Pourquoi les mouches sont-elles si difficiles...

Longtemps, cette idée a relevé du cliché ou du malaise social. Pourtant, la science a fini par montrer qu’il existe bien une base biologique objective à ce phénomène. Des chercheurs japonais ont identifié le composé chimique principalement responsable de cette odeur particulière, ...  Show more

La bibliothèque d’Alexandrie est devenue le symbole absolu du savoir perdu. Mais contrairement à la légende, elle n’a probablement pas été détruite en une seule nuit par un incendie spectaculaire. Ce qui lui est arrivé est plus complexe, plus lent… et finalement plus humain.La bi ...  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 ...