Just how old are continental plates? When did plates sliding around and over each other really take off? What can rocks in the Canadian tundra tell us about the ages of the continents? The formation of continents led to a transformation of our planet and it's atmosphere - so when did it start? How can Australia have so many volcanoes on it's east coast despite being so far from the Pacific ring of fire? What causes Australia's mysterious volcanoes? Volcanoes in Alaska may be linked together in one super volcano. The Aleutian islands many volcanoes may be more linked than we thought.
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Episode 279 - Helping farmers fight back against climate change
Episode 278 - Lasers combs for wifi and detecting smells
Episode 277 - Breaking down the brain and figuring out how the pieces work
Episode 276 - Hunting for gamma rays
Episode 275 - Protecting biodiversity and ecosystems in flux
Episode 274 - Micro plastics in the rivers, oceans and soil
Episode 273 - Volcanoes across the world - keeping track of potential disasters
Episode 272 - Better Zika virus treatments and making it work for us
Episode 271 - Cleaning up our own mess - innovative new recycling methods
Episode 270 - Heart racing sport, slowing aging and detecting doping
Episode 269 - Finding their way through the magnetosphere with quantum mechanics and chemistry
Episode 268 - Farewell Tiangong 1, space stations and managing space debris
Episode 267 - Water, water everywhere, make it safe to drink
Episode 266 - Strange ways of fighting antibacterial resistance from platypus milk to cooking an egg
Episode 265 -March Mammal Madness preview, uncovering Tardigrades and the history of lungs
Episode 264 - Peering back in time to light from the first stars
Episode 263 -The science of marginal gains at the Winter Olympics
Episode 262 -Biomaterials saving lives from spider silk cardiac tissue to sticky when wet bandages
Episode 261 - Stopping unwanted Life on Mars
Episode 260 - A glimpse of our future from the tropical rain forests and jungles
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