Quirks and Quarks

Big birds with bitty brains are still kind of bright We’ve learned a lot about the remarka... more

Scientists are recruiting elephant seals to learn more about the oceans’ twilight zone Bel... more

As soon as the last ice age glaciers melted, Indigenous people occupied this site A recent... more

A little bit of scratching can do some good, but too much can hurt Scratching an itch can ... more

Bits of Bennu have building blocks of life NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took six years to tra... more

Reintroducing Hawaii’s sacred crow to the wild The world’s most endangered crow, the Hawai... more

Ancient human ancestors didn’t eat meat, and so couldn’t build big brains One of the main ... more

Was Rome’s fall due to heavy metal poisoning making Romans dumber? Ice cores that preserve... more

Genevieve Willis from London, Ontario asks: Is there any evidence to suggest that “getting... more

Some optimistic and positive science news to end the year. For rats, anticipation of a ple... more

How ancient artifacts emerge from melting ice As Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets melt due ... more

A NASA probe is going to touch the Sun for Christmas The Parker Solar Probe is going to be... more

Early people in North America had mammoth appetites The people of the Clovis culture, who ... more

What the dinosaurs left behind tells the story of their rise to dominance Bones aren’t the... more

Octopus camouflage is incredibly hard work Octopuses have the remarkable ability to change... more

Canadian bird flu case raises potential pandemic concerns A teen in BC critically ill with... more

Blood drinking bats can suck energy out of their protein-rich meals Vampire bats are famou... more

There’s no time like this time for Standard Time In most of Canada and the US, our clocks ... more

A Zombie star’s outburst could soon be appearing in the night sky In 1946 a stellar explos... more

Canaries in the coal mine — a report on Canada’s bird life is an environmental report card... more

A CBC Radio One Special: We are in a new space race and this one looks a lot different tha... more

A Nobel prize for understanding how genes are turned on and off The early-morning call fro... more

Hurricane Helene’s killed hundreds, but the true death toll could end up in the thousands ... more

A Central American lizard creates a bubble of air underwater to breathe Semi-aquatic lizar... more

Earthquakes create a spark in quartz that can form massive gold nuggets Scientists have fi... more

Wrestling 14-foot 'dinosaurs' to figure out why they're dying Dr. Madison Earhart, a postd... more

A behind-the-scenes chat about the making of the CBC Radio collaboration called "Overheate... more

Quirks & Quarks launches our new season with a special on urban heat. It's part of a colla... more