Glowing Plants, Punk Ankylosaur, And Has The Wow! Signal Been Solved?

Aug 29, 2025
43 mins

Episode Description

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 color you like, and better yet, they’re rechargeable. An intriguing new theory to explain the legendary Wow! Signal makes a convincing case. Turns out the oldest known ankylosaur was also ridiculously spiky with a trait we’ve never seen in any vertebrate – living or extinct – before. See the first 3D digital analysis of the only person known to have a proton beam go through their head, and why does frozen seafood glow? Why indeed.

So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…

Links:

Silly map
Pacific Ocean antipodes
Glowing plants
Wow! Signal
Punky ankylosaur
Proton beam to the head
Glowing seafood
The Big QuestionsWhat Will The Fossils Of The Future Look Like?
CURIOUS Magazine

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