Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio by CBC Radio

- Ancient oyster mounds, seagrass’ sweet secret, saving the Mekong delta, reading minds to produce sound and next-gen COVID-19 vaccines

- Endangered tiny porpoise, Mars-quakes, thermal batteries, bloodworms metal fangs, finding alternatives to animal experimentation and why does coal release mercury?

- Avian flu outbreak, prehistoric art and firelight, the dingo genome, joggers save calories, Canada’s space tourist and what tsunamis do to marine life.

- 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.

- Quirks and Quarks Introduces: Tai Asks Why - Season 4

- Legless fossils, smells of the past, research with Russia, sleeping sharks and the new story of the first peoples in the Americas.

- 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.

- New human genome, lion cuddle chemical, Pluto’s ice volcanoes, deconstructing de-extinction, giant crocodiles in BC

- Boa breathing, green fire retardant vampire bat evolution, building urban biodiversity and fungal leather

- 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.

- 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.

- Climate change and health, the biggest bacteria, rare earth metal recycling, tracking a giant Antarctic iceberg and are we living in a simulation?

- Feb 26 - A Quirks & Quarks special: Feeding The Future - How we can feed 10 billion people without killing the planet

- 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.

- The doomsday glacier, why we love, neanderthals and humans cave-swapping and more, mosquitos see red and astronomers vs. satellite constellations

- Long COVID and the brain, gravitational waves from supermassive black holes, swapping spit, climate change and fish wars and hibernators recycle nutrients

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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?

- Quirks and Quarks Introduces: Tai Asks Why - Special Episode

- Holiday book show. We look at some great science books for winter reading or last minute gifts

- 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.

- 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 hearing

- Snapping science, male pregnant seahorse placentas, astronauts in Labrador, slacklining, skateboarding robot, aerosol COVID and Maori soot in Antarctica