Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio

Zombie gene in elephants comes back to life to kill cancer cells

Bee pheromones may be useful as an elephant repellant

Earth simply cannot make enough food to feed everyone a North American diet

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Moon's orbit around the Earth would change its hypothetical tides

Wildfires, record heat, droughts - scientists are parsing through the extreme weather events to determine what exactly is caused by climate change.

Pilots are much more likely to pass flight maneuvers when carbon dioxide concentrations are low.

Children with finger lengths signalling they were exposed to higher levels of testosterone in the womb showed lower voice pitches in infancy as well as adulthood.

Birds often evolve larger brains on they reach islands, scientists confirm.

The Swiss government passed a law stating people can no longer boil a lobster alive. Here's the science behind how the crustaceans may feel pain.

Red or bright pink urine after eating beets may occur in people with low stomach acid, according to renal dietician Tanya Choy. But rest assured, it's harmless.

Doctors removed a baseball sized chunk of a boy's brain. Then his brain reprogrammed itself to make up for it.

Fireflies mostly only glow at night because that's when the males are trying to get the attention of female fireflies, according to entomologist Dr. Sandy Smith.

Facing warmer temperatures, wolf spiders are changing up what's for dinner, and in doing so, lessening the effects of climate change in their ecosystem.

The patients who didn't lose weight had bacteria that was more efficient in extracting energy from food.