Real Science Questions

This week Pip and Tara explore extremophile life - life that not just survives, but thrives in hostile environments (super hot, salty, cold, toxic). We discuss how extremophile life can benefit humanity and we explore extreme places on Earth that may or may not have life.. let's find out!

Want to know about this years Nobel prize awards in Medicine/Physiology, Physics, and Chemistry? Here with have a bonus episode for you, where Pip explains the work deserving the prizes to Tara, and then we chat about them. Congratulations to all winners! This was a really fun one to do.

Tara and Pip discuss the most common visitors to our planet - space rocks! What secrets do they hold and do they pose a threat to life as we know it? Do we have a plan against giant meteors? Find out with us!

Apologies for the occasional misprounciation of Halley, and that apparently we both caught a hoard of noisy birds in the background. We recorded on a hot summers day!

Here's the meteor map Tara used: https://s.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/lose-yourself-in-this-map-of-every-meteorite-strike-on-earth/51575

This week we look at how the lifestyles of people have shaped our face with time. Tara blows Pips mind with Baby Skulls… yes it gets a little bit morbid but fascinating! Pip walks us through how the ears works and we find out the reason for this little dint between the lips and nose.

Face development in the womb video from the BBC, starts at about 0:34 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFY_KPFS3LA&ab_channel=BBC

Pip and Tara question the science behind something we see everyday - our faces. We compare our faces to completely symmetric versions of our faces, discuss our doppelganger experiences and why they look like us, and then we get lost in our eyes, exploring colour vision, colour blindness, and lots more interesting things we didn't know before!

Pip and Tara take a look into our current understanding of lightning, and explore a host of lightning related phenomena such as a lake with a 'never-ending storm' and lightning balls! We also interview a lightning strike survirvor and give some advice on how to minimize your chance of getting hit by lightning! Stay around til the end for the outro credits (it's our favourite part).