What If the Sun Disappeared?

Welcome to Science Quest! 🚀 This week, we are honoring a hero working dog in Scotland, diving down to the world’s oldest shipwreck, and unlocking the secret to living nearly two centuries with a 194-year-old giant tortoise! 🐕 Scotland’s Hero Hound: Award time! A working dog in ...  Show more

This Week’s Big Questions! You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week… 💪 How and why do cramps happen?🌳📄 How do trees make paper?🌌 Where Does a Galaxy End and Another Begin?🦇🩸 Why do vampire bats drink blood?🌧️🧪 Why does acid rain happen?Join ...  Show more

This week, could we colonise a planet beyond our own galaxy? What's the greenest way to heat my home? And why do bright lights make some people sneeze? It's QA time! Chris Smith is joined by a panel of scientists to take on the questions YOU'VE been sending in. Joining him are ch ...  Show more

This week, it's a double scoop of our first ever, Wow in the World Podcast Scrambler! In this episode, Guy Raz and Mindy team up with the Story Pirates Podcast to explore the latest science behind SYNESTHESIA! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy ...  Show more

Ciaran and Dan delve into one of the biggest mysteries of all time: Are we alone in the universe? With the help of Voyager Golden Record artist Jon Lomberg and more, we try to discover how we might know if something else was out there and if we ever did discover alien life, how w ...  Show more

In the week where many celebrated Halloween we are wondering about that tingle down your spine, the dryness in your mouth, the racing pulse - might it actually be good for you? We also look into a special frequency of sound, just below our human hearing range, that might cause ra ...  Show more