The Pop Test – A comedy science quiz

The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things, which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords.

Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the plastic flotsam of knowledge.

To make sex unsexy, reproduction is just copying. That’s why it’s not allowed during exams. To understand how life has continued since the first single celled organism got a bit frisky we talk to comedian Lloyd Langford, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Dr Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist at Zoos Victoria.

How can you stop time?

What machine can’t move and only works half the time?

Where on earth does time travel the slowest?

Find out the answers in the 25 so-called ‘minutes’ of this mind-bending episode of the best science comedy podcast of all time

 Featuring Shaun Micallef, Claire Hooper and Astrophysics lecturer Katie Auchettl

What convinced the Nobel judges to give her the first Nobel Prize? What's a little curie? What did she hoard in her youthful life of crime?

It's time to laboriously stir our mix of pitchblende to find the uranium of truth.

Featuring comedians Vidya Rajan, Alanta Colley and writer Laura Elvery

Who invented dinosaurs? What would a T Rex have tasted like? Who sells sea shells by the sea shore?

It's time to dig through some rocks, carefully reveal the fossils and then extract the DNA inside to create an exciting but lethal theme park.

Featuring comedians Cal Wilson, Matt Stewart and science communicator Jacinta Bowler.

The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things. Which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords.

Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the plastic flotsam of knowledge.

History, like electricity, illuminates the darkness and it's expensive to get a specialist in it to come to your house on a public holiday.

Find out more about the science and the history behind you turning on a light switch.

Featuring comedians Kirsty Webeck, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Jamie Evans, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne.

How did life start? Was it a warm pond of foul smelling water, deep sea underwater vents or the divine work of the Lord God?

Comedians Sami Shah, Jude Perl and cell Biologist Dr. Bianca Le attempt to answer (and be funny about) the most fundamental question of all time.

Like nachos, burritos and tacos, the elements are unique in themselves, but are all made of the building blocks of Tex-Mex cuisine,

just rearranged in different proportions. And also they can be organised neatly on a table.

Featuring comedians Greg Larsen, Kirsty Webeck and Professor Mark Quigley from the University of Melbourne.

Are you too cold or too hot right now? There’s a very high chance that both are to do with heating.

The Pop Test returns to give heating the grilling it deserves and to ask why is it so hot right now?

Featuring science communicator Prof Jenny Martin and comedians Sammy J, Craig Quartermaine