Quirks and Quarks

Finding the COVID resistors, Herzberg gold medal winner, green glitter, smashing an asteroid, why we have ‘Useful Delusions,’ and mosquito size questions


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Scientists trying to understand the people COVID-19 can’t touch; Trapping light earns physicist Sajeev John Canada's most prestigious science prize; Glitter comes in many colours, but this scientists is making a green alternative; NASA is smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a planetary defense system; Why 'Useful Delusions' can sometimes make us vulnerable to misinformation; Why are mosquitoes larger in the spring than in the fall?
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Quirks and QuarksBy CBC