A composite list of episodes from the past 90 days of general science podcasts. Also see episode list for physics, math, and astronomy podcasts.
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 Interview: Apollo 17 student ambassador Dermot GethingsApollo 17 was the final human moon landing mission from NASA. Student ambassador Dermot Gethings was on of 80 students who got a behind the scenes look at the mission.Transcript.Find out more about Apollo 17 in the December issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine.You can see the UK piece of the Goodwill Moonrock at the Natural History Museum in London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Dec-07 • 41 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
 Martian Dust Storms // Solar Storm Damage // Dragon Arrival // Ariane 6 UpdateSpaceTime Series 25 Episode 132 *Martian dust storms generate Earth like clouds ESA's Mars Express has revealed that Mars churns up surprisingly Earth-like cloud patterns that are reminiscent of those in our planet's tropical regions. *Solar storm... (2022-Dec-07 • 38 minutes • @stuartgary) |
 Cosmic Perspective - 50th Anniversary of Apollo 17 Author Geoffrey Bowman Discusses the Life of Apollo 17 CMP Ron EvansGeoffrey Bowman, Author of “A Long Voyage to the Moon” discusses the life of Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans... from his experiences as a naval fighter pilot in the Vietnam War to last man to perform a spacewalk on an Apollo lunar... (2022-Dec-07 • 51 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 AaS! 189: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 7: Many Worlds, Infinite Possibilities)Part 7! What is the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics? How does decoherence play a critical role? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this idea? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is... (2022-Dec-06 • 50 minutes • @PaulMattSutter) |
 A 60% chance of rain: Weather, climate, and how to deal with uncertaintyWill climate change leave the region you live in hotter and drier, or wetter and stormier? It's a question of utmost importance in many areas of the world, yet it's one that climate scientists can't answer. This is why world-leading climate scientist Tim Palmer is calling for a high-performance supercomputing centre dedicated entirely to climate change. Tim Palmer. In this podcast we talk to Palmer about this call for a "CERN for climate change" and why climate forecasting requires so much computing power ... (2022-Dec-06 • 21 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
 Cosmic Queries – Astro-lore with Moiya McTierIs it time to update the constellations? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen dive into astrophysics, folklore, and our ancient connection to the stars with astrophysicist Moiya McTier, Ph.D. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Viny Adomonis, Thomas Blankenhorn, Weston Daniel L., Lauren Scott, and Aaryan Kukar for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Dec-06 • 50 minutes • @neiltyson) |
 S4E11 The Centrality of Noncentral DistributionsIn today’s episode, Patrick and Greg talk about those critical distributions that often go un-discussed -- noncentral distributions -- including their relation to the more familiar central distributions, their role in power and sample size determination, and how they are used in assessing data-model fit. Along the way they also mention back porch reading, latent class of one, statistical concepts as personality characteristics, double doink, Brilliant!, cocktail party banter, reaching into your d-bag, Mini... (2022-Dec-06 • 55 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| Ask A Spaceman - Ep. 189: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 7: Many Worlds, Infinite Possibilities) Part 7! What is the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics? How does decoherence play a critical role? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this idea? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! We've added a... (2022-Dec-06 • 51 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 What is a black hole eclipse?Daniel and Jorge talk about whether black holes can be blocked or can block other objects.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Dec-06 • 53 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
 Ep. 661: Looking Back on the Missions That EndedAstronomy Cast Ep. 661: Looking Back on the Missions That Ended by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay It’s always sad to say goodbye, but when we send our robotic emissaries out into the cosmos, it’s just a matter of time before they shut down.... (2022-Dec-05 • 31 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
 AMA | December 2022Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape for December 2022. (2022-Dec-05 • 196 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 661: Looking Back on the Missions That Ended It’s always sad to say goodbye, but when we send our robotic emissaries out into the cosmos, it’s just a matter of time before they shut down. Today we’re going to say goodbye to a few missions which have reached the end of their lives… But... (2022-Dec-05 • 30 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 Cute Mars RoversScientists reminisce about Sprit and Opportunity... (2022-Dec-05 • 57 minutes • @NakedScientists • @drbtmcallister) |
| Artemis 1 Homeward Bound *Artemis 1 on its way home NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is on its way home after completing its distant retrograde lunar orbit around the Moon. *More possible organic compounds found in Mars crater rocks Scientists are reporting the detection... (2022-Dec-05 • 29 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 5 to 11 December 2022 Mars will be occulted by the Moon while at opposition this week - a truly historic occasion. Find out out more in our weekly stargazing guide.TranscriptFind all the details about the occultation of Mars.Learn how to observe Mars at opposition.Subscribe to BBC Sky at Night Magazine for all the latest space news and stargazing tips. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Dec-04 • 17 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Is EternalBalaji S. Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur and investor. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford university and sports several high scale financial successes; he was the co-founder of Counsyl, the former Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase, and former general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. twitter.com/balajis www.amazon... with me: 🏄♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?s... (2022-Dec-04 • 104 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 207 E & 208 E: Zero & Deuce 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: - Newly discovered 2016 AM2's path had a zero distance... (2022-Dec-04 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 Episode 59: Construction of the SKA commences!The 5th of December 2022 sees the commencement of construction of the long-awaited Square Kilometre Array (SKA)! | We are honoured to be joined by the SKA Observatory Council Chairperson, Dr Catherine Cesarsky to talk about this momentous occasion. | The post Episode 59: Construction of the SKA commences! appeared first on The Cosmic Savannah. (2022-Dec-04 • 52 minutes • @cosmicsavannah • @jdelhaize • @DanielCunnama) |
| Observing With Webb - December Episode December ends the year on a high note, providing us glimpses of all the planets, the major ones being conveniently visible, an occultation of Mars, a modest meteor shower, and plenty of telescope targets. 1st – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon,... (2022-Dec-03 • 16 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 [Space Bites] Scientists Simulate a Quantum Wormhole, Black Hole Consumes a Star, More Moon VisitorsThe best images from Artemis so far. More spacecraft are going to the Moon. Researchers have simulated a wormhole. China now has six people on board its space station (2022-Dec-02 • 21 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
 The physics of car crashes and the winners of the Institute of Physics Business AwardsIn this podcast we celebrate innovation and learn how to thwart insurance cheats (2022-Dec-02 • 40 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Are the Sun’s Solar Cycles Getting Weaker? SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 130 *Are the Sun’s solar cycles getting weaker New computer modelling suggests the Sun’s 11 year solar cycle is getting weaker, and scientists aren’t sure how that will affect the Earth. *New NASA climate change mission... (2022-Dec-02 • 26 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - Hipparchus’ Lost Star Catalog with Dr. Victor Gysemberg Streamed live on Nov 23, 2022. Host: Fraser Cain ( ) Special Guest: Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived in the second century BCE, is considered to be the greatest astronomical observer of his time. Among his achievements are the development of... (2022-Dec-02 • 67 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Counting Cards & Quantitative Thinking What does it take to count cards? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore blackjack, quantitative thinking, and the journey from MIT blackjack player to angel investor with Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Photo Credit: ElooKoN, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Dec-02 • 43 minutes • @neiltyson) |
 Space Policy Edition: NASA's Economic Impact with Alex MacDonald and Joshua DruckerWhat is NASA’s return on investment? NASA chief economist Alex MacDonald and University of Illinois Chicago professor Joshua Drucker provide revealing answers from a new economic impact report. (2022-Dec-02 • 74 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| What is the densest planet? Daniel and Jorge wonder about which planets would float if you dunked them in a cosmic tub.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Dec-01 • 57 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
 Look Up! Dec 2022Royal Observatory Astronomers Affelia and Jess take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of December. They also cover some cosmic news! In this month's episode we discuss all things Moon-related with the recent launch of Artemis 1. Join us on twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of December! In this episode we don't discuss the Apollo 1 tragedy. If you wanted to learn more about Apollo 1 we covered this in our April 2019 episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-... (2022-Dec-01 • 27 minutes • @ROGAstronomers) |
 #126 - December 2022The Discussion: Meteor shower disappointment Lecturing course started Dr Jen’s 30th birthday party karaoke – with audio! more resources for astronomy and astrophotography over at The News: Rounding up the astronomy news in November, we... (2022-Dec-01 • 68 minutes • @AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro) |
 Nicole Yunger Halpern on quantum steampunkNicole Yunger Halpern reenvisions 19th-century thermodynamics for the 21st century, using the mathematical toolkit of quantum information theory. She is a fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), a theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. She is also the author of Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow, a book that blends the topic of quantum th... (2022-Dec-01 • 59 minutes • @Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin) |
| Actual Astronomy - Objects to Observe in December Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] In this episode we’ll talk about what you can see in the night time sky this month. For those listening on the 365 Days of Astronomy, if... (2022-Dec-01 • 54 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Francis Halzen: Catching Neutrinos at the South Pole Francis Halzen is the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University Wisconsin-Madison and principal investigator for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the world's largest neutrino detector, he is the Director of the Institute for Elementary Particle Physics, and the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A theoretician studying problems at the interface of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, Halzen has been work... (2022-Nov-30 • 90 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| The Daily Space - BONUS CONTENT: Full-length Interview with Jochen Grandell Catch the full-length interview with Jochen Grandell, Program Scientist for the Meteosat third generation, from our October 4th episode. The MTP (Meteosat Transition Programme) was established to ensure the operational continuity between the... (2022-Nov-30 • 20 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Q&A] Black Holes VS Brown Dwarfs, Moon Telescopes, Galaxy Collision Which ones are more invisible: black holes of brown dwarfs? Which cheap telescope should you get? Will the Artemis program start a new era in astronomy? What will happen when Andromeda crashes into the Milky Way? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. (2022-Nov-30 • 36 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
 #285 - UAE - Space AgencyMatt flies solo this week to bring a timely interview with Ibrahim Al Qasim of the UAE Space Agency. If you enjoy the show please go over to www.linktr.ee/Interplanetary and become a member on Patreon. Host: Matt Russell Music: Matt Russell (2022-Nov-30 • 36 minutes • @Interplanetypod • @iam7cool) |
| A Happy 20th Anniversary for Planetary Radio Join the Planetary Society’s CEO, its co-founder Louis Friedman and others as we mark Planetary Radio’s entry into its third decade. (2022-Nov-30 • 79 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Are We Seeing the First Light in the Universe? SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 129 *Are we seeing the first light in the universe The Webb Space Telescope is now unveiling what could be light from the very first stars in the universe – revealing a very rich cosmos where the first forming galaxies... (2022-Nov-30 • 30 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Could We Someday Live Forever? With Ray Kurzweil Would you want to live forever? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil discuss immortality, longevity escape velocity, the singularity, and the future of technology. What will life be like in 10 years? NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/could-we-... to our Patrons Johan Svensson, Galen J., Kellen Bolander, Sunshine, and Brian White for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Jon Manning, C... (2022-Nov-29 • 53 minutes • @neiltyson) |
 US Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Posture Review with Steve FetterWith all the talk of nuclear weapons in Europe, learn about the US nuclear weapon triad with Dr. Steve Fetter. Recorded live during a nuclear physics conference, Drs. Fetter and Lesher discuss the... (2022-Nov-29 • 38 minutes • @NuclearLifePod • @ShellyLesh) |
| Avivah Yamani - The Planetary Family Tree Planets are born from the particles of gas and dust in the leftover material from star formation. This material formed a disk around the newborn star and over time, this material began to collide and stick together forming larger clumps. ... (2022-Nov-29 • 12 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| S4E10 Test Driving Model Identification In today’s episode, Greg and Patrick talk about model under-, just-, and over-identification, starting with the algebraic foundations and moving into implications for the practice of structural equation modeling. Along the way they also mention shagging cars, new Ferraris, bank statements, prerecorded reactions, Quantitude implied contract, necessary & sufficient, walk of shame, Patrick’s Roz impression, working with explosives, potluck freeloaders, fixing a loading to your home address, and bad maps.St... (2022-Nov-29 • 50 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
 Bob Coecke Returns to Entangled ThingsIn Episode 48, Patrick and Ciprian speak with returning guest Bob Coecke, Chief Scientist at Quantinuum.Among other topics, the team discuss modern paths into Quantum, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the possibility of a Quantum Winter. (2022-Nov-29 • 50 minutes • @EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici) |
| Are the constants of nature really constant? There are some numbers you can rely on. The speed of light, c, is 299,792,458 ms-1. The gravitational constant, G, is 6.674 x 10-11m3kg-1s-2. These are examples of what are often called the constants of nature – fundamental physical quantities that seem to be the same everywhere, and unchanging over time. Or are they? Today would have been our wonderful boss, John D. Barrow's, 70th birthday. And to celebrate him and his work we look at the answer to this question in today's podcast. John D. Barrow (Image cr... (2022-Nov-29 • 23 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
| Does the Moon have an atmosphere? astronomy (2022-Nov-29 • 48 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
 Brian Keating: Probing the Early Universe and Communicating about ScienceFind Brian’s INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/39UaHlB and on Spotify here spoti.fi/3vpfXok Brian Keating is an observational cosmology whose work has focused on measuring a possible imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) that could have come from the earliest moments of the Big Bang, and could even give possible indirect evidence for a multiverse. Indeed, an experiment he worked, called BICEP 2, in 2014 announced a possible result which electrified the scie... (2022-Nov-29 • 116 minutes • @LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject) |
 Quantum technology gathers paceThe 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics celebrated research that is underpinning a tech transformation (2022-Nov-28 • 44 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| [Q&A] Space Questions Special This time it's different. As always, it's your space questions, but not my answers. I invited my fellow space YouTubers to give their answers to help me with the Q&A. Enjoy! (2022-Nov-28 • 33 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| 219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of Curiosity I talk with neuroscientist Dani Bassett and philosopher Perry Zurn about how curiosity works and what forms it takes. (2022-Nov-28 • 63 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Orion’s Historic Journey Around the Moon SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 128 *Orion’s historic journey around the Moon NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has arrived safely in lunar orbit and has now well into its distant retrograde orbit which is taking the mission some 92,195 kilometres... (2022-Nov-28 • 29 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 660: Runaway! Runaway! Escaping Stars, Planets & Small Bodies Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, stars orbit within galaxies. It’s orbits all the way down. But occasionally objects can receive a powerful kick that sends them on a journey, never to return. This... (2022-Nov-28 • 28 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Ep. 660: Runaway! Runaway! Escaping Stars, Planets & Small Bodies Astronomy Cast Ep. 660: Runaway! Runaway! Escaping Stars, Planets & Small Bodies by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, stars orbit within galaxies. It’s orbits all the way down. But occasionally objects... (2022-Nov-28 • 28 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 28 November to 4 December 2022 Mars' closest approach to Earth as Saturn and Jupiter approach the crescent Moon in this week's stargazing guide.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Nov-27 • 12 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 205E & 206E: How Close? & Still Out There 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: - Dr. Grower discovered 250 foot diameter 2015 YV1. - Carson... (2022-Nov-27 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 Episode 81 - Christopher DanielsonTechnically this is a theorem, but it seems so obvious that it's unclear that it needs a proof. In this episode Christopher Danielson points out that polygons have same number of sides as vertices. Many shapes make an appearance. (2022-Nov-26 • 33 minutes • @niveknosdunk • @evelynjlamb) |
| The Cosmic Savannah Ep. 38: Rise of the Machine Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. We are joined by Dr. Michelle Lochner who is a senior lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. Michelle is developing new machine learning and artificial... (2022-Nov-26 • 45 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Weekly Space Hangout: Untying an Early "Cosmic Knot" with Dr. Andrey Vayner Streamed live on Nov 9, 2022. Host: Fraser Cain ( ) Special Guest: Since its final commissioning and being placed in service, JWST has been delivering on its promise to provide unprecedented insight into the most distant — and oldest — regions of... (2022-Nov-25 • 62 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| How Black Holes Control Star Formation SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 127 *How black holes control star formation New observations using NASA’s Webb Space Telescope are showing astronomers how black holes control star formation in galaxies. *Euclid completes thermal vacuum testing The... (2022-Nov-25 • 26 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| [Space Bites] Asteroid Explodes Over Canada, Artemis I Updates, Very Large Telescope Improvements Updates on Artemis I. Predicting an asteroid strike with stunning accuracy. Webb’s view of Titan. New adaptive optics for the Very Large Telescope. (2022-Nov-25 • 21 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
 35: Astronaut Special: Returning to the MoonThe Astronaut Alarm is in overdrive... Izzie, Dr Becky, and his excellency Richard Hollingham have not one but TWO astronauts on this month's episode. | | From the archive, Richard speaks to NASA astronaut Gene Cernan about Apollo 17 and being the last man on the Moon. ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer talks about the upcoming Artemis missions which will see humans (hopefully, Matthias himself) return to our rocky neighbour. Plus, Robert Massey is on hand to answer your questions and share his stargazing tips... (2022-Nov-25 • 51 minutes • @RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_) |
| The SCIENCE of ALIENS: Garry Nolan & Avi Loeb Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of UFO artifacts, materials, and he is actively investigating reports of UFO encounters. Avi Loeb is an astrophysicist at Harvard, the director of the Galileo Project, and the author of Extraterrestrial. In 1993 he moved to Harvard University where he was tenured three years later. He is now the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and former chair of the depart... (2022-Nov-25 • 133 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Cosmic Insignificance Therapy Just a few thoughts on 'cosmic insignificance therapy', popularized in the book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" Oliver Burkeman, brought to my attention in this blog post by Tim Ferriss https://tim.blog/2021/12/15/the-liberati... with some additional thoughts on the philosophy of Sam Harris and Scott Galloway as well. I hope you enjoy and I thank you for being along on this cosmic adventure with me! Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel, just click here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianK... (2022-Nov-24 • 15 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Dustin Lang on big data from a big universe Dustin Lang is a computational scientist at Perimeter Institute who develops techniques for finding needles in the cosmic haystack. He works on several large sky survey projects, tackling the statistical data analysis required to discern meaningful insights from huge datasets gathered by telescopes. In this conversation with Lauren and Colin, he shares his experiences mapping galaxies with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and hunting for mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) with the Canadian ... (2022-Nov-24 • 70 minutes • @Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin) |
| How do we know quantum mechanics is really random? Daniel and Jorge wrestle with Bell's experiment and the philosophical consequences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-24 • 58 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Synchrotrons and space telescopes: looking to the future of big science In this podcast we talk about light-source facilities and NASA’s plans for the future (2022-Nov-24 • 40 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Awesome Astronomy - How Big is the Universe? From Nov 24, 2021. Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. A simple explanation of the size of the universe, how the universe grew so big and how big it will... (2022-Nov-24 • 8 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022)Alfred S. Posamentier's The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond (Prometheus Books, 2022) is the first book I’ve ever seen written by a mathematician that will absolutely, definitely, certainly appeal to people who love numbers and who don’t love mathematics. I would urge all listeners to tell everyone they know who has a fascination with numbers to listen to this podcast, especially if they don’t love mathematics because they will definitely love this book. Ho... (2022-Nov-23 • 55 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| Stadium maths Amid much controversy, the 2022 World Cup has begun and the action has now moved onto the football pitches inside the many newly built stadiums in Qatar. But how are these stadiums turned from architectural sketches into real buildings? For this week's episode we delve back far into our archive to hear from Paul Shepherd from the University of Bath, an expert in building football stadiums such as the famous Emirates stadium in London. In this interview, first recorded back in 2007, he tells us about what ki... (2022-Nov-23 • 16 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
 Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered FlightPartnerships between engineers and biologists have begun to reveal how birds evolved their superb maneuverability. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Running Out” by Patrick Patrikios. (2022-Nov-23 • 18 minutes • @QuantaMagazine) |
| Hubble Captures Three Faces of an Evolving Supernova SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 126 *Hubble captures three faces of an evolving supernova NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has images three different moments at once in a far-off supernova explosion that happened 11 billion years ago. *New study claims... (2022-Nov-23 • 29 minutes • @stuartgary) |
 John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and ConsciousnessWhat makes us human? Over the last several decades, the once-vast island of human exceptionalism has lost significant ground to wave upon wave of research revealing cognition, emotion, problem-solving, and tool-use in other organisms. But there remains a clear sense that humans stand apart — evidenced by our unique capacity to overrun the planet and remake it in our image. What is unique about the human mind, and how might we engage this question rigorously through the lens of neuroscience? How are our gif... (2022-Nov-23 • 49 minutes • @sfiscience • @michaelgarfield) |
| [Interview] Chance for Life After The Sun Dies with Dr Andrew Vanderburg Is there a chance for life to continue after the Sun eventually explodes? Can we find evidence of potentially habitable planets near white dwarfs, remnants of dead stars? How can future telescopes help with that? (2022-Nov-23 • 36 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Giving the University of Arizona Mirror Lab a spin Join us for a tour of the University of Arizona’s Mirror Lab where they use a giant, spinning oven filled with molten glass to create the primary mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. (2022-Nov-23 • 70 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| The Daily Space - Water Worlds May Hide Water Underground Summary From September 9, 2022. A population study of 43 exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars used both the transit method and radial velocity method to find the densities of the worlds and a surprising pattern emerged. The planets are less dense than expected,... (2022-Nov-23 • 25 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 Fascinating FractalsJeanne Lazzarini joins us again to discuss fractals, a way to investigate the roughness that we see in nature, as opposed to the smoothness of standard mathematics. Fractals are built of iterated patterns with zoom similarity. Examples include the Koch Snowflake, which encloses a finite area but has infinite perimeter, and the Sierpinski Triangle, which has no area at all. Fractals have fractional dimension. For example, The Sierpinski Triangle is of dimension 1.585, reflecting its position in the nether wo... (2022-Nov-23 • 21 minutes • @CarolJacobyPhD) |
| Probability In this episode of High Theory, Justin Joque talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Probability. This conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in science, technology, engineering, and medicine from a highly theoretical perspective. If you want to learn more about the philosophical, technical, and economic implications of probability, check out Justin’s new book, Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022). Justin... (2022-Nov-22 • 18 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| Listener Questions 33: Questions from your kids! Daniel and Jorge talk about what nothing looks like, whether Thor's hammer would destroy the Earth and rogue stars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-22 • 48 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
 Scott Aaronson | Quantum Computing: Dismantling the HypeScott Aaronson is a professor of computer science at University of Texas at Austin and director of its Quantum Information Center. Previously he received his PhD at UC Berkeley and was a faculty member at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 2007-2016. Scott has won numerous prizes for his research on quantum computing and complexity theory, including the Alan T Waterman award in 2012 and the ACM Prize in Computing in 2020. In addition to being a world class scientist, Scott is famous for... (2022-Nov-22 • 185 minutes • @IAmTimNguyen) |
| The Toll of War with Irwin Redlener How will the war in Ukraine impact future generations? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson learns about disaster relief and helping child refugees with co-founder of Ukraine Children’s Action Project and pediatrician, Irwin Redlener. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Photo Credit: UP9, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Nov-22 • 42 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Leiden Observatory - Cosmic Perspectives Part 4 Cosmic Perspectives: Dutch Astronomy in Wider Society is a feature podcast that explores the beneficial impact of Dutch astronomy on society, from building positive international relationships to the transfer of life-changing technology. In this... (2022-Nov-22 • 24 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 119: Robots In Space From December 15, 2008. Space is totally inhospitable. If the freezing temperatures don’t get you, the intense radiation will kill you. Or the vacuum, or the lack of breathable atmosphere, or meteoroid impacts. Well… you get the idea. That’s why... (2022-Nov-21 • 33 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Lift off : NASA’s Artemis-1 Mega Rocket Launches Orion to Moon SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 125 *Lift off NASA’s Artemis-1 Mega Rocket Launches Orion to Moon The world’s most powerful rocket NASA’s Space Launch System has successfully blasted into orbit on its maiden flight. The spectacular nighttime launch from... (2022-Nov-21 • 41 minutes • @stuartgary) |
 57 - String Theory Part 3: DualityThis episode will hurt your brain, or your money back.To support our show and get ad-free episodes and other exclusives, join us for $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverseTiny MattersTiny Matters is a science podcast about the little things that make the big things in...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Support the show (2022-Nov-21 • 25 minutes • @DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs) |
| 218 | Raphael Bousso on Black Holes and the Holographic Universe I talk with physicist Raphael Bousso about black holes, holography, and what we know about quantum spacetime. (2022-Nov-21 • 82 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 203E & 204E: Blinky & Blinky Revealed 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: - Eric Christiensen discovered 2015 YJ, that had missed the... (2022-Nov-20 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 Episode 69: The Flavor Puzzle with Joe DavighiJim talks with Joe Davighi of the University of Zurich about the flavor unification at high energ... (2022-Nov-20 • 43 minutes • @_PhysicsFM_ • @PhysicsMystic) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 21 to 27 November 2022 In this week's stargazing guide, we take advantage of the new Moon for some deep-sky astronomy.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Nov-20 • 10 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Niall Ferguson: DOOM! Niall Ferguson’s most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In this book he posits that disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, and financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. Yet in 2020 the responses of many develop... (2022-Nov-20 • 80 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Deep Astronomy Space Junk Podcast 75 - Stellina & eVscope: Are They Worth the Money? Streamed live on Oct 30, 2020. There is a lot of interest in a new class of telescopes available for amateur astronomers. These telescopes offer extreme ease-of-use while delivering advanced capability to those just entering the hobby of amateur... (2022-Nov-19 • 47 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Space Bites] Artemis 1 Launch, Secret Space Plane Returns, James Webb Protection Plan SLS finally launches to the Moon. SpaceX get another contract from NASA. James Webb gets a protection plan from micrometeoroids. China continues to trash the orbit. Secret space plane returns. (2022-Nov-18 • 19 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - Up, Up & Away with Dr. Jacob Izraelevitz and JPL's Venus Aerial Robotic Balloons Host: Fraser Cain ( ) Special Guest: Despite the romance associated with Venus for millennia thanks to its having been named after the Roman god of love, Venus has proven to anything BUT romantic - LITERALLY! Combining the toxic and corrosive... (2022-Nov-18 • 62 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Sharpest Image Ever of Universe's Most Massive Known Star SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 124 *Sharpest image ever of universe’s most massive known star Astronomers have taken their best image yet of the most massive known star in the universe. *The Martian crust is more complex and evolved than previously... (2022-Nov-18 • 36 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Cosmic Queries – Geek Time! with Charles Liu Could you play Quidditch on Jupiter? Javelin on Mars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer fan questions about low-gravity physics, the weight of Thor’s hammer, aerodynamics and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-qu... Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA Goddard), edited by PlanetUser, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Nov-18 • 47 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| What are sterile neutrinos? Daniel and Jorge talk about a new stealthy kind of neutrino that might neaten up the mess left by all of the other neutrinos.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-17 • 51 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Actual Astronomy - ATM-ing With Special Guest Tom Otvos Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] - Since this might be a new topic for some people, maybe we can define amateur telescope making a little for people? - Can you tell... (2022-Nov-17 • 62 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Meteorites and magnetostrophic mathematics reveal unsung scientific heroes of the past In this podcast we celebrate the applied mathematician Donna Elbert and a forgotten Black student who found a unique meteorite (2022-Nov-17 • 39 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Savas Dimopoulos on the universe’s biggest unsolved puzzles Savas Dimopoulos is an influential particle physicist based at Stanford University, who also holds the Coril Holdings Archimedes Visiting Chair in Theoretical Physics at Perimeter Institute. He worked at CERN during the 1990s, and was featured in Particle Fever, a 2013 documentary about the hunt for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider. In this episode, he talks with Lauren and Colin about how he approaches the grand, open questions that keep him up at night – including two particularly fundamental ... (2022-Nov-17 • 62 minutes • @Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin) |
| The Daily Space - Dinosaurs Washed Away in Largest Wave to Wrap Earth As if getting set on fire and tossed into space wasn’t enough, new research finds evidence that after the Chicxulub impact, dinosaurs were also the victims of a massive global tsunami and worldwide earthquakes. Plus, the Milky Way’s stellar... (2022-Nov-16 • 20 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Interview] The Existential Threat of Solar Storms with Dr Benjamin Pope How trees can tell us a story of previous solar storms? What are the chances of having another Carrington-scale event and what would it mean? How can we understand solar storms better? (2022-Nov-16 • 37 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Data Suggests Magnetars Have Solid Surfaces SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 123 *Data suggests Magnetars have solid surfaces A signature in the X-ray light emitted by a highly magnetised neutron star known as a magnetar suggests the star has a solid surface with no atmosphere. *SpaceX could try... (2022-Nov-16 • 39 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Voyager Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker Cassini Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker has now taken on the same job for the Voyager Interstellar Mission. (2022-Nov-16 • 59 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Voices from Ukraine: Yuriy Semenov Yuriy Semenov was forced to leave Ukraine, and his work at the Institute of Hydromechanics at the National Academy of Sciences, due to the Russian invasion of February 2022. He found sanctuary in Britain at the University of East Anglia. In part this was thanks to the Solidarity for mathematicians programme ran by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI). In this podcast Yuriy speaks to the INI's Dan Aspel and shares his experience of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and why the work of a ... (2022-Nov-15 • 20 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
| Ask A Spaceman Ep. 188: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 6: Einstein’s Revenge) Part 6! What were Einstein’s objections to quantum mechanics? Why was he so bothered by non-locality? What is the EPR paradox? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give... (2022-Nov-15 • 41 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| S4E09 Intensive Longitudinal Data: Be Careful What You Wish For In today's episode Patrick and Greg talk about that sweet spot between panel designs and time series designs, intensive longitudinal data — both the logistical and analytical challenges, but more importantly its tremendous potential. Along the way they also mention camp fire face-plants, fear of horses, your spare eyelid, polishing your Nobel Prize, ripples in a pond, lick'm-sir, August 14th, the basketball effect, Southwest boarding number B14, high school math teacher apologies, open mic night... (2022-Nov-15 • 52 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| AaS! 188: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 6: Einstein’s Revenge) Part 6! What were Einstein’s objections to quantum mechanics? Why was he so bothered by non-locality? What is the EPR paradox? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online... (2022-Nov-15 • 39 minutes • @PaulMattSutter) |
| Last Man on the Moon: BONUS EPISODE For the first time in full, our interview with the last man on the Moon, Gene Cernan... (2022-Nov-15 • 55 minutes • @NakedScientists • @drbtmcallister) |
| Inventing Society with Yuval Noah Harari How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/inventing... to our Patrons James Wilson, Zachary Webb, Haris Dilberovic, and Sam McGilvery for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Unknown artists Mariano, ... (2022-Nov-15 • 43 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Theoretical Quantum Cryptography with Dakshita Khurana In Episode 47, Patrick speaks with Dakshita Khurana of the University of Illinois.Among other topics, the team discuss theoretical cryptography, multiparty computation, and simulation in cryptography. (2022-Nov-15 • 35 minutes • @EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici) |
| [Q&A] Harvesting Dark Energy, Making Own Telescope, Escaping Gravity Wells How hard is it to escape the gravity wells of massive planets for other civilizations? How hard is it to make your own telescopes? How do gas clouds become stars? Can we harvest dark energy after the Heat Death? (2022-Nov-15 • 41 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Why is math so important for physics? Daniel talks to mathematician Steve Strogatz about why calculus seems to describe the Universe so well.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-15 • 56 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Mysterious Cosmic Radiation Storms Targeting the Earth The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 122 *Mysterious cosmic radiation storms targeting the Earth Mystery continues to surround a series of strange cosmic radiation storms which have been battering... (2022-Nov-14 • 36 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Ep. 659: Clear Skies, Bright Satellites Astronomy Cast Ep. 659: Clear Skies, Bright Satellites by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 8, 2022. Light pollution is big problem and it’s only getting worse. Not just near cities, but everywhere thanks to increased satellite... (2022-Nov-14 • 34 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
 The Power of the Rovers – S4E10How does a rover keep driving on a planet with no gas stations? Shonte Tucker, Sabah Bux and Rob Manning power us through the ways Mars rovers keep going. (2022-Nov-14 • @NASA) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 659: Clear Skies, Bright Satellites Streamed live on Nov 8, 2022. Light pollution is big problem and it’s only getting worse. Not just near cities, but everywhere thanks to increased satellite constellations. How bad is the problem, and how can we fix it? We've added a new way... (2022-Nov-14 • 34 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 217 | Margaret Levi on Moral Political Economy I talk with political scientist Margaret Levi about trust in government and how we can make our political systems more responsive to moral concerns. (2022-Nov-14 • 81 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 201E & 202E: Great Night & Jupiter’s Comet 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: - Jess Johnson discovered a dozen new Earth approaching... (2022-Nov-13 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 14 to 20 November 2022 The Leonid meteor shower returns and the moon Callisto brushes past Jupiter in this week's stargazing guide.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Nov-13 • 13 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness & Superdeterminism Doubts Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect’ of Quant... (2022-Nov-13 • 83 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
 Starts With A Bang #87 - AGNs From The South PoleThe supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies is a tremendously interesting area of research, advancing rapidly over the past few years. While most of these observations focus on either high-energy or radio emissions from them, there's a recent push to see what these objects are doing in other wavelengths of light, as well as how they vary in time. | Once, it was thought that supermassive black holes would become "activated" at a certain point in time, would remain on for hundreds of thousands or ... (2022-Nov-12 • 87 minutes • @StartsWithABang) |
| NOIRLab - A Record Setting Gamma Ray Burst Gamma Ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions observed in the cosmos and frequently herald the birth of a new black hole. A recent gamma ray burst, GRB 221009A, appears to be the brightest of all time and was observed very quickly by... (2022-Nov-12 • 11 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Space Policy Edition: What the Congressional Midterms Means for Space Science Bethany Johns of the American Astronomical Society talks with Planetary Society Chief Advocate Casey Dreier about how changes in Washington after the midterm elections may affect support for science. (2022-Nov-11 • 58 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain The brain is arguably one of the most complex objects known to science. How best to understand it? That is a trick question: brains are organized at many levels and attempts to grasp them all through one approach — be it micro, macro, anatomical, behavioral — are destined to leave out crucial insights. What more, thinking “vertically” across scales, one might miss important angles from another discipline along the “horizontal” axis. For inquiries too big to sit within one field of knowledge, maybe it is tim... (2022-Nov-11 • 51 minutes • @sfiscience • @michaelgarfield) |
| Alexandr Draganov, "Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners" (MIT Press, 2022) I’ve never read a book like Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners (MIT Press, 2022) – it’s a book about how engineers and scientists see math, and I found it fascinating. What intrigued me about this book was not that it just presents and solves a bunch of interesting problems, it shows how scientists and engineers differ in their approach to problem solving from mathematicians. Shame on me, but as a mathematician, I’ve always been a little unco... (2022-Nov-11 • 55 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - The ATA & Technosignatures With Dr. Sophia Sheikh (SETI Institute) [Sorry for the continued audio dropouts, but just wait! Soon Fraser’ll have fiber at his house and this will all be a thing of the past! - Rich] Streamed live on Oct 26, 2022. Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: As we discover new exoplanets on an... (2022-Nov-11 • 59 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Space Bites] SLS In Trouble, James Webb Fixed, Strange Quark Star JWST’s MIRI is fully operational again, have astronomers found the first strange star?, the first test of an inflatable heat shield, and SLS just got hit by a Hurricane. (2022-Nov-11 • 21 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| NASA to Continue with the Psyche Mission Despite Software Issues SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 121 *NASA to continue with the Psyche mission despite software issues NASA has decided to go forward with its Psyche mission with a new launch window opening on October 10, 2023. *Searching for the Milky Way galaxy’s... (2022-Nov-11 • 19 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Artificial intelligence boosts multimessenger astronomy, ‘Quantum on the Clock’ winners In this podcast we look to the future of gravitational-wave astronomy and meet the winners of a video competition (2022-Nov-10 • 34 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| UNAWE Space Scoop - What’s Like The Sun and The Earth – Only Redder and More Massive? Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth, which are planets that are much like our Earth but more massive. This one is near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star that’s only 36.6 light-years away from us. That's really, really close by, all... (2022-Nov-10 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light? Daniel and Jorge blow their own minds talking about the faster-than-light expansion of the Universe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-10 • 53 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Lee Smolin on a lifetime of big questions Lee Smolin is a founding faculty member at Perimeter Institute and one of the world’s best-known voices in theoretical physics. He is a co-founder of loop quantum gravity, together with Abhay Ashtekar and Carlo Rovelli. Smolin is also the author of numerous popular science books, including The Trouble with Physics, The Life of the Cosmos, and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum. In this conversation with Lauren and Colin, Smolin shares his philosophical outlook on q... (2022-Nov-10 • 47 minutes • @Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin) |
| [Bonus] Dr Brian Keating interviews Fraser Cain This in an interview with Dr Brian Keating that happened on his YouTube channel. We talk about how Universe Today runs, what do I want to achieve with it, how science journalism works in general and much more. (2022-Nov-09 • 85 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Detected in Eight Years SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 120 *Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight years Astronomers have detected three near Earth asteroids hiding in the glare of the Sun including a one and a half kilometre wide monster which could one day... (2022-Nov-09 • 25 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Ann Druyan wishes you a happy Sagan Day Celebrate Carl Sagan’s birthday with his longtime collaborator and life partner Ann Druyan. (2022-Nov-09 • 64 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| The Daily Space - Globular Clusters: Already Old 9 Billion Years Ago The quest to understand the formation mechanisms of globular clusters was limited by the Hubble Space Telescope’s ability to peer back in time. Now, JWST’s larger mirror has allowed astronomers to find gravitationally lensed galaxies that have... (2022-Nov-09 • 24 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| How the 'Diamond of the Plant World' Helped Land Plants Evolve Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enough to reproduce on dry land. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Redwood Trail” by Audionautix. (2022-Nov-09 • 17 minutes • @QuantaMagazine) |
| Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020) Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom (Rutgers University Press, 2020) by Dr. Andrew Fiss tells the history of expectations for math communication—and the conversations about math hatred and math anxiety that occurred in response. Focusing on nineteenth-century American colleges, this book analyzes foundational tools and techniques of math communication: the textbooks that supported reading aloud, the burnings that mimicked pedagogical speech, the blac... (2022-Nov-09 • 45 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| Leiden Observatory - Cosmic Perspectives Part 3 Cosmic Perspectives: Dutch Astronomy in Wider Society is a feature podcast that explores the beneficial impact of Dutch astronomy on society, from building positive international relationships to the transfer of life-changing technology. In this... (2022-Nov-08 • 24 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Cosmic Queries – Surviving the Laws of Physics with Steve-O How fast is a porta-potty slingshot? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and professional stuntman and comedian, Steve-O, break down the science of Jackass, explosions, and what it takes to survive the laws of physics. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-qu... to our Patrons Graylyn, Paul Vortman, Chalice (Shalese) Davis, James Bennet, and Joe for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikime... (2022-Nov-08 • 48 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| [Q&A] Quantum Computers for Astronomy, Catching Interstellar Guests, The Book Club Can we catch the next interstellar visitor? Why do black holes' accretion disks glow? Can we make spaceships out of asteroids? How do we know that dark matter and dark energy actually exist? All that in this week's episode of Q&A with Fraser Cain. And we've started the Book Club! (2022-Nov-08 • 42 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| S4E08 Missing Data: The New State Of The Art With Craig Enders In this week's episode Greg and Patrick get to explore modern methods for missing data analysis while belaboring quotes from Top Gun with their guest Craig Enders from the University of California at Los Angeles. Craig looks back over the past 20 years of developments in missing data analysis to discuss what has worked, what hasn't worked, and what new methods are available now that we didn't have back then. Along the way they also discuss Sean, Not Sean, going to the movies, grumpy old man m... (2022-Nov-08 • 51 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| Voices from Ukraine: Nataliya Vaisfel’d Professor Nataliya Vaisfel'd was until recently a mathematician at Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University. Forced to flee Ukraine after the Russian invasion of her home country in February of this year, Nataliya has since travelled across Europe with her wheelchair-bound mother and their dogs, eventually finding sanctuary in Britain. In part this was thanks to the Solidarity for mathematicians programme ran by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences. She is now a Senior Lecturer at King’s Co... (2022-Nov-08 • 25 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
| Can you send messages without particles? Daniel and Jorge talk about ingenious quantum tricks to send information without actual particles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-08 • 49 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Can Science Save Us? Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees In his most recent book If Science is to Save Us, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that, in his expert and personal analysis of the scientific endeavor on which we all depend, that we need to think globally, we need to think rationally and we need to think long-term, empowered by twenty-first-century technology but guided by values that science alone cannot provide. In this timely work, Lord Rees details how there has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. He... (2022-Nov-08 • 110 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 7 to 13 November 2022 The Moon glides past Uranus, the Pleiades and Castor & Pollux in this week's stargazing guide.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Nov-07 • 12 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Ep. 658: Space Exploration Horror Stories Astronomy Cast Ep. 658: Space Exploration Horror Stories by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Oct 31, 2022. We’re recording this episode on Halloween, so how could we resist but take advantage of this opportunity. Space is already... (2022-Nov-07 • 31 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| AMA | November 2022 Ask Me Anything episode for November 2022. (2022-Nov-07 • 180 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Giant Asteroid Discovered Just a Day Before it Flew Past the Earth The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 119 *Giant asteroid discovered just a day before it flew past the Earth Astronomers discovered a huge asteroid as big as a sky scraper just a day before it... (2022-Nov-07 • 32 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 658: Space Exploration Horror Stories Streamed live on Oct 31, 2022. We’re recording this episode on Halloween, so how could we resist but take advantage of this opportunity. Space is already terrifying enough, you know, with the vast endless emptiness, the incomprehensible mysteries,... (2022-Nov-07 • 29 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 56 - An Icy Neutrino Interruption We interrupt our regular episodes to cover the exciting new discovery that the IceCube Neutrino Observatory announced on November 3rd, 2022.To support our show and get ad-free episodes and other exclusives, join us for $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverseTiny MattersTiny Matters is a science podcast about the little things that make the big things in...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Support the show (2022-Nov-07 • 30 minutes • @DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs) |
| #284 - Very Large Telescopes with Dr James Miley Linn also Interviews fellow astronomer James Miley and tells Matt about her trip to ESO's Telescope facility in the Atacama Desert the largest optical-infrared observatory in the Southern Hemisphere. (2022-Nov-07 • 83 minutes • @Interplanetypod • @iam7cool) |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson: Starry Messages, Science, Culture, and Life Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most recognizable faces of science in the world, and for good reason. He has thought a lot about how to engage people in the wonder and joy of science, something that is also near and dear to my own heart, and to the spirit of many of my own activities, including The Origins Podcast. I was so happy that Neil agreed to return to have another dialogue on the podcast following the release of his new book, Starry Messenger, because it provided us with the opportunity to have... (2022-Nov-06 • 94 minutes • @LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 199E & 200E: Smoking Moon & Dead Comet 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: - Since 2005, the small, 313 mile diameter, icy moon of... (2022-Nov-06 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Observing With Webb - November Episode Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night. Thanksgiving, 3 planets, a meteor shower (with the possibility of... (2022-Nov-05 • 15 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - Revisiting Apollo Photographically with Andy Saunders, Author of “Apollo Remastered” Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: This week we are airing our prerecorded interview with Andy Saunders, the author and creative force behind the new book "Apollo Remastered." Andy used his talent and expertise to digitally remaster and restore the... (2022-Nov-04 • 70 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Space Bites] Worrying Solar Storm Data, Falcon Heavy is Back, Total Lunar Eclipse Historical data about solar storms carved in trees, and it's a bit worrying. Falcon Heavy's back after 40 months of absence. There's a meteor shower and a total lunar eclipse in the coming days. And JWST gave us yet another version of Pillars of Creation. (2022-Nov-04 • 19 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Amazing cosmic facts Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder reveals some of the mind-blowing things we know about the Universe (2022-Nov-04 • 40 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Space Policy Edition Bonus: Q&A with Casey Dreier and Bill Nye A special Space Policy Edition featuring a recent policy and advocacy webcast that gave Planetary Society members the opportunity to query Chief Advocate Casey Dreier and Society CEO Bill Nye. (2022-Nov-04 • 99 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Curiosity Reaches a Key Target SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 118 *Curiosity reaches a key target NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover finally arrived at a long sought after target on its journey to climb the red planet’s Mount Sharp. *NASA orders more Orion Spacecraft NASA has ordered... (2022-Nov-04 • 46 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Can Robots Feel? With Robert Shepherd and Ilayda Samilgil Can you give a robot a sense of touch? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, learn about soft robotics, sensors, and understanding human physiology with co-founders of Organic Robotics Corp, Professor Robert Shepherd and Ilayda Samilgil. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Photo Credit: Tyler Nienhouse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Nov-04 • 51 minutes • @neiltyson) |
 Bonus : The Perils of Science CommunicationUpdate! Best place to find associated references are linked in our substack essay:This is an essay that we originally posted on our substack page:https://pasayteninstitute.substack.... Bonus Episode for The Field Guide to Particle Physics : Season 3https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to... The Pasayten Institute cc by-sa-4.0The definitive resource for all data in particle physics is the Particle Data Group: https://pdg.lbl.gov.The Pasayten Institute is on a mission to build and share physics knowledge, wit... (2022-Nov-04 • 16 minutes • @seanforscience) |
| How do planets get rings? Daniel and Katie talk about planetary rings and what they tell us about the history of the solar system.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-03 • 58 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Jessie Muir on the mystery of dark energy The universe is expanding faster and faster all the time, and Jessie Muir wants to understand why. Muir is a postdoctoral researcher at Perimeter Institute and a member of the international Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration. She co-leads the DES analysis team that seeks to understand the mysterious dark energy driving the universe's accelerating expansion by analyzing galaxy clustering and weak lensing. In this episode, she chats with Lauren and Colin about her work at the intersection of theory and ex... (2022-Nov-03 • 62 minutes • @Perimeter • @laurenehayward • @Call_me_Colin) |
| Finding commercial success in the burgeoning quantum-technology sector This podcast features three executives from quantum-computing companies (2022-Nov-03 • 46 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Actual Astronomy - Objects to Observe in November Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] - Nov 1 - 1st Quarter & Saturn 4° N of the Moon - Nov 3rd - Double Shadow Transit, we might catch the end here…good for EST and East.... (2022-Nov-03 • 32 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| A Major Blow in the Search for Life on Other Worlds SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 117 *A major blow in the search for life on other worlds Planetary scientists have suffered a significant setback in their search for exoplanets with life – discovering an Earth like planet with no atmosphere, orbiting... (2022-Nov-02 • 30 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022) Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, astrophysics, and the origin of life. General readers were introduced to Dyson’s roving mind and heterodox approach in his 1979 book Disturbing the Universe, a poignant autobiographical reflection on life and science. "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe (MIT Press, 2022) (the titl... (2022-Nov-02 • 70 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| DART smacked an asteroid! So what’s next in planetary defense? The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was a brilliant success. The leaders of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office tell us what’s next in the quest to protect Earth. (2022-Nov-02 • 56 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio introduces a New Host and Interviews Brian Keating for an Update on The Simons Observatory Join host Mat Kaplan as he proudly introduces the person who will take on the show he created 20 years ago. Then we’ll join astrophysicist Brian Keating at a joyful gathering of cosmologists who hope to reveal secrets of the Universe through the new Simons Observatory. You might win Brian’s new book about thinking like a Nobel Prize winner in the What’s Up space trivia contest. There’s more to discover at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radi... video of the Simons Observatory event panel: We Are Cosmolo... (2022-Nov-02 • 22 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Awesome Astronomy - November Part 1 Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. The Discussion: - Enjoying the recent eclipse (weather permitting). - Jeni is officially recognised as being... (2022-Nov-02 • 55 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Cosmic Queries – Why do we believe conspiracy theories? with Michael Shermer Why do rational people believe irrational things? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice break down media literacy, the psychology behind conspiracy theories, and how to combat our cognitive biases with author and science historian, Michael Shermer.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Zachary Vex, Alexandru Dolipschi, Chris Knopp, Gianni Gaetano, and D'Angelo Garcia for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Charlie Duke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Com... (2022-Nov-01 • 53 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| [Interview] James Webb, LUVOIR and Mindblowing Future Projects What's the current state of James Webb? What were the main technical difficulties and what does the future look like? What comes after JWST and LUVOIR? Will it be possible to ever build a quantum telescope? (2022-Nov-01 • 79 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| AaS! 187: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 5: Dreams of Copenhagen) Part 5! What is the Copenhagen interpretation? How did the debates between Heisenberg and Schrodinger influence later physicists? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the “shut up and calculate” approach to quantum mechanics? I discuss these... (2022-Nov-01 • 40 minutes • @PaulMattSutter) |
| Can you make matter out of pure electrons? Daniel and Jorge talk about the quest to build a crystal out of only electrons.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Nov-01 • 52 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Introducing - The Vanished Trailer for the true crime podcast, The Vanished. (2022-Nov-01 • 6 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Diana Franklin Speaks With Entangled Things In Episode 46, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Diana Franklin of the University of Chicago.Among other topics, the team discuss K-12 education in Quantum, suspension of disbelief, and ways to communicate Quantum topics to broader audiences.Zines: https://www.epiqc.cs.uchicago.edu/zinesO... resources:https://www.epiqc.cs.uchicago.... about quantum games: https://www.canonlab.org/quanderCANON research lab with classical CS resources: http://canonlab.orgInterested in participating in a quantum activity in a K-... (2022-Nov-01 • 39 minutes • @EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici) |
| [Q&A] DART Successor, Fixing Space Debris, Viking Missions Controversy If Moon was created with a big collision, where's the crater? Can we fix the space trash problem? Is doing Astronomy just a waste of money that can be better spent elsewhere? What will come after DART? All this and more in this week's Q&A. (2022-Nov-01 • 44 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| #125 - November 2022 Part 1 The Astronomy Show (2022-Nov-01 • 53 minutes • @AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro) |
| Ask A Spaceman - Ep. 187: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 5: Dreams of Copenhagen) Part 5! What is the Copenhagen interpretation? How did the debates between Heisenberg and Schrödinger influence later physicists? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the “shut up and calculate” approach to quantum mechanics? I discuss these... (2022-Nov-01 • 41 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy I talk with John Allen Paulos about what math everybody should know, and how to make it more widely known. (2022-Oct-31 • 71 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 216: Archaeoastronomy From January 17, 2011. The Sun, Moon, stars and planets are visible with the unaided eye, and so there have been astronomers since before recorded history. Some of the earliest records we do have tell us what the ancient astronomers thought about the... (2022-Oct-31 • 29 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022) The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics (Princeton UP, 2022) investigates the evolution of the concept of proof--one of the most significant and defining features of mathematical thought--through critical episodes in its history. From the Pythagorean theorem to modern times, and across all major mathematical disciplines, John Stillwell demonstrates that proof is a mathematically vital concept, inspiring innovation and playing a critical role in generating knowledge. Stillwell begins with Eu... (2022-Oct-31 • 58 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| NASA’s Dragonfly Mission to the Distant World of Titan The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 116 *NASA’s Dragonfly mission to the distant world of Titan NASA have undertaken a major survey of the Saturnian moon Titan’s Selk crater region which will be... (2022-Oct-31 • 29 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| [Interview] Bacteria That Can Survive on Mars for Millions of Years with Dr Michael Daly How do we know that certain organisms can survive for millions of years in the conditions of Mars? What do we know about them? And where should we be looking for them on Mars? (2022-Oct-30 • 34 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 197E & 198E: Stretch Marked Moon & Life’s Core 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 end of the line for the moon of a planet is when it... (2022-Oct-30 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 31 October to 6 November2022 In this week's stargazing guide: catch Saturn, Vesta and the Moon together, watch out for Jupiter on Bonfire Night.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Oct-30 • 12 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Moon Trees Stuart Roosa, Moon Trees and the UAE mission to Mars... (2022-Oct-30 • 72 minutes • @NakedScientists • @drbtmcallister) |
| P-hacking, Reproducibility & the Nobel Prize: Guido Imbens Guido W. Imbens, along with David Card and Joshua Angrist, shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics for “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. In 2017 he received the Horace Mann medal at Brown University. An honor shared by your host Professor Brian Keating. He is The Applied Econometrics Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012, and has also taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He holds an honorary degree from the Univer... (2022-Oct-30 • 128 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Look Up! Nov 2022 Royal Observatory Astronomers Affelia and Jess take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of November in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Affelia and Jess talk about a new theory on Uranus' spin, and the legacy of the Arecibo telescope. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of November! (2022-Oct-30 • 25 minutes • @ROGAstronomers) |
| Awesome Astronomy - Why Does the Sun Continue to Shine? Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. From Nov 20, 2021. We give a quick 10 second answer and a longer, more in depth, answer if you want to how the Sun... (2022-Oct-29 • 8 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Space Bites] Closest Black Hole Ever Discovered, Starlink as GPS, Early Life Killed Mars There’s a monster black hole in our backyard (astronomically speaking). Life could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years. Starlink was hacked to work as GPS. Bad news for Arecibo. (2022-Oct-28 • 20 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Is the 2022 FIFA World Cup really carbon neutral? Investigating how sporting events can become more sustainable without losing their magic (2022-Oct-28 • 59 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - News Roundup Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: It’s our first News Roundup of the season! News, news & more news! Regular Guests: Dr. Pamela Gay ( & ) Dr. Nick Castle ( / ) Allen Versfeld ( & ) This week's stories: - DART! Success! - A... (2022-Oct-28 • 62 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Discovery of Two Interstellar Objects Which Reached the Earth SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 115 *Discovery of two interstellar objects which reached the Earth Astronomers have confirmed that two meteors which burned up in Earth’s atmosphere were both alien visitors from interstellar space. *NASA’s new time... (2022-Oct-28 • 26 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| What are the most common elements in the Universe? Daniel and Kelly talk about how elements were made in the early Universe, what processes are making more of them today, and why some elements are more common than others.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-27 • 57 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| [Interview] Processing Astronomical Images with Judy Schmidt All the nice space images you see on the web are processed. It's a complex process that takes the raw data from the instruments and turns them into a picture. Judy Schmidt is one of the best in this, so I talked to her about how she does it. Enjoy! (2022-Oct-27 • 55 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 24 to 30 October 2022 A partial solar eclipse and a Mars going into retrograde in this weekly stargazing guide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Oct-27 • 9 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| The Daily Space - Observed: It’s a Star-Eat-Star Universe While astronomers have observed white dwarfs consuming companion stars on numerous occasions, for the first time, they have now observed the consumption of the companion’s helium and not just hydrogen. Plus, galactic alignment, rocket launches... (2022-Oct-27 • 22 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 34: How to Deflect an Asteroid Terrified that an asteroid could wipe out the planet? Don’t panic…the Supermassive team are here to help. Izzie and Dr Becky talk to Professor Alan Fitzsimmons about the results of the DART asteroid deflection mission and Samuel L Jackson (who knew he’s studying for a Phd at the Open University?) tells us how scientists plan to track and tackle threatening space rocks. Plus why the Deep Impact movie terrifies both Izzie and Dr Becky, but for very different reasons, and Dr Robert Massey takes us through the ... (2022-Oct-27 • 46 minutes • @RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_) |
| Celebrating joy in #BlackInPhysics week, open-access publishing supports climate justice In this podcast we speak to two #BlackInPhysics week essayists and a climate justice researcher (2022-Oct-27 • 35 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Fraser Cain: Let’s Find Aliens in Our Solar System! Join me and Fraser Cain (https://www.youtube.com/c/universetoday... for a wide-ranging romp through the Universe of ideas! We'll take questions and hopefully answer a few. Don't miss this chance to chat with a legend! @FraserCain Space and astronomy news comes fresh three times weekly from Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today and co-host of Astronomy Cast. If you're a fan of space, sci-fi, and pop culture, you'll love his Guide to Space. These short videos come out every Monday and Thursday and answer ... (2022-Oct-26 • 92 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Meet the new Planetary Radio host! (and enjoy a beer with a cosmologist) 20 years after its creation, Mat Kaplan is ready to introduce the great new host of Planetary Radio. We also join an assembly of astrophysicists as they toast each other and the cosmos. (2022-Oct-26 • 48 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #086: Being in Space When you need some space… - What’s the best solution to generate artificial gravity for long duration space travel? The best, indeed the only current, solution to generate artificial gravity is to spin the part of your spacecraft that... (2022-Oct-26 • 14 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Protein Blobs Linked to Alzheimer's Affect Aging in All Cells Protein buildups like those seen around neurons in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other brain diseases occur in all aging cells, a new study suggests. Learning their significance may reveal new strategies for treating age-related diseases. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Aimless Amos” by Rondo Brothers. (2022-Oct-26 • 23 minutes • @QuantaMagazine) |
| Approximation by Rationals: A New Focus Joseph Bennish, Prof. Emeritus of CSULB, describes the field of Diophantine approximation, which started in the 19th Century with questions about how well irrational numbers can be approximated by rationals. It took Cantor and Lebesgue to develop new ways to talk about the sizes of infinite sets to give the 20th century new ways to think about it. This led up to the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture and this year's Fields Medal for James Maynard. | | --- | | Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-art-o... (2022-Oct-26 • 22 minutes • @CarolJacobyPhD) |
| Over 30 Thousand Near Earth Asteroids Now Discovered SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 114 *Over 30 thousand near Earth Asteroids now discovered Astronomers have reached a major milestone with the discovery of the thirty thousandth near Earth asteroid. *NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past the Earth NASA’s... (2022-Oct-26 • 26 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Listener Questions 31: Photons, aliens, and baseball Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you! Send your questions to [email protected] | See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-25 • 53 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| It’s Alive?! Frankenstein & Consciousness with George Mashour and David Andrijevic Can we bring people back from the dead? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discuss restoring dead cells, the nature of consciousness, Frankenstein's monster, zombies, and more with neuroscientist, David Andrijevic and consciousness expert, George Mashour. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Darrell McClendon, Baby Daddy, Chip Towner, Marylee Dewey, and Michael Brockman for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Thennicke, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia... (2022-Oct-25 • 56 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| S4E07 The Quanti-House of Horror In this week's Halloween-themed episode, Patrick and Greg have fun talking about things in their academic jobs that scare them, from things that are a little scary to things that they find absolutely terrifying. Along the way they also discuss Mrs. Kopicky's caramel popcorn balls, Wolf of Wall Street, Kenny T, forgetting you've told a story before, forgetting you've told a story before, recurring nightmares, bending but not breaking, the zeta of teaching, Royale with Cheese, necessary ro... (2022-Oct-25 • 44 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with Dominik & Lara from ChernobylX In this episode, we take you inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with Dominik Orfanus founder of ChernobylX and lead tour guide, Lara Graldina. What is it like inside the "Zone"? Who lives there? W... (2022-Oct-25 • 49 minutes • @NuclearLifePod • @ShellyLesh) |
| [Q&A] Spaceships Made of Ice, Best Space Pet, Astronomy and Photoshop How do you clean up astronomy images and what part does Photoshop play in it? Can you make spaceships out of ice found in space? When will SpaceX carry people to Mars? What pet will be the best companion for a long space trip? And even more questions in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. (2022-Oct-25 • 40 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Leiden Observatory: Cosmic Perspectives: Dutch Astronomy in Wider Society Part 2 Cosmic Perspectives: Dutch Astronomy in Wider Society is a feature podcast that explores the beneficial impact of Dutch astronomy on society, from building positive international relationships to the transfer of life-changing technology. In this... (2022-Oct-25 • 20 minutes • @planetarysci) |
 Episode #108 - Self Taught Genius w/ George HrabovskyToday we talk with George Hrabovsky about his career as an incredible amateur scientist. Enjoy this great episode! To all our listeners out there, we are so happy to say that you can head over to https://brilliant.org/mpp , and the first 200 of you to sign up will get 20% off your premium membership. MAST: www.madscitech.org Signup: https://www.meetup.com/midwest-... Instagram: @math.physics.podcast Tiktok: @math.physics.podcast Email: [email protected] Twitter: @MathPhysPod (2022-Oct-24 • 106 minutes • @MathPhysicsPod) |
| 55 - String Theory Part 2: The First Superstring Revolution We pick up the story of string theory and explore the explosion of interest it experienced in the mid 1980s.For ad-free episodes and other exclusives, join us for $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverseTiny MattersTiny Matters is a science podcast about the little things that make the big things in...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Support the show (2022-Oct-24 • 29 minutes • @DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs) |
| Discovery of the Nearest Black Hole to Earth The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 113XX *Discovery of the nearest black hole to Earth Astronomers have discovered the nearest black hole to Earth. *How galaxies grow from the cosmic web A new... (2022-Oct-24 • 45 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| [Interview] Understanding Dark Energy With Most Detailed Supernovae Survey | Dr Dillon Brout Dark Energy will determine how the Universe will die. With the help of Pantheon+, the most detailed survey of Type 1A supernovae, astronomers can understand more details about Dark Energy and the expansion of spacetime. (2022-Oct-24 • 47 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes Space is a big place, with lots of galaxies, stars, planets, moons, and that means a lot of names. So how do astronomers name stuff, like comets, asteroids, exoplanets, craters? This video was made possible by the following Patreon members:... (2022-Oct-24 • 33 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld I talk with philosopher Barry Loewer about how statistical mechanics underlies cause and effect, the flow of time, and more. (2022-Oct-24 • 94 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 195E & 196E: Carbon Comets & Hot Lunation 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: - Eric Christensen found Comet C/2006 W3... (2022-Oct-23 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Piecing together the history of the Universe Prof Nial Tanvir reveals how much astronomers know about the evolution of the cosmos (2022-Oct-23 • 22 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| [Meet the Team] Matt Williams, Writer We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Matt Williams. Fraser and Matt discussed long format writing, stories about the future of space exploration, science fiction novels Matt has written, how not to be too cynical and how to write fast and write good. (2022-Oct-23 • 36 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Cosmic Savannah - SKA’s a “Go” for Construction Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. with Prof. Phil Diamond. Welcome to Season Four! We start with a bang and speak with the Director General of the Square Kilometer Array Telescope, Prof. Phil Diamond! Phil tells us how it feels... (2022-Oct-22 • 55 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| David Wolpert & Farita Tasnim on The Thermodynamics of Communication Communication is a physical process. It’s common sense that sending and receiving intelligible messages takes work…but how much work? The question of the relationship between energy, information, and matter is one of the deepest known to science. There appear to be limits to the rate at which communication between two systems can happen…but the search for a fundamental relationship between speed, error, and energy (among other things) promises insights far deeper than merely whether we can keep making faste... (2022-Oct-21 • 66 minutes • @sfiscience • @michaelgarfield) |
| Episode 80 - Kimberly Ayers Kimberly Ayers likes dynamics and so obvs her fave theorem is Sharkovskii's result that "period 3 implies chaos." Also taffy. (2022-Oct-21 • 34 minutes • @niveknosdunk • @evelynjlamb) |
| [Space Bites] The Big Rip Averted, Pillars of Creation by JWST, Faster Than Light Jet The Pillars of Creation revealed by JWST. It seems like Big Rip isn't happening after all. Black holes twisting spacetime into knots. Jets that seem to be going faster than the speed of light. (2022-Oct-21 • 20 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| New Evidence for Liquid Water Beneath Martian Ice Cap SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 112 *New evidence for liquid water beneath the Martian south polar ice cap Scientists have revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. *Fresh hints for a... (2022-Oct-21 • 31 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Things You Thought You Knew – What Is Exit Velocity? What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Photo Credit: Andrew nyr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Oct-21 • 53 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - NICER Maps a Neutron Star with Zaven Arzoumanian & Keith Gendreau Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: Pulsars have baffled scientists for decades, including how they work and what form matter takes within a pulsar. Using data collected by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) Mission between July... (2022-Oct-21 • 61 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| The Daily Space - Globular Clusters: Already Old 9 Billion Years Ago The quest to understand the formation mechanisms of globular clusters was limited by the Hubble Space Telescope’s ability to peer back in time. Now, JWST’s larger mirror has allowed astronomers to find gravitationally lensed galaxies that have... (2022-Oct-20 • 24 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Sand battery stores renewable energy, the economics of domestic heat pumps and solar panels In this podcast we look at greener technologies for energy (2022-Oct-20 • 42 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Webb Telescope and the secrets of the Solar System Prof Leigh Fletcher reveals how JWST is studying the outer planets (2022-Oct-20 • 20 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| How dangerous is nuclear waste? Daniel talks to experts about the waste produced by nuclear reactors, the dangers, risks and options.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-20 • 70 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| [The Big Q] What James Webb Discovered in Its First 100 Days It has been exactly 100 days since we got the first images from JWST. Here's an overview of all the most important discoveries that the James Webb Space Telescope did since then. (2022-Oct-20 • 26 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Awesome Astronomy - The Rendlesham Forest Incident: A Hat of Woo Special Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. The scene: Christmas 1980. Suffolk, England. Two US airmen witness what they believe is an aircraft... (2022-Oct-19 • 61 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Best View Yet of the Birth of a Black Hole SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 111 *Astronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of a black hole Astronomers have been given one of their best views yet of the birth of one of the universe’s most infamous monsters – a black... (2022-Oct-19 • 24 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Eyes on the Sky: Spacewatch and the Catalina Sky Survey Meet leaders of two of the most successful Earth-based searches for asteroids, including many that could threaten Earth. (2022-Oct-19 • 63 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Cosmic Queries – Asteroid Hunters with Marina Brozovic Neil has his own asteroid?! On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Marcia Belsky answer fan questions about different types of asteroids with Marina Brozovic, orbital dynamicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-qu... to our Patrons Deborah Carson Weekly, Kesha Nevins, Heather Peartree, Mikolas82, and Kayla Nickel for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkin... (2022-Oct-18 • 48 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Chaos, Covid, & Climate Change with Professor Tim Palmer In his acclaimed latest book, The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World, Professor Timothy Palmer argues that embracing the mathematics of uncertainty is vital to understanding ourselves and the universe around us. Whether we want to predict climate change or market crashes, understand how the brain is able to outpace supercomputers or find a theory that links quantum and cosmological physics, Palmer shows how his vi... (2022-Oct-18 • 114 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Ask A Spaceman - Ep. 186: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 4: It’s a Quantum, Quantum, Quantum World) Part 4! What are the basic lessons of quantum mechanics? What does quantum mechanics teach us about the nature of reality? How does a quantum worldview differ from a classical one? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This... (2022-Oct-18 • 31 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Elisabetta Valiante returns to Entangled Things In Episode 45, Patrick and Ciprian speak with returning guest Elisabetta Valiante of the 1QBit.Among other topics, the team discuss the need to create a standard benchmark for quantum computers, and the varying approaches of private business and the public sector. (2022-Oct-18 • 41 minutes • @EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici) |
| What's up with Iapetus? Daniel and Jorge dissect the history of this mysterious solar system object. | See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-18 • 52 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| S4E06 Building the Model You Want: With Laser Cannons! In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about the frequent gap between research questions and methods and ways to think about reengineering your variables, your parameters, or your entire model to help get what you want. Along the way they also mention: living in the dorms, Greek god sculpture rockets, not living in the dorms, Christmas tree timers, Def Leppard, Legos, Annie's flower shop, laser cannons, chin music, the tail wagging the dog, the Millennium Falcon, Greenday, stupid human trick... (2022-Oct-18 • 55 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| AaS! 186: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 4: It’s a Quantum, Quantum, Quantum World) Part 4! What are the basic lessons of quantum mechanics? What does quantum mechanics teach us about the nature of reality? How does a quantum worldview differ from a classical one? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This... (2022-Oct-18 • 29 minutes • @PaulMattSutter) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 656: Smashing Asteroids for Science! Streamed live Oct 3rd. This week we saw the incredible image of DART smashing into asteroid Dimorphous. Beyond avenging the dinosaurs, what can we learn scientifically from this and other asteroid/comet impact missions. This video was made... (2022-Oct-17 • 28 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Scientists Change an Asteroid's Orbit The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 110 *Scientists change an asteroid’s orbit. Scientists have altered the orbit of a celestial object for the first time in history. *Huge Gamma Ray Burst... (2022-Oct-17 • 33 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| 214 | Antonio Padilla on Large Numbers and the Scope of the Universe I talk with theoretical physicist Antonio Padilla about ultra-large numbers and how they compare to the universe. (2022-Oct-17 • 76 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes Astronomy Cast Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Space is a big place, with lots of galaxies, stars, planets, moons, and that means a lot of names. So how do astronomers name stuff, like comets, asteroids,... (2022-Oct-17 • 35 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 17 to 23 October 2022 The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week, and Mercury passes by the binary star Porrima in our weekly stargazing guide.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Oct-16 • 10 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 193E & 194E: Toy Asteroid & Stealthy Asteroids 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: - Imagine an asteroid small enough to fit under a basketball... (2022-Oct-16 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Meet the Team] Andy Tomaswick, Writer We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Andy Tomaswick. Fraser and Andy talked about Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’, interest in Astronomy and how to deal with haters and trolls. (2022-Oct-16 • 31 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Rendlesham Forest Incident A Hat of Woo Special (2022-Oct-15 • 59 minutes • @AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro) |
| Deep Astronomy - Asteroid Apophis is Coming in 2029 Streamed live on Feb 13, 2020. The Asteroid Apophis is going to get very close to Earth in 2029! How/will it impact us? Apophis is classified as a Potential Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) to Earth and astronomers want to use the event to learn... (2022-Oct-15 • 10 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Urgent Rest Emergencies can happen anytime, and ER doctors need to be ready and rested to treat everything from cardiac events to gunshot wounds or broken bones. Their work could mean life or death for the patients in their care. NYC ER doctor George Russo shares how he finds time to rest despite long days and constantly changing shifts in order to put patients first, while pulmonologist and sleep advocate Dr. Seema Khosla weighs in on the benefits of regular sleep for the wellbeing of both doctors and their patients.S... (2022-Oct-14 • 24 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| [Space Bites] Huge Success with DART, JWST Sees Weird Rings, Moon's True Origin DART’s results are in, it hammered Dimorphos, the Moon might just be a big chunk of the Earth, Webb sees bizarre rings around a star, and SLS gets a new launch date… at night. (2022-Oct-14 • 22 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Presenting the 'Real Good' Podcast Hey StarTalk fans! This is a special presentation of Real Good, a podcast from US Bank. It's a show all about people helping other people. If you like what you hear, head on over to their feed and subscribe today. (2022-Oct-14 • 56 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Peter Boghossian: From Street Epistemology to Academic Freedom Pete Boghossian is a philosopher with little tolerance for nonsense, whose efforts to broadly encourage critical thinking using Socratic methods began early on. While doing his PhD, he worked with inmates to see if he could impact on their moral reasoning through a process of Socratic questioning.Viewing faith-based beliefs as delusional, he worked on ways to encourage believers to question their beliefs. Because of the inherent difficulties in having such conversations Peter later worked with James Linsd... (2022-Oct-14 • 133 minutes • @LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject) |
| Something has Dropped off the Mars Helicopter in Mid Flight SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 109 *Something has dropped off the Mars helicopter in mid flight NASA have detected something falling off their Mars Ingenuity helicopter during its latest flight. *Testing the new SWOT satellite The new American and... (2022-Oct-14 • 20 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - Astronomy for Equity with Mike Simmons Streamed live on Oct 5, 2022. Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: Nothing transcends human differences here on our tiny planet than sharing the wonders of the night sky. For 50 years, Mike Simmons has been sharing and spreading astronomy with the... (2022-Oct-14 • 60 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Can you communicate with neutrinos? Daniel and Katie talk about how to detect information carried by the ghostly neutrino, and how to send neutr-emails.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-13 • 59 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| [Interview] How Understanding The Sun Changes Entire Astronomy with Colin Stuart How understanding the Sun can change our view of all the other stars in the Universe. What will current instruments and future mission will bring. And what are the mysteries that are waiting to be solved in this field. (2022-Oct-13 • 60 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Nuclear forensics keeps tabs on radioactive materials, big science summer school launches in Spain In this podcast we chat about nuclear diamond batteries and materials for fusion reactors (2022-Oct-13 • 31 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Actual Astronomy - Listeners’ Emails Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] Dennis wrote: Just was listening to the October observing podcast and heard you hoping for a list of single transits of Jupiter. Sky and... (2022-Oct-13 • 53 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) | Unsolvability of the Quintic Grant Sanderson is a mathematician who is the author of the YouTube channel “3Blue1Brown”, viewed by millions for its beautiful blend of visual animation and mathematical pedagogy. His channel covers a wide range of mathematical topics, which to name a few include calculus, quaternions, epidemic modeling, and artificial neural networks. Grant received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford University and has worked with a variety of mathematics educators and outlets, including Khan Academy, The ... (2022-Oct-13 • 140 minutes • @IAmTimNguyen) |
| Innovate! NASA’s leading-edge fellows share their amazing projects Join us at the 2022 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium for a taste of projects that just might change the world. (2022-Oct-12 • 61 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| 70K BK AMA Q &A! Welcome to my first AMA! Let me know If I should do a part 2! Jay Yow asks Will 👽 aliens look like me?? I reader312: What is your most recommended book (based around physics and engineering) for a student that is going to university next year? Prometheus Warp X: What happens to spacetime near an ultra-intense ion ring azimuthally accelerated towards c while compressed towards zero radius? Bob Kurbel: Can you explain why a universe expanding at super liminal velocities would leave an imprint like the pol... (2022-Oct-12 • 66 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| The Daily Space - The DART Mission Successfully Boops Dimorphos From September 27, 2022. After ten months of space travel, NASA’s DART spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Didymos, targeted the moonlet Dimorphos, and successfully flung itself at the surface. Multiple observations confirm that the system brightened... (2022-Oct-12 • 19 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Stunning New Images of the Jovian Ice Moon Europa SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 108 *Stunning new images of the Jovian ice moon Europa NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed its close flyby of the Jovian ice moon Europa capturing stunning close-up images which are raising more questions than they... (2022-Oct-12 • 42 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| The Brain Has a 'Low-Power Mode' That Blunts Our Senses Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Unanswered Questions” by Kevin MacLeod. (2022-Oct-12 • 18 minutes • @QuantaMagazine) |
| [Q&A] JWST Worth the Hype? How to Build a Wormhole? How to Pass Van Allen Belts? Are there alternatives to CMB? Will we ever build a space elevator? How can we see radiation coming from a black hole when nothing can escape it? Can you heat something with gravitational waves? Why JWST can look lame to the laymen? All this and more in this week's Q&A with Fraser Cain. (2022-Oct-11 • 38 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| The Science of "The Spare Man" Daniel and Kelly talk with Mary Robinette Kowal about the science of murder in space in her new book "The Spare Man" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-11 • 58 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| S4E05 Moderated Nonlinear Factor Analysis: A Conversation with Dan Bauer In this week's episode Patrick and Greg spend a wonderful, if not at times awkward, hour talking with Dan Bauer about the genesis, application, and future directions of what may be the world's worst acronym: MNLFA, or moderated nonlinear factor analysis. Along the way they also mention unsolicited help from teenagers, gold stars, acronyms, words that start with "ci", aggressive mice, manipulating your advisors, 2nd spouses, MoNoLiFa, Quantitube, rewiring your brain, $1M calculators, and ... (2022-Oct-11 • 57 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
 Review of Netz’s New History of Greek MathematicsReviel Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics contains a number of factual errors, both mathematical and historical. Netz is dismissive of traditional scholarship in the field, but in some ways represents a step backwards with respect to that tradition. I argue against Netz’s dismissal of many anecdotal historical testimonies as fabrications, and his “ludic proof” … Continue reading Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics (2022-Oct-11 • 52 minutes • @viktorblasjo) |
| Leiden Observatory - Cosmic Perspectives: Dutch Astronomy in Wider Society - Part 1: Radio Astronomy Bridges Cosmic Perspectives: Dutch Astronomy in Wider Society is a feature podcast that explores the beneficial impact of Dutch astronomy on society, from building positive international relationships to the transfer of life-changing technology. ... (2022-Oct-11 • 24 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Women of Mathematics: Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb Over the summer we were lucky enough to meet some young female mathematicians who were just finishing up their summer research projects with the Philippa Fawcett Internship Programme and the Cambridge Mathematics Placements programme. On our way to the writing workshops we were running with these women, we walked past six inspiring portraits of female mathematicians from Cambridge. These form part of the Women of Mathematics photo exhibition, which celebrates female mathematicians from institutions througho... (2022-Oct-11 • 13 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
| Cosmic Queries – Starquakes with Conny Aerts What is a starquake? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen explore asteroseismology, the sun, and what’s happening on the insides of stars with astrophysicist Conny Aerts. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Zoran Nesic, Sarah Rina Rosen, and Joshua Brewer for supporting us this week. (2022-Oct-11 • 51 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Ep. 656: Smashing Asteroids for Science! Astronomy Cast Ep. 656: Smashing Asteroids for Science! by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live Oct 3rd. This week we saw the incredible image of DART smashing into asteroid Dimorphous. Beyond avenging the dinosaurs, what can we learn... (2022-Oct-10 • 27 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| [Interview] The Future of Telescopes. Coronagraphs with Dr. Lucie Leboulleux Coronographs will soon be in every major telescope. They can block the light from the star and reveal things around it, like exoplanets. There's so much amazing science behind them. Like, did you know coronographs can be adaptive? We dive into all that with Dr Lucie Leboulleux. Enjoy the interview! (2022-Oct-10 • 61 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| AMA | October 2022 Ask Me Anything episode for October 2022. (2022-Oct-10 • 181 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Dimorphous Grows a Massive Comet Like Impact Debris Tail The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 107 *Dimorphous grows a massive comet like impact debris tail The DART spacecraft’s impact into the asteroid Dimorphous has generated a massive comet like tail... (2022-Oct-10 • 38 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 655: 65 Years of Space: Sputnik 1 Anniversary Streamed live on Sep 26, 2022. It’s been about 65 years since the Soviets launched the first orbital satellite into low Earth orbit: Sputnik 1. Now there are thousands of satellites in orbit, with tens of thousands on the way. Let’s look at the... (2022-Oct-10 • 29 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 191E & 192E: Big Rock & Birthday Asteroid 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: - Alex Gibbs discovered 1 mile diameter 2015 VL142. - Rose... (2022-Oct-09 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| A Brief History of Time Nobel Prizewinner Bill Phillips NIST Fellow William D. Phillips received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” He shared the honor with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Their work combined to create some of the most important technologies of modern atomic physics, which thousands of researchers worldwide employ today for a wide variety of applications. Today, he joins us to discuss time keeping throughout history and breakthroughs on the way to the best clocks ever made... (2022-Oct-09 • 91 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 10 to 16 October 2022 Watch out for Mars and the Pleiades as the Moon passes by as we run down this week's stargazing highlights.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Oct-09 • 9 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| NOIRLab: 10 Years Of The Dark Energy Camera The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) is an extremely powerful imager mounted on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. DECam has 570 megapixels that cover 3 square degrees of the sky. In this podcast,... (2022-Oct-08 • 14 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Starts With A Bang #86 - Stars In The Universe All throughout the Universe, we see stars and galaxies everywhere we look. But as we look to greater and greater distances, we're only seeing the light that's the easiest to see: the ones from the brightest, most visible objects. But the most numerous objects of all are exactly the opposite: less luminous, smaller, and lower in mass. How can we hope to find and catalogue them all if they're the hardest ones to find? | The answer lies in measuring the closest stars to us. If we can measure the stars that per... (2022-Oct-08 • 83 minutes • @StartsWithABang) |
 Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 - The universe is not locally real. What does that mean?The 2022 Physics Nobel Prize, awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science" https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physic... | | Scientific American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic... | | Bell's Theorem and EPR episode of Hyperfine https://thehyperfine.com/#bell | | Encryption: Diffie-Hellman & RSA episode of Hyperfine https://thehyperfine.c... (2022-Oct-08 • 37 minutes • @LikeTortilla • @phyzaks) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - Piquing Our Curiosity with Dr. Ashwin Vasavada Streamed live on Sep 28, 2022. Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: On August 5, 2022, a plucky little rover named Curiosity celebrated its 10th Anniversary on the surface of Mars. Since being lowered on Mars that summer day it has continued to exceed... (2022-Oct-07 • 62 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Space Bites] Ads Taking Over Night Sky, DART Aftermath, Best JWST Image Dimorphos grows a tail. More Europa pictures from Juno. The horrifying possibility of ads in night sky. Why Jupiter’s atmosphere is surprisingly hot. (2022-Oct-07 • 20 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Space Policy Edition: The Geopolitics of a Successful SETI Detection How will nations react if (when?) humanity detects the presence of an alien intelligence or civilization? That’s the topic Planetary Society Chief Advocate Casey Dreier takes up with his guest, astrophysicist Jason Wright. (2022-Oct-07 • 63 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Genesis & The Big Bang: Are They Compatible? Be sure to watch the video version of this episode with slides here: https://youtu.be/F3P1ZtLZd9s Genesis & The Big Bang “If You Can Count the Stars, A Jewish Astronomer’s Journey! Think back to the late-night dorm room discussions from your college days. We are going to talk about cosmology, the Big Bang, and more from two perspectives, from the perspective of an astrophysicist and the perspective of a Torah observant Jew and ask what they may have in common, and how they differ. How can you reconcile whe... (2022-Oct-07 • 80 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Mind Control & Neuroprosthetics with Cindy Chestek and Parag Patil Are we nearing the singularity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about brain machine interfaces and prosthetics you can control with your mind, with biomedical engineer Dr. Cindy Chestek and neurosurgeon Dr. Parag PatilNOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Photo Credit: Pixabay, CC0, via Wikimedia Common (2022-Oct-07 • 58 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| JUNO Undertakes a Europa Flyby SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 106 *JUNO undertakes a Europa flyby NASA's Juno spacecraft has undertaken a close flyby of the Jovian Ice moon Europa. *Planetary-scale heat wave discovered in Jupiter's atmosphere Astronomers have detected a planetary... (2022-Oct-07 • 40 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Many Worlds & the Multiverse: Andy Friedman, David Brin How many Multiverses are there? Featuring @davidBrin & the late, great Andy Friedman, colleague of the 2022 co-recipient of the @NobelPrize, Anton Zeilinger. Let me know your favorite takeaway from this chat about the profligate nature of the Multiverse. Find Andy's website here https://asfriedman.physics.ucsd.edu Watc... the video here: https://youtu.be/9oahwWBcg1A Connect with me: 🏄♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www... (2022-Oct-07 • 54 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| The Daily Space - Being A Star: Nature vs Nurture Astroseismologists are combining data from TESS, Kepler, and eventually JWST to study stellar oscillations in ‘infant’ stars, with the goal of creating new models for how such young stars form and evolve over time. Plus, JWST images Mars, Hubble... (2022-Oct-06 • 22 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| The weird and wonderful history of quantum entanglement that led to this year’s Nobel prize In this podcast we delve into the curious phenomenon at the heart of the 2022 prize (2022-Oct-06 • 48 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| What's it like to be an alien? Daniel talks to Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about what alien animals might be like, how they might sense and communicate. | See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-06 • 57 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| [Interview] True Nature of Science and Skepticism with Professor Peter Vickers In this interview, Professor Peter Vickers and I talk about the scientific method, its true nature and its place in modern society. We talk about the philosophy of science, how scientific consensus works and how it can be made better. (2022-Oct-06 • 67 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Grounded: The director of the SOFIA flying observatory looks back Director of SOFIA Science Mission Operations Margaret Meixner joins us to lament the end of the giant flying observatory and to celebrate its tremendous successes. (2022-Oct-05 • 44 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Look Up! October 2022 Royal Observatory Astronomers Jess and Tania take you through what to see in the night sky during the month of October in our family friendly Look Up! podcast. On this month's podcast, Jess and Tania talk about developments in the Hayabusa2 mission, and the DART mission's successful impact into an asteroid. We also have this month's viewing highlights in our Cosmic Diary! Join us on Twitter @ROGAstronomers and take part in our poll at the start of October! (2022-Oct-05 • 35 minutes • @ROGAstronomers) |
| Mercury’s Surface is Changing Rapidly SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 105 *Mercury’s surface is changing rapidly A new study has found that the surface of the planet Mercury is changing rapidly. *Why it never pays to bet against Albert Einstein A new study once again proves Einstein was... (2022-Oct-05 • 31 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Awesome Astronomy - October Part 1 Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. Jeni and Paul talk to Professor Mike Edmunds, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and Emeritus... (2022-Oct-05 • 71 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Q&A] Can JWST See Oumuamua, Why Go to The Moon, DART Images | Q&A 194 In this week's questions and answers show, I explain why a crewed mission to Venus or the Moon makes sense, if there's debris in the Lagrange Points, and why the photos from DART look so familiar. (2022-Oct-04 • 36 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| S4E04 Partial Least Squares: Straight Outta Uppsala In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk about partial least squares, a technique that resembles structural equation modeling but with a lot of flexibility, including but not limited to its ability to accommodate both reflective and formative constructs. Along the way they also mention dark RedBubble, Sheep’s Kin, snorting SEM, the Coors Light beer bong, Hotelling's ghost, Larry the Cable Guy, the Marvel Metaverse, the Evil Eye, Badluck Schleprock, fika, Abba, and pieces left on the table. Sta... (2022-Oct-04 • 56 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| Cosmic Queries – Back to School Edition What do you wish you’d learned in school? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice go back to school to answer questions about simulation theory, time dilation, white holes, the sound of space, and more!NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Goat34, Mark Dent, Edwin J Roldan, Evan Moorhead, and Abby GIll for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI), Public domain, via Wikimed... (2022-Oct-04 • 47 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Ask A Spaceman Ep. 185: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 3: There and Back Again) Part 3! Who developed quantum theory and why? What experiments motivated the creation of quantum mechanics? How was quantum mechanics a total break from classical physics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Please support... (2022-Oct-04 • 50 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| The Journey So Far In Episode 44, Patrick and Ciprian take a retrospective look at Entangled Things.The team discuss the journey so far, the excitement and challenges of podcasting, and the joy of gaining and sharing knowledge of guests from within the industry. (2022-Oct-04 • 41 minutes • @EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici) |
| AaS! 185: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 3: There and Back Again) Part 3! Who developed quantum theory and why? What experiments motivated the creation of quantum mechanics? How was quantum mechanics a total break from classical physics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Please support... (2022-Oct-04 • 49 minutes • @PaulMattSutter) |
| Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles! Daniel and Jorge answer questions from listeners like you, all about the particles around us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Oct-04 • 61 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Ep. 655: 65 Years of Space: Sputnik 1 Anniversary Astronomy Cast Ep. 655: 65 Years of Space: Sputnik 1 Anniversary by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Sep 26, 2022. It’s been about 65 years since the Soviets launched the first orbital satellite into low Earth orbit: Sputnik 1. Now... (2022-Oct-03 • 29 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 654: The Side Effects Of Clean Energy To battle climate change, we’ll need to rapidly move to carbon-free sources of energy. But this technology isn’t a free lunch. They require metals, generate waste and deplete the environment. What’s the best way to balance this shift? ... (2022-Oct-03 • 31 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 54 - String Theory Part 1: What Is It? Last time, we introduced the biggest open problem in theoretical physics - the problem of combining gravity with quantum mechanics. In this first part of a three-part series, we introduce the leading candidate for how to do that: String Theory.For ad-free episodes and other exclusives, join us for $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverseTiny MattersTiny Matters is a science podcast about the little things that make the big things in...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Support the show (2022-Oct-03 • 26 minutes • @DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs) |
| Before You Can Drive, First You Have to Fly – S4E9 Before a rover can make tracks on Mars, it first has to rocket off Earth, speed through space, and then alight gently on the planet’s surface. Al Chen and Swati Mohan guide us through the many stages of a rover’s flight to Mars. (2022-Oct-03 • @NASA) |
| DART Spacecraft Hits Asteroid NASA’s DART or Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft has successfully slammed into an asteroid in what’s been described as the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration mission. (2022-Oct-03 • 37 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| 213 | Timiebi Aganaba on Law and Governance in Space Space needs lawyers! I talk with Timiebi Aganaba, an expert on space law and governance. (2022-Oct-03 • 76 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Neil Turok: Most Theorists are WRONG! Renowned physicist Neil Turok, Holder of the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, joins me to discuss the state of science and the universe. Neil Turok has been director emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics since 2019. He specializes in mathematical physics and early-universe physics, including the cosmological constant and a cyclic model for the universe. He has written several books including Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang and The Universe Within... (2022-Oct-02 • 142 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| [Meet The Team] Evan Gough, Writer We continue to introduce the team behind Universe Today. In this episode meet Evan Gough, who is the author of more than 1400 articles on the website. Fraser and Evan talked about the way that stories for UT are born, which traps can a writer fall into, and whether to take a university degree or not. Enjoy! (2022-Oct-02 • 30 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 3 to 9 October 2022 In this week's stargazing guide, we take a look at the Moon's southern pole and catch asteroid Pallas as it glides past Sirius. Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Oct-02 • 13 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| #283 - Dr Becky - BlackHoles Matt is joined by Dr. Rebecca Smethurst a British astrophysicist, author, and YouTuber. Linn and Matt Chat about DART and Blackhoples and Birmingham. If you enjoy the show please go over to www.linktr.ee/Interplanetary and become a member on Patreon. Hosts: Linn Boldt-Christmas and Matt Russell Music: Matt Russell / Iam7 Cover Image: ESA/ESA/NASA (2022-Oct-02 • 96 minutes • @Interplanetypod • @iam7cool) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps: 189E & 190E: Frequent Visitor & Martian Purity 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: - Rose Matheny discovered 2015 UM52. -Lichen from atop... (2022-Oct-02 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Observing With Webb - October Episode Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night. Halloween month brings us some spooooooooky astronomy. ... (2022-Oct-01 • 13 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| #124 - October 2022 Part 1 The Astronomy Show (2022-Oct-01 • 70 minutes • @AwesomeAstroPod • @DrJeniMillard • @SiriusAstro) |
| Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics What does it mean to be alive? Our origins are the horizon of our understanding, and as with the physical horizon, our approach brings us no closer. The more we learn, the more mysterious it all becomes. What if we’re asking the wrong questions? Maybe life did not begin at all, but rather coalesced piecemeal, a set of properties contingent and convergent, plural, more than once? Maybe the origin of life is happening right now, just over the horizon, forming something new anew. Let’s get into the weeds and s... (2022-Oct-01 • 70 minutes • @sfiscience • @michaelgarfield) |
| [Space Bites] SpaceX To Boost Hubble, NASA Smashes Asteroid, Exciting Enceladus Discoveries Humanity moved an asteroid on purpose for the first time in history. Juno flies past Jupiter. A possible mission to boost Hubble, and a mysterious blob is orbiting Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. (2022-Oct-01 • 19 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Weekly Space Hangout: The Geology of Exoplanets with Dr. Paul Byrne [I apologize for the audio trouble with the podcast. The audio demons were busy! - Rich] Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: The first suspected exoplanet was identified back in 1988, and was then confirmed in 1992. Since then, the rate at... (2022-Sep-30 • 69 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| New and Puzzling Features of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 103 *New and puzzling features of mysterious fast radio bursts Astronomers have detected strange never before seen signals originating from an already mysterious object called a Fast Radio Burst. *NASA's InSight hears... (2022-Sep-30 • 25 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Space Tyranny! How do you design a space settlement government without it descending into tyranny? (2022-Sep-30 • 62 minutes • @NakedScientists • @drbtmcallister) |
| 33: Q&A - The Year in Space It's been an exciting time for space exploration, so Izzie and Dr Becky celebrate the year in space.... co-incidentally the title of The Supermassive Podcast's book which is out in October. How do plants grow in the ISS? Has JWST changed ideas about cosmology? And when will we get a home gravitational wave detector? The honourable Izzie Clarke, Dr Becky Smethurst, Dr Robert Massey, and (his excellency) space and science journalist Richard Hollingham take on your questions. | | Pre-order our upcoming book T... (2022-Sep-30 • 54 minutes • @RoyalAstroSoc • @IzzieClarke • @drbecky_) |
| Start-up company aims to build laser-driven particle accelerators In this podcast we also chat about physicists who have won non-physics Nobel prizes (2022-Sep-29 • 48 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Why does physics even work? Daniel talks to Prof. Tim O'Connor about why the craziness of the world around us seems to resolve into things we can understand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Sep-29 • 55 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Actual Astronomy - Objects To Observe In October Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected] Oct 3 - first quarter Moon & Lunar Straight Wall visible Oct 5 - Saturn 4 degrees North of the Moon … further for us Oct 7 - Neptune... (2022-Sep-29 • 38 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Researchers Achieve 'Absurdly Fast' Algorithm for Network Flow Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it down. Read more at quantamagazine.org. Music is “Aimless Amos” by Rondo Brothers. (2022-Sep-28 • 18 minutes • @QuantaMagazine) |
| Bull’s-eye! DART impacts Dimorphos, and we meet space image artist and processor Judy Schmidt Listen as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft closes in on asteroid Dimorphos, followed by a triumphant conversation with DART Coordination Lead Nancy Chabot, and a visit with space image processor Judy Schmidt. (2022-Sep-28 • 69 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| [Bonus] Alternatives to Dark Matter by Paul Sutter This is a bonus from my friend Paul Sutter. It is an episode from his podcast ''Ask A Spaceman'. He explains possible alternatives to Dark Matter, which is a very popular question in my Q&A episodes. Enjoy! (2022-Sep-28 • 43 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Tessellations Jeanne Lazzarini, a math education specialist, returns to discuss tessellations and tiling in the works of Escher, Penrose, ancient artists and nature. We go beyond the familiar square or hexagonal tilings of the bathroom floor. M.C. Escher was an artist who made tessellations with lizards or birds, as well as pictures of very strange stairways. Roger Penrose is a scientist who discovered two tiles that, remarkably, can cover an area without repeat, as well as a strange stairway. | | --- | | Send in a vo... (2022-Sep-28 • 21 minutes • @CarolJacobyPhD) |
| Maanvinder Pilania - A Journey To TOI 849-b Located around 730 light years away from Earth, TOI-849b was discovered in November 2020 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using a method called Transit. In this method, TESS looked for a dip in the light coming from the stars.... (2022-Sep-28 • 5 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Interview: A Brief History of Black Holes Dr Becky Smethurst reveals the science behind the cosmic behemoths (2022-Sep-28 • 30 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| James Webb Space Telescope Develops a Serious Technical Problem The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 102 *James Webb Space Telescope develops a serious technical problem NASA’s James Webb space telescope has developed a problem with a key part of its... (2022-Sep-28 • 41 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| The State of The Universe With Eric Weinstein A conversation from the vault, back in Spring 2022. As relevant as ever, hear Eric's thoughts on sundry topics such as: The twin nuclei and the unleashing of great power Harry Truman vs Kamala Harris. The problems with our leadership. Distinguishing between "complicated" and "complex". Keating's pedagogy. What happened on September 12th, 2001? Are we in a death spiral? The acceleration of science and the role of engineering. What new fundamental theories should we focus on? Do a few people wield to... (2022-Sep-27 • 92 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| The Daily Space - Full-length interview with DART investigation team member Jian-Yang Li Listen to the full-length interview with Jian-Yang Li from our September 13th episode where we discuss the DART mission’s uh, impact… ;^D We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production... (2022-Sep-27 • 22 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| S4E03 Two-Stage Least Squares Strikes Back In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the often neglected method of two-stage least squares; they take a walk down memory lane to explore its origins and then drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st century for much promising use within the latent variable model. Along the way they also mention magic dishwashers, being under-estimated, blind pigs & truffles, Sadie Hawkins, intellectual spinning hook kicks, Fisher's eight-pack abs, the fine print, Winston Churchill vs. Chewbacca, ... (2022-Sep-27 • 57 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| Bonus : The Physics of Muon Colliders The rest of season three is still under development! We wanted to improve the clarity before publishing. Parity violation just isn't that easy to talk about! In the mean time, here is the second episode in a short bonus series about the state and future contemporary particle physics. I hope you enjoy it!This is an essay that we originally posted on our substack page:https://pasayteninstitute.substack.... is a follow up to our 4 Reasons to Build a New Particle ColliderYou can also get the bumper sticker vers... (2022-Sep-27 • 10 minutes • @seanforscience) |
| Frans de Waal: Learning from Primates about ourselves: From Gender to Social Hierarchies Frans de Waal is not only my favorite primatologist, he is one of my favorite scientist-communicators. His books on primates, particularly on Bonobos and Chimpanzees—from politics to child-rearing and even culture—reveal a tremendous amount about our closest genetic relatives, and hence about ourselves. His newest book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, tackles a particularly hot topic at the current time, but as is typical of his books, this one is both entertaining, and touching, an... (2022-Sep-27 • 151 minutes • @LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject) |
| [Q&A] Antimatter Black Holes, Wen Hop, Life Around Brown Dwarfs In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain what would happen when an antimatter black hole collides with a regular black hole, I try to estimate when Starship is going to make an orbital launch, and wonder if there could be life around brown dwarf stars. (2022-Sep-27 • 38 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Cosmic Queries – Fixing Physics with Sabine Hossenfelder Can a whole universe fit inside a black hole? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Paul Mecurio explore grand unification, dark matter, wave function collapse, and other problems in physics with theoretical physicist and author of “Existential Physics,” Sabine Hossenfelder. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-qu... to our Patrons Frederick DesCamps, Devon, Sunny Irving, Michael Gessner, and jack50 for supporting us this week.Photo... (2022-Sep-27 • 47 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| The Baby Tooth Study 2.0 with Marc Weisskopf The St. Louis Baby Tooth Study has been reimagined. Using the original teeth collected from the children of the 1950s and 1960s Marc Weisskopf and his colleagues at Harvard are seeking to find new ... (2022-Sep-27 • 59 minutes • @NuclearLifePod • @ShellyLesh) |
| What is negative temperature? Daniel and Jorge talk about hot and cold coffee, weather and desserts and wrestle with whether things can be colder than zero!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Sep-27 • 51 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 653: Climate Change: Looking at the Variables Climate change is on our mind these days with increasing wildfires, droughts and floods. What are the variables that play into a planet’s changing climate and what can this teach us about the search for habitable planets in the solar system and... (2022-Sep-26 • 31 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 212 | Chiara Mingarelli on Searching for Black Holes with Pulsars I talk with physicist Chiara Mingarelli about how we can use pulsar timing to detect gravitational waves and black holes. (2022-Sep-26 • 87 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Ep. 654: The Side Effects Of Clean Energy Astronomy Cast Ep. 654: The Side Effects Of Clean Energy by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay To battle climate change, we’ll need to rapidly move to carbon-free sources of energy. But this technology isn’t a free lunch. They require metals,... (2022-Sep-26 • 31 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| Bad Weather Scrubs a Third Launch Attempt for the World’s Most Powerful Rocket The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 101 *Bad weather scrubs a third launch attempt for the world’s most powerful rocket In a case of déjà vu all over again as NASA has been forced to scrub a third... (2022-Sep-26 • 31 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Episode 68: Quantum Resource Theories with Gilad Gour Jim talks with Gilad Gour of the University of Toronto about quantum resource theories. The... (2022-Sep-26 • 51 minutes • @_PhysicsFM_ • @PhysicsMystic) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 187E & 188E: Space Boomerang & Comet Showers 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: - Rose Matheny discovered WT1190F. This space boomerang spent... (2022-Sep-25 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| [Meet The Team] Nancy Atkinson, Senior Editor This week's behind the scenes interview is with Universe Today's senior editor, Nancy Atkinson. Nancy has been writing for Universe Today since the early days and has contributed thousands of articles. She's also a mentor to newer writers on the team. (2022-Sep-25 • 30 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 26 September to 2 October 2022 Jupiter makes its closest approach to Earth of the year this week as we take a look at Jupiter's opposition and more in this episode of Star Diary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Sep-25 • 13 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Cosmic Savannah Ep. 036: Another Year in Review Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama. We celebrate our second anniversary this week! We take the opportunity to reflect on what has been a very different year, but not without some great fun and highlights. Jacinta and Dan... (2022-Sep-24 • 32 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019) We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous―and easier to share than ever. We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us, revealing patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. In short, good charts m... (2022-Sep-23 • 58 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| Interview: NASA's plan to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid Could humanity deflect the path of a civilisation-destroying asteroid? (2022-Sep-23 • 21 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - Milky Way "Autobiographer" Dr. Moiya McTier Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: This week we are super excited to welcome Dr. Moiya McTier ( & ) to the Weekly Space Hangout - this time as our special guest! In 2019, Moiya joined the Weekly Space Hangout as one of our first Early Career... (2022-Sep-23 • 20 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Heat Stroke with Bud Cooper and Radley Horton How do you prevent a heat stroke? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about stopping heat illness deaths and the challenges of increasing heat waves with kinesiologist, Bud Cooper, and climate scientist, Radley Horton.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/heat-stro... to our Patrons Zammo Taylor, Bill wessale, Korey B Helms, Kevin Browning, and Justin for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Ja... (2022-Sep-23 • 60 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| [Space Bites] JWST Problems, Newborn Quasar, Detecting Exoplanets with Lagrange Points James Webb has a problem with one of its most important instruments, SLS completes a crucial test before the next launch attempt, Europe wants to rival Crew Dragon and Starliner, and a new quasar is about to be born. (2022-Sep-23 • 18 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Counting Down to Asteroid Collision SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 100 *Counting down to asteroid collision NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test— or DART mission -- remains on target to crash into a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid on Monday. *Continental plate movements... (2022-Sep-23 • 27 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Is math the language of the Universe? Daniel talks to Prof. Mark Colyvan, philosopher of mathematics, about whether math is something we invented or discovered. | See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Sep-22 • 60 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Awesome Astronomy - September Part 2 Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. The Discussion: Farewell Frank Drake. It’s uncrewed, not unmanned! Filming with the BBC again.... (2022-Sep-22 • 74 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Materials science for women’s health, the rise of Chinese science, Schrödinger fails in Oxford In this podcast we also talk about a quantum sensor for electric vehicles (2022-Sep-22 • 47 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Bonus: We should build a muon collider. The rest of season three is still under development! We wanted to improve the clarity before publishing. Parity violation just isn't that easy to talk about! In the mean time, here is the second episode in a short bonus series about the state and future contemporary particle physics. I hope you enjoy it!This is an essay that we originally posted on our substack page:https://pasayteninstitute.substack.... Reasons we should build a new particle collider:1. We still have more science to do!2. Technology transf... (2022-Sep-22 • 9 minutes • @seanforscience) |
| [Interview] Solar Sail Propulsion: Reality VS Fiction with Les Johnson Les Johnson is the Principle Investigator with NASA's upcoming Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission that will fly on the SLS and test solar sail navigation. But at the same time, he's a science fiction author. So, in this interview, we discussed both these sides of his life. (2022-Sep-22 • 62 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Dream Chaser Space Plane could be used as a Rapid Response Military Transport SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 99 *Dream Chaser space plane could be used as a rapid response military transport Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane will now begin flying cargo to the International Space Station for NASA in February 2023 instead... (2022-Sep-21 • 21 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| [Q&A] True Edge of the Universe, Nuclear Rockets Adoption, Lunar Poles Exploration | Q&A 192 In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain the difference between the observable universe and the Hubble sphere, how satellite megaconstellations will affect smartphones and other consumer devices, and what impact Jupiter's radiation might have for life on Europa. (2022-Sep-21 • 45 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Maanvinder Pilania - Ring Systems Around Astronomical Objects Talking about the ring systems, the only astronomical body that comes up in the mind of people is the planet Saturn, which has a ring system which can be seen easily with the help of a telescope. But did you know that Saturn is not the only one that... (2022-Sep-21 • 9 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Countdown to DART: Will We Move an Asteroid? The DART spacecraft’s impact on asteroid moonlet Dimorphos is days away, so we’ll check in with Mission Coordination Lead Nancy Chabot as well as Simone Pirrotta, program manager for the LICIACube probe that will be watching the smackdown. (2022-Sep-21 • 53 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| Did the Big Bang Happen? Brian Keating on The Morning Wire Newly released photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have allowed scientists to view farther into space, and farther into the past, than ever before. The images emerging are raising questions about the origins of our universe. One viral article from independent scientist Eric Lerner made the rounds on social media in recent weeks with its provocative claim that the Big Bang never happened. We speak to UC San Diego Professor of Cosmology Brian Keating about what the images show, and what we can and can’... (2022-Sep-21 • 15 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| [Interview] Proving the Big Bang Happened with Dr Brian Keating This week I'm joined by Dr. Brian Keating, a cosmologist who studies cosmic microwave background radiation and leads the BICEP, POLARBEAR2, and Simons Array experiments. He also has a successful YouTube channel and podcast. We'll be discussing the evidence for the Big Bang and the impact of James Webb on our current understanding of the Universe. (2022-Sep-21 • 66 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society One way to frame the science of complexity is as a revelation of the hidden order under seemingly separate phenomena — a teasing-out of music from the noise of history and nature. This effort follows centuries of work to find the rules that structure language, music, and society. How strictly analogous are the patterns governing a symphony and those that describe a social transformation? Math and music are old friends, but new statistical and computational techniques afford the possibility of going even dee... (2022-Sep-21 • 57 minutes • @sfiscience • @michaelgarfield) |
| Sean Carroll’s Biggest Ideas Sean Carroll joins me to discuss his magnificent new book, The Biggest Ideas In the Universe. Sean is an American theoretical physicist and philosopher who specializes in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals such as Nature as well as other publications, including The New York Times, Sky & Telescope and New S... (2022-Sep-20 • 88 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Microsoft Quantum Advancements In Episode 43, Patrick and Ciprian speak regarding Microsoft Quantum advancements.Among other topics, the team discuss Azure Quantum, languages, and intergrations with other existing hardware and software platforms. (2022-Sep-20 • 44 minutes • @EntangledThings • @patrickhynds • @ciprianjichici) |
| [Interview] Immune System for Your Mind Against Disinformation with Lee McIntyre Today I'm talking to Lee McIntyre, philosopher of science and the author of a recently released book 'How to Talk to a Science Denier'. We talked about the problems with science communication in modern society, the challenges that misinformation poses, and how we can possibly fight it. (2022-Sep-20 • 61 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Ask A Spaceman Ep. 184: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? - Part 2: Quantum Mechanics 102 Part 2! How do physicists understand quantum mechanics? What are the postulates and principles of quantum mechanics? How do the foundations of quantum mechanics compare to other theories? How do I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a... (2022-Sep-20 • 45 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| S4E02 Underachievers, Overachievers, & Maximum Likelihood Estimation This week Patrick and Greg talk about maximum likelihood estimation: what it is, where it comes from, how it works, what it can do, and what it can't do. Along they way they also mention tour-bombing your kid, licking the turtle, Van Halen and AC/DC, orange mustaches, brandy snifter pong, bus #27, Ronnie Fisher, why people hate us, circus tents, night parachuting, flat spots, lazy parabolas, vanilla ice cream, and statistical bouncers. Stay in contact with Quantitude! Twitter: @quantitudepod Web page... (2022-Sep-20 • 56 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| Bonus : Do we really need new particle physics? The rest of season three is still under development! We wanted to improve the clarity before publishing. Sphalerons just aren't easy to talk about! In the mean time, here is the first in a short bonus series about the state and future contemporary particle physics. I hope you enjoy it!This is an essay that we originally posted on our substack page:https://pasayteninstitute.substack.... Bonus Episode for The Field Guide to Particle Physics : Season 3https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to... The Pasayten Ins... (2022-Sep-20 • 19 minutes • @seanforscience) |
| Cosmic Queries – The Biggest Ideas in the Universe with Sean Carroll How does physics impact our free will? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Negin Farsad discuss quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and the theory of everything with theoretical physicist and author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, Sean Carroll. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons aziz astrophysics, Scott Barnett, Christopher Saal, David Rhoades, and Jenna Biancavilla for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: Геральт - geralt / 21281 ima... (2022-Sep-20 • 49 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| Women of Mathematics: Holly Krieger In this podcast we are very happy to revisit our 2017 interview with Holly Krieger, one of the six Cambridge mathematicians whose portrait is included in the Women of Mathematics photo exhibition. Krieger works in dynamical systems theory, particularly on chaotic systems. In this interview she told us about the joys of learning and conversations with colleagues. Holly Krieger (Photograph by Henry Kenyon) You can find more about Krieger's prize winning work in Dynamic numbers and you see her talk about ... (2022-Sep-20 • 10 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
| AaS! 184: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 2: Quantum Mechanics 102) Part 2! How do physicists understand quantum mechanics? What are the postulates and principles of quantum mechanics? How do the foundations of quantum mechanics compare to other theories? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!... (2022-Sep-20 • 43 minutes • @PaulMattSutter) |
| What are quantum glasses? Daniel and Jorge talk about finding order among the messiness of the Universe, and the strange frustration of quantum spin glasses. | See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Sep-20 • 52 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 652: The Rocket Race Towards Reusability Last week we talked about how single-use rocketry has changed over time, and the role it still plays in launching payloads into orbit and beyond. Today we’ll address the stainless steel elephant in the room and talk about the shift to reusability.... (2022-Sep-19 • 31 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Episode #107 - Searching in the Summer Check out MEL Science and their boxes for 50% off your first MEL Science box: https://melscience.com/sBKx/ PROMO CODE: MP50 Today we talk about both of our summer research experiences in the astrophysics and physics departments. We have spent our entire summers working on a few projects and now we get to tell you all about them. Instagram: @math.physics.podcast Tiktok: @math.physics.podcast Email: [email protected] Twitter: @MathPhysPod (2022-Sep-19 • 79 minutes • @MathPhysicsPod) |
| Gamma Rays from Neighbouring Galaxy Related to Dead Stars The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 98 *Gamma rays from neighbouring galaxy related to dead stars Astronomers say that a mysterious source of high energy gamma rays discovered near the galactic... (2022-Sep-19 • 37 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Ep. 653: Climate Change: Looking at the Variables Astronomy Cast Ep. 653: Climate Change: Looking at the Variables by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Climate change is on our mind these days with increasing wildfires, droughts and floods. What are the variables that play into a planet’s changing... (2022-Sep-19 • 31 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| 211 | Solo: Secrets of Einstein's Equation Solo podcast explaining Einstein's Equation of general relativity, to celebrate publication of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. (2022-Sep-19 • 111 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 185E & 186E: Rick’s 2 Homers & Asteroid Water Wagons 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: - Rik Hill knocked two out of the park! By discovering PHAs... (2022-Sep-18 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Proving the Big Bang Happened with Dr Brian Keating on The Fraser Cain Show Fraser Cain, science youtuber and publisher www.universetoday.com interviews Dr. Brian Keating. They discussed the evidence for the Big Bang and the impact of James Webb Space Telescope on our current understanding of the Universe. See the video version here. www.universetoday.com Connect with me: 🏄♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?s... Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeati... (2022-Sep-18 • 73 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 19 to 25 September 2022 As the autumn equinox arrives, the crescent Moon gives a great opportunity to see Earthshine.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Sep-18 • 9 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Deep Astronomy - NASA's DART Mission: Protecting Earth from Hazardous Asteroids DART is a planetary defense-driven test of technologies for preventing an impact of Earth by a hazardous asteroid. DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impactor technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space. This asteroid... (2022-Sep-17 • 66 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Weekly Space Hangout - Season Premiere! How to Teach Grown-Ups About Pluto with Dean Regas Host: Fraser Cain ( )Special Guest: Welcome back to another season of the Weekly Space Hangout! In our season's premiere, we are excited to welcome back to the show our good friend Dean Regas from the Cincinnati Observatory! Dean has just released... (2022-Sep-16 • 51 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Trouble on the Horizon for UK-based researchers Political wrangling over the UK’s status in the Horizon Europe research programme leaves scientists in limbo (2022-Sep-16 • 57 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Solar Orbiter Hit by a Massive Coronal Mass Ejection SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 97 *Solar Orbiter hit by a massive Coronal Mass Ejection Earlier this month as The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter undertook its third flyby of the planet Venus it was hit by a massive coronal mass ejection... (2022-Sep-16 • 31 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| [Space Bites] Blue Origin Explosion, CAPSTONE Problems, Space Diamonds Uh oh, NASA’s CAPSTONE mission is having problems, A New Shepard Flight fails, Betelgeuse was recently yellow, and of course, another amazing new image from Webb. (2022-Sep-16 • 19 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| What will the Lucy mission teach us? Daniel and Kelly walk through the trajectory of the Lucy mission and talk about what it might teach us about our origins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Sep-15 • 51 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Episode 79 - Philip Ording Philip Ording wrote a cool book (you should check it out) and he likes the Erlangen Program. Not really a theorem, but we're not purists around here. (2022-Sep-15 • 35 minutes • @niveknosdunk • @evelynjlamb) |
| Quantum computers could soon bring breakthroughs in nuclear physics In this podcast we explore how quantum computers have captured the imaginations of nuclear physicists (2022-Sep-15 • 31 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| Actual Astronomy - Listener Observing Reports Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. Welcome to Episode 256 of the Actual Astronomy Podcast, a short episode on where we catch up. I’m Chris and joining me is Shane. We are amateur astronomers who love... (2022-Sep-15 • 36 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Women of Mathematics: Julia Gog In this podcast we are very happy to revist our 2017 interview with Julia Gog - Professor of Mathematical Biology and a very good friend of us here at plus.maths.org. Over the last two years we've been working closely with Gog and her colleagues at the JUNIPER modelling consortium, communicating their work on the mathematical front-line of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, first recorded to celebrate the addition of six portraits of Cambridge mathematicians to the Women of Mathematics photo exhib... (2022-Sep-14 • 10 minutes • @plusmathsorg) |
| Graduate Student's Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture Jared Duker Lichtman, 26, has proved a longstanding conjecture relating prime numbers to a broad class of “primitive” sets. To his adviser, it came as a “complete shock.” Read more at quantamagazine.org. Music is “Thought Bot” by Audionautix. (2022-Sep-14 • 13 minutes • @QuantaMagazine) |
| The Daily Space - Season Premiere: Catching Up On News & Rockets! As we return from our summer hiatus, we are back with a rundown of some of the stories that came out during the break. On the planetary front, JWST has been taking amazing images and learning about exoplanets. On the astrophysics front, we’ve got... (2022-Sep-14 • 23 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| It’s Not Just NASA: Space Agency Leaders at the Artemis 1 Launch Attempt Leaders of several major, international space agencies talked with host Mat Kaplan during the first attempt to launch the Artemis 1 Moon mission. (2022-Sep-14 • 78 minutes • @exploreplanets • @PlanRad) |
| [Q&A] SpaceX VS NASA, AI for Space Science, Black Hole Crushing Itself | Q&A 191 We're back from hiatus! In this week's Questions and Answers show, I talk about what will happen when the expansion of the Universe reaches the speed of light, how I feel about SLS delays, what's happening with James Webb, and more... (2022-Sep-14 • 35 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Four-Billion-Year-Old Planetary Crust Found Under Western Australia The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 96 *Four-billion-year-old planetary crust found under Western Australia Scientists have identified a four-billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust the size of... (2022-Sep-14 • 30 minutes • @stuartgary) |
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| S4E01 Ordinary Least Squares: Back Where It All Began In the opening episode to Season 4, Greg and Patrick delve into ordinary least squares estimation: where it came from, what it attempts to achieve, and where it can take us from here. Along the way they also discuss Golden Retrievers who are neither golden nor retrieve, Olivia Newton-John, sub-conning out their own work, the meat sweats, sh*t you should know, being intolerably self-righteous, losing your camel, saying ham in French, Calvinball, Frank finding Gauss's corpse, crudely describing regressi... (2022-Sep-13 • 51 minutes • @quantitudepod) |
| Maanvinder Pilania - Fermi Bubbles of the Milky Way Galaxy In 2010, gamma ray observations by NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope revealed an unknown mysterious structure of our home galaxy Milky Way. Astronomers discovered two giant bubbles that emerge below and above the center of our galaxy. They are known as... (2022-Sep-13 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Why haven't we seen a Milky Way Supernova in 400 years? Daniel and Katie talk about the mysteries of supernovae, and why we haven't seen a local one since Kepler! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Sep-13 • 58 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Satellite Showdown How do satellites work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore CubeSats, space lasers, and the ecology of low Earth orbit with VP of Raytheon, Sandy Brown, and associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, Kerri Cahoy. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/satellite... Credit: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Sep-13 • 43 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| DART on Track for Asteroid Impact The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 95 *DART on track for asteroid impact Later this month NASA’s Dart mission will slam into a tiny near-Earth asteroid orbiting a slightly larger Near-Earth... (2022-Sep-12 • 21 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| Ep. 652: The Rocket Race Towards Reusability Astronomy Cast Ep. 652: The Rocket Race Towards Reusability by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Last week we talked about how single-use rocketry has changed over time, and the role it still plays in launching payloads into orbit and beyond. Today... (2022-Sep-12 • 30 minutes • @fcain • @starstryder) |
| Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022) In The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950 (Princeton University Press, 2022) Karen Parshall explores the institutional, financial, social, and political forces that shaped and supported the American Mathematics community in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing from extensive archival and primary-source research, Professor Parshall uncovers the key players in American mathematics who worked together to effect change. She highlights the educational, professional, philanthropic, and govern... (2022-Sep-12 • 70 minutes • @NewBooksMath) |
| 53 - Why We Need a Theory of Quantum Gravity Quantum mechanics and general relativity are two of the most successful theories of science ever, but they don't necessarily fit together. Learn why physicists are trying so hard to discover a quantum theory of gravity, and why it's been such a challenge.For ad-free episodes and other exclusives, join us for $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverseTiny MattersTiny Matters is a science podcast about the little things that make the big things in...Listen on: Apple Podcasts S... (2022-Sep-12 • 29 minutes • @DanHooperAstro • @shalmawegs) |
| Astronomy Cast Ep. 651: Artemis & The Decline of Single Use Rockets Season 16 opener. On the day that we’re recording this, NASA’s Space Launch System is about to blast off. But everyone is expecting it’ll be delayed to October. When it does launch, it’ll be the most powerful rocket on Earth. Well, until... (2022-Sep-12 • 29 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| 210 | Randall Munroe on Imagining What If...? I talk with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, about the art and science of answering wild hypothetical questions. (2022-Sep-12 • 68 minutes • @seanmcarroll) |
| Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 12 to 18 September 2022 The occultation of Uranus by the Moon making the planet vanish is just one of this week's stargazing highlights.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (2022-Sep-11 • 11 minutes • @skyatnightmag) |
| Brian Keating on the Abhijit Chavda Podcast: Big Bang Theory, Alien Life, Cosmology, and the Nobel Prize Brian is interviewed by Abhijit Chavda. Abhijit is a theoretical physicist, technologist, writer and host of the #AskAbhijit podcast and youtube channel. His work in theoretical physics involves research on the topics of dark matter, dark energy, black hole physics, quantum gravity and physical cosmology. He has authored and co-authored several research papers on these topics. He discusses a variety of eclectic topics including: Indian & world history, science, geopolitics, power, culture, art, education, t... (2022-Sep-11 • 72 minutes • @Into_Impossible • @DrBrianKeating) |
| Travelers in the Night Eps. 183E & 184E: Flat Earth Society Reincarnation & Dark, Bright and Beautiful 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 number of believers has diminished from 3,500 twenty... (2022-Sep-11 • 6 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| The Daily Space - Jupiter’s Atmosphere Contains Metals From Planetesimals -- Accidental duplication! A recent paper examined data from NASA’s Juno mission and found that Jupiter’s atmosphere not only contains metals but also is not a homogenous mix. The likely culprits are the remains of planetesimals from the early solar system. Plus, a Voyager... (2022-Sep-08 • 21 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Meet an engineer who blows things up to help preserve lives and property In this podcast we explore the physics of explosions (2022-Sep-08 • 30 minutes • @PhysicsWorld) |
| NOIRLab - The Sharpest image Of The Universe’s Most Massive Known Star By harnessing the capabilities of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, which is part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, astronomers have obtained the sharpest image ever of the star R136a1, the most massive... (2022-Sep-10 • 13 minutes • @planetarysci) |
| Starts With A Bang #85 - Planetary Formation Although it seems like a long time ago, it was as recent as the early 1990s that we had no idea whether planets in the Universe were universal, common, uncommon, or even exceedingly rare. While certain data sets once seemed to indicate that practically every star in the Universe had planets around it, we now know that isn't true at all. Many stars, perhaps even most of them, have planets, but plenty of others don't. In addition, the number and types of planets that exist, including planets without parent st... (2022-Sep-10 • 87 minutes • @StartsWithABang) |
| What's inside a neutron star? Daniel and Jorge take a bite out of "nuclear pasta" and dive into the heart of these strange stars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. (2022-Sep-08 • 57 minutes • @DanielandJorge • @DanielWhiteson • @PHDcomics) |
| Feet of Engineering with Michael DiTullo and Jason Hanft Can a shoe design save your life? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly explore how engineering can help save the lives– and feet– of thousands with diabetes, with industrial engineer Michael DiTullo and foot and ankle surgeon, Dr. Jason Hanft. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/feet-of-e... Credit: Mikael Häggström, M.D., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2022-Sep-09 • 50 minutes • @neiltyson) |
| [Space Bites] AMAZING New JWST Image, iPhone 14 Satellite Connection, Green Sand on Mars How iPhone 14 will connect to satellites. Why SLS didn’t launch and when it might. Growing rice in space. And a new incredible image from James Webb. (2022-Sep-09 • 16 minutes • @universetoday • @fcain) |
| Janice Fiamengo: Feminism, Anti-Feminism, and Common Sense As I describe in the introduction to our discussion, I first learned about Janice Fiamengo by watching an incredible series of videos she produced called The Fiamengo Files. Not surprisingly, because they presented a well-reasoned approach to various hot-button social justice issues, these videos were taken down YouTube. No worries, like the proverbial Phoenix, The Fiamengo Files II emerged and can be found. Janice, a retired Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, calls herself an anti-feminis... (2022-Sep-09 • 119 minutes • @LKrauss1 • @OriginsProject) |
| The Sands of Mars are Green as well as Red SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 94 *The Perseverance rover finds the sands of Mars are green as well as red The accepted view of Mars is red rocks and craters as far as the eye can see. But NASA’s Perseverance rover has found lots of olivine. *New... (2022-Sep-09 • 34 minutes • @stuartgary) |
| The Daily Space - Jupiter’s Atmosphere Contains Metals From Planetesimals A recent paper examined data from NASA’s Juno mission and found that Jupiter’s atmosphere not only contains metals but also is not a homogenous mix. The likely culprits are the remains of planetesimals from the early solar system. Plus, a Voyager... (2022-Sep-09 • 21 minutes • @planetarysci) |
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