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How Cosmic Dust May Have Delivered the Building Blocks of Life to Earth
Season 2 Episode 258
In this episode, we explore new research from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society revealing how cosmic dust may have carried the bu…
4 months ago
MIT Geologists Uncover Traces of Earth’s Primordial Origins
Season 2 Episode 257
MIT scientists have found the first direct evidence of material from the original “proto-Earth” — the planet that existed before the giant impact tha…
4 months ago
The Core of the Problem: Why Our Magnetic Field is Weakening
Season 2 Episode 256
The Earth's protective magnetic field is changing. Data from the ESA Swarm mission reveals that the South Atlantic Anomaly, a vast weak spot in our p…
4 months ago
Black Holes as Dark Matter Detectors: A New Window into the Invisible Universe
Season 2 Episode 255
A new study in Physical Review Letters proposes a groundbreaking way to detect dark matter using images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Resea…
4 months, 1 week ago
Nickel and Urea May Explain Why Earth’s Oxygen Took So Long to Rise
Season 2 Episode 254
In this episode, we uncover new research from Okayama University that sheds light on the delayed Great Oxidation Event.
Scientists found that early oc…
4 months, 1 week ago
AI Breakthrough: Gemini Finds Real Cosmic Signals with Minimal Data
Season 2 Episode 253
4 months, 1 week ago
Is Dark Matter an Illusion? New Study Challenges the Foundations of Cosmology
Season 2 Episode 252
A new study from the University of Ottawa is shaking up our understanding of the universe. Professor Rajendra Gupta suggests that dark matter and dar…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
NASA’s IMAP Mission: Mapping the Sun’s Heliosphere
Season 2 Episode 251
In this episode, we dive into NASA’s IMAP mission—the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe—set to study the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble t…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Mapping the Cosmos: Euclid’s Flagship Simulation
Season 2 Episode 250
Scientists have built the largest galaxy simulation ever—3.4 billion galaxies and four trillion particles—to prepare for ESA’s Euclid mission. This c…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Spirograph Nebula: A Century of Stellar Change
Season 2 Episode 249
Astronomers have tracked the Spirograph Nebula’s evolution over 130 years, from 19th-century spectroscopy to Hubble’s sharp images.
The central star h…
4 months, 3 weeks ago