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Black Holes and Space Junk with Vivienne Baldassare
Season 2 Episode 12
How do we find black holes? And how can we tell whether it’s a small black hole “eating” really fast or a large black hole that’s eating very slowly?…
2 years, 5 months ago
Final Frontiers with Jeyhan Kartaltepe
Season 2 Episode 11
In this episode of The LIUniverse, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe, an astronomer and professor at the Rochester …
2 years, 6 months ago
Star Treks, Star Wars, and Star Domes with Jenny Powers and Elliot Severn
Season 2 Episode 10
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a science educator and work at a planetarium or science museum? Even better, to run one?
To find o…
2 years, 7 months ago
Stars vs. Planets with Dr. Tom Rice
Season 2 Episode 9
How did our solar system get here? How did the Earth form? How commonly does that happen elsewhere, and how often do the conditions necessary for lif…
2 years, 7 months ago
New York Comic Con: The Science of Sci-Fi 2021
Season 1 Episode 13
Why does Wakanda have no suburbs, and should we destroy them if it did? Is it ethical to become a cyborg, like in the Justice League? Can venom – the…
2 years, 7 months ago
Boston Fan Expo: The Science of Sci-Fi
Season 2 Episode 8
How realistic is the human augmentation depicted in comic, games and movies? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu welcomes the CEO/founder of Neurobionics Dr…
2 years, 8 months ago
Planet Formation with Dr. Holly Capelo
Season 1 Episode 10
How do planets form out of dust particles? And what does that have to do with fluid dynamics? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welc…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Birth of Planets with Aleksandra Kuznetsova
Season 2 Episode 7
How do you go about building a planet? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome computational astrophysicist Dr. Aleksandra Kuznets…
2 years, 9 months ago
Brown Dwarfs and Ballet with Johanna Vos
Season 1 Episode 2
Brown dwarfs are often called failed stars, but today’s guest on the LIUniverse, astrophysicist Dr. Johanna Vos, prefers to think of them as overachi…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Poetry of the Stars with Midge Goldberg and Yun Wang Part 2
Season 2 Episode 6
Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu continue our exploration into the poetry of the stars with Part 2 of our episode featuring poet/astronomer/cosm…
2 years, 10 months ago