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Science Queeries

Jun
21
2025

You’ll be hooked on this episode

Animals, Biology, Ecology, Environment, Sustainability

We're casting a net to reel in some knowledge. Dr Cat dives deep into the tangled world of ghost nets ...

Jun
4
2025

Somewhere over the rainbow there’s gay space

Astronomy, Biology, Engineering, Science & Medicine

Space is soooo gay. Let's go star gay-zing. Dr Cat and Zofia Witkowski-Blake, presenter at Melbourne Planetarium at Scienceworks, orbited ...

May
28
2025

Weave got this – we’re healing with silk

Animals, Biology, Medicine, Science & Medicine

Dr Cat and Dilendra weave together the science of using silk from silkworms and spiders in medicine. Dilendra Wijesekara, a ...

May
25
2025

Seals’ flipperin’ good hearing

Animals, Biology, History, Natural Sciences

This seals the deal: seals are incredible animals. They're the only mammal that can hear both through air and under ...

May
20
2025

Science, Sass and Song: The Radiothon Riff-Off

Animals, Biology, Environment, History, Music, Natural Sciences, Science & Medicine

For a fabulously nerdy Radiothon special, Dr Cat goes full STEAM ahead with a science-packed extravaganza. She tests her history ...

May
2
2025

A cell of a day

Animals, Biology, Immunology, Science & Medicine

Dr Cat cell-abrates the World Day of Immunology with Dr Keit Loi, Lecturer in immunology at The University of Melbourne. ...

Apr
24
2025

The fluoride of your life

Biology, Dentistry, Health, Science & Medicine

Dr Cat chats to Dr Jamie Robertson AM about the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth. Dr ...

Apr
18
2025

I lichen like that!

Biology, Botany, Environment, Microbiology

It's an episode lichen you've never heard before! Dr Cat and science educator Finn McHenry literally queer-ied lichens - those ...

Mar
12
2025

Science is colden

Biology, Environment, Health, Immunology, Science & Medicine

Two immunologists walk onto a boat – to take them to Antarctica. Dr Cat and A/Prof Helen McGuire. Helen is ...

Mar
4
2025

Breaking the ice on a polarising land

Animals, Biology, Botany, Environment, Science & Medicine, Sustainability

Dr Cat is joined by two incredibly cool ecologists who she had the pleasure of travelling around Argentina and Antarctica ...