Chris Lassig, Stuart Burns, Claire Farrugia and Linden Ashcroft.
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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.
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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, Stu lets us into the secret world of moss, how they're different to other plants, and how they're so hardy they can even survive on the outside of spacecraft; and Claire gets her teeth into a new, large longitudinal study that showed water fluoridation did not harm cognition or IQ. Maeng, Chang-hyun et al., Extreme environmental tolerance and space survivability of the moss, Physcomitrium patens. iScience, Volume 0, Issue 0, 113827 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113827 John Robert Warren et al., Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course. Sci. Adv. 11, eadz0757 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adz0757
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.
