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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 co…
2 months, 3 weeks 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 sig…
2 months, 3 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*. Sci…
2 months, 3 weeks 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 pow…
2 months, 3 weeks 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 ev…
2 months, 4 weeks 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 experimenta…
3 months 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 th…
3 months ago
Rewriting History: AI, Biosignatures, and the Hunt for Life on Mars
Season 2 Episode 271
New research led by the Carnegie Institution for Science uses AI to detect molecular fingerprints in rocks over 3.3 billion years old. By training co…
3 months ago
Solar System Moving Faster Than Expected? New Study Challenges Standard Cosmology
Season 2 Episode 270
A new study from Bielefeld University suggests our solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by the standar…
3 months, 1 week ago
Space-Based AI: Google's Project Suncatcher Plans Data Centers in Orbit
Season 2 Episode 269
Google's Project Suncatcher proposes a radical solution to AI's energy crisis: data centers in space. By deploying solar-powered satellite clusters i…
3 months, 1 week ago