Chris Lassig, Stuart Burns, Claire Farrugia and Linden Ashcroft.
545 episodes
6 days ago
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.
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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.
This week, Linden reveals a new study into predicting the tipping points when mathematicians have a sudden “ah-ha!” moment when working on a blackboard; and Claire stuns us all with research that found a single ant was able to lay eggs for two different species.S. Tabatabaeian, A. O’bi, D. Landy, & T. Marghetis, An information-theoretic foreshadowing of mathematicians’ sudden insights, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (35) e2502791122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502791122 (2025).Juvé, Y., Lutrat, C., Ha, A. et al. One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants. Nature 646, 372–377 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09425-w
Lost in Science
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.
