Quirks and Quarks

CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand

CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.

Episodes

Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!

Monkeys swallow soil to eat more junk food, and other summery science

Using ants to make yogurt, and other producer picks

Whales, sex and rocks — it's our book show!

Pumas vs. penguins, and other clever carnivores

Summer Science Spectacular

June 27: Sweat, comets and dino milk. It’s our summer question show!

Great white sharks in hot water, and more…

Fossilized squirrel poop full of ancient animals, and more…

June 6: Humans and animals love the same sounds…

A terrifying T. rex of the sea, and more…

Listening in on fish grunts, and more…

How dandelion seeds take flight, and more…

A CN Tower-sized mega tsunami, and more…

Cocaine in waterways makes salmon roam further, and more…

Introducing IDEAS | How a historian found the lost women of science

Seabird poop does whaaat? And more…

Why this biologist loves unpopular animals, and more…

Moving beyond animal testing, and more…

Seeing the far side of the moon, and more…