Quirks and Quarks

You may have seen Black Hole, the image, but have you heard of the upcoming Black Hole, Th... more

Starfish don't have brains, and yet they're able to mobilize hundreds of tiny hydraulic tu... more

From the pressurized space suits to living in underground spaces, it's clear that living o... more

An elephant’s trunk is incredibly strong and rugged, and yet it is one of the most sensiti... more

Researchers made the surprising discovery that Alaska beluga whales have swinging sex live... more

Scientists spent nearly 25 years studying close to 800 polar bears in the Barents Sea regi... more

Some dogs are more adept at learning language than others. Researchers studying these spec... more

We may share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but somewhere along the evolutionary line... more

An unassuming fossilized slab in the basement of a museum in Brazil turned out to be 110-m... more

On this week’s episode of Quirks & Quarks, it's our ever-popular and always satisfying Hol... more

In 2000, Quirks & Quarks celebrated its 25th anniversary by travelling forward in time — t... more

We talk to authors of some of this year’s most fascinating science books in our annual Hol... more

Next stop - the moon! Jeremy Hansen stops by our studio to chat about how he’s prepping to... more

Scientists are shedding light on the strange, car-sized, armoured fish that lived 360 mill... more

On this week’s episode: a mini tyrannosaur is a new species, ants redesign to avoid illnes... more

This week: bees trained to keep track of time, eating small amounts of plastic can kill oc... more

On this week's episode: tracking down a stellar explosion, climate apathy, arctic foxes ar... more

On this week's episode: studying a rare visitor to our solar system, eating saturated fats... more

On this week's episode: selling sunlight on demand, rhinos roamed Canada’s Arctic 23 milli... more

On this week's spooktacular episode: Wolves are afraid of the big bad human, methane spewi... more

Nobel Prize in medicine for a leash on our immune system Our immune system has enormous po... more

On October 9, 1975, CBC listeners across the country heard David Suzuki introduce the very... more

Remembering Jane: a conversation with Jane Goodall on her storied career Science lost a un... more

Let’s go, Grue Jays! New kinds of birds are not usually discovered while browsing Facebook... more

Dust from car tires can be bad for fish — what might it do to us? As car tires wear, they ... more

10 years ago we first saw gravitational waves — what we’ve seen since In September 2015, L... more