AI Romance, Sperm-Stealing Salamanders, and Curious Whale Bubbles

Ever caught someone on public transport having what looks like an intimate text conversation, only to realise they're sweet-talking an AI?   Welcome to modern romance, where your biggest relationship competition isn't another human - it's a chatbot with perfect grammar and infinite patience.    …

Sheep Gut Condoms, TSA Touch Tech, and Boring People

What do you get when you cross a sheep’s intestine, a TSA agent’s glove, and the gnawing fear that you might be the dullest person at the party? This week’s episode, that’s what. We’re serving up a scientific sampler platter that’s equal parts awkward, hilarious, and “wait, is that real?” From the…

Bio Photons, Marshmallow-Tested Cuttlefish, and Friendly Shark Feasts

  From humans secretly glowing like discount glow sticks to sharks displaying better table manners than most toddlers, today's science roundup proves that nature is absolutely bonkers in the best possible way. We're exploring a world where your body emits light (just not enough to read by), cuttle…

Fish on Prozac, AI Resurrections and the Universe is Ending (sooner)

Ever wondered what happens when fish accidentally consume our medications? Or how AI might be bringing the dead back to testify at their own murder trials? Perhaps you've been losing sleep over the universe ending billions of billions of years sooner than expected? (We haven't.)    Today we're di…

RFK Jnr's poopy plunge, smuggling ants in your pants and Elon's rogue AI

From politicians swimming in fecal water to underground ant trafficking rings. We're exploring a world where the US Health Secretary voluntarily bathes in decades-old poop water, ant smuggling is apparently a lucrative criminal enterprise, and Elon Musk's AI has developed a concerning obsession wit…

Too many words for snow, drugged up elephants and expensive AI manners

From environmental impacts of AI politeness to the linguistic mysteries of snow, today's science roundup may leave you with more questions than answers, and that’s the way we like it. We're exploring a world where being nice to robots could harm the planet, scientists gave elephants LSD (yes, reall…

The experience machine, worst case scenarios and a giant fish

From mind-bending virtual reality choices to paradoxical barbers, hungry indecisive donkeys to real-world science funding crises, we're taking you on a wild ride through philosophy's greatest head-scratchers. And just when you think we couldn't make this journey any more interesting, we'll throw in…

The evolution of the anus, AI cybercrime and poison jellyfish

G'day science lovers! Buckle up, because today we're diving into everything from bottom-end evolution to deliberately poisoning yourself and your child with a deadly jellyfish (yes, really). Here’s a recap of our recent escapade through intriguing science headlines. From evolutionary hand-me-downs…

Exploding vampire bats, dire wolves were real and astronaut paychecks

From the potential resurrection of dire wolves (yes, they were real, not just Game of Thrones fantasy!) to the surprisingly modest paychecks of our space-exploring heroes, we're unpacking the extraordinary alongside the unexpectedly ordinary in the world of scientific discovery. Our journey takes …

Vaping Tamagotchis, Awkward Medical Robots and Zombie Cells

Welcome to our first episode back as the new and improved “A Little Bit Of Science”.  We're Rod and Will and it’s best if you think of us as your slightly unhinged tour guides through the bits of science that probably won't win Nobel Prizes but will definitely make you the most interesting person a…