Pourquoi les mouches sont-elles si difficiles...

Dans l’espace, une flamme ne ressemble pas du tout à celle qu’on connaît sur Terre. Ici-bas, quand on allume une bougie, le feu forme naturellement une “goutte” étirée vers le haut. Mais en microgravité, le feu devient une boule : une flamme presque parfaitement sphérique. C’est ...  Show more

Lorsque l’on parle de « brûler » des graisses, l’image qui nous vient souvent en tête est celle d’un glaçon qui fond. En réalité, la biologie raconte une histoire bien plus surprenante : lorsque nous perdons de la graisse après un effort physique, la majorité de cette graisse qui ...  Show more

If you took a fly into a really tall elevator and let it out at the top, would it still be able to fly? And what’s the absolute highest an insect could possibly go? It’s a question that’s been bugging CrowdScience listener Chee for a while, but presenter Alex Lathbridge is on ...

When CrowdScience listener Eric spotted a few gnats flying around on a milder day in mid-winter it really surprised him - Eric had assumed they just died out with the colder weather. It got him wondering where the insects had come from, how they had survived the previous cold ...

When CrowdScience listener Eric spotted a few gnats flying around on a milder day in mid-winter it really surprised him - Eric had assumed they just died out with the colder weather. It got him wondering where the insects had come from, how they had survived the previous cold ...

#051 Rebroadcast

This week, Melissa and Jam begin a multi-faceted topic: mosquitos. Now of course mosquitos are insects, so studying them would mostly fall into biology. But there's a lot of chemistry here too. The first question, why do mosquitos bite ...