Great Moments In Science - With Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

Flying insects seem to be disappearing from the sky — in big numbers.

Your cute pet kitty cat may seem harmless — but Felis catus is also an efficient, highly flexible predator.

For such a common question, this took a lot of answering.

An upturned bowl of 4000 year old noodles is the key to pasta evolution.

Despite what TV says, can you trust a Lie Detector?

Are four leafed clovers really that rare?

Are dishwashers better than people when it comes to water, energy and cleaning?

Shock! Fake dinosaur news!

Obviously chocolate is good for us - but what about for our pets?

A new kind of engineer has been born.

When the guillotine was introduced, the French became very curious about how long a body-less head could survive.

What the Doctor saw when he flew in this baby, and the crazy engineering that let it happen.

You'd have to be crazy - or an astronomer - to get on board a plane with a jumbo-sized hole in it.

Cane toads - like mice and rabbits before them - were used for human pregnancy tests.

Spiders dropping down on their silk thread never get caught twisting in the breeze, like abseiling commandos do. Because ... chemistry.

Some birds, especially parrots, songbirds and the entire crow family, are surprisingly intelligent - and not just compared to other birds.

A recent study found that low dose THC from cannibas improved memory in older mice.

Did life begin on an invisible mountain range?

The ocean ridge is the biggest mountain range on Earth. And it could hold the secret to where life began.

No matter how memorable your childhood is, you probably won't actually remember it.