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Artemis II Records, Neanderthal Not-Hybrids, And Introducing “Moon Joy” | Break It Down
This month, on Break It Down: Artemis II heads to the Moon and back, taking astronauts farther from Earth than any human before, some seriously impressive muon research wins the Breakthrough Prize,…
The Science Behind “Project Hail Mary”, Ghost Elephants, And Womb Transplants
This month, on Break It Down: The world’s largest coral colony has been discovered at the Great Barrier Reef, we’re all a little bit disappointed that asteroid 2024 YR 4 will whizz past the Moon…
AI Assassins, Inside A De-extinction Lab, And Life On Mars? | Break It Down Podcast
This month on Break It Down: Why are there over 8 million pickled fish in some WWII-era bunkers in Louisiana? We ask Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute director Brian Sidlauskas to…
Deep-Space Toilet, Mega-Stegosaurus, And The Only Venomous Primate
This week on Break It Down: How a transplant patient lived for two days without lungs, the Artemis II Orion Capsule is probably smaller than you’re thinking (but it does have a toilet), the world’s…
3I/ATLAS, CKM Syndrome, And Mosquitos’ Final Frontier
This week on Break It Down: a potential environmental trigger for autism has been identified, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is doing weird things with its tail, 90 percent of people are at risk of a…
A Two-Headed Fossil, 50/50 Spider, And World-First Butt Drag
This week on Break It Down: 3I/ATLAS is a 10 billion-year-old time capsule, a world-first fossil captures the moment a rock hyrax dragged its butt 126,000 years ago, a living person received a pig…
Mummified Cheetahs, Skin Cells Turn Into Eggs, And Almost Life On Enceladus
This week on Break It Down: the second oldest use of the color blue ever has been discovered in Europe dating back 13,000 years, “chemical fossils” suggest the oldest life on Earth may have been…
Neanderthal Noises, Dome-Headed Dinosaurs, And Mystery Larvae
This week on Break It Down: Homo habilis might not have been the apex predator we thought it was, the oldest and most complete pachycephalosaur reveals why they were so weirdly dome-headed, we’ve…
Tropical Mammoths, Dazzling Brain Map, And Perfectly Preserved Pterosaurs
This week on Break It Down: Queen ants are throwing the rules of reproduction out of the window by producing offspring of two different species, for the first time ever we have a complete map of…
Glowing Plants, Punk Ankylosaur, And Has The Wow! Signal Been Solved?
This week on Break It Down: Think you know Earth? Think again; a new campaign is trying to overturn the highly erroneous map we were all taught in school. A new injection can make succulents glow…
Shaman Training Cave, Uranus's New Moon, And A Bright Orange Shark
This week on Break It Down: Tracks left in ancient rock suggest fish crawled out of the seas 10 million years earlier than we thought, a 140,000-year-old child’s skull is the earliest evidence…
Orange Crocodiles, New Human Species, And Death By Meteorite
This week on Break It Down: The discovery of some fossilized human teeth reveals the oldest known members of our genus weren’t alone; their neighbors were a species we’ve never found before. A…
Dancing Cockatoos, Spider Schlongs, And Will I Be Hit By An Asteroid?
This week on Break It Down: cockatoos have added 17 new dance moves to their official tally, we may finally know where the ancient “hobbit” humans came from, four new species of tarantulas have been…
Moa De-Extinction, Fashionable Chimps, And Robot Surgery – No Human Required
This week on Break It Down: just a week after the discovery of our third-ever interstellar visitor we may know where it came from, ancient enamel provides a snapshot into the lives of prehistoric…
Interstellar Object, Cheesy Nightmares, And Smooching Orcas
This week on Break It Down: We’ve just seen our third-ever interstellar object whizzing though the Solar System, eating cheese really might give you nightmares (but so might dessert), cavers are…
Wellness Whales, A New Blood Type, And A DJ Set From Space
This week on Break It Down: feast your eyes on the stunning first images from the world’s largest digital camera, capturing millions of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids. Why killer whales are…
Artificial Eclipse, Dancing Dinosaurs, And 50 Years Of “JAWS”
This week on Break It Down: Two spacecraft just created the first ever artificial solar eclipse, thanks to some impressive drone photos we know now dancing dinosaurs might have been leaping around to…
Ice Age Puppies, Sauropod’s Last Supper, And A First Look At The Sun’s Butt
This week on Break It Down: Seeing the Sun’s south pole for the first time ever, Ice Age puppies frozen in permafrost turn out to be wolves, a world-first fossil discovery reveals a sauropod’s final…
Space Explosions, Dead Sea Scrolls, And Why It's So Hard To Sex A Dino
This week on Break It Down: A great big explosion in space is the most energetic since the Big Bang, AI reveals the Dead Sea Scrolls could share the same authors as the Bible, it looks like the Milky…
Oldest Fingerprint, AI Decoding Wolf Language, And Injecting Life On Other Worlds?
This week on Break It Down: The oldest fingerprint in the world might be left by a Neanderthal hoping to complete a face, scientists propose seeding life on Enceladus to see what would happen, we’re…
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IFLScience - Break It Down has published 84 episodes since February 2024, covering topics in Education, News.
IFLScience - Break It Down is currently declining with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 34m.
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