Lagrange Point

Farming becomes high-tech with electricity generating trees, farming crops of big data and robots bee-coming a polinator by swapping drone bees for drone UAVs.

What happened 470 million of years ago that has been showering us with meteorites ever since then? What connection is there between an explosion in meteorites with an explosion in life in ancient oceans? What do we know about meteorites today?

What turns hamsters into crazed cannibals? What part of the brain turns mice into hunter killers? How do plants signal when they're under attack from strange prey?

Clusters of earthquakes from Italy to Tonga. What causes these strange swarms of earthquakes and what have we learnt from the recent disasters in Italy and Tonga?

What is the Asgardian connection to the very beginning of life itself? How do we classify the different kinds of life at a cellular level? What was the spark that kicked it off? How does life survive in strange places like a glacier?

How can we bee one step ahead of bacteria in the fight against antibiotic resistance? How do bacteria hide and survive against all our countermeasures? What codes do they use?

Saving time, resetting time and adding time. To celebrate new years we focus on some time related stories of science of the brain and of the very concept of time itself.

What's the connection between Santa, General Relativity and the Doppler Effect? How can reindeer help keep the planet cool, and what magic lies inside a reindeer's nose?

Stars devouring planets, exoplanets and their science fiction counter parts and some eternally frozen ice on Ceres. All this and more in an out of this world special of Lagrange Point.

Keeping science on track requires years of validation tests to confirm others work - the peer review process. But how are we fighting back against fraud, deception and massaging of the data? We find out all this and more on Lagrange Point.

How can a platypus help treat diabetes? What about bird poo to tackle climate change? Or Mantis mimicking flowers? We find out about animals helping us in unusual ways.

Learning from robotic blunders - how are artificial intelligence can often fail and what we're doing to improve it. Robots can fail at university entrance exams, landing on planets and even navigating daily life. So how do we make them better?

How long would Chicago last in a zombie outbreak? What animal can humans easily detect hidden in a noisy signal? How are frogs adapting to climate change? All this and more in a survival special.

Turning bacteria into allies to help with antibiotics, plastics and more. Bacteria that thrive on acne can help us tackle skin disease, other bacteria can help us prey on antibiotic resistant microbes. Plus cracking the structure of plastic forming bacteria.

What scientific theories are hidden inside Frankenstein? Plus the science of spider venom and finding new treatments for horrific burns. All this in a somewhat spooky episode of Lagrange Point.

What's the connection between fish and sharks to the jaws in our mouths? Why are there so many dinosaur fossils in central Queensland? We find out all this and more in a prehistoric special.

How did the quirky mathematics of topology help unlock the secrets of superconductivity? The answer won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 2016. We find out more in our Nobel Prize 2016 recap special.

Making nano-machines out of molecules won the Nobel Prize for 2016 in Chemistry. We find out about the complicated chemistry and physics that went into making a toolbox of building blocks we can use to make nano machines.

What age group has the best liars? How can can you lie to your brain to get relief from an itch? Does the world make more sense upside down? Well fear not because the Ig Nobel Prize winners of 2016 answered these questions and more. Find out in Part 2 of our Ig Nobel Prize 2016 special.

It's time for science that no one else bothered to ask, the Ig Nobel Prizes in 2016. We find out about two winners this year who put underpants on rats, and others who took holidays from humanity and became goats, badgers and foxes in the name of science.

Precision medicine is tailored to your genes and organs, which can really help transplants, treatments and more! We find out more in our precision medicine special.

Finding new species in unexpected places - from pet stores to zoos and conservation areas. Plus we find out what secret (but adorable) technique bats use to find their prey!

Storms across the universe - from Jupiter to gas giants across space, and back here on earth. What mysteries lie at Jupiter's poles? How do super gas giants work? Why did our atmosphere break a decades old pattern?

How is a storm in Iceland connected to seismologists in Japan? How did the Australian Navy team up with Universities to find an even greater barrier reef? What are we doing about former Hurricane Gaston?

How do we protect earth from asteroids and comets? Can we avoid the science fiction disasters and actually turn space mining into a reality?