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Lost in Science is your weekly hit of mind-blowing science, strange facts, and big ideas. From cutting-edge discoveries to the science behind everyday life, our curious and passionate hosts make it fun, fast, and fascinating. If it’s weird, wonderful, or just worth knowing - we’re on it.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Conversational science reporting that makes uncertainty, evidence limits and the reasoning behind new findings unusually easy to follow.
Lost in Science turns scientific news into an alert, good-humored conversation. Lyndon, Chris, Claire and Stu rotate through stories from particle physics to animal behavior, asking direct follow-up questions and leaving room for uncertainty.
Stu follows a T-shirt to Jocelyn Bell's missed Nobel; your curiosity gets a proper detour.
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A shirt story that opens into credit, sexism, and one of science's messier prizes.
Lost in Science turns a T-shirt into a route through fashion, politics, astrophysics, and inherent sexism. The episode keeps pulling on that thread until it reaches Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish, and the discovery identified as a pulsating neutron star, where credit and memory…
A plain look at why matter outnumbers antimatter, and why physics still wants a deeper answer.
Lost in Science opens with a headline-sized tease about matter and antimatter, then settles into a careful account of why the universe seems so lopsided.
A plain-language look at how rising carbon dioxide might reach the blood, with uncertainty left visible.
Lost in Science follows a careful line from carbon dioxide in the air to bicarbonate in the blood, with Chris and Lyndon keeping the discussion anchored to what has been tracked over about 20 years.
A shark story that expands into parasites, pollutants, and behavior with an inland perspective.
Lost in Science uses a shark-encounter segment to open onto a wider discussion of parasites, pollutants, and animal behavior in the ocean. Claire and Lyndon's conversation with veterinary parasitologist Professor Shakufa Shamsi keeps the science grounded in practical questions…
Pregnancy brain gets a steadier reading before cabbage science closes the show.
This episode starts with pregnancy and the brain, and it quickly settles on a better frame than the old baby brain shorthand. Claire’s second pregnancy gives the discussion a personal anchor, while the science keeps the focus on reorganisation, gray matter, anxiety, and pathway…
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
Lyndon and Claire start with a brain-tickling joke and quickly land on pregnancy.
Hosts Lyndon and Chris interview Dr.
Hosts Lyndon and Chris introduce the show and preview an interview about the book 'Science Under Siege' addressing anti-science misinformation.
The hosts discuss the recent rediscovery of the Leadbeater's possum, Victoria's faunal emblem, outside its known range.
The hosts discuss how big a lizard could get, exploring biological limits and evolutionary history.
Lyndon opens the show with Stu and Chris in the studio.
Chris and Lyndon open in a loose, joking mode, and the episode keeps circling the big questions of time and time travel without pretending they are simple.
Claire and Lyndon reopen a shark question.
Lost in Science opens with Lyndon and Chris trading relaxed banter before Chris points to an ABC News headline about matter and antimatter.