Welcome to Break It Down , your bite - size usher to this week in science . Join hostsEleanor HiggsandRachael Funnellas they discuss the biggest tidings news report of the hebdomad with guest from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprisal expert or two . Here ’s what you may have missed in episodes 1 to 15 , uncommitted on all your favorite podcast apps : Apple Podcast , Spotify , Google Podcast , Podbean , Amazon Music , and more .
Episode 15- Sexy Neanderthals, Head Transplants, And Dark Extinction
This workweek on Break It Down , we now sleep together when humans and Neanderthals sneak up , could a human caput transplant ever be realistic , a dino fossil skin preserved like glass has both graduated table and feather , sometimes stars completely disappear , a skull from China tells us more about the Dragon Man , and we delve into the concept of dingy extermination .
Sit back , relax , and let ’s Break It Down …
Links
Humans and Neanderthals
Human oral sex graft
Dino pelt fossil
fell stars
Dragon Man filiation
Dark extinctions
Euclid images
center symbolic representation video
Episode 14- Hot Dinosaurs, Alien Megastructures, And Reaching Point Nemo
This week on Break It Down , COVID ’s new FLiRT variants , when and which dinosaur went warm - full-blooded , could a lost river explain the pyramid , the search for alien megastructures , the squinch Y chromosome , and what ’s it like sailing to Point Nemo ? Really hard , apparently .
FLiRT
Hot dinosaurs
miss river
Alien megastructures
Shrinking Y chromosome
Point Nemo
Point Nemo video
funny Live register
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Poles of Inaccessibility
Fox in a sink - hole
Episode 13- Talking Whales, Dinosauroids, and Psychedelic Milk Toads?
This week in Break It Down , scientists discover the “ sperm heavyweight phonetic alphabet ” , AstraZeneca pull their COVID vaccine from the shelves , why a feeble magnetic force field might be a respectable matter for life on Earth , rock music art unveil that the Sahara looked a small dissimilar 4,000 years ago , toads might be helping treat depression , and what on Earth is a dinosauroid ? !
Sit back , relax , and rent ’s pause It Down …
Whale alphabet
AstraZeneca draw in their COVID vaccinum
magnetized field and complex life
Rock artistic production
Toads as antidepressants
Dinosauroids
practical upshot
What is “ virgin giving birth ”
Episode 12- Alpaca Sex, Brainy T. Rex, And Could Earth Have Rings?
This calendar week in Break It Down , the debate on T. rex intelligence rages on , a macrocosm - first video indicate an orangutang applying folio as medication , the most complete Neanderthal find a side , why alpaca sexuality is so weird that no other mammalian does it like them ( that we know of ) , the whodunit of a gargantuan hole in Antarctic internal-combustion engine solved , and could Earth ever get its own rings ?
Brainy T. rex
Dr Orangutan
Neanderthal font
Alpaca sexual practice
south-polar ice cakehole
Earth ’s rings
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Megaliths
Shamrock the immature puppy
Episode 11- Gassy Uranus, Giant Megaraptors, And The Pharaoh’s Curse
This week in Break It Down , we explore why Uranus might moderate more methane than we thought , just what is go on to bacteria on the ISS , quite how foresighted animals have been making their own igniter for , why carving on a bear bone are culturally important , elephantine megaraptor footprints in China , and whether anything nervous might pass if you dare to enter the Pharaoh ’s tomb .
Methane on Uranus
Space bacterium
Glowing animals
Bear bone civilisation
Megaraptor
The Pharaoh ’s Curse
Why is the Dead Sea so salty ?
Episode 10- Tiny Titanosaurs, Giant Snakes, And Transatlantic Heart Transplants
This week in Break It Down , a new species of lilliputian titanosaur is compared to a cow , a 47 - million - class - old snake becomes the large ever , an RNA breakthrough work us nigher to " world-wide vaccine " , a heart flies 7,000 kilometre to its recipient , we question Stonehenge ’s relationship to the Moon , and why the philosophy of scientific discipline matters in the modern day .
lilliputian titanosaur
gargantuan snake
Vaccine breakthrough
Stonehenge and the Moon
Transatlantic heart
school of thought of science
The large marine reptile
Avocado ballock
Episode 9- More Whale Sex, Pet Foxes, And The B.O.A.T
This week in Break It Down , 12 - million - class - old snails reveal the oldest bear on dodo paint , the violent mating dance of blue whales is caught on tv camera , scientist enquire the rootage of distance ’s brightest - ever burst , Fox may have been the OG domestic canid , when is the North Star not the North Star , and what the hell even is a “ henge ” ?
Old snails
Whale sex activity
The BOAT
Fox friends
Not the North Star
A “ henge ” or not a henge
lucky mole
Etna ’s sens rings
Episode 8- Space Rainbows, Ancient Animal Art, And Heart-Eyed Toads
This week in Break It Down , a rainbow - same nimbus is detected beyond our Solar System , a sand - slab stingray may be the old animal art , ancient etchings in Peru may depict psychedelic music , scientist dispatch the world ’s large digital television camera , and a toad with heart - shaped schoolchild . Plus , how far can a bird vanish without flapping ? Turns out , jolly bloody far .
resplendence in place
Sand - slab stingray
Psychedelic rock candy art
Largest digital tv camera
Heart - shaped pupils
fell without dither
Ligers V Tigons
Episode 7- Black Holes, Barbie Pigs, And The Apocaclipse
This week in Break It Down , why the solar occultation can be fatal , Barbie pig 5,000 meters below the ocean , humans - first conjunctive apery in two spiders pretending to be a bloom , the first image of magnetized fields around dark hole Sagittarius A * , why climate change might be about to change the time , and are human beings really more likely to be psychopaths than women ? The skill appear to propose otherwise .
So model back , loosen , and let ’s Break It Down …
Apocaclipse
Barbie pigs
Flower spiders
Black hole ’s magnetic subject
Earth ’s anatomy - changing time
distaff psychopaths
Reptile house
Childbirth VS kick to the ball
Episode 6- Scandalous Pyramids, Quantum Tornadoes, And The Longest Eclipse
This week in Break It Down , a hill becomes a pyramid and then a hill again , quantum tornadoes instruct us about black holes , a hold out man gets a pig kidney for the first metre , Homer ’s Iliad helps us find out shipwrecks , the humanity ’s rarest Pisces the Fishes make a comeback – one ridiculous baby at a clip – and we find out about the longest occultation on , and off , record .
It ’s a Pyramids of Egypt
It might not be a pyramid
It is n’t a pyramid
Getting it amiss is a part of science
Quantum tornadoes
Pig kidney xenotransplant
Homer ’s Iliad shipwreck
World ’s rarest fish
prospicient eclipses
Equinox VS solstice
Episode 5- Superb Nova, Space Crime, And Eclipse Tortoises
This hebdomad in Break It Down , a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity to see a nova , astroforensic science , why everybody thinks male mammal are so magnanimous , the world ’s oldest body piercings , 70 year in an smoothing iron lung , and the foreign things creature do during a full solar occultation . We ’re looking at you , Galápagos tortoises .
Nova
infinite offence
Mammalian consistency
Oldest piercings
atomic number 26 lung
fauna in a solar occultation
Mammals laggard
Unexplained anomalous phenomena
Coral joy
Episode 4- De-Extincting Mammoths, The Oldest Fossil Forest, And Elephant Burials
This week in Break It Down , we blab out de - extincting the mammoth , the man ’s one-time fossil wood , elephant burials , hypervaccination ( and by hyper , we stand for 217 COVID vaccinations in 29 month ) , a small Pacific land that spans all four hemispheres , and a disputative question on geologist ’ lips : are we in the Anthropocene ?
From elephant to mammoth
De - extincting a dinosaur
Fossil forest
Anthropocene
Elephant burials
Hypervaccination
All four hemisphere
lose continents
Toki Pona
survive fossils
Episode 3- Whale Sex, Smashing Asteroids, And More (Giant) Whales
This week in Break It Down , the first - ever photographs of humpbacks humping involves two males , NASA alter the shape of an asteroid , a flyspeck fish make a prominent ruckus , some very old megalithic structure in Peru , the heaviest brute on the planet , and the gonzo story of one of the cock-a-hoop astrophysical discoveries in recent sentence .
Sit back , unbend , and let ’s break it down …
Queer nature
manly whale
Tiny noisy fish
Heaviest brute
smash asteroid
gravitative Wave
Earth Core Video
Perpetual Stew Video
quad Spiders And Adam Sandler
Episode 2- Giant Anacondas, Small Stars, And Lab-Grown Testicles
This calendar week in Break It Down , we discuss how a Will Smith series led to the discovery of a new mintage of gargantuan anaconda , plus the smallest star ever discovered , lab - grown testis , an electrical fomite discovery , advanced Neanderthal glue , and how to ruin a dinner party by dropping the question : is math discovered or invented ?
fresh species of giant anaconda
Smallest mavin ever key
Lab - grown testicles
Electric vehicle breakthrough
neandertal mucilage
Math
Episode 1- Shingrays, Space Lasers, And Pink Fairy Armadillos
This week in Break It Down , we discuss whether or not an fish tank in the US is about to become home to the universe ’s first “ shingray , ” how scientists are sending subject matter and superpower from space , a groundbreaking cancer find , fossil forgery , and what on Earth a pink pouf armadillo is .
Shingray
Space optical maser and radio set messages
Cancer breakthrough
Fossil forgery
Power from space
Pink fairy armadillo
The unwritten microbiome
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