Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio

It is Science Fiction that birds will abandon their young if handled by humans.

The Exploration of Antarctica's sub-glacial lakes has begun with Lake Vostok

Fruit flies cure infections of parasitic wasps with alcohol.

Very young babies resent and remember being deceived.

Light "echoes" give insight into a star that's going to go supernova

Cognitive Neuroscientist explores learning music as an adult.

Vultures can distort time of death estimates in human by months.

The tarsier, a small primate, can communicate in the high ultrasonic range, well above human hearing.

Black hole gobble everything that comes near, then 'burp' out high energy particles.

Long after they become inactive, hydrothermal vents continue to support microbes in the oceans.

Using fossil records and archaeological evidence, scientists conclude how Neandertals thought, lived, even dreamed.

Invasive Burmese Pythons are having a negative impact in Florida's Everglades National Park.

Frozen plants on Baffin Island provide clues to the onset of the Little Ice Age.

It took mammals 24 million generations to go from mouse-sized to elephant-sized.

Killer whales are preying on Arctic species with greater frequency because of the loss of sea ice.