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Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…
Episodes
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- Artemis II Records, Neanderthal Not-Hybrids, And Introducing “Moon Joy” | Break It Down · 46 min · Episode 84This month, on Break It Down: Artemis II heads to the Moon and back, taking astronauts farther from Earth than any human before, some seriously impressive muon research wins the…
- The Science Behind “Project Hail Mary”, Ghost Elephants, And Womb Transplants · 45 min · Episode 83This month, on Break It Down: The world’s largest coral colony has been discovered at the Great Barrier Reef, we’re all a little bit disappointed that asteroid 2024 YR 4 will…
- AI Assassins, Inside A De-extinction Lab, And Life On Mars? | Break It Down Podcast · 43 min · Episode 82This month on Break It Down: Why are there over 8 million pickled fish in some WWII-era bunkers in Louisiana? We ask Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute director…
- Deep-Space Toilet, Mega-Stegosaurus, And The Only Venomous Primate · 38 min · Episode 81This week on Break It Down: How a transplant patient lived for two days without lungs, the Artemis II Orion Capsule is probably smaller than you’re thinking (but it does have a…
- 3I/ATLAS, CKM Syndrome, And Mosquitos’ Final Frontier · 34 min · Episode 80This week on Break It Down: a potential environmental trigger for autism has been identified, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is doing weird things with its tail, 90 percent of…
- A Two-Headed Fossil, 50/50 Spider, And World-First Butt Drag · 33 min · Episode 79This week on Break It Down: 3I/ATLAS is a 10 billion-year-old time capsule, a world-first fossil captures the moment a rock hyrax dragged its butt 126,000 years ago, a living…
- Mummified Cheetahs, Skin Cells Turn Into Eggs, And Almost Life On Enceladus · 39 min · Episode 78This week on Break It Down: the second oldest use of the color blue ever has been discovered in Europe dating back 13,000 years, “chemical fossils” suggest the oldest life on…
- Neanderthal Noises, Dome-Headed Dinosaurs, And Mystery Larvae · 34 min · Episode 77This week on Break It Down: Homo habilis might not have been the apex predator we thought it was, the oldest and most complete pachycephalosaur reveals why they were so weirdly…
- Tropical Mammoths, Dazzling Brain Map, And Perfectly Preserved Pterosaurs · 42 min · Episode 76This week on Break It Down: Queen ants are throwing the rules of reproduction out of the window by producing offspring of two different species, for the first time ever we have a…
- Glowing Plants, Punk Ankylosaur, And Has The Wow! Signal Been Solved? · 44 min · Episode 75This week on Break It Down: Think you know Earth? Think again; a new campaign is trying to overturn the highly erroneous map we were all taught in school. A new injection can…
- Shaman Training Cave, Uranus's New Moon, And A Bright Orange Shark · 35 min · Episode 74This week on Break It Down: Tracks left in ancient rock suggest fish crawled out of the seas 10 million years earlier than we thought, a 140,000-year-old child’s skull is the…
- Orange Crocodiles, New Human Species, And Death By Meteorite · 39 min · Episode 73This week on Break It Down: The discovery of some fossilized human teeth reveals the oldest known members of our genus weren’t alone; their neighbors were a species we’ve never…
- Dancing Cockatoos, Spider Schlongs, And Will I Be Hit By An Asteroid? · 35 min · Episode 72This week on Break It Down: cockatoos have added 17 new dance moves to their official tally, we may finally know where the ancient “hobbit” humans came from, four new species of…
- Moa De-Extinction, Fashionable Chimps, And Robot Surgery – No Human Required · 43 min · Episode 71This week on Break It Down: just a week after the discovery of our third-ever interstellar visitor we may know where it came from, ancient enamel provides a snapshot into the…
- Interstellar Object, Cheesy Nightmares, And Smooching Orcas · 35 min · Episode 70This week on Break It Down: We’ve just seen our third-ever interstellar object whizzing though the Solar System, eating cheese really might give you nightmares (but so might…
- Wellness Whales, A New Blood Type, And A DJ Set From Space · 34 min · Episode 69This week on Break It Down: feast your eyes on the stunning first images from the world’s largest digital camera, capturing millions of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids…
- Artificial Eclipse, Dancing Dinosaurs, And 50 Years Of “JAWS” · 36 min · Episode 68This week on Break It Down: Two spacecraft just created the first ever artificial solar eclipse, thanks to some impressive drone photos we know now dancing dinosaurs might have…
- Ice Age Puppies, Sauropod’s Last Supper, And A First Look At The Sun’s Butt · 35 min · Episode 67This week on Break It Down: Seeing the Sun’s south pole for the first time ever, Ice Age puppies frozen in permafrost turn out to be wolves, a world-first fossil discovery…
- Space Explosions, Dead Sea Scrolls, And Why It's So Hard To Sex A Dino · 42 min · Episode 66This week on Break It Down: A great big explosion in space is the most energetic since the Big Bang, AI reveals the Dead Sea Scrolls could share the same authors as the Bible, it…
- Oldest Fingerprint, AI Decoding Wolf Language, And Injecting Life On Other Worlds? · 43 min · Episode 65This week on Break It Down: The oldest fingerprint in the world might be left by a Neanderthal hoping to complete a face, scientists propose seeding life on Enceladus to see what…
