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Mapping the Early Universe in HD
Episode 280
As Top Quark likes to say, "You wouldn't understand: it's an early universe thing". That's why he's so excited that there's a new window into the goi…
4 years, 3 months ago
Planetary Decadal Survey with Almost no Uranus Jokes
Episode 279
Science marches onward, and the next steps in planetary science aim towards the seventh planet from the Sun, which shall not be named, and Saturn's l…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Cosmic Significance of Tiny Things
Tiny fragments of the dinosaur-killing asteroid may have been found, preserved in amber, and new analysis of old data reveals a tiny, but potentially…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Sounds of Mars and the Lights of the Earliest Stars
Episode 277
Mars has a thin atmosphere, so little changes in the weather, even breezes, make big relative changes in how sound travels. We speculate on the sound…
4 years, 4 months ago
Ultralight Dark Matter
Episode 275
What if the stuff that makes up most of the stuff in the universe is so lightweight that you could barely call it stuff? Ultralight dark matter is on…
4 years, 5 months ago
All the Light in the Universe
Episode 274
We like to think we understand ordinary matter: the stuff we're familiar with that makes up stars, planets, and donuts. Sure Dark Energy and Dark Mat…
4 years, 5 months ago
When Galaxy Clusters Collide
Episode 273
Even the emptiness between galaxies is filled with enough energy over those vast expanses to generate shock waves and giant structures when clusters …
4 years, 5 months ago
How Smart Is Your Planet?
Episode 272
We learn how binary star systems may create a second family of planets, Saturn's aurora may be powered by the ringed planet's high speed winds, and h…
4 years, 6 months ago
Psyche-ology and Generally Crazy Relativity
Episode 271
A remarkably accurate test of general relativity confirms that not only does time run slower at your feet than at your head, but it runs slower at yo…
4 years, 6 months ago
Hot Fusion and Crashing Satellites
Episode 270
Sustained fusion reactions with a net production of energy may be getting closer, and a whole bunch of space junk is definitely getting closer. A lon…
4 years, 6 months ago