Podcast Episodes

Making Space Accessible with Celene Shimmen

Season 3 Episode 13

How do you go from a small town in Colorado to being a scientist-astronaut candidate in Australia? And how can you make space accessible for disabled astronauts? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-h…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Sharing Space with Astronaut Cady Coleman, Part 2

Season 3 Episode 12

We jump right back in where we left off in Part 1 of our interview with Dr. Cady Coleman, astronaut, chemist, engineer, flautist, and most recently, the author of “Sharing Space: An Astronaut's Guide…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Sharing Space with Astronaut Cady Coleman, Part 1

Season 3 Episode 11

What is the overview effect? Why is slow fast when you’re spacewalking? And what would happen to Chuck and Allen’s hair in space?

To get the answers to these and other questions, Dr. Charles Liu an…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Chuck GPT 3.0: Gravity, rocket Propulsion, space Tethers, and more!

Season 3 Episode 10

Does sound travel faster in space? Is the multiverse theory true? Can gravity escape a black hole? In our latest episode of our popular “Chuck GPT” series, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welco…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Composing the Cosmos – Musical Explorations of Deep Space with Bruce Lazarus

Season 3 Episode 9

Is there really a music of the spheres? And why is space so inspirational for creativity? To ponder these cosmic questions, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome noted composer and pianist Br…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Cosmic Pathways with Dr. Ronald Gamble

Season 3 Episode 8

Do gravitons exist? What are blazars? How did our universe begin? To grapple with questions on a cosmological scale, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Ron Gamble, a theoretical astrop…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Volcanoes on Earth and in Space with Dr. Samantha Tramontano

Season 3 Episode 7

Volcanoes in space...supervolcanoes here on Earth... and lava lakes everywhere! To get an expert opinion on eruptions, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Sam Tramontano, a Post-Doctora…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Neurobionics with Dr. Nicki Driscoll

Season 3 Episode 6

How does the brain actually work? And is there anything we can do when it doesn’t? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Nicki Driscoll, CTO and Co-Founder of NeuroBionics.

A…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

The Great American Eclipse

Season 3 Episode 5

The total solar eclipse is almost here! In this special episode of The LIUniverse, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu bring you both the basics and some more in-depth investigations of how eclipse…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

ChuckGPT 2.0 – Three Body Problem Q&A

Season 3 Episode 4

What is the science behind the science fiction in Three Body Problem? In our second episode of “ChuckGPT” Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome two members of our production team: Jon Barnes,…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago