Quirks & Quarkswith Bob McDonald

'I operate at the interface where the criminal and the natural world interact,' writes Patricia Wiltshire, the author of 'The Nature of Life and Death.'

The fight to be the first female astronaut, growing lettuce in space, deflecting asteroids, Canadian astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons and more

A new book tells the tale of two brilliant women flyers who campaigned for a chance at spaceflight

Lettuce grown on the International Space Station is just as nutritious as the stuff grown on Earth.

The DART spacecraft will slam into an asteroid to give it 'a little nudge'

After graduating from NASA’s astronaut school, Jenni Sidey Gibbons looks ahead to the future of Canada’s role in space exploration.

All but Mercury have orbital tilt, and there are some long and extreme seasons on other planets

Blue whale heartbeat, turbocharged jellyfish, Pablo Escobar's hippos, ravenous lionfish, a triumphant 'under-wolf' and more

A researcher channels his inner Ahab to attach a heart monitor to the world's largest animal

Scientists are creating turbocharged jellyfish to swim faster and more efficiently than modern marine robots.

Hippos are an example of how so-called invasive species shape their habitats in a similar way to long-extinct megafauna.

An invasive fish outcompetes rivals by beating them at eating.

Wolf researcher Rick McIntyre's book tell the story of one of the first reintroduced wolves in Yellowstone park

It is very rare for animals like dogs and cats, to experience heart attacks as we know them, but they do get various heart diseases

Why women still aren't equally represented in science, both as researchers, and in science done about women

Female scientists are forced to navigate informal and formal barriers - sometimes called the 'glass obstacle course' - to progress in STEM disciplines at every level.

Persistent arguments that women lack particular abilities valuable for science are based on bad evidence

Medical science has a deadly historical bias problem: until very recently, most studies only included males

Is water at the foot of Niagara Falls warmer than at the top? Are bioplastics better for the environment? Why are dinosaurs so big? And more

Laundry and microplastics, brewing espresso, driver memory fail, judging cat pain, learning from your fear and more

Hint: You may not love your polar fleece jacket as much after you read this.

Driving simulation tests suggest that human memory, rather than negligence, may be responsible for "looked but failed to see" collisions, a new study suggests.