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New Maps Reveal a Wetter Red Planet
Season 2 Episode 281
Mars wasn't always the barren desert we see today. New research has mapped sixteen massive ancient river systems across the red planet for the first time—and the scale is staggering.
Scientists at the…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
How 2025 Interferometry Revealed Stellar Complexity
Season 2 Episode 280
New interferometry observations from the CHARA Array have captured unprecedented real-time images of stellar nova explosions, revealing they're far more complex than scientists thought. These 2025 fi…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Ultra-Relativistic Dark Matter: Reviving a 50-Year-Old Theory
Season 2 Episode 279
Physicists Stephen Henrich and Keith Olive are breathing new life into a dark matter theory abandoned in the 1970s. Their "ultra-relativistic freeze-out" mechanism proposes that dark matter separated…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Martian Lightning: Confirmation and Consequences
Season 2 Episode 279
This episode reveals a groundbreaking scientific announcement: electric discharges occur on Mars. Long theorized, this phenomenon was accidentally confirmed by the Perseverance rover's SuperCam micro…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Dark Matter's Gamma-Ray Mystery Solved?
Season 2 Episode 277
After almost a century, dark matter may finally have been seen. Using data from the Fermi telescope, Professor Totani detected a unique gamma-ray signal near the Galactic center that perfectly matche…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Black Hole Survivors! Unmasking the Stable Orbits Near the Milky Way's Core
Season 2 Episode 276
New astronomical data from the VLT's ERIS instrument is rewriting the fate of celestial objects near the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. Scientists tracked unusual entities, including the co…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
The Kuiper Belt's Secret: Uncovering the Mysterious Inner Kernel
Season 2 Episode 275
Beyond Neptune lies the enigmatic Kuiper Belt. In this episode, we explore a new 2025 finding that redefines this icy realm! Astronomers used the powerful DBSCAN algorithm to analyze the orbits of ov…
Published on 1 month ago
Superstorm Shrinks Earth's Plasmasphere by 80%
Season 2 Episode 274
Nagoya University researchers used the Arase satellite to capture unprecedented data from the May 2024 Gannon superstorm—the strongest geomagnetic event in over 20 years. The storm compressed Earth's…
Published on 1 month ago
The i-process: The Missing Link in How Stars Create Heavy Elements
Season 2 Episode 273
We thought we knew how the universe forged elements heavier than iron—until the data stopped adding up. In this episode, we sit down with experimental physicist Mathis Wiedeking from Berkeley Lab to …
Published on 1 month ago
Deep Learning Simulates 100 Billion Milky Way Stars
Season 2 Episode 272
AI successfully simulated the entire Milky Way, modeling 100 billion stars for 10,000 years. Using deep learning, researchers cut computation time that previously required decades.
This method allows …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago