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IFLScience - Break It Down

iflsciencebreakitdown

Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…

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40:18

Quantum Cats, Drunk Monkeys, And Happy Birthday Godzilla

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2024/11/01

This week on Break It Down: a quantum cat experiment breaks a record for surviving over 23 minutes, Voyager 1 encountered a glitch but fixed itself with some old school tech, fossils from the Ordovician are a glittering new species, animals are getting drunk more than we thought, though we’re not quite sure why, kyawthuite is the rarest gemstone of them all, and we wish happy birthday to a giant, city-destroying lizard who has much more cultural impact than meets the eye.Links: Quantum Cat

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34:07

Tiniest Dino Eggs, Hungry Black Holes, And Why People...

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2024/10/25

This week on Break It Down: the discovery of the smallest-ever dinosaur eggs reveals teeny tiny bones, first black hole triple is changing our understanding of giant star death, the longest venomous snake is now four separate species, a rare bit of positive carbon capture news, how a new overdose implant can save lives, and why do people believe in ghosts? We asked an expert.So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Smallest known dinosaur eggs Black hole triple How many times could the

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34:09

Solar Storm Season, Dolphin Breath, And Resurrecting...

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2024/10/18

This week on Break It Down: the Sun has entered its solar maximum bringing new auroras and geomagnetic storms, a chance find of a thylacine head in a jar could be the next step in the de-extinction of the species, microplastics have been discovered in the breath of wild dolphins for the first time, why Neanderthals never improved their spear-throwing, how high-potency THC could leave markers on your DNA, and does the page you’re reading this on look blurry? We explore what astigmatism is.So, sit

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36:40

Fusing Jellies, Bad Robot Jokes, And Elephants Evolve...

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2024/10/11

This week on Break It Down: two comb jellies become one, how Hurricane Milton grew so intense, superpowered scans reveal COVID’s impact on the brain, a humanlike robot’s jokes fail to impress his friend, Lucy the Australopithecine might have used tools 3.2 million years ago, and Mozambique’s elephants offer modern-day proof of evolution.So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Comb jellies Hurricane Milton NASA animation NOAA Hurricane Hunters Florida coastline after Milton COVID-19 and

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34:59

Glowing Crystals, Radioactive Storms, And A “Google...

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2024/10/04

This week on Break It Down: resurrecting Cold War spy planes to explore radioactive storms, the most detailed brain wiring diagram we've ever seen, mystery “skyquake” sounds have the world perplexed, plus grinning dolphins, glow-in-the-dark gemstones, and can you really feel when you’re being watched? So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Radioactive storms "Google Maps" for the brain Mysterious "skyquakes" Smiley dolphins Glow-in-the-dark crystal Lab-grown ruby Are you being

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35:45

Biblical Seeds, World’s Oldest Cheese, And A Fish...

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2024/09/27

This week on Break It Down: the major African civilization the world forgot, the world’s oldest cheese gets found on mummies, blasting asteroids with X-rays, a fish that’s basically got tongues for legs, the resurrection of a biblical seed, and why no one can decide how fast the universe is expanding.So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: African civilization: https://www.iflscience.com/five-thousand-years-ago-africa-had-a-major-civilization-we-forgot-76094 World’s oldest cheese:

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30:47

Gorilla Dicks, Life After Death, And Earth's New...

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2024/09/20

This week in Break It Down: Earth's about to get a new mini-moon (if only for a while), ancient rock art may have been based on a fossil, "third state" identified between life and death, a truly supermassive black hole with jets spanning 23 million light-years, there's a new blood group, and the remarkable reason why giant gorillas have tiny penises. So sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Earth’s new mini-moon:

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25:07

Pyramid Plasma, “Killer” Whales, And An Illegal...

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2024/09/13

This week on Break It Down, the first-ever private spacewalk makes history and also maybe a crime, a plasma bubble over the pyramids is spotted by snazzy Chinese tech, a new Neanderthal lineage lived in isolation for 50,000 years, a chance encounter on Google Maps leads to a new discovery, the recipient of a face and eye transplant has a major breakthrough, and we take a deep dive into whether orcas are really the “killer” whales they’d made out to be.So sit back, relax, and Break It

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01:58

Introducing 'We Have Questions' Our New Science Podcast

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2024/09/10

Coming soon: join IFLScience as we explore the questions nobody thought to ask but everyone wants the answers to. Get the behind-the-scenes conversations from CURIOUS magazine’s We Have Questions interviews, as we hunt down the experts to answer some of science’s stranger questions.Until then, catch up with the E-magazine here: https://www.iflscience.com/curious-magazine

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38:31

Tossing Puffins, Python Vs Python, And Homeopathy....

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2024/09/06

This week on Break It Down, “dangerous” asteroid Apophis has a slightly increased risk of hitting Earth, a pig in Hong Kong undergoes an operation by a team in Switzerland, people in Iceland are throwing puffins off cliffs, an asteroid impact over the Philippines just made history, a python somehow managed to ingest another python, and we take a closer look at why homeopathy isn’t all it's cracked up to be.So sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Asteroid Apophis:

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32:51

Killer Whale Pirates, Hunting Aliens, And Flying...

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2024/08/30

This week on Break It Down: orcas disable another boat as a new theory is put forward for the behavior, bacteria pass “memories” of perturbed genes to descendants, SETI scans 2,880 galaxies for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, what you need to know about human parvovirus B19, flying spaghetti monsters sighted on a sea mount expedition, and how to avoid the nonsense that plagues the wellness industry.So sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Killer whale pirates:

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32:56

Tool-Wielding Whales, Earth’s New Ring, And Wow!...

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2024/08/23

This week on Break It Down: Earth has a snazzy new radiation belt, the Wow! signal finally has an explanation and spoiler: it’s still not aliens, whales have joined the list of animals using tools (but do bubbles really count?), a universal flu vaccine is one step closer to reality thanks to some ferrets, the Rift Valley might not be the cradle of humankind after all, and why supermassive black holes are more a part of daily life on Earth than we realized.So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It

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31:53

Earth Sausage, Pompeii Panic, And The Disco Planet

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2024/08/16

This week on Break It Down: two new victims discovered at the site of Pompeii tell a vivid story, Stonehenge’s altar stone reveals a surprising point of origin, plans to terraform Mars with “glitter”, ancient environments exposed in a kilometer-long Earth sausage, we may know where the dinosaur-killing asteroid came from, and a brief history of humans’ long history of burying the dead.So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Pompeii victims:

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35:54

Space Archaeology, Titanium Hearts, And The Russian...

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2024/08/09

This week on Break It Down, the first archaeological study takes place outside of Earth, the oldest calendar might show a comet impact, a new study thinks the ancient Egyptians were using hydraulic tech to build the pyramids (others disagree), what a rock on Mars could tell us about potential life in the Solar System, a titanium heart is something straight out of sci-fi, and why we get taken in by urban legends like the Russian sleep experiment.Sit back, relax and break it down: Space

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26:17

Wonky Giraffe, Hamster Vaccines, And Wildlife Rock Art

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2024/08/02

Wonky Giraffe, Hamster Vaccines, And Wildlife Rock ArtThis week on Break It Down: a wonky-necked giraffe is somehow still alive, an extraordinary fossil find shows a tyrannosaur with a stubby snout, a vaccine to stop COVID transmission is a success (at least, in hamsters), ancient stars are not where we expect them to be, 12,500-year-old rock art is a wildlife masterpiece, and we debunk some cortisol-based misinformation. So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Wonky giraffe:

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30:41

Singing Elephants, Animal Olympics, and A...

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2024/07/26

This week on Break It Down: deep-sea potatoes just shook foundational ideas about life on Earth, NASA plans to launch an artificial star, elephants sing “let’s go” like a barbershop quartet, the most complete Neanderthal skeleton has sprouted cave popcorn, the record for hottest day ever gets smashed twice in one week, and who would win in the animal Olympics?So sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Deep-sea potatoes:

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29:04

$44 Million Stegosaurus, Air Butter, And Life On Venus?

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2024/07/19

This week on Break It Down: why Venus just got very exciting as a potential site of extra-terrestrial life, how you make butter out of thin air, a Stegosaurus on sale for $44 million, the discovery of the first Moon cave, why Earth just landed itself a new microcontinent, and pseudoscience Vs anti-science – what the differences are and how to tackle them.So sit back, relax, and let’s Break it Down… Links: Phosphine on Venus:

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29:05

Mammoth Jerky, Endangered Language, And Rocket...

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2024/07/12

This week on Break It Down we report live from a rocket launch, freeze-dried skin gets us a step closer to bringing back mammoths, “polar rain” auroras seen on Earth in a first, two lion brothers should star in their own Disney movie, a complete larynx transplant for a cancer patient, and the people fighting for the survival of the world’s most endangered language. Sit back, relax and let’s break it down... Ariane 6:

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25:46

Flying Hippos, Talking Animals, And Palaeolithic...

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2024/07/05

This week on Break It Down, why dinosaurs had to die so that we could have wine, the world’s oldest narrative art, the flying skills of hippos, evidence for pants in the Palaeolithic, turning meteorites into space LEGO, and a bunch of animals talking like humans that really shouldn’t be talking like humans.So sit back, relax, and let's Break It Down... Links: Dinosaurs VS wine: https://www.iflscience.com/we-might-owe-wine-to-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-66-million-years-ago-74893 Oldest

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28:43

Popsicle Wolves, Primordial Black Holes, And A Fleshy...

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2024/06/28

This week on Break It Down, a puppy gets a post-mortem 44,000 years after being frozen in permafrost, altruism found among Neanderthals in Down Syndrome case, the world’s largest terrestrial mammal migration is recorded in East Africa, a robot’s fleshy smile that will haunt your nightmares, NASA is being sued, and the Tunguska Event may have been caused by *checks notes* a primordial black hole ripping through Earth. Right.Sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down… Links: Frozen wolf:

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