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Physics, Math, and Astronomy Podcast Episodes

A composite list of episodes from the past 90 days of physics, math, and astronomy podcasts. Also see episode list for general science podcasts.

Episodes

2024-May-14 • 56 minutes What mysteries are hiding in the extra-galactic background light? Daniel and Jorge explore the challenges of detecting light from outside the Milky Way, and the secrets it might reveal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-May-13 • 33 minutes Ep. 719: Galaxy Series - Spiral Galaxies Astronomy Cast Ep. 719: Galaxy Series - Spiral Galaxies by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Apr 30, 2024. Our galaxy series continues, on to spiral galaxies. In fact, you’re living in one right now, but telescopes show us the... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-May-13 • 32 minutes 83 - Witnessing a Revolution in Particle Physics (Ft. Chris Quigg) Today we hear from someone who bore witness to the so-called “November Revolution” of particle physics in 1974. | | For ad free episodes and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverse | Our merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-u... (@DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs)

2024-May-13 • 34 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 719: Galaxy Series - Spiral Galaxies Streamed live on Apr 30, 2024. Our galaxy series continues, on to spiral galaxies. In fact, you’re living in one right now, but telescopes show us the various shapes and sizes these galaxies come in. Thanks to JWST, we’re learning how these... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-13 • 132 minutes 275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries To celebrate the publication of Quanta and Fields, a solo episode diving into some of the coolest aspects of quantum field theory. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-May-13 • 32 minutes S27E58: Earth's Fading Shield: The Magnetic Trigger for Life's Diversity Embark on a cosmic expedition with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 58, where we delve into the mysteries of Earth’s ancient magnetic field and its role in the diversification of life. Join us as we explore a pivotal period over half a billion years ago... (@stuartgary)

2024-May-12 • 67 minutes Nick Bostrom: Will Artificial Intelligence Lead Us to a Utopian Future? There are many stories, notions, and theories about what might happen if the development of artificial intelligence goes wrong. But what if it goes right? What if we develop superintelligence safely, govern it well, and make good use of it? (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-May-12 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 273E & 274E: Neighboring World & Coming Out Of Monsoon Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-12 • 15 minutes Lyra: Pop Culture Superstar Join Kit for this solo report on the cursed episode that is Lyra: Pop Culture Superstar! Be sure to check out the associated Tumblr blog for pictures @starrytimepod. (@[email protected])

2024-May-12 • 24 minutes Star Diary: The Milky Way puts on a show (13 to 19 May 2024) Catch the Milky Way this month before it disappears into the twilight. Find out how to catch these and more stargazing highlights in this week’s podcast guide, Star Diary, 13 to 19 May 2024. | | Transcript: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/... | | Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine and submit your astrophotography images over on our website: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com | Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@skyatnightmag)

2024-May-11 • 98 minutes Starts With A Bang #105 - Dark Matter And Galaxies Every January, I head to the American Astronomical Society's big annual meeting with an ulterior motive in mind. Beyond merely uncovering new scientific findings, gathering information for potential stories, and connecting with friends and colleagues, I also look to meet emerging junior researchers who are swiftly becoming not only experts, but leaders, in their particular sub-field of astronomy. | One of the most popular research topics in astrophysics today is the connection between the dark Universe, inc... (@StartsWithABang)

2024-May-11 • 7 minutes NOIRLab - The Origins Of Castaway Gamma Ray-Bursts Gamma-ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the universe. Short gamma ray bursts are caused by the merger of two neutron stars. However, not all short gamma-ray bursts are associated with galaxies. In this podcast, Brendan O’connor,... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-10 • 182 minutes Marcus Hutter | Universal Artificial Intelligence and Solomonoff Induction Marcus Hutter is an artificial intelligence researcher who is both a Senior Researcher at Google DeepMind and an Honorary Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at Australian National University. He is responsible for the development of the theory of Universal Artificial Intelligence, for which he has written two books, one back in 2005 and one coming right off the press as we speak. Marcus is also the creator of the Hutter prize, for which you can win a sizable fortune for achieving state of ... (@IAmTimNguyen)

2024-May-10 • 17 minutes [Space Bites] Planet 9 Updates // Vera Rubin Mirror // New SpaceX EVA Suit SpaceX announces their new spacewalking suit, China is off to the Moon again, progress on Vera Rubin, and take a one-way trip into a black hole. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-May-10 • 23 minutes EVSN - Supervolcanoes Remain Active Post-Eruption Longer Than Thought From September 16, 2021. Research into the Toba caldera and its super-eruption 75,000 years ago shows that magma continued to flow out of the volcano for thousands of years after the main eruption event. Plus, magma and volcanoes throughout our solar... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-10 • 51 minutes Thomas A. Garrity, "All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge UP, 2021) An interview with Thomas A. Garrity (@NewBooksMath)

2024-May-10 • 47 minutes The Science of MDMA with Ben Rein Can MDMA make you a better person? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the neuroscience of empathy, psychopathy, and MDMA in the brain with neuroscientist Ben Rein, PhD. (@neiltyson)

2024-May-10 • 36 minutes S27E57: Rewriting Cosmic History: The Surprising Growth of Early Galaxies Embark on a celestial odyssey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 57, where we unravel the rapid evolution of spiral galaxies. Our cosmic journey begins over 10 billion years ago, as new observations from the Webb Space Telescope reveal the early... (@stuartgary)

2024-May-09 • 26 minutes Artificial intelligence: developing useful tools that scientists can trust Computer scientist Rick Stevens is our podcast guest (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-May-09 • 31 minutes Brian Keating Discusses the Ultimate Issues of Life With Dennis Prager Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! How are cosmology and cosmetology linked? Has the Big Bang happened an infinite number of times? And why has no one ever seen a perfect triangle? I recently had the opportunity to discuss these and other exciting topics with Dennis Prager! Dennis is the host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show The Dennis Prager Show, which can be heard nationwide on nearly 400 st... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-May-09 • 70 minutes Awesome Astronomy - May Part 1 Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. #143 - May 2024. Packing for a Solar Eclipse! This month excitement builds for the predicted Nova outburst in Corona Borealis... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-09 • 29 minutes Will Better Superconductors Transform the World? If superconductors — materials that conduct electricity without any resistance — worked at temperatures and pressures close to what we would consider normal, they would be world-changing. They could dramatically amplify power grids, levitate high-speed trains and enable more affordable medical technologies. For more than a century, physicists have tinkered with different compounds and environmental conditions in pursuit of this elusive property, but while success has sometimes been claimed, the reports were... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-May-09 • 50 minutes What’s the largest asteroid impact in Earth’s history? Daniel and Kelly review the most cataclysmic impacts in our planet's history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-May-08 • 51 minutes TARDIS Talk: Space, Time, and “Doctor Who” with Russell T. Davies We explore how Doctor Who has influenced the scientific community with Russell T. Davies, the past and present showrunner of the iconic science fiction TV series. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-May-08 • 45 minutes [Interview] What Comes After ALMA? Next Gen AtLAST Observatory How can we improve ALMA? What are the benefits of having a single big submillimeter telescope? What could we discover if the AtLAST telescope project goes through? Figuring out the answers with Dr Claudia Chicone. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-May-08 • 36 minutes SETI Live - Electric Mayhem: TRAPPIST-1e's Atmospheric Erosion Recorded 21 March 2024. The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has fascinated both scientists and the public since the discovery of the last five of its seven terrestrial worlds in 2017. With four of those planets in the so-called habitable zone, where water... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-08 • 23 minutes S27E56: Saturn's Geyser Moon Mysteries: Tidal Forces and Life's Potential Embark on an interstellar odyssey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 56, where we delve into the enigmatic geysers of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Unravel the mystery behind these spectacular jets as new research draws parallels with Earth's own San... (@stuartgary)

2024-May-07 • 35 minutes AaS! 223: Why is it So Hard to Return to the Moon? If we went to the Moon already, why can’t we go back so easily? What technology have we lost? What are we trying to do differently? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online... (@PaulMattSutter)

2024-May-07 • 37 minutes Ask A Spaceman Ep. 223: Why is it So Hard to Return to the Moon? If we went to the Moon already, why can’t we go back so easily? What technology have we lost? What are we trying to do differently? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-07 • 39 minutes [Q&A] Messaging The Aliens, Moving the Earth, Shapes of Coronagraphs How can we let aliens know we're here? What does a lunar eclipse look like as seen from the Moon? Can we record a supernova in real time? Why aren't coronagraphs just circles? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-May-07 • 52 minutes Cosmic Queries – Bits of Spacetime with Janna Levin Is gravity fundamental to the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore quantum physics, the fourth dimension, whether H2O is water, and the many-worlds interpretation with theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin, PhD. (@neiltyson)

2024-May-07 • 51 minutes Listener Questions 55: Time and waves! Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-May-07 • 21 minutes Tying together black holes, quantum gravity and number theory "The 20th century was the interaction of geometry and physics, and the 21st century is the interaction of number theory with physics." This intriguing insight comes from our recent discussion with Yang-Hui He from the London Institute of Mathematical... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-May-07 • 47 minutes S5E24 Zombie Wheel of Distributions In this week's episode Patrick and Greg somehow manage to tie together pretending to be sick with game shows with zombies with conspiracy boards to explore the remarkable inter-relations among probability distributions, starting with the Bernoulli and biting their way through the binomial, z, t, chi-square, F, and beyond. Along the way they also discuss having a 122 degree temperature, playing with mercury, daytime TV, Paul Lynde, Vanna White, horses and plows, breeding like cats, the long con, the Swi... (@quantitudepod)

2024-May-06 • 31 minutes Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies Astronomy Cast Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Apr 30, 2024. It’s time to begin a new mini-series, where we’ll look at different classes of galaxies. Today, we’ll start with the dwarf... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-May-06 • 23 minutes S27E55: Martian Mysteries: Curiosity Uncovers Clues to Ancient Earth-Like Conditions The Space, Astronomy and Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 55 *New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars A new study using data from NASA’s Mars curiosity rover suggests there was once an Earth-like environment on... (@stuartgary)

2024-May-06 • 215 minutes AMA | May 2024 Ask Me Anything episode for May 2024. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-May-06 • 31 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 718: Galaxy Series - Dwarf Galaxies Streamed live on Apr 30, 2024. It’s time to begin a new mini-series, where we’ll look at different classes of galaxies. Today, we’ll start with the dwarf galaxies, which flock around larger galaxies like the Milky Way. Are they the building... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-05 • 59 minutes Searching for Alien Earths with Lisa Kaltenegger Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Is Earth unique, or are there other Earth-like planets full of life? If so, what might life be like on these other planets? Could we even detect it? These questions have puzzled people for millennia. Now, we finally have the technology to explore it. Among the people who have taken up the search for other Earth-like planets and extraterrestrial life is today's guest, Lisa Kaltenegger! Lisa Kaltenegger is an award-winnin... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-May-05 • 49 minutes [Interview] How Robots Will Help Humans Conquer The Moon When humans will return to the Moon they will need a lot of assistance to set up a settlement and carry out all the missions. They will need a lot of robots to do that. How exactly will it pan out? Figuring out with Professor Yang Gao from King's College London. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-May-05 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 727 & 728: Dust Moons & Space Weather Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - In a dance of unequal partners the Earth and Moon orbit a... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-04 • 22 minutes Star Diary: See the crescent Moon pass the Pleiades (6 to 12 May 2024) Challenge yourself to find the 1% crescent Moon as it passes by Jupiter and the Pleiades. Find out how to catch these and more stargazing highlights in this week’s podcast guide, Star Diary, 6 to 12 May 2024. Transcript: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podca... Make you own craters: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine and submit your astrophotography images over on our website: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-May-04 • 8 minutes Last Minute Astronomer - May Episode May of 2024: With April being SUCH a packed month of events that were dependent on precise timing, May brings us reliable sights with slow-rolling changes. Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and the Moon all dance in the morning twilight all month as we gear up... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-03 • 76 minutes Space Policy Edition: The power of the lunar sublime Should policymakers spend more time looking - really looking - at the Moon? Chris Cokinos thinks so. He’s the author of a new book, Still As Bright, which explores the evolving role of the Moon in our culture, our history, and our dreams of spaceflight. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-May-03 • 32 minutes EVSN - Catch the (Alien) Rainbow From Thursday, April 25, 2024. As scientists discover and explore the atmospheres of more and more planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, we are learning that if you can imagine it, it probably exists. In a new paper discussing the planet... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-03 • 49 minutes Cosmic Queries – Physics All Around Us What would aliens think of our inventions? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions on Maxwell’s Equations, the symmetry of the universe, and the physics around us all the time. (@neiltyson)

2024-May-03 • 24 minutes S27E54: Earth's Ancient Shield: Unearthing the Origins of Our Magnetic Field Dive into the cosmic depths with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 54, where we journey back 3.7 billion years to uncover the oldest evidence of Earth's magnetic field. Join us as we explore pristine ancient rocks from Greenland, revealing a magnetic... (@stuartgary)

2024-May-03 • 36 minutes Sun Series: Bonus: Dispatches from the Path of Totality On April 8, 2024, North America experienced its last total solar eclipse until the 2040s. As the Moon’s shadow fell across the U.S., NASA sent Curious Universe producers out into the field across the path of totality to talk to space nerds and eclipse scientists. In this special bonus episode of our Sun Series, we’ll relive the special day together. (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-May-02 • 17 minutes [Space Bites] Big Space Debris Milestone // JWST Spies Exoplanet Weather // Immortal SLIM Webb sees weather on an exoplanet, takes a new image of the horsehead nebula, and a satellite takes a close up image of a piece of space debris. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-May-02 • 41 minutes Social media: making it work for physics-related businesses Our podcasts guests are Alex Peroff and Neil Spinner of Pine Research (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-May-02 • 25 minutes Actual Astronomy - The Observers Calendar for May Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Observer's Calendar for May 2024. In this episode we’ll talk about: - A meteor shower, - Mercury in the... (@planetarysci)

2024-May-02 • 29 minutes [Interview] Is There Hope For TRAPPIST-1 Planets with James Webb? What are the limits of James Webb when it's looking for Earth-like atmospheres? What can we possibly find out? Is there any hope for red dwarf stars and their planets to have a potential for habitability? Finding out the answers with Evelyn Macdonald. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-May-02 • 59 minutes What is quantum biology? Daniel and Kelly explore how biological systems rely on the quantum nature of matter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-May-01 • 24 minutes S27E53: Methane on Mars and Io's Infernos: Uncovering Cosmic Mysteries Embark on an interplanetary investigation with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 53, as we delve into the perplexing presence of methane on Mars. The red planet's mysterious emissions have puzzled scientists for years, with seasonal spikes and unpredictable behavior sparking debates on their origin. Could biological activity be the source, or are geological interactions to blame? Join us as we explore a new hypothesis that suggests Mars' own soil could be sealing and sporadically releasing this elusive gas, addin... (@stuartgary)

2024-May-01 • 69 minutes Nova predictions and China to the Moon Episode 143 Awesome Astronomy (@AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro)

2024-May-01 • 60 minutes Europa Clipper’s message in a bottle Bob Pappalardo, Europa Clipper's project scientist, visits The Planetary Society headquarters in Pasadena, CA, to share the story of the mission's vault plate, humanity's next collection of messages to another world. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-May-01 • 10 minutes During Pregnancy, a Fake 'Infection' Protects the Fetus Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Unanswered Questions” by Kevin MacLeod. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-May-01 • 29 minutes Look Up! May 2024 What's in May’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Julienne talk through some of the month's must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. They also bring two news stories, the discovery biggest stellar mass black hole in our galaxy and an update on the Dragonfly mission. Join the conversation on X (@ROGAstronomers) in May. We want to know what you would name a black hole if you discovered one? (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-May-01 • 65 minutes May 2024 Galaxy evolution: not so sim(ple)ulations. This month, Kammy and Jessy are joined by Dr. Ana Duarte Cabral from Cardiff University, where she discusses her work on understanding the connection between star formation and galaxy evolution and clues us in on how simulating these processes are not a simple affair. Fiona and Phoebe report on the recent discovery of a quiet Galactic black hole, and observations of a loud white dwarf star. Ask an Astronomer makes a return with George and Honor! (@jodcast)

2024-May-01 • 38 minutes SETI Live - Dante Lauretta, “The Asteroid Hunter” Recorded live 19 March 2024. A tale of destiny and danger, The Asteroid Hunter chronicles firsthand the high-stakes OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission, narrated by Principal Investigator Dr. Dante Lauretta. It offers readers an intimate glimpse... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-30 • 49 minutes #304 - David Barnhart - Arkisys Matt speaks with The CEO and co-founder of Arkisys, David Barnhart. Arkisys is a company developing future space expansion by engineering 'The Port', a primary center for technology hosting, satellite integration, assembly, and resupply. (@Interplanetypod • @iam7cool)

2024-Apr-30 • 24 minutes 35: Cantor's Paradox: A Journey through the Rabbit Hole of Sets Ioanna Georgiou, mathematics educator and author of “Mathematical Adventures!” and “Peculiar Deaths of Famous Mathematicians”, finishes up the discussion on Georg Cantor! In this episode, we'll attempt to answer the following questions: Should you co... (@weheartmath)

2024-Apr-30 • 37 minutes H'ad Astra Historia Ep. 102: Egyptian Star Clocks H’ad astra historia is the official podcast for the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. We’re here to share stories from and about the people who study the stars, planets, and the cosmos. We’ll be... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-30 • 52 minutes 3 Body Problem: a deep dive into the Netflix show Exploring the multi-layered story about humanity's first contact with an alien civilization (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Apr-30 • 42 minutes The Black Sea Experiment: Data taking and legacy Our team returns to the Soviet Union to take data on the Slava. We hear about the spectroscopy of a nuclear weapon and the legacy of the Black Sea Experiment. (@NuclearLifePod • @ShellyLesh)

2024-Apr-30 • 38 minutes Prelude to the Black Sea Experiment: Soviet Scientists Reach Out This episode sets the stage for the Black Sea Experiment. We are introduced to Tom Cochran and Frank von Hippel, two people who had a hand in changing the way the US viewed arms control verificatio... (@NuclearLifePod • @ShellyLesh)

2024-Apr-30 • 48 minutes Low-Mass Mania with Emily Rice Could we find life around low-mass stars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice find out why life might be more likely around low-mass stars, what makes brown dwarfs, galactic archeology, and more with astronomer Emily Rice. (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-30 • 50 minutes What is gravitoelectromagnetism? Daniel and Katie bushwack their way between theories of gravity and electromagnetism, looking for the elusive connection.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-30 • 34 minutes The art of maths and the maths of art Mathematics is a creative pursuit so it's not surprising that there are communalities between maths and art in all its forms. In this episode we explore the intersection between maths and art with physicist Andrzej Herczyński and mathematician Paul G... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Apr-30 • 41 minutes Future Frontiers: AI, Quantum Computing, and Beyond In Episode 86: In this visionary episode, Patrick and Ciprian dive into the evolving world of artificial intelligence. They explore groundbreaking developments in GPT and large language models, assess the commercial stability of quantum computing, and discuss the upcoming discoveries and solutions poised to transform our future. Tune in to Episode 86 of 'Entangled Things' for an in-depth analysis of the technologies shaping our tomorrow. (@EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici)

2024-Apr-30 • 49 minutes S5E23 A Rosetta Stone for DAGs and SEM In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about both structural equation modeling and directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs, where they are similar and where they are different, and try to provide a Rosetta Stone for translating back and forth between the two. Along the way they also discuss pop, garage sales, thinking about excessive thought, roly-polies, potato bugs, been to the cinema, sweet tea, smiley face sub-i, poop hat, the British Museum, fiberglass replicas, love languages, cave drawings, the s... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Apr-29 • 48 minutes 52: Voyager: Where no-one has gone before... Two of the most remarkable spacecraft ever launched are the stars of this month’s episode: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Izzie and Dr Becky talk to Dr Jamie Rankin, the mission’s current Deputy project scientist, and editor Richard gets to chat to Ann Druyan, the original Creative Director of the Golden Record project, who worked alongside her husband Carl Sagan. | | The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. ... (@RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_)

2024-Apr-29 • 30 minutes Ep. 717: Understanding the Ages of Distant Cosmic Objects Astronomy Cast Ep. 717: Understanding the Ages of Distant Cosmic Objects by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Apr 22, 2024. How old is that star? That planet? That nebula? Figuring out the ages of astronomical objects is surprisingly... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Apr-29 • 44 minutes [Q&A] Effects of Planet Alignment, Protecting Antimatter Spaceships from Dust, JWST Deep Fields How can we protect antimatter-powered rockets from space dust? Will curing cancer solve deep space travel? What happens when planets align? Does dark matter lose angular momentum? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-29 • 36 minutes 82 - Science Vs. Pseudoscience Pseudoscience can sometimes be hard to distinguish from the real thing. Today we discuss how philosophers of science have thought about this problem. | | For ad free episodes and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverse | Our merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-u... (@DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs)

2024-Apr-29 • 30 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 717: Understanding the Ages of Distant Cosmic Objects Streamed live on Apr 22, 2024. How old is that star? That planet? That nebula? Figuring out the ages of astronomical objects is surprisingly challenging. Fortunately, astronomers have developed a series of techniques they can use to work out the ages... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-29 • 70 minutes 274 | Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells I talk with biologist and architect Gizem Gumuskaya about building robots out of human cells. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-29 • 34 minutes S27E52: Cosmic Time Capsules: Unraveling the Origins of Interstellar Stardust Dive into the cosmos with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 52, as we traverse the stellar seas to discover a groundbreaking revelation: stardust from a supernova, harboring secrets from a newly identified type of star. An extraordinary find in an ancient... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-29 • 45 minutes EarthCARE, Starliner and NASA's George Abbey And the BepiColombo mission to Mercury, which reaches its destination next year... (@NakedScientists • @drbtmcallister)

2024-Apr-28 • 65 minutes Exploring the Scientific Validity of the Multiverse Theory w/ Paul Halpern Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! The multiverse has captured the imagination of scientists and thinkers for centuries, sparking debates in physics, philosophy, and beyond. But is it a valid scientific theory or just science fiction? I’ve had the pleasure of exploring this issue with the leading expert in this field, physicist and author Paul Halpern. Halpern is a professor of physics at Saint Joseph’s U... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-28 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 725 & 726: Mtn Ops & Close Space Rocks Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - My team, the Catalina Sky Survey, would not find a single... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-27 • 22 minutes Star Diary: The Moon lies in The Teapot (29 April to 5 May 2024) See the Moon sit inside the Teapot asterism this week, as well as a quartet of asteroids moving across the night sky. Find out how to catch these and more stargazing highlights in this week’s podcast guide, Star Diary, 29 April to 5 May 2024. Transcript: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podca... Listen for meteors on your FM radio: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine and submit your astrophotography images over on our website: https://www.skyatnightmagazi... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Apr-27 • 39 minutes The Cosmic Savannah - Ep 56: Our Supermassive Black Hole Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy! This is the first direct evidence of the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-27 • 23 minutes Lyra: Myths and Retcons(tellations) Join Jordan and Kit as they retell and ret-con the mythology of the constellation Lyra! (@[email protected])

2024-Apr-26 • 21 minutes EVSN - An In-Depth Look at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption From January 20, 2022. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga erupted on January 15, and despite communications being cut off, government officials and scientists have gathered a wealth of information about the event and its... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-26 • 20 minutes [Space Bites] Artemis III in Jeopardy // Giant Lava Lake on Io // Voyager-1 Fixed Juno sees a lava lake on Io, Voyager 1 isn’t spouting nonsense any more, Titan Dragonfly gets the greenlight from NASA, and TESS finds its first rogue planet. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-26 • 45 minutes Stars Talk to Neil – Alien Love How certain are we about aliens? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer science questions from celebrities like Kevin Hart, Jack White, Nikki Glaser, and more! (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-26 • 25 minutes S27E51: Pluto's Heart Unveiled: The Impact that Shaped a Dwarf Planet Embark on a celestial journey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 51, as we unravel the mysteries of Pluto's heart. Scientists, armed with sophisticated computer simulations, have finally pieced together the enigmatic origins of the dwarf planet's... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-25 • 32 minutes Environmental sustainability: exploring the challenges for the medical physics community Kari Tanderup and Rob Chuter explain how the profession is reducing its carbon footprint (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Apr-25 • 7 minutes Awesome Astronomy - Why Is The Moon Upside Down? Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. But really it’s all just a big Ralph Fest today! From Mar 25, 2022. If you’ve never been to the southern... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-25 • 35 minutes What Does Milk Do for Babies? Milk is more than just a food for babies. Breast milk has evolved to deliver thousands of diverse molecules including growth factors, hormones and antibodies, as well as microbes. | Elizabeth Johnson, a molecular nutritionist at Cornell University, studies the effects of infants’ diet on the gut microbiome. These studies could hold clues to hard questions in public health for children and adults alike. In this episode of “The Joy of Why” podcast, co-host Steven Strogatz interviews Johnson about the microbia... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Apr-25 • 47 minutes Physics of the Internet Daniel and Jorge talk about how our understanding of physics is central to making the internet work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-24 • 17 minutes Da Vinci's Math Teacher: Merging the Practical and Theoretical Jeanne Lazzarini joins us again to introduce us to the mathematician Luca Pacioli, whose views of numbers and shapes influenced Leonardo da Vinci, leading to a period of art and invention. His book, De Divina Proportione, is the only book ever illustrated by da Vinci. The Renaissance was a period when mathematicians studied art and artists studied mathematics. As da Vinci said, "Everything connects." | | --- | | Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/... (@CarolJacobyPhD)

2024-Apr-24 • 42 minutes [Q&A] Bigger JWST for Starship, Day on A Gas Planet, Real Science Gatekeepers Why don't they just build a bigger version of James Webb for Starship? What's the pressure inside Europa's oceans? How can you measure a day on a planet without a surface? Answering all these questions and more in this week's question show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-24 • 97 minutes Eclipse-O-Rama This week on Planetary Radio we take a trip to The Planetary Society’s Eclipse-O-Rama festival in Fredericksburg, Texas, where hundreds gathered to witness the April 8 total solar eclipse. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Apr-24 • 50 minutes SETI Live - SETI Artist In Residence Program: Xin Liu’s Inward Expeditions Nimbly combining the tools of art and science, SETI Institute Artist in Residence Xin Liu expresses what it means to be human through a diverse body of work that includes frost-coated sculptures, a bubbling fountain of crude oil, and a performance in... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-24 • 27 minutes S27E50: Titan Awaits: NASA's Rotorcraft Readies for Alien Shores Venture into the unknown with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 50, as we embark on an interplanetary adventure that transcends the boundaries of our earthly skies. NASA confirms its bold mission to dispatch a pioneering rotocopter to the enigmatic... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-23 • 235 minutes From Quarks to Galaxies: A tour through the forefront of modern physics with Frank Wilczek I have had the privilege of working closely with Frank Wilczek for over 40 years, on and off, and we have written perhaps a dozen scientific papers together over that time. Our collaborations together were always a source of joy, and often of wonder, and I am pleased to say that a number of them had significant impact on our fields of study. While I have had the privilege of working with many talented scientists during my career, Frank is unique. He is one of the most broadly read, deep, and creative sc... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Apr-23 • 6 minutes Exoplanet Radio - Ep 16: How Long To Travel to The Closest Exoplanet Proxima Centauri b? Many people feel that it’s very important for humanity’s long term survival that we become a multiplanet species. Traveling to and possibly even inhabiting other planets in our solar system is not only possible with our current levels of... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-23 • 36 minutes Sun Series: Soaring Toward the Sun For the first time, a NASA spacecraft is flying through the Sun's atmosphere. Nour Raouafi, project scientist for Parker Solar Probe, explains why the Sun's corona is the source of one of the biggest mysteries in all of space science. So, what does it take to build a probe that can touch the Sun—including surviving temperatures of 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit and barreling through sudden eruptions of solar plasma—and live to tell the tale? We'll also go inside the fleet of NASA spacecraft studying the Sun from ... (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-Apr-23 • 43 minutes Debating Pluto's Planethood with Alan Stern Will Neil take back what he said about Pluto? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore planets, dwarf planets, and the Kuiper belt with planetary scientist and principal investigator for the New Horizons Mission, Alan Stern. (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-23 • 50 minutes Listener Questions 54: String cosmology, cosmic strings, and alien numbers Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected] | See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-23 • 13 minutes Ramanujan: Dream of the possible One of the most fascinating figures in the history of mathematics was Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian genius who formed a remarkable relationship with the Cambridge mathematician GH Hardy. Ramanujan was interested in problems in number theo... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Apr-23 • 47 minutes S5E22 Survival Analysis in the Social Sciences: It's About Time In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the incredibly cool topic of survival analysis, which is a set of techniques that allows for powerful tests of predictors of the amount of time to experiencing an event; yet these models are not often used in many areas of study. Along the way they also discuss the date of your death, running with scissors, Patrick's Audi A8, because she's dead, say my name, the good guys, things that annoy me, you tell me, using your brain, sofa forts, back dat... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Apr-22 • 29 minutes Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs Astronomy Cast Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Apr 15, 2024. Last week, we learned about the death of Peter Higgs, a physicist and discoverer of the particle that bears his... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Apr-22 • 79 minutes 273 | Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory I talk with intellectual historian Stefanos Geroulanos about the stories we tell ourselves about our prehistoric humanity. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-22 • 29 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 716 - The God**** Particle - Remembering Peter Higgs Streamed live on Apr 15, 2024. Last week, we learned about the death of Peter Higgs, a physicist and discoverer of the particle that bears his name. The Large Hadron Collider was built to find and describe the particle. Today, we’ll look back at the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-22 • 27 minutes S27E49: Black Hole Titans: Gaia's Gaze Reveals a New Cosmic Champion Prepare for a cosmic revelation in SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 49, as we journey through the Milky Way to uncover a celestial heavyweight—the most massive stellar black hole ever discovered in our galaxy. Detected by the vigilant eyes of the European... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-21 • 88 minutes Daniel Dennett: Do We Have Free Will? Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Welcome everyone to a fascinating deep dive with the late Daniel Dennett! In our interview, we tackled fascinating problems like free will, human consciousness, ethics, and the philosophy of science. He also explained why he’s sounding the alarm on AI! Shortly after our interview, Daniel sadly passed away at the age of 82. He was a renowned philosopher, thought-provoking ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-21 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 271 & 272: Dark Trails & Mars Impactor Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - A faint shooting star or meteor streaking across the sky is... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-20 • 21 minutes Star Diary: The Lyrid Meteor shower reaches its peak (22 to 28 April 2024) The full Moon will wash out some of the dimmer meteors, but fortunately there are plenty of other stargazing highlights in this week’s stargazing podcast guide, Star Diary, 22 to 28 April 2024. Transcript: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podca... Record a meteor shower for science: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine and submit your astrophotography images over on our website: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Apr-20 • 36 minutes Deep Astronomy - DwarfLab Dwarf 2 Smart Telescope The Beginner's Gateway to the Cosmos, Even in the City! From Sep 28, 2023. Here is the Deep Astronomy Review of the Dwarf II smart telescope from Dwarflabs. If you're looking to buy one, here's my affiliate link: We've added a new way to... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-20 • 18 minutes Lyra: Cosmic Background Join Jordan and Kit as they explore the awesome astronomy and other Cosmic Background of the constellation Lyra: The Lyre. (@[email protected])

2024-Apr-19 • 31 minutes EVSN - Following the Water Toward Climate Change From April 10, 2024. This week’s episode is brought to you by last week’s terrible weather. While experiencing hail and thunder IRL, we also saw press release after press release and article after article discussing climate change. This one-two... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-19 • 20 minutes [Space Bites] ISS Debris Hit Florida House // Crisis for Mars Sample Return // Closest Black Hole A piece of the ISS smashed into a house in Florida. Evidence for the first stars in the Universe. NASA is having to rethink its Mars Sample Return mission. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-19 • 32 minutes S27E48: Cosmic Cartography: Charting Dark Energy's Role in the Universe's Fate Embark on an astronomical odyssey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 48, as we unveil the most detailed view of the expanding universe to date. The first-year data from DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey, is in, and it's changing the... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-18 • 24 minutes Water found around a distant star Astronomer Stefano Facchini reveals how he and his colleagues found water vapour at a Sun-like star where planets could already be forming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Apr-18 • 30 minutes Purpose-Led Publishing: Antonia Seymour outlines the role of not-for-profit publishers We also explore what makes a good science podcast with a student of science communication (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Apr-18 • 67 minutes Actual Astronomy - Globular Star Clusters with Peter Jedicke Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. Our guest today is Peter Jedicke who was National President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada from 2004 to 2006 and is now a Fellow of the RASC. He is also... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-18 • 44 minutes Can element 115 be used for anti-gravity? Daniel and Jorge talk about real science of element 115 and whether it aligns with the spectacular story of anti-gravity alien ships at Area 51.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-17 • 63 minutes Tabletops and telescopes: NASA’s RPG and the hunt for habitable worlds We explore NASA's first tabletop role-playing game with senior multimedia specialist Christina Mitchell and a new way to find water worlds with Amaury Triaud from the University of Birmingham. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Apr-17 • 21 minutes Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Apr-17 • 56 minutes SETI Live - On the Trail of Fireballs: Tracking Meteors and Finding Meteorites Only eight times in history have scientists found an asteroid, tracked its trajectory toward Earth, and caught the resulting fireball on cameras. The latest of these eight events happened in January 2024, with the discovery of asteroid 2024 BX1, a... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-17 • 25 minutes S27E47: Stellar Nurseries: Unveiling the Origins of Brown Dwarfs and Starbursts Prepare to illuminate the shadowy frontiers of space in SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 47. We begin by shedding light on new findings that reveal brown dwarfs, those celestial enigmas straddling the line between the largest planets and the smallest... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-16 • 36 minutes AaS! 222: What is the Most Distant Thing We Can See? What’s the most distant thing we can see with the naked eye? What about with a telescope? What about at other wavelengths? Is there anything more to see? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by... (@PaulMattSutter)

2024-Apr-16 • 37 minutes Ask A Spaceman Ep. 222: What is the Most Distant Thing We Can See? What’s the most distant thing we can see with the naked eye? What about with a telescope? What about at other wavelengths? Is there anything more to see? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-16 • 48 minutes Eyes in the Sky with Larissa Rodrigues & Jennifer Holm How is new tech helping protect the rainforest? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn how space technology is helping uncover illegal gold mines and protecting the Amazon, with illegal mining expert Larissa Rodrigues and Earth researcher Jennifer Holm. (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-16 • 41 minutes Listener Questions 53: Strong force, primordial atoms and infinities Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you. Get your questions answered: [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-16 • 24 minutes Celebrating spring with new shoots of mathematics In this episode of Maths on the move we look at some favourite pieces of maths we have worked on so far this year. From a revolutionary new tile to new insights in topology, and from fooling cancer cells to bringing mathematical research into the cl... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Apr-16 • 46 minutes The Quantum Frontier: Tackling Errors and Exploring Rydberg States with Dr. Steven Girvin In Episode 85, Patrick and Ciprian speak with returning guest Steven Girvin of Yale University. The team discusses error correction, Rydberg states, erasure errors, and dual rail encoding.Dr. Steve GirvinAfter graduating in a high school class of 5 students in the small village of Brant Lake, NY and completing his undergraduate degree in physics from Bates College, Dr. Girvin earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1977. Dr. Girvin joined the Yale faculty in 2001, where he is Eu... (@EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici)

2024-Apr-16 • 35 minutes Sun Series: What is Space Weather? From Earth, the Sun can seem steady and predictable. But when you look at our star close up, there’s a lot going on. Go behind the scenes with NASA’s Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office, a team monitoring space weather—eruptions of radiation and plasma from the Sun that can wreak havoc on spacecraft and pose dangers to astronauts. We’ll also revisit the most powerful geomagnetic storm on record, an 1859 event that produced northern lights visible in the tropics and made electrical systems go haywire.... (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-Apr-15 • 43 minutes 81 - Ancient Greek Astronomy The first episode in a new mini-series on philosophical problems in cosmology - Today we start with the origins of Western science and learn what the ancient Greeks thought about the cosmos. | | For ad free episodes and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverse | Our merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-u... (@DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs)

2024-Apr-15 • 68 minutes 272 | Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People I talk with computer scientist Leslie Valiant about learning and educability in computers and people. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-15 • 33 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 9: Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity From November 6, 2006. It’s all relative. How many times have you heard that? Well, when you’re traveling close to the speed of light, everything really is relative; especially the passage of time. This week, Fraser and Pamela give you the skinny... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-15 • 25 minutes S27E46: Stellar Cannibalism: Unraveling the Secrets of Star-Eating Phenomena SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 46: The Cosmic Dance of Neutron Stars and Black Holes Join us on a thrilling journey through the cosmos in SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 46, where we delve into the mysteries of a possible neutron star-black hole merger... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-15 • 80 minutes Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily on our historical and contemporary fellow travelers. Yet we may not appreciate how our work also extends beyond us into our physical and societal environments. Kevin Lambert takes what might be a first crack at this perspective in his book Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)... (@NewBooksMath)

2024-Apr-14 • 52 minutes Does Time Really Exist and How Can We Measure It w/ Chad Orzel (#406) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today on Into the Impossible, we’re exploring the fascinating realm of time with none other than the timekeeper himself – Chad Orzel. Chad is a professor of physics and science communicator renowned for his popular science books, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, Breakfast with Einstein, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog. He is also a regular contributor to ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-14 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 723 & 724: Very Close One & Aten Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - Ten hours and 46 minutes after my Catalina Sky Survey... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-13 • 15 minutes Star Diary: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches its brightest (15 to 21 April 2024) Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun this week, and should be at its brightest. Find out how you can see them for yourself as well as our usual stargazing highlights in this week’s podcast guide, Star Diary, 15 to 21 April 2024. Transcript: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podca... Comet Pons-Brooks: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... How to see the Lunar X and Lunar V: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine and... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Apr-13 • 12 minutes NOIRLab - The Heaviest Black Hole Pair Ever Found Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers have measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a phenomenon that has long been predicted, though never... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-13 • 12 minutes Asterism: Swan Creature Corner Join Jordan & Kit as they take a detour into Creature Corner to learn more about Swans! (@[email protected])

2024-Apr-12 • 23 minutes Evolving Dark Matter // JAXA's Moon Rover for NASA // Eclipse Experience New measurements show dark energy may be evolving, Japan is joining Artemis with a pressurized rover, why the Moon has two different faces, and my experience with the total solar eclipse. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-12 • 40 minutes Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Time Cloak with Charles Liu Are black holes places or objects? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab-bag questions about distorting spacetime, Olbers’ Paradox, singularities, the shape of the universe, and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu. (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-12 • 32 minutes EVSN - Planet Formation is (Still) Not Well Understood From March 29, 2024. One of our recurring topics is “Planet formation is not well understood,” and a trio of new papers is making it clear why planet formation continues to... not be well understood. Put simply: the Universe likes to create more... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-12 • 19 minutes S27E45: Martian Mysteries: Perseverance's Quest for Ancient Life Signs SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 45 *Perseverance collects its 24th sample on Mars NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has just collected its 24 geological sample from the surface of the red planet. The drill core offers new clues about Jezero Crater and the... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-11 • 27 minutes Statistical physics provides powerful insights into the living world The theoretical physicist Tannie Liverpool talks about the mathematics of wound healing, and much more (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Apr-11 • 68 minutes Awesome Astronomy - Packing For A Solar Eclipse Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This month Dr. Jen is off to the US for the Solar Eclipse while Paul is just back from Goonhilly Earth Station. We chat about the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-11 • 29 minutes Can Information Escape a Black Hole? Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it? In the 1970s, the physicist Stephen Hawking described a subtle process by which black holes can “evaporate,” with some particles evading gravitational oblivion. That phenomenon, now dubbed Hawking radiation, seems at odds with general relativity, and it raises an even weirder question: If particles can escape, do they preserve any information about the matter that was obliterated? | Leonard Susskind, a physicist at Stanford University, found himself at odds with Ha... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Apr-11 • 44 minutes How metallic is the Sun? Daniel and Jorge explore the enduring mystery of how much heavy metal sits in our Sun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-10 • 41 minutes Multiple worlds, containing multitudes In the final episode of this season, we hear from a NASA researcher whose expertise spans from studying samples in deep, untouched regions of our planet all the way to organic chemistry happening in space. We consider the possibility of other, past origins of life on Earth and look at the rich potential to learn from sample return missions, including the recent OSIRIS-REx mission that retrieved samples of the asteroid Bennu. Abha also sits down with Chris to hear his perspective on the podcast as a research... (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Apr-10 • 48 minutes Radiolab helps name a quasi-moon of Venus This week on Planetary Radio, Latif Nasser, co-host of Radiolab shares the story behind the naming of Zoozve, a quasi-moon of Venus. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Apr-10 • 37 minutes SETI Live - A Celestial Collaboration: Unistellar Citizen Scientists Track Comets Throughout human history, comets have fascinated us. They have gone from signs and portents of bad things to come to well-studied and even visited "dirty snowballs". Every year, observers search the skies, hoping to discover the Next Big Comet -... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-10 • 29 minutes S27E44: Unveiling Mars' Ancient Rivers: Curiosity's Quest for Extinct Waterways The Space, Astronomy and Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 44 *New Clues About Mars’ Ancient Water NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has arrived at an area in Gale Crater’s Mount Sharp that may show evidence liquid water flowed on the red planet... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-10 • 14 minutes 51: BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names Can wobbly planets have more than two solstices? Are we earthlings receding from the sun and the other planets? What is dark flow and why is it controversial? When stars die, is their energy lost forever? | | Send your questions to [email protected] or find us on Instagram @SupermassivePod. | | The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. (@RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_)

2024-Apr-09 • 5 minutes Exoplanet Radio Ep. 15: A Giant Planet Found Orbiting a Small Star From August 8, 2023. A massive, Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered orbiting a small, low-mass star and this discovery is challenging theories on how planets form around their stars. The planet, called TOI-4860 b, is about the same size as... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-09 • 54 minutes Things You Thought You Knew – The Geometric Universe What is the Sun’s ecliptic? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down the things you thought you knew about spheres in the universe, navigating the sky, and taking spacecraft out of orbit. (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-09 • 23 minutes How physics can help AI learn about the real world It's always exciting to have a glimpse at new mathematics and technology as they take shape. In this podcast we talk to Georg Maierhofer, from the University of Oxford, about an exciting new idea that is only just emerging – physics informed neural... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Apr-09 • 51 minutes Listener Questions 52 Daniel and Jorge talk about aliens, answer a question from a high school class, and advise a listener about destroying the moon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-09 • 47 minutes S5E21 Multilevel Factor Analysis: But What Do The Factors Mean?! In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick talk about the challenges of combining confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel data, and the underappreciated but absolutely critical role that theory plays in choosing the proper model for your constructs. Along the way they also discuss learning in a second language, torn meniscuseseses, concert C trumpets, nosy neighbors, forts of equations, artillery commanders, saluting cadets, the huffing closet, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, ... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Apr-08 • 32 minutes Ep. 715: Total Eclipse of the Science: Experiments During the Eclipse Astronomy Cast Ep. 715: Total Eclipse of the Science: Experiments During the Eclipse by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live April 1, 2024. NO JOKES! How to watch a solar eclipse and do some science! The next great eclipse is upon us,... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Apr-08 • 12 minutes The Science and Wonder of Solar Eclipses: 4/8/24 (#405) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! On April 8th, 2024, the USA will be treated to a rare celestial phenomenon—a total solar eclipse. During a total solar eclipse, the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow that temporarily darkens parts of the Earth. Astronomers and enthusiasts eagerly await the chance to witness this remarkable event and delve deeper into the mysteries of our solar syst... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-08 • 27 minutes Look Up! April 2024 What's in April’s night sky? Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Jess and Julienne talk through some of the month's must-see cosmic objects in this podcast. They also bring updates on all the recent human space exploration news, including the fact that NASA is recruiting astronauts! Join the conversation on X (@ROGAstronomers) in April. We want to know if you feel qualified to be an astronaut – and if you want to be one! (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Apr-08 • 194 minutes AMA | April 2024 Ask Me Anything episode for April 2024. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-08 • 31 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 715: Total Eclipse of the Science: Experiments During the Eclipse Streamed live April 1, 2024. NO JOKES! How to watch a solar eclipse and do some science! The next great eclipse is upon us, with viewers across North America witnessing the moon passing in front of the Sun. It’s an amazing experience, but also an... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-08 • 43 minutes [Q&A] Interstellar Propulsion, Uranus-Type Exoplanets, AGI Solving Space Mysteries What engine type will the first manned interstellar mission use for propulsion? Will AI help solve any mysteries of space? Why do we have exoplanet types named after Neptune but not Uranus? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-08 • 28 minutes S27E43: Galactic Ghosts: Unveiling the Milky Way's Dimmest Satellite System The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 43 *The Milky Way's Faintest Star System Unveiled Astronomers have unveiled the faintest star system known to orbit our Milky Way galaxy, Ursa Major III Unions I. This ancient and... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-07 • 42 minutes How Our Moon Shaped the Course of Human History and Humankind w/ Rebecca Boyle (#404) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today on Into the Impossible, we're joined by the renowned cosmic journalist Rebecca Boyle. As a lifelong lunar enthusiast, Rebecca has extensively studied how the Moon has shaped human history and life on Earth. Rebecca's new book, aptly titled ‘Our Moon,’ explores the mysteries of the Moon, from its crucial role in stabilizing Earth's orbit and shaping our climate to it... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Apr-07 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 721 & 722: Eric’s Night & Close Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - Asteroid hunters are developing the equipment and skills... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-06 • 28 minutes Star Diary: The Great American Eclipse arrives (8 to 14 April) A total solar eclipse will pass right across the US, Mexico and part of Canada on 8 April. Over 40 million people are expected to see the majestic sight of totality, with millions more able to see a significant partial. Find out how you can see the eclipse for yourself, as well as our usual weekly stargazing highlights in this week’s podcast guide, Star Diary, 8 to 14 April 2024. Transcript: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podca... Our complete guide to the 8 April 2024 total solar eclipse: https://ww... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Apr-06 • 12 minutes The Last Minute Astronomer - April Episode April 2024: Finally the month of the eclipse! A wonderful experience for North America, the Lyrid Meteor Shower, and lots of planetary action makes April of 2024 one of THE best months in a LONG time. I’m Rob Webb, your Last Minute... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-06 • 15 minutes Cygnus: Pop Culture Superstar Join Jordan and Kit as they explore where Cygnus shows up in Pop Culture (broadly defined), and what they'd do with the Cygnus brand! (@[email protected])

2024-Apr-06 • 12 minutes Sun Series: Minisode! Countdown to Total Solar Eclipse 2024 It’s time. On April 8, 2024, millions of people across North America will see a total solar eclipse. Get the most out of totality with this special bonus episode. Listen up for safety tips, learn how to make your own pinhole projector to safely view the eclipse and learn how anyone—including you!—can contribute to NASA research through citizen science. And if you’re not in the path of totality, watch NASA’s live broadcast starting at 1 p.m. EDT. NASA’s Curious Universe is an official NASA podcast. | |... (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-Apr-05 • 107 minutes Episode #119 - Diffuse Your Mind w/ Alexandre Adam Today I speak with Alex, a PhD student in my research group at the University of Montreal, about his research. Enjoy the episode! | | Discord: https://discord.gg/M6TMgFA4xb | Instagram: @math.physics.podcast | Email: [email protected] | Twitter: @MathPhysPod (@MathPhysicsPod)

2024-Apr-05 • 54 minutes Space Policy Edition: Real and Acceptable Reasons for Space Exploration Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin discusses his claim that there is a tension between the so-called Real reasons that motivate spaceflight and the prosaic, Acceptable reasons used to justify space exploration within the public sphere. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Apr-05 • 17 minutes [Space Bites] How To Watch The Eclipse // Vera Rubin's Huge Milestone // New Moon Rovers Vera Rubin’s Camera is complete, where are rogue planets coming from, NASA chooses suppliers for its new lunar rover, and an earlier formation for the Moon. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-05 • 102 minutes Starts With A Bang #104 - The Magnetized Galactic Center | | Have you ever wondered what the full story with the galactic center is? Sure, we have stars, gas, and an all-important supermassive black hole, but for hundreds of light-years around the center, there's a remarkable story going on that's traced out in a variety of elements at a whole slew of different temperatures. Imprinted in that material is a remarkable set of features that reveals the magnetic fields generated in our galaxy's core, with some of them spanning much greater distances than have ever ... (@StartsWithABang)

2024-Apr-05 • 15 minutes EVSN SPECIAL SHORT: How NASA Budget Cuts Will Hurt Space Science This episode was recorded on March 14, 2024. Earlier in March, Congress voted into place the FY2024 budgets for multiple agencies, including NASA. The agency is being asked for an overall 2% cut. Combined with inflation rates over 3%, we are looking... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-05 • 53 minutes Eclipses, Cosmic Cataclysms, and More with Janna Levin What can we learn from eclipses? Janna Levin joined by comedian Matt Kirshen and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Columbia University, Joe Patterson, discuss the 2017 eclipse, binary star systems, supernovae and more. What is an eclipse on Jupiter like? (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-05 • 47 minutes S27E42: Martian Oasis: Gale Crater's Watery Past Revealed This episode is brought to you by NordPass...the password manager (and more) that you need in your life for not very much money. To get the deal, visit https://www.nordpass.com/stuart The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-04 • 29 minutes Science centres inspire scientific literacy and diversity in STEM Our guest is Frederic Bertley, who heads COSI (Center of Science and Industry) in Columbus, Ohio (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Apr-04 • 46 minutes Actual Astronomy - The Observer’s Calendar for April Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Observer's Calendar for April 2024. In this episode we’ll talk about the possible Nova of T-Corona Borealis, Mars, Saturn... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-04 • 61 minutes Are physics and religion in harmony or conflict? Daniel talks to Rabbi Jack Schlacter, a physicist at Los Alamos, about the movie Oppenheimer and the connections and conflicts between physics and judaism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-03 • 34 minutes Episode 91 - Karen Saxe In which circles maximize area. (@niveknosdunk • @evelynjlamb)

2024-Apr-03 • 58 minutes Syzygy science: Discoveries made during total solar eclipses Planetary Radio marks its last show before the Apr. 8 total solar eclipse with a look back at discoveries made during totality. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Apr-03 • 41 minutes SETI Live - Under Alien Skies With Phil Plait, Ph.D. Communications specialist Beth Johnson chats with Dr. Phil Plait about his latest book and just what wonders await us in our solar system and out amongst the stars. Phil Plait, aka the Bad Astronomer, has been communicating and correcting space... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-03 • 22 minutes Inside Scientists' Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption The Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Fire Water” by Saidbysed. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Apr-03 • 32 minutes S27E41: Earth's Puzzling Past: The Greenlandic Birth of Scandinavian Lands The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 41 *The Scandinavian Connection: Born from Greenland's Ancient Crust In a groundbreaking geological study, scientists have traced the oldest Scandinavian bedrock back to its... (@stuartgary)

2024-Apr-02 • 36 minutes AaS! 221: Will Emergent Gravity Rewrite Physics? What is “emergence” in physics and why is it a big deal? What would it mean for gravity to be emergent? How would we have to rewrite the laws of physics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by... (@PaulMattSutter)

2024-Apr-02 • 38 minutes Ask A Spaceman Ep. 221: Will Emergent Gravity Rewrite Physics? What is “emergence” in physics and why is it a big deal? What would it mean for gravity to be emergent? How would we have to rewrite the laws of physics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-02 • 44 minutes [Q&A] Supernova VS Nova, Orientation of the Moon, Gravitational Lensing of the CMB Does gravitational lensing affect the CMB? Can the Great Attractor solve the Hubble tension? Why don't we put a Deep Space Network antenna in space? What's the difference between a nova and a supernova? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-02 • 49 minutes Cosmic Queries – Planck Lengths to Supermassive Black Holes with Matt O’Dowd Is space infinitely stretchable? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore fan grab bag questions about supermassive black holes, Planck lengths, and the gravitational wave background with extragalactic astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd. (@neiltyson)

2024-Apr-02 • 75 minutes The most promising particle physics anomalies Daniel talks to Harry Cliff, author of the new book "Space Oddities", about the most intriguing unexplained particle physics experiments and what they might mean. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Apr-02 • 35 minutes Quantum Communications Systems & High Transmission Networks with Ryan Lafler of Quantum Corridor In Episode 84, Patrick speaks with Ryan Lafler, President and CTO of Quantum Corridor. They discuss communications systems, Quantum key distribution, and high transmission networks.Ryan Lafler co-founded Quantum Corridor, LLC, in early 2022 and serves as the President and Chief Technology Officer of the company. Ryan has more than 20 years of experience developing telecommunications solutions and has had considerable success constructing data and voice networks at scale. He previously co-founded Coeo Soluti... (@EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici)

2024-Apr-02 • 45 minutes Sun Series: You (Yes, You!) Can Help NASA Study the Sun How often do you think about your nearest star? Though it may not seem like it from here on Earth, our trusty Sun is a place of mystery. Take a good look at its influence on our planet – through the otherworldly experience of eclipse, maybe, or the aurora – and you might get "sucked" in... to a citizen science project, that is. Join NASA Sun scientists like Liz Macdonald and volunteers like Hanjie Tan to listen to crickets fooled by the false night of an eclipse, discover new colors in the aurora, and hunt ... (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-Apr-02 • 46 minutes S5E20 Local fit...Because Global Fit Measures Suck! In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the assessment of global vs. local model fit and they argue that although global measures of fit can be useful, carefully assessing local fit may be of much greater importance in practice. Along the way the also discuss cheap beach house rentals, misplaced sand dunes, Mrs. Lincoln, the child catcher, hushpuppies, cockroach feces, academia as community theater, spikes and smoodges, opening paragraphs, dark and stormy nights, sharp rusty knives, dream teams... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Apr-01 • 69 minutes Episode 142 Awesome Astronomy April 2024 Packing for a Solar Eclipse (@AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro)

2024-Apr-01 • 28 minutes Ep. 714: Orbital Resonances Astronomy Cast Ep. 714: Orbital Resonances by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Mar 25, 2024. Several of the planets and moons in the Solar System are in orbital resonance, orbiting in a geometric lockstep. And not just the Solar... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Apr-01 • 82 minutes 271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity I talk with physicist Claudia de Rham about cosmologically interesting ways to modify Einstein's theory of general relativity. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Apr-01 • 17 minutes 80 - (April Fools 2024) A Surprising Discovery Shaking Up Modern Cosmology Hear how a recent discovery of the motions of galaxies is changing how cosmologists are thinking about our universe. | | For ad free episodes and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverse | Our merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-u... (@DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs)

2024-Apr-01 • 79 minutes April 2024 ABC's of GRB's. In this episode, Soheb interview Dr Gavin Lamb from Liverpool John Moores University and they discuss the exotic nature of gamma ray bursts. Fiona is joined by Mel and Honor and they discuss NASA's DART mission, the oldest 'dead' galaxy yet and why Gallifrey must not exist. The Jodbite makes a comeback where Fiona interview Micah Bowles. (@jodcast)

2024-Apr-01 • 28 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 714: Orbital Resonances Streamed live on Mar 25, 2024. Several of the planets and moons in the Solar System are in orbital resonance, orbiting in a geometric lockstep. And not just the Solar System, astronomers have found the same resonances in other star systems. ... (@planetarysci)

2024-Apr-01 • 119 minutes [Special] Where Are All The Aliens? We Ranked Every Explanation The Fermi paradox has many solutions. Many explanations for the fact that we don't see any signs of intelligent life in the Universe. We ranked all the major ones and put them into tiers from S to D. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Apr-01 • 34 minutes S27E40: Magnetic Mysteries: Sagittarius A*'s Invisible Force Field Exposed The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 40 *Magnetic Mysteries at the Milky Way's Heart The Event Horizon Telescope has revealed organized magnetic fields swirling at the periphery of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-31 • 81 minutes Episode 77: Maxwellian Ratchets with Alex Jurgens Jim talks with Alex Jurgens about Maxwellian ratchets, automata that are similar to Maxwell's Dem... (@_PhysicsFM_ • @PhysicsMystic)

2024-Mar-31 • 143 minutes (Audio) Katherine Brodsky: Speaking Out in an Age of Outrage I first stumbled upon the journalist Katherine Brodsky, who has been a commentator and writer for various media outlets, when I heard about her new book, No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage. The title intrigued me but I admit I was a bit skeptical. Having written and spoken about co-called cancel culture in the academic world, I expected I might find nothing new in her book, but I was wrong. Katherine was motivated to write her book after her own experience of being mobbed ... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Mar-31 • 51 minutes Chris Hayward: Lerner and Gupta Are WRONG About the Big Bang (#403) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! When the JWST captured the first images of the earliest galaxies in our universe, scientists were shocked. The galaxies appeared to be way too bright, way too big, and way too mature to have formed so soon after the Big Bang. This discovery has, rightfully so, sparked a massive debate among astrophysicists. Some even started to question the standard model of cosmology. ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-31 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 253 & 254: Dancing With Earth & Colliding Planets Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - The Moon is the Earth's long time dancing partner. This... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-31 • 29 minutes 34. Cantor's Labyrinth: Navigating the Maze of Infinite Numbers Ioanna Georgiou, mathematics educator and author of “Mathematical Adventures!” and “Peculiar Deaths of Famous Mathematicians”, continues the discussion on Georg Cantor! In this episode, we'll attempt to answer the following questions: Are your choice... (@weheartmath)

2024-Mar-31 • 13 minutes Star Diary: Comet shine during the new Moon (1 to 7 April) Comet Pons-Brooks will pass close to Aries this week, while the US is treated to the sight of Venus disappearing behind the Moon. Find out how to see all this and more in our weekly stargazing podcast, Star Diary 1 to 7 April 2024. How to find the bowl of Virgo: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine for all the best stargazing tips: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/subsc... Submit your astrophotography images and we'll print the best in the magazine: https:... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Mar-30 • 40 minutes Awesome Astronomy - Britain’s First Astronaut Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This podcast extra is our (Ralph’s!) full length interview with Dr. Helen Sharman, Britain's First astronaut and... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-30 • 30 minutes Cygnus: Myths and Retcons(tellations) Join Jordan and Kit as they retell and ret-con the mythology of the constellation Cygnus! (@[email protected])

2024-Mar-29 • 50 minutes Intuitive Machines and a nuclear reactor for the Moon The first soft Moon landing since 1972, and powering a future Moonbase... (@NakedScientists • @drbtmcallister)

2024-Mar-29 • 18 minutes [Space Bites] New EHT Image of Sgr A* // VERITAS is back // Supernova in Almost Real Time See the magnetic fields twisting around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, a supernova was seen in almost real time, NASA announces its planetary science goals for Artemis III and Gaia finds two ancient building blocks of the Milky Way. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-29 • 39 minutes EVSN - Grindavik, Iceland, and Volcanoes with Dr. Melissa Scruggs From March 13, 2024. As you know, our team loves volcanoes, and since we’ve been focused on Iceland for months, we brought in Dr. Melissa Scruggs (aka VolcanoDoc on Twitch) for a chat about Grindavik and all things volcanic in Iceland. We've... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-29 • 25 minutes S27E39: Galactic Goliaths: The Einasto Supercluster Unveiled The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 39 *Unveiling the Einasto Supercluster: A Cosmic Behemoth Astronomers have unveiled one of the most massive superclusters ever observed, a colossal structure named the Einasto... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-28 • 40 minutes How Is Flocking Like Computing? Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as though they could get chaotic, order somehow emerges. The collective behaviors of animals differ in their details from one species to another, but they largely adhere to principles of collective motion that physicists have worked out over centuries. Now, using technologies that only recently became available, researchers have been able to study these patterns of behavior more closely than ever before. | In this episode, the... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Mar-28 • 36 minutes Superfluid helium: the quantum curiosity behind huge experiments like the LHC Accelerator engineer John Weisend is our podcast guest (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Mar-28 • 31 minutes H’ad astra historia Ep. 101: Women in Science History Podcater: Loretta Cannon for the AAS-HAD. Brief description: H’ad astra historia is the official podcast for the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. We’re here to share stories from and about the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-28 • 50 minutes Listener Questions 51 Daniel and Jorge answer questions about the speed of light, entanglement and time!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-27 • 20 minutes Alon Amit, sharing the mathematical journey in Quora and Math Circles Alon Amit, probably the most prolific answerer of math questions on Quora, shares his reasons for his deep involvement. He seeks to share the journey, the exploration and stumbles of solving a problem. He's especially drawn to questions that will teach him things, even if he never completes the answer. He also shares his joy of problem solving with kids through Math Circles. One example problem, involving only 4 dots, can be worked on by a young child, yet affords deep exploration. | | --- | | Send in a ... (@CarolJacobyPhD)

2024-Mar-27 • 34 minutes How human history shapes scientific inquiry In this episode, we examine how the course of human history has shaped our scientific knowledge, why the physics community prioritizes some questions over others, and why progress in complex systems research is especially difficult. Academia continues to operate within set boundaries and students are taught certain concepts as fundamental and to skirt others completely. However, the history of science demonstrates that such concepts aren’t always set in stone. It’s possible that blowing open the “shackles o... (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Mar-27 • 60 minutes Eclipse Tips: A guide to safe observing and astrophotography Ron Benner, the President of the American Optometric Association, and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy give helpful tips for safely observing the upcoming total solar eclipse in North America. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Mar-27 • 32 minutes SETI Live - From Earth to Mars: The Incredible Story of the Ingenuity Helicopter Recorded 15 February, 2024. With a first flight on April 19, 2021, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter broke ground on new capabilities for remote planetary missions. For nearly three years, the little drone far exceeded the originally planned technology... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-27 • 53 minutes Adventures in Nuclear Risk Reduction - Georgia Pt 2 Shelly continues her stay in Tbilisi, Georgia and speaks to two Physicists, Giorgia Japaridz (Illia State Univ.) and Revaz Shanidze (Tbilisi State Univ). They discuss what life as a physicist was ... (@NuclearLifePod • @ShellyLesh)

2024-Mar-27 • 25 minutes S27E38: The Final Puzzle Piece: Witnessing Planetary Formation's Endgame The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 38 *Witnessing the Final Stages of Planetary Formation For the first time, astronomers have captured the end of the planetary formation process, observing the dispersal of gas... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-26 • 5 minutes Exoplanet Radio - The First Exoplanets: A Discovery that Forever Changed Us From August 7, 2023. Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplanet detected? It turns out that the first discovery wasn’t one, but two... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-26 • 42 minutes [Q&A] True Color of The Moon, Capturing Sunspots, Constellation of Almost Hubbles Can we harvest energy from the Moon's temperature difference? Why don't we just launch multiple telescopes like Hubble? Why is the Moon grey? Why are sunspots black? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show! (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-26 • 41 minutes Sun Series: How to Experience a Total Solar Eclipse On April 8, 2024, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun, casting a shadow across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Total solar eclipses have fascinated human beings for thousands of years. Watching the Moon eclipse the Sun is a surreal, multi-sensory experience that you’re not likely to forget. But Eclipses also offer unique opportunities for NASA to study the relationship between our star and home planet. Join current and former NASA sun scientists Kelly Korreck, Fred “Mr. Eclipse” Espenak and Cheril... (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-Mar-26 • 36 minutes S27E37: Betelgeuse's Boiling Secret: The Star That Spins Too Fast The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 37 *Betelgeuse's Surprising Spin: A Red Supergiant's Secrets Astronomers have been intrigued by the rapid rotation of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, but new insights suggest... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-26 • 46 minutes What happened to M33's black hole? Daniel and Jorge talk about the mystery of the missing mysterious black hole at the heart of M33See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-26 • 51 minutes Staying Curious with William Shatner What is the value of curiosity? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with William Shatner to explore the nature of spacetime, Star Trek, human curiosity, loneliness, and more. How would warp drive work? (@neiltyson)

2024-Mar-26 • 24 minutes The force awakens: Quantum collisions Last weekend our friends and neighbours at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge put on a great event: the Mathematics Discovery Day, part of the Cambridge Festival. Among the may hands-on activities, games and pop-up ex... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Mar-26 • 46 minutes 51: Into The Interstellar Izzie and Dr Becky are venturing into interstellar space. What is it? Where is it? And what do we know about it? | | With special thanks to Professor Martin Barstow from University of Leicester and Professor Chris Lintott from the University of Oxford. Chris' new book "Our Accidental Universe" is out now. | | Check out the RAS's video on Pons Brooks here: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/12... | | The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The produce... (@RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_)

2024-Mar-25 • 34 minutes Ep. 713: Solar System Volcanoes Astronomy Cast Ep. 713: Solar System Volcanoes by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Mar 18, 2024. Last week was one of the most exciting meetings we’ve seen from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, with hundreds of... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Mar-25 • 111 minutes Episode #118 - Programming a Functional World w/ Max Sklar Today's guest is Max Sklar, an expert in computer science and information systems, as well as the host of The Local Maximum podcast (https://www.localmaxradio.com/). We highly recommend checking out his show! (@MathPhysicsPod)

2024-Mar-25 • 129 minutes 270 | Solo: The Coming Transition in How Humanity Lives I think through some of the ways that technology is changing the world, exploring the possibility of an upcoming singularity marking the shift to a new equilibrium of human existence. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-25 • 34 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 713: Solar System Volcanoes Streamed live on Mar 18, 2024. Last week was one of the most exciting meetings we’ve seen from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, with hundreds of announcements and discoveries from various missions. One theme kept coming up, the Solar... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-24 • 69 minutes Why ChatGPT Can’t Tell Compelling Stories (Yet) w/ John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne (#402) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! “What is it about Artificial Intelligence driving tech giants like Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman? Why are they racing to develop and own these thinking machines while unsure of the harm they could cause us? Can we trust nation-states and NGOs to use their totalitarian strategies when they don’t truly understand the problems we face?... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-24 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 251 & 252: Catching Shadows & Tough Guy Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - Students and teachers are doing real science by measuring... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-24 • 20 minutes Star Diary: The Comet and the Coathanger (25 to 31 March) Comet C/2021 S3 PanSTARRS passes through the Coathanger cluster, the Moon dips into the Bowl of Virgo and Mercury hangs in the evening sky. Find out how to see all this and more in our weekly stargazing podcast, Star Diary 25 to 31 March 2024. How to find the bowl of Virgo: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... View the Pleiades star cluster: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astro... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine for all the best stargazing tips: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/subsc... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Mar-23 • 72 minutes #303 - Dr Harry Cliff - Space Oddities Episode 303: Space Oddities with Dr. Harry Cliff - Anomalies and New Frontiers in Physics Matt delves into the mysteries of the cosmos with Dr. Harry Cliff, particle physicist, science communicator, and author of the new book, "Space Oddities." We explore the fascinating anomalies challenging the very foundations of physics, Dr. Cliff shares insights from his work at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and his deep dive into the latest scientific enigmas. #SpaceOddities #ParticlePhysics #Cosmology #ScienceAnomal... (@Interplanetypod • @iam7cool)

2024-Mar-23 • 59 minutes The Cosmic Savannah - Ep. 55: A Trip Down Under Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. Today we are re-running Episode 11 from all the way back in Season 1! Jacinta takes us on a tour of her homeland, into the Australian bush, and chats about pathfinders, precursors and the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-23 • 17 minutes Cygnus: Cosmic Background Join Jordan and Kit as they explore the exciting astronomy of the constellation Cygnus: The Swan. (@[email protected])

2024-Mar-22 • 25 minutes [Space Bites] Mystery of Supernova 1987a // End of Chandra // JWST Exomoons Update with @CoolWorldsLab Planning trains on the Moon, Chandra is getting shut down, the future of Mars helicopters, and an update on exomoons with Dr. David Kipping. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-22 • 49 minutes An orchestral trip through the moons of our solar system Amanda Lee Falkenberg describes the process of turning mysterious worlds into music (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Mar-22 • 35 minutes EVSN - Stability, Instability, Drama, & How We are Space Stuff From March 7, 2024. It is possible to buy stickers, sweatshirts, mugs, and other stuff and things emblazoned with the simple phrase, “We are star stuff”. This phrase was popularized by Carl Sagan, and it serves as a gentle reminder that all the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-22 • 39 minutes Britain's First Astronaut Interview with Dr Helen Sharman (@AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro)

2024-Mar-22 • 24 minutes S27E36: Neutron Star Mass Mystery: Unlocking the Threshold of Black Holes The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 36 *The Precise Mass of Neutron Stars Unveiled Astronomers have pinpointed the exact upper mass limit for non-rotating neutron stars, providing a critical piece to the puzzle of... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-22 • 44 minutes Is Aging a Disease? Epigenetics with David Sinclair Is aging a disease that can be cured? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly discover the field of epigenetics, the Information Theory of Aging, and curing blindness for mice with Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, David Sinclair. (@neiltyson)

2024-Mar-22 • 27 minutes Why do people believe in UFOs? Have you ever seen a ghost or a UFO? Chris French is a psychologist whose latest book The Science of Weird S**t explores the paranormal, and why people might claim to have experienced something science can’t currently explain. We spoke to Chris to find out how psychologists address the paranormal, and what makes people believe in UFOs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Mar-21 • 27 minutes Frugal approach to computer modelling can reduce carbon emissions Simulations should be designed to minimize energy consumption, say physicists (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Mar-21 • 57 minutes Actual Astronomy - Deep Sky Eye Observatory with Tim Doucette Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. Bio: Tim Doucette Tim believes that through education and awareness of the Universe, the world can become a better place. Through his passion for Astronomy... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-21 • 49 minutes Listener Questions 50: Dark matter, photon wavelengths and rainbows! Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-20 • 21 minutes Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory A new magnum opus posits the existence of a hidden mathematical link akin to the connection between electricity and magnetism. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Mar-20 • 56 minutes The asteroid hunter Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, joins Planetary Radio to share stories from his new book, The Asteroid Hunter. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Mar-20 • 32 minutes SETI Live - The Mysterious Ocean of Saturn’s Moon, Mimas Recorded 8 February 2024. Join us for an exciting SETI Live where we’ll explore the wonders beyond Earth. We’re excited to have Dr. Valéry Lainey, a renowned researcher from the Paris Observatory in France, as our guest. Dr. Franck Marchis, our... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-20 • 32 minutes S27E35: Red Planet Revelation: Mars Hides an Ancient Volcanic Behemoth The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 36 *Mars Unveils a Colossal Volcanic Secret Astronomers have discovered a massive ancient volcano on Mars, hidden beneath an ice sheet in the planet's Tharsus volcanic province.... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-19 • 40 minutes AaS! 220: Will Our Universe End in a Big Rip? How can a “big rip” tear the universe apart? What does that mean for existence itself? Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by... (@PaulMattSutter)

2024-Mar-19 • 41 minutes Ask A Spaceman - Ep. 220: Will Our Universe End in a Big Rip? How can a “big rip” tear the Universe apart? What does that mean for existence itself? Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-19 • 42 minutes [Q&A] Largest Stars, Dark Matter In The Solar System, Science Being Slow How heavy are the biggest stars in the Universe and how do they compare to the Sun? Why would aliens be grabby? Is there more space for science communicators? What's the minimum size for an object to have an atmosphere? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-19 • 49 minutes Cosmic Queries – Infinite Quarks What happens to quarks during spaghettification? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions about positrons, how we got the speed of light, where the Big Bang took place, and more! (@neiltyson)

2024-Mar-19 • 59 minutes How does electricity work? Daniel and Katie explain how electric current, lightning and static electricity emerge from the strange quantum nature of electrical charge.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-19 • 26 minutes How does AI work? Artificial intelligence has made astonishing progress in the last few years. Perhaps surprisingly, all of the amazing things we've seen, from ChatGPT to generative AI, are powered by same mathematical technique: machine learning, and in particular de... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Mar-19 • 42 minutes Quantum Sensor Networks & Future Quantum Application Opportunities with Dr. Prineha Narang of UCLA In Episode 83, Patrick and Ciprian speak with returning guest Dr. Prineha Narang of UCLA. The team discusses distributed quantum sensor networks, lasers, magnons, and new technology application opportunities through organic conversations.Dr. Prineha Narang is a Professor in Physical Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA with an interdisciplinary group spanning areas of physics, chemistry, and engineering. Prior to moving to UCLA, she was an Assistant Professor of Computational Materials S... (@EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici)

2024-Mar-19 • 36 minutes Sun Series: The Sun, Our Star The Sun is our closest star. Billions of years ago, it shaped the formation of our home planet and the beginning of life on Earth. Today, it provides the heat and energy that powers our civilization, but it can also disrupt our technology and spacecraft through explosive outbursts of radiation. Join NASA Sun scientist Joe Westlake on a journey from the surface of Earth to the Sun’s core to learn how intricately we’re connected to our star and the progress we’ve made unraveling its mysteries. This is episode... (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-Mar-19 • 49 minutes S5E19 Item Response Theory, Q.E.D. In this week's episode Patrick and Greg provide an introduction to the Item Response Theory model: what it is, how it relates to traditional factor analysis, and how this modem approach improves upon some of the limitations of classical test theory. Along the way they also mention weinerness, memorizing Latin for punishment, eggszampke, in ether words, ITR, switching a and b, I’m not defensive - you are, why biostatisticians hate us (page 3 subsection 8), binary babble, EAPs and MAPs, computer adaptiv... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Mar-18 • 39 minutes Ep. 712: How Peer Review Fails Astronomy Cast Ep. 712: How Peer Review Fails by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Mar 11, 2024. You’ve probably heard that the best kind of science is peer-reviewed research published in a prestigious journal. But peer review... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Mar-18 • 41 minutes 79 - NanoGRAV's Big Gravitational Wave Discovery (Ft. Chiara Mingarelli) Last year, an experiment called NanoGRAV made a surprising discovery of gravitational waves using pulsars around the universe. Special guest Chiara Mingarelli explains. | | For ad free episodes and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverse | Our merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-u... (@DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs)

2024-Mar-18 • 71 minutes 269 | Sahar Heydari Fard on Complexity, Justice, and Social Dynamics I talk with Sahar Heydari Fard about viewing social change through the lens of complex-systems theory. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-18 • 39 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 712: How Peer Review Fails Streamed live on Mar 11, 2024. You’ve probably heard that the best kind of science is peer-reviewed research published in a prestigious journal. But peer review has problems of its own. We’ll talk about that today. This video was... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-18 • 47 minutes [Special] What Went Wrong With Starship's Third Test Flight Another Test of SpaceX Starship Superheavy combo, another analysis of the flight with Scott Manley and Marcus House! (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-18 • 36 minutes S27E34: The Ups and Downs of SpaceX's Starship: A Test Flight Tale The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 34 *SpaceX's Starship Tests the Limits of Spaceflight In a breathtaking display of rocketry, SpaceX's Starship edges closer to the stars, nearly perfecting its third flight test.... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-17 • 29 minutes [Interview] NASA Set Its Spaceship on Fire. Here's Why What did NASA learn from setting their Cygnus spaceships on fire? Is fire more dangerous in space than on Earth? Finding out with Dr. David Urban, Branch Chief from NASA Glenn Research Center. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-17 • 202 minutes Sam Harris: God Did NOT Write the Bible! (#401) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today’s guest needs no introduction… Meet Sam Harris. Neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of Making Sense, creator of Waking Up, and one of the most thought-provoking intellectuals of our time. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett, he fearlessly navigates e... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-17 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 249 & 250: Cool Star Homes & Shooting Star’s Daddy Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - Recently Dr. Michael Gillon of the University of Liege in... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-17 • 17 minutes Asterism: Goat Creature Corner (Plus) Join Jordan and Kit in a unique Creature Corner episode that features the myths Capella, the Goat Star, and fun facts about... goats! (@[email protected])

2024-Mar-17 • 13 minutes Star Diary 18 to 24 March 2024 Mercury reaches greatest elongation this week, while Jupiter will be bracketed by its moons. Find out how to see both of them in our weekly stargazing podcast, Star Diary. Transcription: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podca... Check out our on-demand astronomy webinars to learn everything worth knowing about astronomy and stargazing: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/virtu... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine for all the best stargazing tips: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/subsc... more ab... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Mar-16 • 57 minutes [Interview] The Secret Behind NASA's Recent Success What drives NASA's most successful projects like James Webb, Perseverance, Parker Solar Probe, etc? What's going on with international cooperation? How will future missions be planned and executed? Finding out with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, former Associate Administrator of NASA Science Mission Directorate. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-16 • 117 minutes A Conversation with Irwin Shapiro: Scientist Extraordinaire from the Earth to the Stars, and at 94, still going strong. Irwin Shapiro is a remarkable human being by almost any standard. Following his education in physics at Cornell and Harvard, he had a job at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory working on various problems in planetary dynamics, and radar ranging, when he went to a lecture and realized that a completely new phenomenon could occur in General Relativity that no one had proposed in the half-century since Einstein first proposed it. For objects traveling near a massive object like the Sun, the travel time to go from one ... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Mar-16 • 43 minutes Cosmic Perspective - Interview with Charlie Bolden re: Black History Month Hosted by Andy Poniros. Former NASA Astronaut & NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden discusses his growing up as an African American in the segregated US South, & his and other African American’s experiences with and accomplishments to the US... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-15 • 35 minutes Keith Burnett: IOP president says it is our duty to make physics more inclusive Podcast interview also explores challenges and opportunities facing modern universities (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Mar-15 • 37 minutes EVSN - Early Black Holes Formed Before Stars? From Feb 21, 2024. One of the unexpected realities of JWST is the discovery that we have really been asking the wrong questions in many astronomy areas. For instance: we generally asked how supermassive black holes and galaxies formed, with a basic... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-15 • 24 minutes [Space Bites] Starship’s Third Flight // Schrodinger’s Voyager // Start of Milkdromeda Starship reaches orbit in a new test, NASA regains contact with Voyager 1 (sort of), are the Milky Way and Andromeda already exchanging stars, and two new incredible images to replace your desktop wallpaper. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-15 • 32 minutes S27E33: Star Shredded by Black Hole: A Cosmic Feast Observed For your special NORDVPN discount and risk free 30 Day Money back guarantee, visit https://www.nordvpn.com/stuartgary and use the code STUARTGARY at checkout. Get your online privacy under control with the best in the business. The Space, Astronomy... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-15 • 50 minutes Cosmic Queries – Out There Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-host Harrison Greenbaum, and astrophysicist Janna Levin answer questions on the far away and the far out, including Andromeda's impending collision with the Milky Way, white holes, a holographic universe, and more. Prepare to get trippy! (@neiltyson)

2024-Mar-14 • 64 minutes Awesome Astronomy - Ep. 141: Wet Moons and Tippy Landers Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This month our intrepid crew of the good ship Awesome investigate sub surface oceans on the moons of the solar system,... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-14 • 30 minutes What Is Quantum Teleportation? Quantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry from beaming people through space. In some ways, it’s even more astonishing. | John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, is one of the leading theoreticians of quantum computing and information. In this episode, co-host Janna Levin interviews him about entanglement, teleporting bits from coast to coast... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Mar-14 • 42 minutes [Q&A] How Cold Are Moon Shadows, Why Are Dark Matter Halos Spherical, War For The Moon How cold does it get in the shadows on the Moon? What's going on with dark matter research? Can we chase Oumuamua with a solar sail spacecraft? Will we ever face a war for the Moon? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-14 • 74 minutes Physics of Chocolate Daniel and Jorge talk about the deep but tenuous connection between physics and chocolate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-13 • 34 minutes Ep 4: The physics of collectives How do groups solve problems? Are there conditions that create a pathway to innovation and groundbreaking inventions? In today’s episode, we look at the science of collectives to learn about the patterns that emerge as human societies grow, the importance of a collective structure to foster ideas and create impact, and – from collectives like ants and immune systems – the importance of veering off the beaten path to become better at exploring and discovering. (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Mar-13 • 60 minutes Tales of totality: The adventures of an eclipse chaser Jim Bell, a professor from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and former president of The Planetary Society's Board of Directors, shares captivating tales from his global eclipse-chasing journeys. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Mar-13 • 27 minutes SETI Live - The COSMIC Project at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array In a groundbreaking cosmic quest, the SETI Institute’s Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster (COSMIC) at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is expanding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). This cutting-edge... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-13 • 27 minutes Look Up! March 2024 This month we have a very special episode of the Look Up! podcast. We have the Royal Observatory's Dr. Ed Bloomer interviewing Professor Chris Lintott, astronomer and author. In his episode Chris tells us about his new book, ‘Our Accidental Universe’, which discusses how astronomers often stumble across their discoveries. We hope you enjoy! If you wanted to learn what's in the night sky this month, head to our Night Sky Highlights blog at rmg.co.uk. We'll be back to our regular programming next month! (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Mar-13 • 27 minutes S27E32: Juno's Europa Flyby: Unraveling the Oxygen Secrets of Jupiter's Icy Moon This episode is brought to you with the support of Incogni....the data protection service. To claim your special offfer benefit as a SpaceTime listener visit www.icogni.com/stuartgary or use the coupon code STUARTGARY at checkout. 60% off and a 30-day... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-13 • 12 minutes 50: BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights What is cosmic dust? Could we reignite a dying Sun with a nuclear weapon? How do we know what galaxies stars are in, and can the JWST see streetlights on alien worlds? | | If you have a question for the Supermassive team, send them to [email protected] or find us on Instagram, @SupermassivePod. | | The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. | | | (@RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_)

2024-Mar-12 • 6 minutes Exoplanet Radio - How Do We Find Exoplanets? Hosted by Tony Darnell. From Aug 4, 2023. What are the best ways to see planets around other stars? One can imagine that it is not easy. This episode looks at ways astronomers find exoplanets. Get all episodes at free and with no ads. Music... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-12 • 40 minutes [Interview] Why White Dwarf Stars Unexpectedly Stop Cooling Down White dwarf stars should be cooling down practically till the end of the Universe. But yet, they don't. They stop cooling at some point. Why does this happen? Figuring out the answers with Dr Simon Blouin from the University of Victoria. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-12 • 54 minutes Do We Have Free Will? with Robert Sapolsky Is there a quantum reason we could have free will? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the concept of free will and predetermination with neuroscientist, biologist, and author of Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will, Robert Sapolsky. (@neiltyson)

2024-Mar-12 • 51 minutes Listener Questions 49: Black Holes, Neutrinos and Gravitational waves! Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and get stuck in philosophical rabbit holes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-12 • 20 minutes It's all connected – climate change and the spread of diseases We’re now all very aware that climate change is not just a problem for the future – 2023 was officially the hottest year on record ever. And as well as impacting our lives through food security, flooding and drought, climate change can also impact ou... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Mar-12 • 44 minutes S5E18 Probability on Spring Break In this week’s episode, Patrick and Greg play with some of the basics of probability in the context of some classic, fun, and often counterintuitive examples. Along the way they also discuss arguments with relatives, a feel for the roulette wheel, Xeroxing your butt, “The coin has spoken.”, Quantitude BooqQlub, the Bellagio Fountains, Clooney and Pitt look-alikes, the Flippier, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Monty Hall, Ferraris and goats, the birthday problem, how to carve an elephant, and pick-6 lotteries... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Mar-11 • 32 minutes Ep. 711: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Astronomy Cast Ep. 711: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live March 4, 2024. NASA works on many missions using tried and true technology, but they also invest in creative ideas that could drive the... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Mar-11 • 236 minutes AMA | March 2024 Ask Me Anything episode for March 2024. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-11 • 32 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 711: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Streamed live March 4, 2024. NASA works on many missions using tried and true technology, but they also invest in creative ideas that could drive the future of space exploration. It’s called NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts or NIAC. This... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-11 • 64 minutes [Interview] Getting Samples From Enceladus Is Harder Than You Think How do we plan a mission that can go to Enceladus and grab a sample of its plumes? How fast does it need to go? Will it bring samples to Earth or analyse them on the spacecraft? Figuring out the answers with Professor Mark Burchell from the University of Kent. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-11 • 28 minutes S27E31: Cosmic Graveyard: The Enigma of the Universe's Oldest Dead Galaxy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spaceti... Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 31 *The Enigma of the Universe's Oldest Dead Galaxy In a... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-10 • 64 minutes Why Are People Protesting Against a Telescope? | Robert Kirshner (#400) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Today, we’re joined by a real hero of mine and mentor to millions around the world – dr. Robert Kirshner! Robert is an astronomer of great renown. He is the Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University and executive director of the Thirty Meter Telescope. This remarkable international scientific endeavor will radically change our understanding of the univers... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-10 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 247 & 248: Trans Neptunian & Gliding to Space Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - During the course of a single night our telescopes can find... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-10 • 21 minutes Star Diary 11 to 17 March 2024 Comet 12P Pons Brooks will streak past the Andromeda Galaxy this week, while Comet C/2021 S3 PanSTARRS passes the star clusters of the Milky Way. Find out how to see both of them in our weekly stargazing podcast, Star Diary. Learn how to measure the craters on the Moon: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advic... Transcription: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podca... Check out our on-demand astronomy webinars to learn everything worth knowing about astronomy and stargazing: https://www.skyatnightmag... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Mar-09 • 91 minutes Starts With A Bang #103 - Active galaxies and the universe All throughout the Universe, galaxies exist in a great variety of shapes, ages, and states. Today's galaxies come in spirals, ellipticals, irregulars, and rings, all ranging in size from behemoths hundreds or even thousands of times larger than the Milky Way to dwarf galaxies with fewer than 0.1% of the stars present here in our cosmic home. But at the centers of practically all galaxies, particularly the large ones, lie supermassive black holes. | When matter falls in towards these black holes, it doesn't ... (@StartsWithABang)

2024-Mar-09 • 11 minutes NOIRLab - IGRINS-2 Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, is now peering deeper into the dusty dwellings of young stars with its new IGRINS-2 instrument. This next-generation spectrograph is an upgraded version of the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-08 • 10 minutes Smashing Particles up Against Mathematics Dr. Abiy Tasissa of Tufts University, discusses the mathematics he and colleagues used to study particle collider data, including optimal transport and optimization. Collider physics often result in distributions referred to as jets. Dr. Tasissa and his team used "Earth Mover's Distance" and other mathematical tools to study the shape of jets. "It is interesting for me to see how mathematics can be applied to study these fundamental problems answering fundamental equations in physics, not only at t... (@amermathsoc)

2024-Mar-08 • 34 minutes Actual Astronomy - The Observer’s Calendar for March Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. March 09 - New Moon March 10 - Daylight saving time March 11 - Mercury Moon and Jupiter Line up in evening sky March 12 - Asteroid 23 Thalia at opposition magnitude... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-08 • 22 minutes [Space Bites] Furious Boiling of Betelgeuse // Robot-Surgeon on the ISS // Biggest Black Holes Ever Seen Understanding the surface of Betelgeuse, James Webb’s third observing cycle has been announced, Starship’s upcoming third test, and the most massive pair of black holes ever seen. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-08 • 39 minutes Stars Talk to Neil – Reversing Earth’s Rotation What happens after death? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer science questions from celebrities like Kelly Clarkson, Dax Shepard, Sway Calloway, and more! (@neiltyson)

2024-Mar-08 • 42 minutes S27E30: Axion Stars: The Unseen Beacons of Dark Matter Mysteries The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 30 *Unveiling the Mysteries of Dark Matter with Hypothetical Axion Stars Could the enigmatic axion star hold the key to understanding dark matter? Join us as we delve into the... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-07 • 17 minutes Tackling climate change while improving human wellbeing Urban climatologist Radhika Khosla is our podcast guest (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Mar-07 • 35 minutes EVSN - Yes, Scientists DO Look at the (Dark Energy Survey) Data From February 14th, 2024. Every time I get the digital “why can’t you scientists just look at the data” lecture, I wonder what people think scientists do. All we do is look at data, and when that data tells us our understanding of the universe... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-07 • 53 minutes Is the Universe made of waves (Part 2) Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 2)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-06 • 68 minutes Geothermal activity on the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake A team co-led by the Southwest Research Institute has made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing evidence of hydrothermal or metamorphic activity on the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake in the Kuiper Belt. The lead author of this research, Chris Glein, joins Planetary Radio to explain. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Mar-06 • 21 minutes Tiny Language Models Come of Age To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Mar-06 • 31 minutes SETI Live - Ganymede's Alien Landscape: Salt, Organics, and Extraterrestrial Clues Hosted by Dr. Franck Marchis. NASA’s Juno mission has observed mineral salts and organic compounds on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Data for this discovery was collected by the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) spectrometer aboard... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-06 • 21 minutes S27E29: Unveiling the Eclipse: A Celestial Dance of Shadows and Light This episode of SpaceTime is brought to you by Incogni...the new privacy and data protection specialists who work tirelessly for you. To get your special SpaceTime bonus visit https://www.incogni.com/stuartgary The Space, Astronomy & Science... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-05 • 118 minutes Cal Newport: Want to Be More Productive? Do LESS (#399) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! What if I told you that you could be more productive… by doing less? Sounds crazy, but as per today’s extraordinary guest, it’s true! Meet Cal Newport, associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and bestselling author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and other books that offer a refreshing departure from the hustle culture that pervades modern societ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-05 • 42 minutes AaS! 219: What's the Best Way to Defend Our Planet? How do we track dangerous asteroids? What can impacts do to us? What do we plan to do if The Big One is headed for us? Is Armageddon a documentary? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by... (@PaulMattSutter)

2024-Mar-05 • 43 minutes Ask A Spaceman Ep. 219: What's the Best Way to Defend Our Planet? How do we track dangerous asteroids? What can impacts do to us? What do we plan to do if The Big One is headed for us? Is Armageddon a documentary? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-05 • 47 minutes [Q&A] Mars Rovers On The Moon, Satellite Management, Life Near Blue Giants Why won't NASA send a copy of Perseverance to the Moon? Can life exist on a planet around a blue giant star? How do satellites stay safe in orbit and don't collide with each other? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-05 • 39 minutes Breaking Down Oppenheimer with Brian Greene What do two physicists think about the movie Oppenheimer? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with theoretical physicist Brian Greene to discuss Robert J. Oppenheimer’s work on the Manhattan Project, the science in Christopher Nolan’s film, and the dawn of quantum physics. (@neiltyson)

2024-Mar-05 • 44 minutes Is the Universe made of waves (Part 1) Daniel talks to Matt Strassler about how everything is vibrating, and his new book "Waves in an Impossible Sea" (Part 1)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Mar-05 • 25 minutes S27E28: Lunar Lander's Moonlight Slumber: Odysseus in Schomberger Crater Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spaceti... Space, Astronomy and Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 28 *Odysseus lunar lander placed into sleep mode Intuitive Machines... (@stuartgary)

2024-Mar-05 • 27 minutes Reduce, remove, refreeze: Repairing the Earth's climate Could we make the clouds brighter so they reflect more of the Sun's warming rays back into space to keep us cooler? Or make Arctic ice thicker so it lasts longer over the summer? These ideas might sound slightly fantastical, but they're active resear... (@plusmathsorg)

2024-Mar-05 • 39 minutes Entangled Things Three Year Anniversary Episode82In Episode 82, Patrick and Ciprian celebrate three years of Entangled Things.The team discusses different modalities, shifting perspectives, and the importance of the algorithms. (@EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici)

2024-Mar-04 • 36 minutes Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program Astronomy Cast Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 26, 2024. In the olden days, NASA developed its missions using a variety of in-house engineers and external... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Mar-04 • 39 minutes 78 - The Life of a Science Journalist (Ft. Katrina Miller) What's it like bringing science to the most general public audiences? How do you distill complex results into short news-worthy articles without getting lost in clickbait? Today we hear the perspective of New York Times science journalist Katrina Miller.For ad free episodes and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverseOur merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-u... the show (@DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs)

2024-Mar-04 • 62 minutes [Interview] How Close Are We To Self-Replicating Robots Conquering Space Self-replicating space robots seems as an obvious way to explore the Universe. How close are we to such a scenario and what do we need to fill outer space with Von Neumann probes? Figuring out with Professor Alex Ellery. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-04 • 13 minutes My conversation with Elon Musk: Cosmology, AI, and Dying on Mars (#398) Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! Katherine Brodsky recently hosted an interview with the one and only Elon Musk. I had the privilege of joining them and used my opportunity to confront Elon about Starlink, AI, and his plan to colonize Mars! Enjoy. Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:44 Starlink and Cosmic Microwave Background Research 00:06:57 A True Turing Test 00:09:54 Can We Break Physics? 00:11:24 ... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Mar-04 • 90 minutes 268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality I talk with physicist Matt Strassler about fundamental physics and the ways that we often talk about it. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Mar-04 • 36 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program Streamed live on Feb 26, 2024. In the olden days, NASA developed its missions using a variety of in-house engineers and external suppliers. As more commercial companies are targeting the Moon, NASA is working with partners to deliver its payloads to... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-03 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 245 & 246: Raw Asteroid & Odds of Aliens Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - Most asteroids that we observe have been baked by the Sun... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-03 • 22 minutes Star Diary 4 to 10 March 2024 Two comets pass overhead this week. Find out how to see both of them in our weekly stargazing podcast, Star Diary. Learn to capture the planets in our upcoming Masterclass all about photographing the planets. Get your tickets now: https://bit.ly/MCPlanets Transcription: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star... Check out our on-demand astronomy webinars to learn everything worth knowing about astronomy and stargazing: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/virtu... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazi... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Mar-02 • 8 minutes Last Minute Astronomer - March Episode I’m Rob Webb, your Last Minute Astronomer, bringing astronomy to normies and nerds, with little time to spare. As usual, we’ll start by talking about where the naked eye planets are this month, move on to the lunar phases, and finish up with... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-02 • 71 minutes [Interview] Was Cosmic Dust Responsible for Life on Earth? What is cosmic dust? What is it made of and what can it tell us about the Universe? Could cosmic dust be responsible for life starting on Earth? Figuring it all out with Dr Craig Walton from Cambridge University. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-02 • 15 minutes Auriga: Pop Culture Superstar Join Jordan and Kit as they explore where Auriga shows up in Pop Culture (broadly defined), and what they'd do with the Auriga brand! (@[email protected])

2024-Mar-01 • 63 minutes Wet Moons and Tippy landers Episode 141 Awesome Astronomy March 2024 (@AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro)

2024-Mar-01 • 51 minutes #302 - Chris Lintott - Our Accidental Universe Matt is Joined by Chris Lintott to talk about Our Accidental Universe his new book out this month and some of the ideas contained within. Chris Lintott is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, where his research ranges from understanding how galaxies form and evolve, to predicting the properties of visiting interstellar asteroids. He is Principal Investigator of the Zooniverse citizen science platform. Lintott is best known as presenter of the BBC ‘Sky at Night’ program. In 2023, he was a... (@Interplanetypod • @iam7cool)

2024-Mar-01 • 66 minutes Space Policy Edition: The ahistorical era of commercial lunar exploration Science historian Dr. Matt Shindell joins the show to discuss the unique era of commercial lunar exploration, and how planetary exploration has evolved and can continue to evolve on and around the Moon. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Mar-01 • 34 minutes EVSN - Celebrating the Mars Robots That Could From February 7, 2024. Robots on Mars have a long history of exceeding all possible expectations. From Spirit and Opportunity lasting far beyond their planned 90-day missions to Ingenuity lasting 72 flights out of a planned five, these craft have... (@planetarysci)

2024-Mar-01 • 57 minutes March 2024 Feel the Magnetic Pull. In this episode, Jessy Marin talks to Dr. Kate Pattle about her work studying the involvment of magnetic fields in star formation. We discuss some of the newly released images from the Event Horizon Telescope and JWST and test a new format for our Odds and Ends section where we present an interesting article on Saturn's moon, Mimas. (@jodcast)

2024-Mar-01 • 19 minutes [Space Bites] Odysseus Moon Landing Verdict // JWST Breakthrough // SLIM Surprise We’ve learned what happened to the Odysseus Lander. SLIM survived the lunar night. Experience a fiery trip from orbit to the Utah desert. James Webb completes one of its major science goals. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Mar-01 • 22 minutes S27E27: Cosmic Clues: New Horizons Probes the Depths of the Kuiper Belt The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 27 *Hints of an Extended Kuiper Belt: New Horizons' Dusty Discoveries NASA's intrepid New Horizons spacecraft, now journeying through the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, has... (@stuartgary)

2024-Feb-29 • 29 minutes Radiology societies call for critical evaluation of AI, building the UK’s quantum workforce In this podcast we look at issues surrounding two emerging technologies (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Feb-29 • 55 minutes Awesome Astronomy - Blasting Soil! With Dr. Phil Metzger Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This month Dr. Jen talks to Dr. Phil! Dr. Phil Metzger, 30 years at NASA where he has worked on various missions and... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-29 • 31 minutes What Is the Nature of Time? Time seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next. But why is it that way, and could time ultimately be a kind of illusion? In this episode, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek speaks with host Steven Strogatz about the many “arrows” of time and why most of them seem irreversible, the essence of what a clock is, how Einstein changed our definition of time, and the unexpected connection between time and o... (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Feb-29 • 30 minutes Episode 70: Season 5 in Review The band is back together! In this episode Jacinta, Tshia and Dan sit together in the cupboard once again to catch up and to reflect on Season 5. | The post Episode 70: Season 5 in Review appeared first on The Cosmic Savannah. (@cosmicsavannah • @jdelhaize • @DanielCunnama)

2024-Feb-29 • 49 minutes Are there charm quarks in the proton? Daniel and Jorge talk about whether the cozy story of the proton might need to be updated to describe all of its true charm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Feb-29 • 39 minutes 33. Cantor: An Infinite Odyssey Ioanna Georgiou, mathematics educator and author of “Mathematical Adventures!” and “Peculiar Deaths of Famous Mathematicians”, joins us to discuss Georg Cantor! In this episode, we'll attempt to answer the following questions: What does it mean to ca... (@weheartmath)

2024-Feb-28 • 21 minutes Too Much Math in the Schools? These Books Counter That Narrow View Lee Kraftchick continues his tour of books about math written for the non-mathematician like himself. We also can't let go of Gödel Escher Bach. Lee cites an opinion piece in the Washington Post, titled, "The Problem with Schools Today is Too Much Math," which gives a very narrow view of what math is. He counters it with a response (see theartofmathematicspodcast.com) and more books that demonstrate that math provides "pleasures which all the arts afford." He also discusses books about m... (@CarolJacobyPhD)

2024-Feb-28 • 29 minutes Why is life so diverse? In the first two episodes of this season, we’ve examined how fundamental rules like scaling laws constrain evolution for all forms of life. But if everything is bound to these core rules, then why do we see exceptions? In this episode, Abha and Chris get into the incredible diversity of plants and animals on this planet, where that diversity comes from, and if it’s possible to make forecasts about the biosphere, just like we do for the weather. And, what happens when biodiversity is threatened? (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Feb-28 • 57 minutes The legacy of Red Rover Goes to Mars Twenty years after a pioneering collaboration between The Planetary Society, NASA, and LEGO, Planetary Radio reflects on the Red Rover Goes to Mars program and the lives it impacted. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Feb-28 • 34 minutes SETI Live - "A City on Mars" with Kelly and Zach Weinersmith From January 30, 2024. Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren’t... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-28 • 35 minutes S27E26: The Universe's Luminosity Leader: Unveiling Quasar J0529-4351 The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 26 *The Brightest and Fastest Growing Black Hole Quasar Ever Seen Astronomers have uncovered a cosmic colossus: the most luminous quasar known, powered by a black hole 17 billion... (@stuartgary)

2024-Feb-28 • 53 minutes America's return to the Moon and UK lunar ambitions Plus de-orbiting a two-tonne satellite... (@NakedScientists • @drbtmcallister)

2024-Feb-28 • 54 minutes 50: Quakes in Space Izzie and Dr Becky are exploring shaky ground, whether that’s on Earth, other planets and even on our neighbour the Moon. This month is all about quakes. | | With special thanks to Mark Panning, the project scientist for NASA's InSight mission, and Dr Jess Johnson from the University of East Anglia. | | Join Izzie and the UK Space Education Office for Mars Day on Tuesday 5th March, sign up to the virtual event here. | | Explore the North Tyneside Solar Trail and discover models representing planets ... (@RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_)

2024-Feb-27 • 58 minutes Adventures in Nuclear Risk Reduction - Georgia Pt 1 Spend time with Shelly and two guest as she travels to Tbilsi, Georgia. First she discusses storytelling and Georgian’s atomic Odyssey with Shorena Lortkipanidze from the Civil Council on Defense a... (@NuclearLifePod • @ShellyLesh)

2024-Feb-27 • 55 minutes [Interview] How Should We Handle Space Weapons How serious is the threat from space weapons? How should we handle the situation with international treaties? Is there a way to ensure the enforcement of them and what are the risks if somebody breaks them? Figuring out the answers with Dr Matthew Powell from the University of Portsmouth. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-27 • 39 minutes Neil’s Guide to Heat Transfer Physics How do you make some things stay hot and others stay cool? Neil deGrasse Tyson, with the help of comedian Chuck Nice, explains the physics of heat transfer, insulation, and why your Stanley cup can keep your drink cold during a fire. (@neiltyson)

2024-Feb-27 • 58 minutes Why is quantum gravity so hard? Daniel and Jorge explain why the two theories of physics are so at odds with each other.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Feb-27 • 51 minutes S5E17 Classification and Regression Trees with Yi Feng In this week's episode Greg and Patrick are honored to visit with Yi Feng, a quantitative methodologist at UCLA, as she helps them understand classification and regression tree analysis. She describes the various ways in which these models can be used, and how these can serve to inform both prediction and explanation. Along the way they also discuss looking pensive, drunken 3-way interactions, Stephen Hawking, parlor tricks, Cartman, validation, dragon boats, anxiety, spam filters, hair loss, audio vis... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Feb-26 • 32 minutes Ep. 709: Space Weapons Astronomy Cast Ep. 709: Space Weapons by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 19, 2024. [My apologies for Fraser’s audio dropouts. We’re not sure how it happened as it wasn’t happening at his studio. Audio is a black art, IMHO.... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Feb-26 • 73 minutes 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia I talk with historian Benjamin Breen about Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and their involvement with psychedelics. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Feb-26 • 62 minutes Dark matter vs modified gravity: which team are you on? Two researchers who have switched sides in this heated cosmic debate (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Feb-26 • 31 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 709: Space Weapons Streamed live on Feb 19, 2024. [My apologies for Fraser’s audio dropouts. We’re not sure how it happened as it wasn’t happening at his studio. Audio is a black art, IMHO. Rich) Last week we learned that Russia might be planning nuclear weapons... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-26 • 34 minutes S27E25: Lunar Lander's Perilous Journey: The Odyssey of Odysseus at the South Pole The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 26 *Odysseus' Bumpy Lunar Landing: A Historic Moment with Hiccups In a mix of triumph and tribulation, the Nova-C Odysseus lander by Intuitive Machines has made a historic... (@stuartgary)

2024-Feb-26 • 46 minutes [Q&A] Refuelling the Sun, Rogue Planets Auroras, Space Nukes Where do auroras come from on rogue planets? Can we refuel the Sun to make it last longer? What's going on with space nuke tests? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-25 • 101 minutes Bringing Astrophysics to Life Through Art with Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran (#397) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 What do you get when you combine the minds of a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and an outstanding artist? The Warped Side of Our Universe by Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran! A remarkable book that explores Thorne's astrophysical discoveries through poetic verse and otherworldly paintings. Today, Kip and Lia will guide us through the process of creating their wonderful book. Tune in! Kip Thorne is a theoretica... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-25 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 243E & 244E: Earth/Venus Express & Pale Blue Dot Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - We will probably never know the details of the collision... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-25 • 23 minutes Star Diary 26 February to 3 March 2024 Catch Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Hear the details in this week’s stargazing guide podcast, Star Diary. Make an animation of Jupiter: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astro... Transcription: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star... Check out our on-demand astronomy webinars to learn everything worth knowing about astronomy and stargazing: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/virtu... to BBC Sky at Night Magazine for all the best stargazing tips: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/subsc... more about yo... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Feb-24 • 45 minutes The Cosmic Savannah Ep. 54: The African Network of Women in Astronomy Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. With Prof Mirjana Pović, Prof Vanessa McBride, Dr. Priscilla Muheki and Prof Carolina Ödman. In this week’s episode we are joined by fours members of the board of the recently... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-23 • 24 minutes In Conversation - Interview 1 In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15 The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 where they could see the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. During the event, Royal Observatory astronomer Affelia recorded interviews with some of the photographers who were there to talk about their images and to ask for some advice about how to start taking be... (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Feb-23 • 19 minutes In Conversation - Interview 2 In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 where they could see the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. During the event, Royal Observatory astronomer Affelia recorded interviews with some of the photographers who were there to talk about their images and to ask for some advice about how to start taking b... (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Feb-23 • 7 minutes In Conversation - Interview 3 In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 where they could see the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. During the event, Royal Observatory astronomer Jess, with help from members of the Astronomy Ambassadors Group, recorded interviews with some of the photographers who were there to talk about their imag... (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Feb-23 • 27 minutes In Conversation - Interview 4 In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 where they could see the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. During the event, Royal Observatory astronomer Affelia recorded interviews with some of the photographers who were there to talk about their images and to ask for some advice about how to start taking b... (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Feb-23 • 20 minutes In Conversation - Interview 5 In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 where they could see the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. During the event, Royal Observatory astronomer Affelia recorded interviews with some of the photographers who were there to talk about their images and to ask for some advice about how to start taking b... (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Feb-23 • 20 minutes In Conversation - Interview 6 In Conversation with the Shortlisted and Winning Photographers from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 15. The shortlisted and winning photographers of this competition were invited to a special Private View event in September 2023 where they could see the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. During the event, Royal Observatory astronomers Affelia and Jess, recorded interviews with some of the photographers who were there to talk about their images and to ask for some advice about how to sta... (@ROGAstronomers)

2024-Feb-23 • 23 minutes [Space Bites] USA’s Crazy Moon Landing // Problems for Perseverance // New Glenn Goes Vertical Odysseus lands successfully on the Moon, China is planning to build bricks on the lunar surface, James Webb finds the neutron star at the heart of supernova 1987 A, and Blue Origins finally rolls out New Glenn. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-23 • 34 minutes EVSN - The Compass (Sometimes... Kinda) Points North From Wednesday, January 24, 2024. If you take a compass and follow its pointy little needle, you will end up in Northern Canada but not at the North Pole. If you have a boat, you'll end up on Ellesmere Island wondering where Santa is hiding. ... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-23 • 47 minutes Why We Get Depressed with Heather Berlin What is depression? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the neuroscience behind major depression, its treatments, and the factors that contribute to this pervasive condition with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD. (@neiltyson)

2024-Feb-23 • 19 minutes What Is Dark Matter Really Made Of? (#396) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Remastered from our interview in 2022. There are few concepts in physics as frequently discussed but as poorly understood as dark matter. After all, we don’t even know what it’s made of! However, there are many potential candidates, and I had the pleasure of explaining them in my interview with Arvin Ash. We also talked about the fascinating possibility of detecting gravitational waves from the polarization of the CMB... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-23 • 25 minutes S27E24: The Milky Way's Rugby Ball: Sagittarius A* Spins SpaceTime The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 24 *Warping SpaceTime: The Fast-Spinning Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope and the Very Large Array have observed the supermassive black... (@stuartgary)

2024-Feb-22 • 40 minutes Looking to the future of US particle physics: P5 member Abigail Vieregg is our guest Future colliders, neutrinos and dark matter are key targets (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Feb-22 • 17 minutes Cheap Astronomy - Fantastic Physics Formulas - Episode 9 Expanding and lifting. The Hubble – Lemaitre Law: v=H0D V (Velocity) equals D (distance) times H-nought (the Hubble-Lemaitre constant). This formula describes the relationship between the distance of galaxies and the velocity at which they... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-22 • 46 minutes What is cold welding? Daniel and Kelly talk about how its possible to merge metals without melting!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Feb-21 • 55 minutes OSIRIS-REx becomes APEX Scott Guzewich, deputy project scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX mission, joins Planetary Radio to discuss the next steps for the mission as we count down to asteroid Apophis’ flyby of Earth in 2029. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Feb-21 • 22 minutes Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating worlds that defy classification. The new observations have forced them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon. (@QuantaMagazine)

2024-Feb-21 • 26 minutes SETI Live - Drifting Signals: New Boundaries for Radio Technosignatures Recorded 30 November 2023. In a new study published in the Astronomical Journal, researchers used the known population of exoplanets to set better thresholds for planetary effects on signals from ETIs (extraterrestrial intelligences). Megan Grace Li,... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-21 • 44 minutes [Q&A] JWST vs Apollo Landing Sites, TRAPPIST-1 Atmospheres, Chinese Space Program Why doesn't JWST look at Apollo landing sites? What happened to TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres? What's the biggest thing we can measure our velocity relative to? Will the Universe ever start bouncing back? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-21 • 32 minutes S27E23: Tectonic Tremors: Unraveling the Secrets of Earth's Pacific Plate This episode of SpaceTime is brought to you with the support of Incogni....the online privacy support you need. Take control today - visit https://www.incogni.com/stuartgary to take advantage of our special offer, save big and secure your peace of... (@stuartgary)

2024-Feb-21 • 38 minutes Planet Hunting with Host Padi Boyd In this special episode, we turn the tables and put host Padi Boyd in the interview seat. Padi shares stories from her time with NASA’s groundbreaking Kepler mission, which showed us many more exoplanets—planets orbiting other stars—than we had previously discovered. She also tells us about her dream astronomical dinner companion and her go-to karaoke song. Plus, we'll wrap up another season of wild and wonderful adventures by answering questions from listeners like you and sharing behind-the-scenes tidbits... (@NASA • @PadiBoyd)

2024-Feb-20 • 40 minutes AaS! 218: How Do We Know What the Milky Way Looks Like? Why is it so hard to get a picture of the Milky Way? How much of our galaxy have we mapped? What the heck is a “barred spiral” and what does that have to do with our core? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This... (@PaulMattSutter)

2024-Feb-20 • 41 minutes Ask A Spaceman - Ep. 218: How Do We Know What the Milky Way Looks Like? Why is it so hard to get a picture of the Milky Way? How much of our galaxy have we mapped? What the heck is a “barred spiral” and what does that have to do with our core? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-20 • 35 minutes [Interview] Discovery of The Decade for Dwarf Planets? Eris and Makemake Geothermal Activity Huge Kuiper Belt discovery! With James Webb astronomers were able to see that Eris and Makemake show signs of geothermal activity. How exactly did that happen? Figuring out with Dr Christopher Glein, Lead Scientist at Southwest Research Institute. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-20 • 54 minutes Incentivizing the Future with Peter Diamandis How do science competitions further innovation? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Peter Diamandis, Founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, to discuss science innovation, incentive competitions, and the future of space, longevity, AI, and more. (@neiltyson)

2024-Feb-20 • 57 minutes How is general relativity wrong? Daniel and Jorge talk about why we think Einstein was wrong about the nature of the Universe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Feb-20 • 41 minutes Quantum Computing in Space with guests Garland Garris & Rima Oueid In Episode 81, Patrick and Ciprian speak with returning guest Garland Garris of Accenture Federal Services, and first time guest Rima Oueid of the United States Department of Energy.The team discusses Quantum Computing in space, international development interest, and complimentary technologies to push development timelines.As Accenture Federal Services Quantum Security Lead, Garland Garris, provides Insider Threat, Law Enforcement, Intelligence, cybersecurity expertise and leadership to help guide the comp... (@EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici)

2024-Feb-20 • 34 minutes S5E16 Simpson's Paradox In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about Simpson’s Paradox: what it is, examples of where it occurs in real life, and why we might not really need to think about it as a paradox at all. Along the way they also discuss Apple Vision, The Simpsons predicting the future, sitting too close to the TV, low levels of radiation, Paul the octopus, Blinky, shtuff, duck duck duck, Jonathan the tortoise, batting averages, bad at fractions, Cal Berkeley admissions, GDP and happiness, exercise and heart at... (@quantitudepod)

2024-Feb-19 • 36 minutes Ep. 708: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets? Astronomy Cast Ep. 708: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets? by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live Feb 12, 2024. Last week we talked about sample return missions from the Moon and Mars, but scientists have... (@fcain • @starstryder)

2024-Feb-19 • 31 minutes [Interview] Swarms of Cheap Spacecraft for Solar System Exploration Solar sails aren't just a tool to send tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri. They can also be used to optimise exploration of the Solar System. How can we do that? Figuring it out with Alexander Alvara. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-19 • 80 minutes 266 | Christoph Adami on How Information Makes Sense of Biology I talk with physicist/biologist Chris Adami about how to use information theory to understand biology. (@seanmcarroll)

2024-Feb-19 • 37 minutes Astronomy Cast Ep. 708: What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets? Streamed live Feb 12, 2024. Last week we talked about sample return missions from the Moon and Mars, but scientists have retrieved samples from other objects in the Solar System, including comets and asteroids. What does it take to return a piece of... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-19 • 31 minutes S27E22: Red Planet Hiccup: Perseverance's Dusty Dilemma and the Sherlock Conundrum SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 22*Technical Troubles for NASA's Mars Perseverance RoverNASA's Mars Perseverance rover faces a new challenge as engineers work to stabilize a dust cover on one of the rover's crucial science instrument cameras. The Sherlock instrument's cover remains partially open, hindering its quest to find signs of past microbial life in Jezero Crater. Will the team overcome this cosmic hiccup? Stay tuned.*Was Snowball Earth Triggered by an Asteroid Impact?A new study suggests that Snowball E... (@stuartgary)

2024-Feb-18 • 75 minutes Why There’s No Such Thing as Free Will w/ Robert Sapolsky (#395) Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Whether or not there is free will has tortured scientists from many fields since philosophers in ancient Greece started wondering about it. But for one scientist, there’s no question about it… Meet neuroendocrinology researcher, bestselling author, and Stanford University professor – Robert Sapolsky! Sapolsky’s journey has led him from studying stress and neuronal degeneration in wild baboons in Kenya to exploring the r... (@Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating)

2024-Feb-18 • 6 minutes Travelers in the Night Eps. 241E & 242E: Lunar Village & Blinded Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. Today's 2 topics: - Covered by a blanket of lunar soil to protect it from BB... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-18 • 16 minutes Star Diary 19 to 25 February 2024 Watch Callisto pass under Jupiter. Get the details in the latest episode of our weekly stargazing guide podcast. Transcription: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/podcasts/star... Check out our on-demand astronomy webinars to learn everything worth knowing about astronomy and stargazing: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/virtu... Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine for all the best stargazing tips: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/subsc... more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices... (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Feb-17 • 71 minutes Awesome Astronomy - Ep. 140: Giant European Space Lasers! Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. This month we explore: - The exciting announcements from the European Space Agency as they outline their new missions for the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-17 • 53 minutes Blasting Soil - Interview with Dr Phil Metzger This month Dr Jen talks to Dr Phil! Dr Phil Metzger, 30 years at NASA where he has worked on various missions and programmes including the ISS snd Space Shuttle, while more recently he has been investigating how rocket efflux interacts with soil and... (@AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro)

2024-Feb-17 • 32 minutes Auriga: Myths and Retcons(tellations) Join Jordan and Kit as they retell and ret-con the mythology of the constellation Auriga! (@[email protected])

2024-Feb-17 FQxI February 17, 2024 Podcast Episode The Universal Constructor: A Conversation with David Deutsch (@FQXi)

2024-Feb-16 • 169 minutes A Dialogue with Label-Defying Journalist Jonathan Kay I first became aware of Jonathan Kay through his writing for the online magazine, Quillette. And for full disclosure, I got to know him better because he is one of their editors, and he has edited several of my own pieces for that magazine. Before that, however, I had been a fan of his writing, and was happy to be able to have an extended conversation with him about writing, journalism, false news, and politics, to name a few of the topics we discussed. Our dialogue occurred shortly after the appearance o... (@LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject)

2024-Feb-16 • 55 minutes EVSN - Spooky Season Space Images From October 25, 2023. Around our parent collaboration, CosmoQuest, Halloween is, hands-down, the most beloved season of the year. Costumes are worn. Yards are decorated. We are here for all the strangers that knock on our door - the weirdos, the... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-16 • 21 minutes [Space Bites] Unexpected Mimas Discovery // Moon Mission Launch // New EHT Image More oceans across the Solar System. The Event Horizon Telescope zooms into an active galactic nucleus. Another lunar lander sets off to the Moon. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-16 • 10 minutes Supporting Wildlife with Statistics Dr. Outi Tervo of Greenland Institute for Natural Resources, shares how mathematics helps recommend speed limits for marine vessels, which benefits narwhals and Inuit culture. Narwhals "can only be found in the Arctic," said Outi Tervo, a senior scientist at GINR. "These species are going to be threatened by climate change more than other species that can live in a bigger geographical area." The collaboration has already lobbied on behalf of the narwhals to reduce the level of sea traffic in their h... (@amermathsoc)

2024-Feb-16 • 25 minutes S27E21: Cosmic Chicken or Egg: Did Black Holes Birth Galaxies? 🌏 Get Our Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/stuartgary or use the checkout code STUARTGARY. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ Become a supporter of this podcast:... (@stuartgary)

2024-Feb-16 • 26 minutes How x-rays unlock the secrets of the Universe Optical expert Dr Charly Feldman from the University of Leicester discusses her work on China’s Einstein probe, and reveals how x-ray vision unlocks the secrets of the Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices (@skyatnightmag)

2024-Feb-15 • 25 minutes Bionic jellyfish and more efficient windfarms: a conversation with John Dabiri The Caltech aeronautics engineer is our podcast guest (@PhysicsWorld)

2024-Feb-15 • 70 minutes Actual Astronomy - Astronomy Books Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Astronomy Books. In this episode we discuss some of the best astronomy books with City Lights Bookstore owner Chris Wilcox.... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-15 • 34 minutes How Did Altruism Evolve? We often talk about evolution in terms of competition, as the survival of the fittest. But if it is, then where did the widespread (and widely admired) impulse to help others even at great cost to ourselves come from? In this episode, Stephanie Preston, a professor of psychology and head of the Ecological Neuroscience Lab at the University of Michigan, talks about the evolutionary, neurological and behavioral foundations for altruism with our new co-host, the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin. (@QuantaMagazine • @stevenstrogatz)

2024-Feb-15 • 57 minutes Listener Questions 48: Vacations, Destruction and Anti-matter Black Holes Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners and try to avoid giving marriage advice.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (@DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics)

2024-Feb-14 • 34 minutes How do we identify life? In this episode, Chris and Abha explore how life originated here on earth and how we might identify it in other parts of the universe. They ask two researchers about the signature characteristics of life and what common dynamics we might see among organisms outside our planet. They’ll also delve into assembly theory, a recent concept that looks at the construction of objects as a way to universally quantify life, which has ignited debate within the scientific community. (@sfiscience • @michaelgarfield)

2024-Feb-14 • 64 minutes The Space Race: Honoring the first African-American space explorers This week on Planetary Radio, we take a peak behind the scenes at National Geographic's new documentary, “The Space Race,” which celebrates the triumphs and struggles of the first African-American space pioneers and astronauts. (@exploreplanets • @PlanRad)

2024-Feb-14 • 27 minutes SETI Live - “The Big One”: The Most Powerful Marsquake Ever Detected Recorded 16 November 2023. On Earth, we understand how and where earthquakes happen due to the discovery of plate tectonics – the continental crust’s creation, movement, and destruction. However, when astronauts placed seismometers on the lunar... (@planetarysci)

2024-Feb-14 • 65 minutes [Interview] What's Wrong With Modern Science And How To Fix It What are the main problems of modern-day science? Why there's a growing trust gap between the scientists and the public? How can we fix those problems and restore the trust? Figuring out with Dr. Paul M. Sutter. (@universetoday • @fcain)

2024-Feb-14 • 24 minutes S27E20: The Improbable Galaxy: Unveiling the Enigma of Pearl SDG For peace of mind when online and know you are protected get our special 60% off deal on Incogni. Visit https://www.incogni.com/stuartgary to get the deal The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 20 *The Enigma of Pearl... (@stuartgary)

Questions in Podcast Episode Descriptions

But what if it goes right?
Can MDMA make you a better person?
How are cosmology and cosmetology linked?
... Has the Big Bang happened an infinite number of times?
... And why has no one ever seen a perfect triangle?
How can we improve ALMA?
... What are the benefits of having a single big submillimeter telescope?
... What could we discover if the AtLAST telescope project goes through?
If we went to the Moon already, why can’t we go back so easily?
... What technology have we lost?
... What are we trying to do differently?
If we went to the Moon already, why can’t we go back so easily?
... What technology have we lost?
... What are we trying to do differently?
How can we let aliens know we're here?
... What does a lunar eclipse look like as seen from the Moon?
... Can we record a supernova in real time?
... Why aren't coronagraphs just circles?
Is gravity fundamental to the universe?
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... If so, what might life be like on these other planets?
... Could we even detect it?
How exactly will it pan out?
Should policymakers spend more time looking - really looking - at the Moon?
What would aliens think of our inventions?
What are the limits of James Webb when it's looking for Earth-like atmospheres?
... What can we possibly find out?
... Is there any hope for red dwarf stars and their planets to have a potential for habitability?
Could biological activity be the source, or are geological interactions to blame?
What's in May’s night sky?
Could we find life around low-mass stars?
How old is that star?
... That planet?
... That nebula?
How can we protect antimatter-powered rockets from space dust?
... Will curing cancer solve deep space travel?
... What happens when planets align?
... Does dark matter lose angular momentum?
How old is that star?
... That planet?
... That nebula?
But is it a valid scientific theory or just science fiction?
How certain are we about aliens?
Why don't they just build a bigger version of James Webb for Starship?
... What's the pressure inside Europa's oceans?
... How can you measure a day on a planet without a surface?
So, what does it take to build a probe that can touch the Sun—including surviving temperatures of 2...
Will Neil take back what he said about Pluto?
What’s the most distant thing we can see with the naked eye?
... What about with a telescope?
... What about at other wavelengths?
... Is there anything more to see?
What’s the most distant thing we can see with the naked eye?
... What about with a telescope?
... What about at other wavelengths?
... Is there anything more to see?
How is new tech helping protect the rainforest?
How many times have you heard that?
Are black holes places or objects?
Nothing escapes a black hole … or does it?
... If particles can escape, do they preserve any information about the matter that was obliterated?
Can wobbly planets have more than two solstices?
... Are we earthlings receding from the sun and the other planets?
... What is dark flow and why is it controversial?
... When stars die, is their energy lost forever?
What is the Sun’s ecliptic?
What's in April’s night sky?
What engine type will the first manned interstellar mission use for propulsion?
... Will AI help solve any mysteries of space?
... Why do we have exoplanet types named after Neptune but not Uranus?
| | Have you ever wondered what the full story with the galactic center is?
What can we learn from eclipses?
What is “emergence” in physics and why is it a big deal?
... What would it mean for gravity to be emergent?
... How would we have to rewrite the laws of physics?
What is “emergence” in physics and why is it a big deal?
... What would it mean for gravity to be emergent?
... How would we have to rewrite the laws of physics?
Does gravitational lensing affect the CMB?
... Can the Great Attractor solve the Hubble tension?
... Why don't we put a Deep Space Network antenna in space?
... What's the difference between a nova and a supernova?
Is space infinitely stretchable?
How often do you think about your nearest star?
Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we ...
... What was the first exoplanet detected?
Can we harvest energy from the Moon's temperature difference?
... Why don't we just launch multiple telescopes like Hubble?
... Why is the Moon grey?
... Why are sunspots black?
What is the value of curiosity?
What is it?
... Where is it?
... And what do we know about it?
“What is it about Artificial Intelligence driving tech giants like Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, Mark...
... Why are they racing to develop and own these thinking machines while unsure of the harm they could ...
Is aging a disease that can be cured?
Have you ever seen a ghost or a UFO?
How can a “big rip” tear the universe apart?
... What does that mean for existence itself?
... Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out?
How can a “big rip” tear the Universe apart?
... What does that mean for existence itself?
... Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out?
How heavy are the biggest stars in the Universe and how do they compare to the Sun?
... Why would aliens be grabby?
... Is there more space for science communicators?
... What's the minimum size for an object to have an atmosphere?
What happens to quarks during spaghettification?
What did NASA learn from setting their Cygnus spaceships on fire?
... Is fire more dangerous in space than on Earth?
What drives NASA's most successful projects like James Webb, Perseverance, Parker Solar Probe, etc?
... What's going on with international cooperation?
... How will future missions be planned and executed?
How cold does it get in the shadows on the Moon?
... What's going on with dark matter research?
... Can we chase Oumuamua with a solar sail spacecraft?
... Will we ever face a war for the Moon?
How do groups solve problems?
... Are there conditions that create a pathway to innovation and groundbreaking inventions?
What is cosmic dust?
... Could we reignite a dying Sun with a nuclear weapon?
... How do we know what galaxies stars are in, and can the JWST see streetlights on alien worlds?
What are the best ways to see planets around other stars?
Why does this happen?
Is there a quantum reason we could have free will?
How do we plan a mission that can go to Enceladus and grab a sample of its plumes?
... How fast does it need to go?
... Will it bring samples to Earth or analyse them on the spacecraft?
What happens after death?
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What if I told you that you could be more productive… by doing less?
How do we track dangerous asteroids?
... What can impacts do to us?
... What do we plan to do if The Big One is headed for us?
... Is Armageddon a documentary?
How do we track dangerous asteroids?
... What can impacts do to us?
... What do we plan to do if The Big One is headed for us?
... Is Armageddon a documentary?
Why won't NASA send a copy of Perseverance to the Moon?
... Can life exist on a planet around a blue giant star?
... How do satellites stay safe in orbit and don't collide with each other?
What do two physicists think about the movie Oppenheimer?
Could we make the clouds brighter so they reflect more of the Sun's warming rays back into space to...
... Or make Arctic ice thicker so it lasts longer over the summer?
What's it like bringing science to the most general public audiences?
... How do you distill complex results into short news-worthy articles without getting lost in clickbai...
How close are we to such a scenario and what do we need to fill outer space with Von Neumann probes
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What is cosmic dust?
... What is it made of and what can it tell us about the Universe?
... Could cosmic dust be responsible for life starting on Earth?
But why is it that way, and could time ultimately be a kind of illusion?
But if everything is bound to these core rules, then why do we see exceptions?
How serious is the threat from space weapons?
... How should we handle the situation with international treaties?
... Is there a way to ensure the enforcement of them and what are the risks if somebody breaks them?
How do you make some things stay hot and others stay cool?
Where do auroras come from on rogue planets?
... Can we refuel the Sun to make it last longer?
... What's going on with space nuke tests?
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What is depression?
Why doesn't JWST look at Apollo landing sites?
... What happened to TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres?
... What's the biggest thing we can measure our velocity relative to?
... Will the Universe ever start bouncing back?
Why is it so hard to get a picture of the Milky Way?
... How much of our galaxy have we mapped?
... What the heck is a “barred spiral” and what does that have to do with our core?
Why is it so hard to get a picture of the Milky Way?
... How much of our galaxy have we mapped?
... What the heck is a “barred spiral” and what does that have to do with our core?
How exactly did that happen?
How do science competitions further innovation?
What Goes Into Sample Return Missions From Asteroids & Comets?
How can we do that?
Will the team overcome this cosmic hiccup?
But if it is, then where did the widespread (and widely admired) impulse to help others even at gre...
What are the main problems of modern-day science?
... Why there's a growing trust gap between the scientists and the public?
... How can we fix those problems and restore the trust?