Great Moments In Science - With Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

We all go through slow patches - but the Earth went through a famous boring phase that lasted one billion years. Or did it ...

A new year, and a new crop of research to make us laugh and then make us think.

Could a glowing red sunset really foretell the next morning's weather?

Jargon has way more uses than just playing Buzzword Bingo. It's a popular item in the propaganda and social toolkits.

Thanks to some fuzzy-looking photos, bat echolocation just got more amazing.

Joy Milne has a superpower. She can smell Parkinson's disease - years before it's diagnosed.

Tabloids love using 'Frankenstein' in headlines about science research. But this time, they weren't completely wrong.

A nine second difference between physics experiments could have big implications. A whole universe worth of them!

As if our regular universe isn't crazy enough - there might be a completely different 'mirror' universe lurking amongst us!

The future of sand is ... recycled plastic?

How could something as common as sand possibly be running low?

There's plenty of evidence that Marco Polo didn't introduce pasta from China. So where did that myth start?

We all know that Marco Polo brought spaghetti to the western world from his travels in China. Or did he?

A meeting in 1953 created the formula for a smokescreen that's still playing out today. And it's gone way beyond tobacco.

When the science is certain, how do you push a product that kills? Ask Big PR.

With our planets spread far and wide - and no super-sized Earths - we're nothing like the other solar systems we've found.

If mobile phones don't cause cancer, why did two US studies show they do?

5G promises incredibly fast download speeds - but what about those cancer rumours?

When it comes to making gold, alchemists never stood a chance. For that magic you need cataclysmic collisions, dying megastars and black holes.

Gold can come from jewellery shops, bank heists, Mints and mines. But where is gold made?