Christmas Presence, and the future of Christmas in Space!
Dec 20, 2017
Yetis, Aphantasia and remembering well
Dec 13, 2017
Sparkly, filthy, magical science
Dec 06, 2017
Comic book science comes to life; Amazing Elephant Intelligence, and Shazam for frogs
Nov 29, 2017
Clever Keas, tick-borne meat allergies, cooling tinnies with lasers, and whistling pigeons
Nov 22, 2017
Pyramids, new orangutan and air-filtering house plants
Nov 15, 2017
Dinosaur Stripes and whale fossils
Nov 08, 2017
Neutron stars colliding and preserved prehistoric blood
Nov 01, 2017
Lost in Science Fiction Halloween special 2017
Oct 25, 2017
Flesh-eating bacteria and sustainable scallops
Oct 18, 2017
Cordelia Fine Testosterone Rex: Neurology, psychology & gender; Human body pH balance
Oct 11, 2017
Australia in space, and climate change driving owl evolution
Oct 04, 2017
Climate changing Coffee; IgNobel Prizes 2017; Fire affecting native animal habitat
Sep 27, 2017
Training astronauts, microgravity physics and runaway inflammation
Sep 20, 2017
Ancient algae blooms brought on animals, Eureka prize wrap up
Sep 13, 2017
A cure for hiccups and how the heck do magnets work?
Sep 06, 2017
Bone marrow donation and flesh-eating amphipods
Aug 30, 2017
Women in museum collections, Ancestry DNA kits and undiscovered elements
Aug 23, 2017
Cassini's last hurrah, determination of sex, and beyond the eye.
Aug 16, 2017
Kilogram changes, slug glue and eligibility for women's sport
Aug 09, 2017
Bees are alright, Pooping phosphorus and National Science Week
Aug 02, 2017
More Bird Brains, You're the Voice, and Chronic Fatigue research
Jul 26, 2017
Drummer cockatoos and proving Flat-Earthers wrong
Jul 19, 2017
Planets Lost in Space, Snails and PTSD, Human origins earlier than previously known
Jul 12, 2017
Wonders from the ocean abyss, and mental health of farmers
Jul 05, 2017
Dustology, Price equation, Galileo goes quantum
Jun 28, 2017
Testing proof, Mega Brush Turkeys and Peanut allergy advice reversal
Jun 21, 2017
Quantum weirdness, hyperloop technology, and allergy cures
Jun 14, 2017
This show is brought to you by "S"; Scinema, salt wars and simian senses
Jun 07, 2017
Are some people immune to hangovers? Does salt really make us thirsty? Charlie Marshall on science music.
May 31, 2017
Disappearing insects, social media psychology, and sushi sickness
May 24, 2017
Microwaves, destructive dogs and climate changing species distribution
May 17, 2017
Cycling for Health, What are Parabens? The Impact of roads
May 10, 2017
A Pint of Science, a March for Science, and Boltzmann brains
May 03, 2017
Naked mole rats, artificial sweeteners & negative mass
Apr 26, 2017
The science of Marathon running, Toxoplasmosis, and the psychology of rumours
Apr 19, 2017
FNQ's Thylacine, Siri's secrets and Manisha's bats
Apr 12, 2017
The hunt for Australia's climate past, dino tracks and billion year old algae
Apr 05, 2017
Wolf packs, Parasites Lost and the March for Science
Mar 29, 2017
Orangutan flange, mini mammals and brain facts
Mar 22, 2017
Food v cancer, new ancient humans, and kale, so much kale
Mar 15, 2017
Velvet Worms, Dragon's blood and Molasses flood
Mar 08, 2017
Earthquakes, case for a new continent & evaluating your achievements
Mar 01, 2017
Black holes, tasty tomatoes and visualisation
Feb 22, 2017
Bushfire risk, frog spit, and avoiding decision fatigue
Feb 15, 2017
China's water pollution, chocolate pollinators and kicking new year goals part 2
Feb 08, 2017
Venom, conspiracies and resolutions
Feb 01, 2017
Lost in Science Summer Series part 4
Jan 25, 2017
Lost in Science Summer series part 3
Jan 18, 2017
Lost in Science Summer Series part 2
Jan 11, 2017
Lost in Science Summer Series
Jan 04, 2017
End of year wrap up, including 2 new frogs, lots of tributes, and a science of the year quiz
Dec 28, 2016
British Medical Journal seasonal japes, the truth about Rudolph; Do people put on weight at Christmas, and why do they get so sleepy?
Dec 21, 2016
Is NASA's EM drive really a thing? And why students are not studying science
Dec 14, 2016
A2 milk, plant defence and dwarf planets
Dec 07, 2016
Echidnas, Lasers and Malaria
Nov 30, 2016
Milk: cow v soy v nut; plant genes for sex and dryness
Nov 23, 2016
Oldest evidence of Aboriginal habitation; smart bees; and science of will power
Nov 16, 2016
Histamines, antihistamines, the placebo effect and Victorian mosquito plague
Nov 09, 2016
Billionaire mad science, Devil tumour immunity, and natural contraception app
Nov 02, 2016
Characterising hallucinations and the suckiest creature of all time.
Oct 26, 2016
2016 Nobel Prizes for science
Oct 19, 2016
Comet climax, clever corvids and cruel cats
Oct 12, 2016
Antibacterial breakthrough, Ruby Payne Scott and Malaria in Sri Lanka no more
Oct 05, 2016
Wild Melbourne connecting communities and nature, and Bananageddon
Sep 28, 2016
Pacific chickens, new players in space, and unreasonable seasons
Sep 21, 2016
Tips on footy tipping; Dump the antibacterial soaps; The fig and the wasp (an untold fable)
Sep 14, 2016
Eureka Prizes, the bare bones of calcium, and early warming shows responsive climate
Sep 07, 2016
Expectations of exercise, benefits of viruses, and nature of Ngorongoro
Aug 31, 2016
Finches sing to eggs about climate; why do we have eyelashes; and Dunning Kruger effect
Aug 24, 2016
Cockroach milk myths, new particles that don't exist, and first mammal casualty of climate change
Aug 17, 2016
Skydiving without a parachute, Australia on the move, drugs in sport
Aug 10, 2016
Mangrove die-back in North Australia; Food wastage and Iron
Aug 03, 2016
Chronic pain, Urban bird violence and albatross poo clues.
Jul 27, 2016
Saturated fat yea or nay, new pigment YInmn blue, bio-engineering spider silk
Jul 20, 2016
Morphine, climate talk and randomised trials
Jul 13, 2016
Youth drinking decline, vitamin C for colds, and natural mechanics
Jul 06, 2016
The Orion Project; Significance; Climate Change and domestic animals
Jun 29, 2016
Election science funding promises
Jun 22, 2016
Potatoes + blood pressure, bats + cacti, and science + film
Jun 15, 2016
Randomness, Night Owls vs early Birds, and Cephalopods take over the ocean
Jun 08, 2016
Fat labradors; new findings on genetically engineered crops and a look at Manganese
Jun 01, 2016
Carp herpes, Noisy miners, Canadian wildfires and diagnosing Parkinson's disease
May 25, 2016
Aphantasia; Devil tumour breakthrough; Eta Aquarid metor shower
May 18, 2016
Saltwater Crocs; Japanese earthquakes; Dorothy Hodgkin
May 11, 2016
Mammal bias, insect consciousness and fruit fly control
May 04, 2016
Pole Position, "natural" GM, and "un-natural" bacteria
Apr 27, 2016
Coral bleaching, bacterial comics and fantasy maths
Apr 20, 2016
Bystander effect, wanderlust gene, and phytoestrogens
Apr 13, 2016
Hobbit extinction, Electric Dreams, Batmanisha
Apr 06, 2016
Pregnant T-Rex, science birthdays and WD-40
Mar 30, 2016
Pirate Bay of science, cold and flu tablets and your cat's personality
Mar 23, 2016
The end of the universe, particle rumours and local Nobel hero Elizabeth Blackburn
Mar 16, 2016
Safety in medical trials; Ash the Trash; Ban the Bunny
Mar 09, 2016
Women in science special
Mar 02, 2016
Gravitational waves rock our world
Feb 24, 2016
Brush your teeth; Intelligence? That's so Raven! ...and Flatwormers
Feb 17, 2016
Flossing, Zika and asexual evolution
Feb 10, 2016
Nucleosynthesis, a new planet and new antibiotic
Feb 03, 2016
Spiders from Mars, what colour is the sun, and scientific resolution keeping
Jan 27, 2016
Summer stories: Dani Measday on feuding paleontologists, and Josh Richards on being super on Mars
Jan 20, 2016
Summer stories: Clare Hampson on Robert Knox and Ben McKenzie on Hedy Lamarr
Jan 13, 2016
Summer stories: Katie Mack on Stephen Hawking and her real science hero, and Chris Lassig on Edward Teller
Jan 06, 2016
Summer stories: Cobi Smith on Rachel Carson and Daniel Horsley on Georg Cantor
Dec 30, 2015
Lost in Sciencemas 2015! Scientists and theories born in December
Dec 23, 2015
Science books, toilets and catching up on 2015 science
Dec 16, 2015
How your brain can taste, the science of flying V formations and citizen climate science
Dec 09, 2015
Antiobiotic resistance, electronic Roses and stuffed Brolgas
Dec 02, 2015
Elephants don't get cancer, busy bees for centuries, Einstein's big idea clocks up a century
Nov 25, 2015
Planet Venus, Caroline Herschel, and weird beer
Nov 18, 2015
Processed meats cause cancer, controversial paeleontology and willy wonka vegetables
Nov 11, 2015
Cheesey crack, sibling rivalry, and De-extinction
Nov 04, 2015
Lost in Science Fiction: Back to the Future, Eternal Sunshine & Star Wars
Oct 28, 2015
Winners! Nobel for medicine, Victorian engineer of the year, and the metal silver.
Oct 21, 2015
Extreme life, extreme gravitational waves and extremely small optics
Oct 14, 2015
Supercomputers for Sight, Waters of Mars, "Robot vs Star" wars
Oct 07, 2015
Fireballs in the sky, Ig Nobel prize for unboiling an egg, and prunes against cancer
Sep 30, 2015
Cachexia breakthrough, new human ancestor, nano-scale biophotonics
Sep 23, 2015
Songbirds in the city, sugar in the diet, and serious problems in science
Sep 16, 2015
Science, people and animal welfare; Incandescent rage; Cane Toads II: Return of the Quolls
Sep 09, 2015
Cane toads, courtship and Quinn
Sep 02, 2015
Chatting with a science star and catching dust from stars with solid smoke
Aug 26, 2015
Australian championship soccer robots; Music is as important as food; Who is the SciBabe?
Aug 19, 2015
National Science Week, Year of Light and talking about curing cancer
Aug 12, 2015
Amanda Bauer on becoming a star, Mystery sleeping sickness, Maremmas: guardian (dogs) of the galaxy (of wildlife)
Aug 05, 2015
Friendly pitcher plants, bandicoot arms and the linguistics of taxonomy
Jul 29, 2015
Hagfish gills; rewilding; let there be light!
Jul 22, 2015
Body lice, Black Death and big, big plasma tubes
Jul 15, 2015
Basking Sharks, Pink Rhino Horns, and Happy Birthday Hubble!
Jul 08, 2015
Sunny sensibility and liquid metal
Jul 01, 2015
One small leap for a second, virgin births in the real world
Jun 24, 2015
Bacteria vs bat disease and opium poppies, and centrifugal vs centripetal force
Jun 17, 2015
Coal seam gas vs the environment; the benefits of optimism
Jun 10, 2015
Who discovered microbes? And what is fracking?
Jun 03, 2015
Violet, bird beaks and Pluto
May 27, 2015
Measles, psephology and human embryo editing in detail
May 20, 2015
Mercury, caffeine, and zombie bacteria
May 13, 2015
Blue LED's, microfossils and rocking reef fish
May 06, 2015
Coloured quinces, human DNA manipulation and ancient antibiotic resistance
Apr 29, 2015
Hiring women in science, poison gas and you can name Pluto
Apr 22, 2015
Mice talk, Brontosaurus resurrected, Saving the Swift parrot
Apr 15, 2015
Nitrogen, Big Bang and talking bats
Apr 08, 2015
Bugs in water, in your body and in the comments
Apr 01, 2015
Microbes, meatbags and consensus
Mar 25, 2015
Limpet Teeth
Mar 04, 2015