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<p>This month, on Break It Down: Artemis II heads to the Moon and back, taking astronauts farther from Earth than any human before, some seriously impressive muon research wins the Breakthrough Prize, and a skull...
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IFLScience - Break It Down
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Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…
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What is IFLScience - Break It Down about?
Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…
What has IFLScience - Break It Down covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Artemis II Records, Neanderthal Not-Hybrids, And Introducing “Moon Joy” | Break It Down" (1 May 2026, 46 minutes), "The Science Behind “Project Hail Mary”, Ghost Elephants, And Womb Transplants" (27 March 2026, 45 minutes), and "AI Assassins, Inside A De-extinction Lab, And Life On Mars? | Break It Down Podcast" (27 February 2026, 43 minutes).
How often does IFLScience - Break It Down publish?
IFLScience - Break It Down publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 84 episodes.
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Booking probability for IFLScience - Break It Down is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. IFLScience - Break It Down requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. IFLScience - Break It Down's contact route on record: public web form.
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IFLScience - Break It Down is a science podcast with 84 episodes published.
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- Mar 27, 202645 minS0
<p>This month, on Break It Down: The world’s largest coral colony has been discovered at the Great Barrier Reef, we’re all a little bit disappointed that asteroid 2024 YR 4 will whizz past the Moon instead of smacking...
- Feb 27, 202643 minS0
<p>This month on Break It Down: </p> Why are there over 8 million pickled fish in some WWII-era bunkers in Louisiana? We ask Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute director Brian Sidlauskas to spill the tea...
- Jan 30, 202638 minS0
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- Oct 24, 202534 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: a potential environmental trigger for autism has been identified, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is doing weird things with its tail, 90 percent of people are at risk of a newly recognized...
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- Oct 10, 202533 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: 3I/ATLAS is a 10 billion-year-old time capsule, a world-first fossil captures the moment a rock hyrax dragged its butt 126,000 years ago, a living person received a pig liver transplant...
- Oct 3, 202539 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: the second oldest use of the color blue ever has been discovered in Europe dating back 13,000 years, “chemical fossils” suggest the oldest life on Earth may have been sponges 541 million...
- Sep 19, 202534 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: Homo habilis might not have been the apex predator we thought it was, the oldest and most complete pachycephalosaur reveals why they were so weirdly dome-headed, we’ve been able to track...
- Sep 5, 202542 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: Queen ants are throwing the rules of reproduction out of the window by producing offspring of two different species, for the first time ever we have a complete map of brain activity and...
- Aug 29, 202544 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: Think you know Earth? Think again; a new campaign is trying to overturn the highly erroneous map we were all taught in school. A new injection can make succulents glow pretty much any...
- Aug 22, 202535 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: Tracks left in ancient rock suggest fish crawled out of the seas 10 million years earlier than we thought, a 140,000-year-old child’s skull is the earliest evidence Neanderthals and Homo...
- Aug 15, 202539 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: The discovery of some fossilized human teeth reveals the oldest known members of our genus weren’t alone; their neighbors were a species we’ve never found before. A world-first study...
- Aug 8, 202535 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: cockatoos have added 17 new dance moves to their official tally, we may finally know where the ancient “hobbit” humans came from, four new species of tarantulas have been discovered with...
- Jul 11, 202543 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: just a week after the discovery of our third-ever interstellar visitor we may know where it came from, ancient enamel provides a snapshot into the lives of prehistoric rhinos, the moa...
- Jul 4, 202535 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: We’ve just seen our third-ever interstellar object whizzing though the Solar System, eating cheese really might give you nightmares (but so might dessert), cavers are rewarded with a...
- Jun 27, 202534 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: feast your eyes on the stunning first images from the world’s largest digital camera, capturing millions of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids. Why killer whales are rubbing each...
- Jun 20, 202536 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: Two spacecraft just created the first ever artificial solar eclipse, thanks to some impressive drone photos we know now dancing dinosaurs might have been leaping around to impress females...
- Jun 13, 202535 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: Seeing the Sun’s south pole for the first time ever, Ice Age puppies frozen in permafrost turn out to be wolves, a world-first fossil discovery reveals a sauropod’s final meal, “razor...
- Jun 6, 202542 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: A great big explosion in space is the most energetic since the Big Bang, AI reveals the Dead Sea Scrolls could share the same authors as the Bible, it looks like the Milky Way and...
- May 30, 202543 minS0
<p>This week on Break It Down: The oldest fingerprint in the world might be left by a Neanderthal hoping to complete a face, scientists propose seeding life on Enceladus to see what would happen, we’re starting to...
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