Quirks and Quarks - Trouble for the âlove hormone,â shading Earth with moon dust, making memories with an app, orca sons inhibit momâs future offspring and more detail on how the first people got to the Americas

Trouble for the âlove hormone,â shading Earth with moon dust, making memories with an app, orca sons inhibit momâs future offspring and more detail on how the first people got to the Americas

02/10/23 • 54 min

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The science behind the âlove hormoneâ may have a big problem; Could moon dust solve our global warming problem?; Canadian researchers develop a smartphone app for making memories; Orca sons are costing their momâs a chance at more offspring; Crossing the land bridge â and back again. The travels of North Americaâs first settlers.

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