96 | Lina Necib on What and Where The Dark Matter Is
The past few centuries of scientific progress have displaced humanity from the center of it all: the Earth is not […]
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Astronomy/Space
92 | Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System
It’s hard doing science when you only have one data point, especially when that data point is subject to an
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86 | Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity, and Life in the Universe
Anyone who has read histories of the Cold War, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1983 nuclear false alarm,
75 | Max Tegmark on Reality, Simulation, and the Multiverse
We’ve talked a lot recently about the Many Worlds of quantum mechanics. That’s one kind of multiverse that physicists often
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70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End
Cosmologists are always talking excitedly about the Big Bang and all the cool stuff that happened in the 14 billion
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56 | Kate Adamala on Creating Synthetic Life
Scientists can’t quite agree on how to define “life,” but that hasn’t stopped them from studying it, looking for it
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Episode 42: Natalya Bailey on Navigating Earth Orbit and Beyond
The space age officially began in 1957 with the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite. But recent years have seen
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Episode 27: Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science
It’s a big universe out there, full of an astonishing variety of questions and puzzles. Today’s guest, Janna Levin, is
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Episode 24: Kip Thorne on Gravitational Waves, Time Travel, and Interstellar
I remember vividly hosting a colloquium speaker, about fifteen years ago, who talked about the LIGO gravitational-wave observatory, which had
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Episode 11: Mike Brown on Killing Pluto and Replacing It with Planet 9
Few events in recent astronomical history have had the worldwide emotional resonance as the 2006 announcement that Pluto was no
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