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

Spooktacular bogs, zombie cells, ghostly stars and more…

Scientists find anti-aging secrets in a 194-year-old tortoise

Nobel laureates share their winning science

How feasting black holes time their burps

How corals tell us climate change is supersizing El Niño

Coral archives reveal a shift in El Niño strength

A feather found in dino poop and more...

Summertime and the science isn’t always easy

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

How to battle climate apathy, and more stories about humans

Celebrating 50 years of Quirks & Quarks!

Sensing space junk, and other stellar stories

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…