Articles on The Conversation's Curious Kids Podcast
Displaying all articles
Listen to palaeobiologist Neil Gostling on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast talk about how scientists work out what dinosaurs looked like.
Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear anthropologist April Nowell explain the origins of language.
Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear biochemist Mark Lorch explain how scientists are trying to make new elements for the periodic table.
Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear taste researcher Linda Bartoshuk explain why our tastes for food change.
Wildlife expert Vanessa Pirotta talks whale digestion on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear astronomer Michael Lam on what theories scientists have for what came before the Big Bang.
Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear evolutionary biologist Tom Smulders explain.
The podcast where kids ask questions direct to academics is back for a second season.
Phenomena like the Northern Lights and rainbows can seem magical – even to physicists like Partha Chowdhury who study them.
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about how and why chameleons change colour in The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Paleontologist Bill Ausich explains whether dinosaurs could ever roam the Earth again. Listen on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Psychologist Deborah Wells explains why dogs are so cute - and yours in particular – on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Botanist Paul Ashton explains the difference between trees that lose their leaves, and those that don’t on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Science philosopher Sam Baron explains where energy comes from on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Astrophysicist Jacco van Loon joins us on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Wildlife scientist and whale snot expert Vanessa Pirotta joins us on the first episode of The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
Listen to the trailer for The Conversation’s Curious Kids, a new podcast where kids get answers to their big questions from experts.

















