Great Moments In Science

Are these bushfires really unprecedented and related to global warming?

The science behind our cataclysmic bushfire season

The truth behind NASA's 'billion dollar' space pen.

Medieval people thought the world was flat right? Wrong.

Spiderman has got nothing on geckos when it comes to sticking to walls.

What our brains do when we clock off for the night...

If mobile phones don't cause cancer, why did two US studies show they do?

5G promises incredibly fast download speeds - but what about those cancer rumours?

Coffee or a nap? Actually, both.

If you're pregnant, a bloke or a beer drinker, you're a prime target for mosquitos.

If you're bursting to shout "Bernoulli!", think again ... Also, CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Karl from all of us at ABC Science! http://ab.co/2raH8Wj

Obesity has been on the rise since the mid-seventies. As have ultraprocessed foods. Co-inky-dink?

Can you be truly healthy on a diet that excludes both meat and dairy?

It's not just their ability to run 42 kilometres that separates marathon runners from the rest of us. They've got a secret energy source in their gut.

Have you ever been winded? You suddenly lose the ability to do something you've done 15 times each minute of your life. But why?

At last - the answer to the burning question in kitchens the world over: does the dishwasher blunt your sharp knife?

Have you heard that you shouldn't put your sharp stainless steel kitchen knives in the dishwasher because they might go blunt?

Combustion engines are marvels of engineering and power, but will they feature in the cars of the future?

We all go through slow patches - but the Earth went through a famous boring phase that lasted one billion years. Or did it ...

A new year, and a new crop of research to make us laugh and then make us think.

Could a glowing red sunset really foretell the next morning's weather?

Jargon has way more uses than just playing Buzzword Bingo. It's a popular item in the propaganda and social toolkits.

Thanks to some fuzzy-looking photos, bat echolocation just got more amazing.

Joy Milne has a superpower. She can smell Parkinson's disease - years before it's diagnosed.

Tabloids love using 'Frankenstein' in headlines about science research. But this time, they weren't completely wrong.

A nine second difference between physics experiments could have big implications. A whole universe worth of them!

As if our regular universe isn't crazy enough - there might be a completely different 'mirror' universe lurking amongst us!

The future of sand is ... recycled plastic?

How could something as common as sand possibly be running low?

There's plenty of evidence that Marco Polo didn't introduce pasta from China. So where did that myth start?

We all know that Marco Polo brought spaghetti to the western world from his travels in China. Or did he?

A meeting in 1953 created the formula for a smokescreen that's still playing out today. And it's gone way beyond tobacco.

When the science is certain, how do you push a product that kills? Ask Big PR.

With our planets spread far and wide - and no super-sized Earths - we're nothing like the other solar systems we've found.

If mobile phones don't cause cancer, why did two US studies show they do?

5G promises incredibly fast download speeds - but what about those cancer rumours?

When it comes to making gold, alchemists never stood a chance. For that magic you need cataclysmic collisions, dying megastars and black holes.

Gold can come from jewellery shops, bank heists, Mints and mines. But where is gold made?

When a balloon pops, sometimes it leaves lots of small fragments of rubber, and sometimes it leaves just a couple of larger pieces. What's going on?

Hard, soft, smelly or blue - there's a cheese for every occasion. But is it time to rethink our relationship with this delicious dairy product?

Easter Sunday can fall in March or April, but the date is definitely not random.

Clothing is made of threads, which are made of smaller-still fibres. And that's where the dirt hides.

Until recently, scientists couldn't work out how a washing machine actually lifted the dirt out of clothes.

Tobacco has done bad things for public health — but what about e-cigarettes?

Planets going rogue and abandoning their star to wander the galactic hood could actually be pretty common.

Rogue planets drift freely through our galaxy, rather than orbiting around a star — and researchers estimate there could be billions in the Milky Way alone.

Barcodes look deceptively simple, but it took 25 years - and two episodes of Great Moments in Science! - to get from that lightbulb moment on a beach to the first barcode and scanner at a checkout.

The story of the barcode has everything - from gangsters to newborns and a whole lot of sand.

If that image is creeping you out, you could have trypophobia.

When you pick up a seashell and hold it to your ear, why can you hear the sound of the ocean?